BOTTOM FALLS OUT on Govt's Freedom Convoy Persecution： Freedom Convoy Trial Day 44 ｜ Stand on Guard
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The final day for the defence in the Melara Leach and Barber trial is in the books. The defence finally get their chance to do their summation, and the Crown finally gets a chance to rebuttal the defence's evidence.
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welcome back to another episode of stand on guard i'm your host david creighton i promised you i'd
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be back today after this morning's broadcast busy busy day lots to tell you about the final
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day for the defense and the tamara leach and chris barber trial stay tuned
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so we are in a very precarious position in this country
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we need political change but we also need to resolve to resist
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yes thank you for liking the station telling your friends and family that this news option
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is out there because i try to give you all the news you need to know
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i just thought of that the other day it seems to work doesn't it along with resolve to resist that's
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what we're doing we are resolving to resist trudeau's tyranny anybody's tyranny don't think
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it's all going to be better just that trudeau's gone whether or not he's replaced by mark carney
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or we have another government we have to keep pushing for the right things pushing for principles
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and i'll tell you why this is trial i have been going to since september 5th and which won't
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officially be over until september 9th yeah it's the last day today for the defense to do their
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summation and lawrence greenspawn did an outstanding job of that today tour de force and you'll see him
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responding to some questions i wish we could show you some footage of inside the courtroom no we can't do
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that i can't even take any pictures but we talked to the lawrence outside the courtroom and there were
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some other reporters there yeah as this being his last chance at bat before the and i don't know why
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the prosecution is getting up for another time for another summation they've already had their
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summation and but yet here they are again rebutting it's going to be the same nonsense you know that
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it's going to be the same nonsense about these people really seem to be peaceful but they weren't
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really intending to be peaceful they had bad thoughts in their head anticipating the online
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thoughts crime bill that's coming from trudeau but this was a real exercise in patience for tamara and
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chris who had to come out here multiple times yes they are getting their legal bills paid for
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by concerned conservative organizations but they're not paying for everything then they're not paying
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for the disruption in their work and their life they're not paying for the hotels and the meals
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they're not paying for the inconvenience they're not paying for everything that comes with having to
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come to ottawa as many times as they have thank god they don't have to come out in person for the
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for the prosecution summation which i say i don't know what the hell that's about
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they can do that online on a zoom call presumably so that was the that was the only blessing because
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as i reported last week the crown actually did say today your honor can we just provide a written
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submission we'd like this to wrap up today the judge said well i'd prefer we just came back
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in september and they started negotiating back and forth back and forth for they discussed friday
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september 13th and everybody said oh might be dangerous so they ended up monday september 9th
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i will not be going back to hear two hours of the mutton jeff do their prosecution spiel it really is
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quite something to listen to these two and half the time they don't know what they're airing and when
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they do air material it's always positive towards the defense i don't know what it's been a clown
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show from day one from the from the prosecution from the crown it really has i've said that from
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day one it's been a clown show and it's all that has done of course is help the defense they've done
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a lot of work for them they've done a lot of work for the defense there's no question about that
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so i'm going to show you some clips uh today because unlike a lot of these armchair journalists who
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can't write a sentence or a paragraph or interview anybody i actually go out and do that and i write
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a story and i've written a story about this for the post-millennial and it's not up yet but
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i invite you to have a look at that when it is up and it will be up probably tonight tomorrow at the
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earliest but you really if you're not out interviewing people don't call yourself a journalist call
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yourself i don't know a clip player or whatever here we are on what i really wanted to show you
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so we're just walking across the street because
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they seem to have cleared people from the courthouse today and i am just want to say
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this is across the street from the courthouse on elegant street in ottawa
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some of these folks have been here for over a hundred uh almost a hundred days
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actually i think they said a thousand days yeah they're coming on a thousand days
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and you know here they are so you don't just go to these events to talk to the lawyers
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and to talk to the people who are you know being prosecuted you talk to those ordinary canadians who
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are out there protesting and this is what the freedom convoy protest was all about it was about
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our freedom of speech and our freedom of the protest and that's what lawrence greenspawn made
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it quite clear about today and i'll say more about that this is very rural present and at the
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emergency threshold that is often largely ignored to sustain the funding base beyond the crisis
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so hey folks can i get you guys to do a rousing cheer for chris and tamara
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a rousing cheer for what's that oh a rousing cheer we did yeah i was cheering i was on live just a few
