Stand on Guard with David Krayden - April 25, 2024


Trudeau Is Wants to Silence His Opposition in Canada｜ SOG Ep 119 ｜2 of 2


Episode Stats

Length

32 minutes

Words per Minute

159.97757

Word Count

5,134

Sentence Count

361

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

Part two of our examination of the Online Harmings Act continues as we take a break from the carbon tax protest in the Maritimes to examine Justin Trudeau's attempt to ban all forms of speech deemed "hateful" by the government.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So, we are in a very precarious position in this country.
00:00:05.600 We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
00:00:24.120 Well, welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard.
00:00:27.240 Hey, I think we got the timing right today.
00:00:30.000 Thanks for joining me today for part two of our examination of the Online Harms Act.
00:00:36.280 When I come back in a few moments, we will examine what it means for Canada.
00:00:42.740 So, we are in a very precarious position in this country.
00:00:47.000 We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
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00:01:35.680 But thank you for supporting this station, and I hope you enjoyed yesterday's broadcast.
00:01:40.000 We took a break from the Online Harms Act to examine that incredible episode with Pierre Polly of joining a carbon tax protest in the Maritimes.
00:01:49.000 And then Justin Trudeau, almost like he got the information as soon as it happened from somebody who was friendly, and he was ready for that question from the CBC reporter, wasn't he?
00:02:02.720 He was ready for that, ready to say that somehow going to a carbon tax protest makes you an extremist, makes you aligned with Diagalon, whatever the heck that really is, erroneously wrong.
00:02:19.000 Connected, linked to the Freedom Convoy.
00:02:22.440 And not only that, it's got something to do with Alex Jones, and the fact that Alex Jones simply said, Pierre Polly is the real deal.
00:02:30.940 So, incredible confusion, incredible nonsense from the unalloyed, narcissistic Justin Trudeau.
00:02:41.160 So, let's get on to the Online Harms Act, and before I do, I want to remind you, we've got these great stickers.
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00:03:02.760 And you can see the Stand on Guard logo is on both sides of the cup.
00:03:08.780 So, I encourage you to get to the store.
00:03:10.900 And, of course, we've got the T-shirts, the Stand on Guard T-shirts, the Freedom Convoy T-shirts, the big red one from Chris Barber.
00:03:18.680 It's a special piece of memorabilia here.
00:03:22.420 And we've got the Think While It's Illegal, which is what we're dealing with right now is how are we going to keep thinking when Trudeau wants to make it illegal to do that?
00:03:32.440 Because the Online Harms Act is all about, it's all about, my goodness, it's all about making speech hateful.
00:03:48.340 Well, anything's going to be hateful.
00:03:52.260 And they said this was all about protecting children, right?
00:03:55.240 No, it's not.
00:03:56.600 That is the veneer, as I said yesterday.
00:03:58.820 That's clearly not what this is about.
00:04:01.540 It's about restricting your free speech.
00:04:04.880 So, I've got a lot of clips to go through today.
00:04:07.780 I will comment where I think it's necessary.
00:04:11.020 But my goal today is, again, to show you how dangerous this legislation is.
00:04:17.600 It's got a thought crimes component.
00:04:19.780 People think we're making this up, but it's in the legislation.
00:04:23.360 The Justice Minister, Verani, has not denied it.
00:04:26.880 He just simply said, don't worry.
00:04:30.300 It won't be used in a way that's a nuisance.
00:04:33.600 We won't be locking people in their homes for no reason.
00:04:37.300 But, of course, they will.
00:04:39.020 That's why they put it in the bill.
00:04:42.640 And, I mean, $10,000 fines for something that's so-called hate speech because you're offended.
00:04:49.200 Lifetime in prison.
00:04:50.520 These are the punishments.
00:04:53.260 This Digital Safety Commission.
00:04:55.000 Another whole layer of bureaucracy in the federal government with an ombudsperson deciding what's good, what's bad, what's hateful, what's not hateful.
00:05:05.780 This is the sort of navel-gazing we don't need in this country.
00:05:09.100 It's bad enough.