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minutes ago when he came in i'm just gonna get the real issues investors will respond if they see
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profit at the end of the process sounds like public health sounds like the best of you when he was
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coming in what time is he coming out well we're just going in now for two o'clock so so how do you
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guys feel today is this an historic day for canada it is it is very important it's very important
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perpetrated on the human you think chris and tamara are going to win this thing they already won
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financial how do you mean how do you mean investors will follow if they see profit at the end of the
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process this is not just the war the war really is not about us peanuts it's satan against jesus all
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over again nature was hijacked yeah you think they're legally though they're going to win this
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yes yes because eventually the truth is coming out even dina sharif across the street was saying
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when the only question wow they're going based on nothing these last couple days
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of the ccd hates tamara and chris hates pat and us but she was uh saying some pretty good things
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she says the judge was kind of on her side and stuff but there's a lot of petty stuff talking about
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so i think it's gonna you know they're just liquid they're just using tamara and chris and pat for
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the money they're making money right follow the money but in the end it's gonna be like we already
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won folks we just have to stand proud you want me to use your name or you want to be anonymous
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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
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uh september 16 i'm bringing a affidavit times 338 times to hand out to all the members are coming
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back from their own self-interest and then i'll be there bring a lunch every injury and every death
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well you know dean martin always said the great dean martin a mentor of mine in terms of singing
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always said i always play it to the common folk and i do too because you listen to average canadians
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there's a lot of wisdom there and there was a lot of wisdom in what this woman said here and i think
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that's very very important average canadians aren't fooled by this nonsense they're not fooled
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by this bs they're not fooled by the government crap that just completely is satiates this trudeau
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government and canadians aren't fooled by this so i want to go to my interview with with lawrence
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greenspawn this is immediately after the trial ended today and like i say they're coming back for two
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hours on september 9th so the prosecution could have one more kick at the can and like i say
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i'm not going into ottawa for that because i know exactly what it's going to be they're going to
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regurgitate their talking points again but i really think there were some excellent points raised today
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by lawrence greenspawn who i've really you know i i have developed a tremendous amount of respect
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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
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because i i uh you know obviously i recorded everything but it's very interesting some of the
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things he said today i've and he is one of the best lawyers in ottawa he not only does criminal
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cases he does civil cases he's also the guy who's defending dave menzies uh it was actually dave
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menzies is suing and the rebel news is suing the government the trudeau government because menzies was
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arrested and bumped quite severely by christia freeland's bodyguards you remember that he was just
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going up approaching her with a microphone trying to ask some questions in toronto and this bald
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skinhead guy rcmp security detachment ran right into dave menzies and they hauled him into a paddy
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wagon took him off the jail and i said at the time you know this is outrageous because i mean are any of
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us safe and i wrote a column at the time because it means remedia called dave menzies a entertainment
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guy or an entertainer or person or a news personality couldn't call him a journalist
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even though he's a better journalist than most people on cbc can ever hope to be
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but i ran and dave was there today and i and he said please send me to send me that call i didn't
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see it but it was nice to see dave you know who else was there joe warmington you know another another
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great great columnist in in this country a staple a part of the toronto sun for so long
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he's part of the sun chain he is part of that great generation of the sun that wasn't afraid
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to offend the ruffle feathers that say things and to write columns honestly and completely frankly
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that's what i try to do of course if you read my columns in the in human events on substack and
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everything i've written over the years i just tell you how i think how i feel and i don't care if it
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offends people obviously i'm not going to i don't use language or terminology that is grosser or
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salacious or racially offensive that's that's not never an area i've had to go to or want to go to
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i use arguments that are that are succinct and comprehensive but
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what the real genius of lawrence greenspawn's defense was he went at the very issue of what
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did tamara leach or chris barber do that was illegal can you name one single thing
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and the prosecution never did it was all about what they might do what they might be thinking
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and how other people interpreted what they said and lawrence greenspawn said today you can't blame
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tamara leach or chris barber for the actions of other people you have to judge them on what they said
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and what they did and they didn't block roads we heard the other day from
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from diana magus the other lawyer for the freedom convoy she pointed out how chris
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barber went out of his way to clear the traffic not block it he was working with the truckers
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to to ensure everybody was safe and not breaking the law again and again and again this comes up in the
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testimony so so i you're going to have a chance to listen to greenspawn respond to my questions but i
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just want to make sure i got everything in here because he he says some extremely fascinating
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things about what this trial was really about and he quoted benjamin franklin for saying that if you
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don't if you're prepared to sacrifice your liberty for security you don't deserve either
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or if that's what this is and he says canada has done that in the past and that's what the freedom
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convoy is all about there are some canadians i think they're a minority now who think yeah crush
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the freedom convoy because we didn't feel quite secure we like to feel secure we like the government
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arm around our necks that's how we feel secure and greenspawn saying that's you're not secure and
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you're not free and you're never going to be free the longer and if the government is allowed to set
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a precedent with this case none of us are going to be free so let's listen to this interview i think
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it's very good your summation that disruption is let's get to the beginning here beginning of your
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summation that disruption is a fundamental component of protest yes and it seemed it seemed to me like
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the the crown kept thinking that if anybody was inconvenienced in all this that that somehow was
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unlawful is that is that how you were taking this well that's the the fundamental problem and it's
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so what was addressed by our court of appeal in trembley and uh like i said from the beginning
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in a in a battle or a contest between freedom of expression and peaceful assembly both of which
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are in our charter of rights and freedoms that are constitutionally protected in a battle between
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those things and uh the right to enjoyment of property which is nowhere to be found in the
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constitution there is no contest freedom of expression freedom of peaceful assembly which
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is what this is all about wins every time do you think the auto police services created this crisis
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because you mentioned the fact that they told them to go downtown to park their cars they didn't issue
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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
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of the two things that distinguishes this case from any other of the cases that are before her honor
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the two things are number one they were told where to go how to get there and where to park
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and they did that there's no other case out of the hundred cases that the judge had before her
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where that's been the situation where the authorities have told them go over there park there and uh that's
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the one thing the other thing of course is that there's justice mclean's orders in which he
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specifically preserved their right to continue to peacefully assemble and uh he did that in the
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middle of this demonstration so those two things are are not anywhere found in any of the previous
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case law and that's why i suspect uh the judge is indicated right at the end that this is an
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unprecedented situation and my last question at the very end you suggest that this is like
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as benjamin franklin said people who sacrifice liberty for security and we might end up apologizing if
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these two are convicted is that how you feel about you know that's it's a trade-off unfortunately that
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canadians have been historically we've been prepared to trade freedoms for security we've done it over
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and over and over again we did it to the italian canadians we did it to the japanese canadians we did
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it to those who were arrested without any rights in uh in the war measures act in 1970 we've done it over
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and over again and every time we wait a generation or two and then we apologize to those people so my
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hope is that we won't be apologizing uh if for for anything uh in this circumstance perhaps we can
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apologize to the people whose bank accounts were were frozen perhaps we can apologize to the people
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who were arrested under an emergency measures act that should never have been invoked thank you mr
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excellent interview and i hope you you know emergencies actually never been invoked
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not surprised to hear him say that but what about an apology to those who had their bank accounts
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frozen i thought that was a novel thing to say yeah where's that apology you think that's ever going
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to happen in the trudeau government no they want to do it again but i think this is and he squarely places
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the blame for the gridlock that occurred in downtown ottawa on the ottawa police service they created their
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own problem by telling the truckers to park downtown around the street block traffic and then the rcmp and
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the on the ottawa police service then started closing all the roads leading into that why
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what was the point of that so it made gridlock it made traffic congestion the art the ottawa police
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got i mean incredibly incompetent but you know i think they're vying for the incompetency award with
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the secret service in the united states they were incredibly incompetent in this operation and you
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remember the first chief of police and the and who resigned in the middle of this and then his deputy
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you know the cue ball who looked a bit like mussolini he took over and then started threatening
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everybody like we're going to put you all in jail just because we don't like what you're saying
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absolute insanity but i'm going to read a couple more things from the story i filed today which i say is
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not up yet but it will be soon sent in a passionate conclusion to a summation of the trial of tamara leach
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and chris barber defense counsel lawrence greenspawn said it would be wrong to criminalize
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their behavior meaning chris and tamara in these unique circumstances i want to recite the words