00:05:10.500 We have too much government now.
00:05:11.900 Trudeau has hired more civil servants than any other prime minister in history.
00:05:16.340 He's going to be hiring more people to monitor your free speech.
00:05:19.320 So, let's get on to some of this.
00:05:22.860 I think you will enjoy this very much.
00:05:25.580 This is what's happening in Canada.
00:05:26.500 This is the worst assault on freedom of expression ever in Canadian history.
00:05:31.660 It's frightening.
00:05:33.160 The opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, quipped the other day, he says, does Justin Trudeau view George Orwell's book titled 1984?
00:05:43.740 Does he view 1984 as a warning or as an instruction manual?
00:05:47.660 Now, John Carpe, who is the president of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, was in Ottawa.
00:05:55.380 I reported on that.
00:05:56.620 I was at the event.
00:05:57.420 When I finally met John in person and we have done an interview on Stand on Guard since then, he's got something at the end of this broadcast to say again, which is a little more optimistic than what he said here.
00:06:09.260 But what he said about 1984, you know, the classic novel by George Orwell, which was incredibly prescient about the time, the age we live in right now.
00:06:19.480 What he says about that book is exactly what Pierre Poiliev says.
00:06:23.960 Which could put you under house arrest or a peace bond under suspicion of something unacceptable, you might say, in the future.
00:06:34.240 You know, this guy, if he read, if he had read 1984, he would have thought it was an instruction manual and not a warning.
00:06:46.220 That would be you or I, anybody else.
00:06:48.280 Try and write a concise definition of hatred that people can look at and actually know whether they're in line with the law or not.
00:06:58.160 And it's going to be impossible because hate is an emotion.
00:07:01.120 It's very subjective.
00:07:01.880 You could hear something that you think is hateful and I might say, no, David, that's not hateful.
00:07:05.940 That's just an opinion.
00:07:07.540 And vice versa.
00:07:08.200 I could hear something and go, oh, that's hateful.
00:07:10.740 You could say, no, John, that's not hateful.
00:07:12.380 That's just an opinion.
00:07:13.560 It's completely subjective.
00:07:16.700 So John goes on here, but I want to add here something else he mentioned when I spoke to him is that it's hateful only if it's applied to a recognized group, which is usually...
00:07:31.880 The groups that the liberals like to promote and put in front and say that they're being victimized.
00:07:37.740 So therefore, if I came out and said Karl Marx is saying hateful things about capitalists or free enterprise people and Das Kapital or the Communist Manifesto, I think that's hateful.
00:07:52.860 Sorry, those people aren't covered as an identifiable group under this hate crimes legislation.
00:07:59.380 So interesting to know.
00:08:01.620 Police is there.
00:08:02.340 The crown prosecutors are there.
00:08:03.520 The judicial system is there.
00:08:05.340 And, you know, we prosecute people if they have committed a crime.
00:08:09.640 You don't place somebody under house arrest because they might commit a crime in the future.
00:08:14.500 This is sick.
00:08:15.360 This is twisted.
00:08:16.240 It's dangerous.
00:08:16.960 And it's scary.
00:08:18.500 It's for the children, right?
00:08:20.640 Huh?
00:08:21.300 You know, you can't be against the Online Harms Act.
00:08:24.020 You love children.
00:08:24.620 Don't need care about protecting children.
00:08:27.240 There is nothing in the Online Harms Act that it's trying to accomplish that is not already a criminal, quote, offense.
00:08:34.760 To purport to label the...
00:08:37.620 Before we get to Viva Fry, this is at the Canada Strong and Freak networking conference in Ottawa a couple of weeks ago.
00:08:45.500 Thank God Viva Fry was there, or David Fry was there, because he was one of the few people there who actually was standing up for free speech, with the exception of Pierre Polyev when he mentioned it in his speech.
00:08:54.860 But he was faced with a lot of these blue liberals, or red Tories, or whatever they are.
00:09:03.180 They're not principal conservatives who are at this conference to not defend free speech, but to suggest, oh, you know, we really have to be more moderate in our thinking, and we really have to be more protective.