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from benjamin franklin who said that those who would sacrifice essential liberty to purchase a little
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temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety greenspawn said noting that canada has sacrificed
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the liberty of other groups in history and ultimately apologized for violating constitutionally
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entrenched and protected fundamental freedoms that's what he said today
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he further said the crown seeks to criminalize the words and actions of leaders of a protest a
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protest in which those leaders consistently urged others to be peaceful and to cooperate with police
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greenspawn said the final the crown asks that those leaders be held criminally responsible for
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the actions of unidentified others who were directed into the downtown core of ottawa and they were allowed
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to stay for a three-week period of time without so much as a single parking ticket being issued to anyone
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yeah we could have solved this with a few parking tickets but here we are day 44
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of a mischief trial that should not have ever come gone to court i've said that from day one it should
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never have gone to court and what what this is is a political show trial i mean yeah it's not original
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greenspawn declared that this trial is about potentially denying fundamental rights in canada
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and the crown's efforts to make it a con a contest between constitutionally protected fundamental
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freedoms and the right to enjoyment of property there is no contest and i will take your honor
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to the case law that establishes that principle greenspawn greenspawn did so later in his presentation
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citing examples of rulings upholding the right to protest over any presumed right to enjoyment of property
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the lawyer said any protest is designed to induce some level of disruption to make a point but causing
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inconvenience does not make that protest illegal now that i think was the crux of it
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so here they are this all occurred as a result of a freedom convoy that i covered at the time
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and i was proud to be there covering and as i said if you watch my episode if you watch me on redacted
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last night i was talking about this with clayton morris and i said i'm there fighting for their
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freedom i'm i am there i'm there every day as that i can be reporting the news objectively
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this is objective news there is no case against them i view this trial like i view the second world war
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there's only one side to be on you really can't say well you know i i i think the crown has some
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good points here and i understand that they could be right too no they're not right this was clearly a
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seminal historic moment in canada these two along with a lot of other people stood up for my rights
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stood up against coveted mandates stood up against a dictatorial trudeau government that likes to say
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whatever it wants to say and do whatever it wants to do and impose its will upon canadians and they
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said no and so because they said no they stood up for my freedom and i'm going to continue to stand up
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for their freedom i think that's the least i can do now what else happened today if you're interested
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bobby kennedy jr who i have a lot of time and admiration for is dropping out of the race and
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he's going to endorse donald i'm sorry to keep everybody waiting 16 months ago in april of 2023
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i launched my campaign for president united states i began this journey as a democrat the party of my
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father my uncle the party which i pledged my own allegiance to long before i was old enough to vote
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i attended my first democratic convention at the age of six in 1960 and back then the democrats were
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the champions of the constitution of civil rights the democrats stood against authoritarianism against
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censorship against colonialism imperialism and unjust wars we were the party of labor of the working class
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the democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment
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our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power true to its name it was the party
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of democracy as you know i left that party in october because it had departed so dramatically
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from the core values that i grew up with it had become the party of war censorship corruption big pharma big
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says it all doesn't it that's what the democratic party has become unfortunately the republican party can
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be that way too it's a bit of a unit party but there's still more principle on the side of the
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republican party and donald trump is still a rebel he's still out there i hope to some degree
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fighting the deep state in the seven if he doesn't he's you know we're all cooked but i think having
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kennedy on your team will make trump that much more honest and i think we'll guarantee a victory for
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sanity in the november 5th presidential elections in the united states a little more from bobby
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of the united states that persuaded me to enter this race in the first place primarily and these are
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the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the democratic democratic party and and run as an
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independent and now to throw my support at president trump the causes were free speech a war in ukraine
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and the war on our children we were the party of labor of the working class the democrats were the
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party of government transparency and the champion of the environment our party was the bulwark against
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big money interests and corporate power true to its name it was the party of democracy as you know i left
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that party in october because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that i grew up with
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it had become the party of war censorship corruption big pharma big tech big ag and big money yeah
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couldn't say it better i'm so happy he's jumped on board trump's campaign
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campaign because i think this is going to be a very interesting last two months of the presidential
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