00:09:15.540 And Fry blew these people out of the water.
00:09:19.300 And I think this was a highlight of the conference.
00:09:23.700 The difference between entertainment and news is the type of thing that leads to someone trying to define hatred and criminalize it.
00:09:29.580 I don't know what you think is entertainment versus what you think is news, but entertainment can be news, and news can be entertainment.
00:09:35.700 Of course it can.
00:09:36.240 And the more accurate when it comes to news, it is what succeeds over time.
00:09:40.220 But the other thing is, going back to what you said earlier, that you do identify problems, and then one of them you identified was revenge porn, which seems to me, I can see that's a problem.
00:09:48.520 I would also argue that there already exist laws to deal with that, such that you don't need new ones.
00:09:52.140 Bullying online, this is going to sound very mean, you don't have the right to go online and think you're not going to get bullied.
00:09:58.600 And if you want kids to not get bullied online, have their parents watch what they're doing online.
00:10:04.660 Isn't refreshing to hear somebody say that?
00:10:07.680 Stop blaming everybody else.
00:10:09.760 If you don't want your kids to get bullied, monitor what they're watching on the internet.
00:10:14.520 Be a parent.
00:10:15.780 Be a mother.
00:10:16.400 Be a dad.
00:10:17.180 Stop just saying, okay, Johnny, Jill, watch whatever you want.
00:10:22.140 And let the government worry about it.
00:10:24.020 That's how we're getting in this state of affairs right now.
00:10:26.320 So I think Fry is right on here.
00:10:27.600 The laws to protect children from bullying, bullying online, is a doomed proposition that will only be used against politically disfavored speech, period.
00:10:36.460 But they're going to throw the kids in there.
00:10:37.820 Won't someone think of the kids?
00:10:38.900 You don't have the right to go online and not get called names.
00:10:41.400 The conservatives who petition or campaign off revoking a law that hadn't been enacted yet, as opposed to just opposing it staunchly before it gets enacted.
00:10:49.680 But this is – who is it?
00:10:51.580 It's one of the Greek philosophers.
00:10:52.580 More laws, less justice.
00:10:53.680 This is just another way for the government to control speech in an area where it didn't control it and continue to benefit its – I'll call them corrupt, but rather the legacy media that is failing on its own merits.
00:11:03.060 And they need legislation, prohibitions, and indirect funding in order to survive.
00:11:07.240 Fair enough.
00:11:07.580 Well, if I ask an obvious question, why would the collapse of the MSN be a problem and not a solution?
00:11:12.560 Because – well –
00:11:14.420 Because – if they can't – the reason why they're going to collapse is not because people are sabotaging them.
00:11:18.700 It's because they're sabotaging themselves because they are no longer independent media.
00:11:22.120 They are government lackeys, and they work for the government.
00:11:24.180 And this is why funding them is a –
00:11:25.900 No, so I'd say that the collapse is the solution.
00:11:28.680 Yeah.
00:11:28.780 Let them survive on their own merits like the rebel news, like the true noise out there.
00:11:31.840 I completely – as an independent media who is making some – making a wage, I agree with you.
00:11:36.440 And I think leaving it to the open market, people will listen to what they want to listen to.
00:11:39.640 What is good news and reliable will survive.
00:11:41.440 I agree.
00:11:41.840 But the bad conspiracy theorists get outed.
00:11:43.760 It's not – it's like – and I'm not using the word conspiracy theorists loosely, but the bad ones get outed.
00:11:47.760 The discredible ones get discredited, and then people stop listening to them.
00:11:50.860 That's fine.
00:11:51.480 W5 is the one that ran a small hit piece on me to run a bigger hit piece on Rumble.
00:11:55.160 Well, I'm sorry.
00:11:55.480 But I'm not going to have anything against them.
00:11:58.680 I mean, right on.
00:12:00.100 The mainstream media has decapitated itself, and it doesn't matter how much cash, how many infusions of cash it's getting from the Trudeau government.
00:12:14.680 It will not survive because it continues to promote lies, mendacity, prevarication.
00:12:20.520 It continues to be a source of deception, and it continues to suppress stories that you and I know are out there that they don't want to report on.
00:12:30.900 And it continues to highlight other stories that they think are so important, and you had better believe they're important, but you know they're not.
00:12:37.860 You know you're not going to bed at night worrying about climate change.
00:12:41.100 The mainstream media would love you to think you are.
00:12:43.380 And where do you think climate change is going to fit in with this Online Harms Act?
00:12:48.360 If I'm out here, if I'm on this station every day saying there is no cataclysm coming in the next 10 years as a result of climate change, there's no great catastrophe, there's no great doom coming, believe it or not, that will be construed as hate speech.
00:13:03.440 Yes, so we've got Jordan Peterson on site on this issue as well, and I encourage you to listen to Jordan Peterson's Listen Up Canada, where he talks about this in episode 442, because he is a Canadian treasure with the information he's getting out there, and I think that's very, very important.
00:13:25.480 And what's coming next?
00:13:27.020 What's coming next with the Online Harms Act, and how is it influencing other countries?
00:13:33.760 How is it becoming the standard for censorship?
00:13:45.020 Yes.
00:13:49.620 There's going to be an increasing bifurcation between groups who are accusing each other.
00:13:55.480 of hatred.
00:13:57.240 This is going to be a logistic and a judicial nightmare.
00:14:01.040 Already in Scotland, they have passed their own version of the Online Harms Act.
00:14:06.520 It's not as bad as ours, because there's not a thought crimes component, but it's an attempt to label just about anything as hateful speech.
00:14:13.600 And to promote what the bill says is good order.
00:14:17.380 So, thank God there has been tremendous pushback against this law.
00:14:22.080 But ironically, ironically, it has provoked more countercases of hate speech than it initially
00:14:32.340 produced accusations of hate speech.
00:14:36.620 And J.K. Rowling has been at the forefront of criticizing this bill because she says biological men should be identified as biological men,
00:14:49.440 especially when they expect to be put in a women's prison after committing heinous sex crimes.
00:14:55.640 So, these are the issues.
00:14:58.980 This is what's happening.
00:15:00.060 We are influencing the world with this.
00:15:03.500 And if Scotland thinks it can keep this bill, it will be because Canada thinks it can do this.
00:15:10.000 Why is this happening?
00:15:11.520 This is a race to the bottom of tyranny.
00:15:16.780 See what's happening?
00:15:17.540 In Canada, the Online Harms Act is only the third part of Trudeau's censorship trilogy.
00:15:25.540 It's a three-pronged attack on free speech in this country.
00:15:29.320 The United States has to restrict that.
00:15:30.860 Great Britain, the Online Safety Bill, which ours in Canada was originally called.
00:15:35.960 The European Union has the Digital Services Act.
00:15:38.480 Australia has the Online Safety Act as well.
00:15:40.880 What are these bills about?
00:15:41.760 It's all about censorship, all about freezing free speech, stopping people from saying what
00:15:47.640 they believe and calling it all hate speech, lumping it all together under this dome of
00:15:54.780 suppression called hate speech or hateful language.
00:15:58.660 The main threat is driven by the EU Digital Services Act.
00:16:02.540 Now, Mike Benz is a former member of the Deep State.
00:16:05.220 And here he is talking to Jack Posipic of Human Events and the Postmillennial, where I contribute
00:16:13.500 pieces every week.
00:16:14.840 And this is fascinating.
00:16:15.900 And NATO being a sort of military arm of the EU, this is going to be the main tool that
00:16:21.160 will be used to try to force Elon to censor like the other major platforms.
00:16:27.840 Those censorship standards are being teed up with the EU's joint partnership with groups
00:16:36.280 like NewsGuard.
00:16:37.480 You know, we've talked about NewsGuard as Michael V. Hayden on its board, former head
00:16:40.480 of the CIA, NSA, four-star general.
00:16:42.680 It has Anders Fogh Rasmussen on its board, the former head of NATO.
00:16:46.460 Tom Ridge, the former head of DHS.
00:16:48.260 Rick Stengel, the former head of the Global Engagement Center at the State Department.
00:16:51.540 It is this sort of apex predator of the national security state all-star squad.
00:16:58.420 And it's working with the European Union to craft the disinformation regulations that X
00:17:03.760 is going to be in a bind to comply with because it'll cost them 6% of their annual revenue if
00:17:09.340 they don't comply.
00:17:10.780 And they're not going to want to get kicked out of the EU market because the EU market
00:17:14.100 is even larger than the U.S. market.
00:17:15.900 It's 450 million people in the EU versus only 300 million some in the U.S.
00:17:19.280 So, worth mentioning that one of the components of the Online Harms Act is that social media
00:17:28.040 platforms can be sued and can and will be forced to relinquish up to about 10% of their
00:17:37.020 gross global income.
00:17:40.320 How do you think they're going to react to that?
00:17:42.560 Well, forget about broadcasting in Canada.
00:17:44.780 Forget about that because we can't take the risk.
00:17:47.540 This amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars every time they're forced to do so.
00:17:52.360 And this is what Mike is talking about in the European Union case.
00:17:56.300 They're really caught in the crosshairs here.
00:17:58.800 You know, I don't mean to take it back to Taylor Swift, but, you know, you had the head
00:18:03.160 of the EU make a plea three weeks ago to Taylor Swift to do a get out the vote campaign
00:18:10.720 for in all the European countries that her European tour is is set to do just weeks before the EU
00:18:18.920 elections.
00:18:19.480 And, you know, the main thing is if the EU's parliamentary majorities hold for the pro-NATO
00:18:27.780 factions, they will be using this transatlantic flank attack.
00:18:33.180 That is, the U.S.
00:18:33.860 State Department will be working with the EU regulators to to force any U.S.
00:18:40.660 companies who don't take down disinformation about the elections to to essentially forfeit
00:18:47.720 their entire EU market license.
00:18:49.420 So when it comes to frightening, absolutely frightening, because there is a concerted effort
00:18:57.100 right now to influence the 2024 U.S.
00:19:01.120 presidential elections by limiting what is said on social media platforms.
00:19:07.140 That's that's what Mike is talking about.
00:19:09.060 The tech billionaire, like I've already said, I think he's a social media knob with no social
00:19:12.560 conscience.
00:19:13.540 He has absolutely no social conscience.
00:19:15.640 Someone like that should be in jail and the key be thrown away.
00:19:18.800 That Elon Musk she's talking about.
00:19:20.860 Elon Musk should be in jail for what?
00:19:23.840 Not having a social conscience by whose definition?
00:19:28.640 Blake should not be have a right to be out there on his own ideology platform and creating
00:19:35.700 hatred, you know, showing all this stuff out there to our kids and doing all the rest.
00:19:41.620 I'm very interested to watch what the U.S. is going to do with TikTok and how far that
00:19:45.440 they can do with trying to get rid of that.
00:19:48.220 OK, so this is Australia's take on things.
00:19:51.340 Australia, of course, you might recall, went berserk during COVID, locking people up in
00:19:56.760 concentration camps.
00:19:57.620 Now they're going to go berserk on how much Canada is going to be the example for the
00:20:04.900 Online Harms Act and how Elon Musk should be jailed for allowing free speech on his platform.
00:20:14.640 And what about TikTok?
00:20:16.780 Ah, she was saying, how are we going to get rid of TikTok?
00:20:19.780 Well, the United States just did so.
00:20:22.100 They included banning TikTok in their outrageous, outrageous $95 billion military bailout package
00:20:33.100 for Ukraine, Israel and Pakistan, including $61 billion for Ukraine alone.
00:20:38.960 In that package, in that bill is the recipe, is the proposal, is a law to outlaw and ban TikTok.
00:20:50.380 So that's what they've done.
00:20:52.900 Platform as well.
00:20:53.560 So I think we're all watching on the United States at the moment to see what they're doing.
00:20:57.300 But seriously, if we can move and if that means in the next sitting that we can shut him down
00:21:03.180 from doing this.
00:21:05.060 Hey, everybody, it's Mike Schellenberger.
00:21:07.720 Mike Schellenberger, noted journalist.
00:21:10.000 He brings you up to date what's happening.
00:21:12.060 Now, Brazil has gone nuts as well.
00:21:15.340 There's an increasing tyranny in Brazil.
00:21:17.520 There's an escalating dictatorship in Brazil.
00:21:20.380 As they lash out on free speech, on social media, they want to ban anything that the
00:21:26.420 government disagrees with.
00:21:27.360 And Schellenberger explains it here.
00:21:29.260 But there are a number of journalists went to Brazil thinking they were going to be more
00:21:33.440 free than they were in the United States or Canada.
00:21:36.200 They're now finding that they are in the focus, in the lens of a dictatorship that wants
00:21:43.860 to eradicate any speech, any language, anything that disagrees with the government, anything
00:21:51.800 that this government in Brazil deems to be politically incorrect, deems to be hateful
00:21:57.360 in any way as they define it.
00:21:59.740 So let's listen to Michael.
00:22:00.640 For public, just a day and a half ago, it seemed like things were really starting to calm down
00:22:05.520 here in Brazil.
00:22:06.680 The Folha de São Paulo, which is the New York Times of Brazil, editorialized against censorship.
00:22:11.900 The head of the Brazilian Bar Association gave, for the first time, really, a very strong
00:22:17.180 statement in support of freedom of expression and against censorship.
00:22:20.780 And even the president of Brazil's Supreme Court said the conflict between Brazil and
00:22:24.680 X, formerly known as Twitter, was over.
00:22:28.200 People talk a big game, he said, but they don't act on our words.
00:22:31.080 All of that has once again changed.
00:22:34.680 Yesterday, Brazil's president, Lula, literally called for criminalizing lying.
00:22:39.800 Given that everybody lies, Lula is proposing to give the government the power to arrest anyone
00:22:43.960 he wants.
00:22:45.500 Thousands of worker party activists came on to X yesterday to demand that I be arrested
00:22:50.000 and put in prison for things I said during my testimony before the Brazilian Senate.
00:22:54.900 And today, the head of X in Brazil announced that he had quit, fearing for his safety.
00:22:59.240 I'm not afraid for myself.
00:23:01.400 As I said on X a few days ago, I fear neither the devil nor Jim Ortiz, the Supreme Court justice
00:23:05.860 who's rapidly turning himself into Brazil's dictator.
00:23:08.720 I'm taking all necessary precautions to ensure that I can leave Brazil today safely and without
00:23:13.620 being arrested.
00:23:14.920 You can help, however, by sharing this video and spreading the word about what's happening
00:23:18.620 here.
00:23:19.720 Even so, what's happening in Brazil terrifies me.
00:23:22.940 I love this country and its people.
00:23:24.880 I'm afraid they're on the cusp of totalitarianism.
00:23:28.200 A significant share of the left wants to incarcerate their political enemies.
00:23:33.140 Respected Brazilian journalists say with a straight face that the government must engage
00:23:36.760 in mass censorship in order to protect democracy.
00:23:40.160 Brazil is everything that George Orwell feared and worse.
00:23:43.880 The Brazilian government appears to view 1984 not as a dystopian future to avoid, but as an
00:23:50.200 instruction manual for creating a new future.
00:23:52.480 There is that examination again.
00:23:57.700 There is that comparison again.
00:24:00.120 Brazil, much like Justin Trudeau, views 1984 not as a warning, but as a plan.
00:24:04.700 I might be less worried if Brazil were small and irrelevant, but it's not.
00:24:08.160 Brazil is the biggest and most important country in Latin America.
00:24:11.860 Just this week, top Brazilian government officials were in China talking about how China, one of the
00:24:16.480 most totalitarian nations in the world, is a model for Brazil.
00:24:20.940 Brazil is an inspiration now for European totalitarians who have weaponized government
00:24:25.200 intelligence agencies to spread disinformation about their political enemies, interfere in the
00:24:30.080 elections, and are implementing a censorship system to control the entire internet.
00:24:34.860 Brazil is one of the most important things that we have to do in the world, but we need to
00:24:37.580 fight back.
00:24:38.580 What can we do?
00:24:41.120 We have to fight back.
00:24:42.580 And this is why I've done two broadcasts on this issue this week.
00:24:45.960 I'll continue to fight back.
00:24:47.440 I'll continue to work with people like John Carpe.
00:24:50.000 And as long as he stays on topic, on issue with Pierre Pauly and the Conservative Party of
00:24:54.740 Canada on this, I'll continue to work with Maxime Bernier and the People's Party of Canada
00:24:59.560 who have been very strong on this.
00:25:01.540 But we need to fight back.
00:25:02.960 We need to fight back.
00:25:03.800 And what did George Orwell say?
00:25:06.740 For those of you who listened to my audio book of 1984, I kept saying how real, how incredibly
00:25:14.580 relevant this book was.
00:25:17.860 It's like I had read it for the first time.
00:25:20.060 It was almost like if you're a believer in the Bible and you read the Bible one day, you'll
00:25:26.040 see things in it you didn't see yesterday.
00:25:27.880 I saw things in 1984 this time around that I had never seen before.
00:25:31.480 He was describing the world I live in, especially in terms of there being constant foreign
00:25:36.380 wars that never end.
00:25:39.360 And we're constantly producing armaments that are destroyed so we can just produce more.
00:25:43.340 I found that to be absolutely fascinating because that is the world we're living in today.
00:25:48.500 So what did Orwell say?
00:25:50.920 What did Orwell say?
00:25:52.180 The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one.
00:26:07.820 And last but not least, and those words are very true.
00:26:19.280 Orwell really didn't live much longer after the publication of 1984.
00:26:25.880 He did not live very much longer after the book came out.
00:26:29.680 He never really lived to know how much of a bestseller it would be, how classrooms in high school
00:26:39.280 and in university would be reading that book for decades after his death.
00:26:45.820 He never realized how seminal it was, how influential it would be.
00:26:50.480 What a great classic work of political fiction it is, if you can call it that.
00:26:57.140 It is a work of art.
00:26:58.340 It's a classic.
00:26:59.140 But Orwell didn't live to see that, unfortunately.
00:27:01.480 I've saved some optimism for the end, though.
00:27:04.620 I was there with a sense that people felt at least there's hope.
00:27:10.760 We can do something to stop this odious online harms bill.
00:27:16.060 Well, democracy is a political system that rewards the people who are the most active and the most engaged.
00:27:23.260 And it punishes people who are not active.
00:27:27.460 There's an old French proverb that says, if you don't do politics, then politics will be done unto you.
00:27:33.300 And so we've seen, not only in Canada, but in different countries, when people roll up their sleeves
00:27:40.680 and when you have strong grassroots support for a candidate or for an idea or on an issue,
00:27:48.220 when people are both active and persistent, so they don't give up and quit after a few hours, a few days, a few weeks,
00:27:55.820 but they're willing to stick with an issue for years.
00:27:59.620 You can see positive change.
00:28:02.320 In Alberta, we used to have this premier by the name of Jason Kenney, and he was replaced by somebody named Daniel Smith.
00:28:10.420 And that was because a lot of Albertans were very upset with Jason over breaking his promises to stop the lockdowns.
00:28:19.320 And he just made things worse and broke his promises and then brought in vaccine passports, et cetera.
00:28:25.760 And so there are so many examples throughout history and across the world.
00:28:30.880 If people will roll up their sleeves and engage in the political process, engage in the democratic process,
00:28:38.160 then it is possible to bring about change.
00:28:40.320 Well, I certainly think you're right.
00:28:43.820 People can fight back if they're mobilized and educated.
00:28:48.600 And I think that's part of the process here that you're fulfilling.
00:28:56.980 So there we have it.
00:28:59.460 There we have it.
00:29:01.460 I encourage you to have a look at my Substack page, which is www.DavidCrayton.
00:29:07.380 And I'm particularly proud of my recent series of articles.
00:29:14.580 I did a retrospective on William F. Buckley Jr., who was a huge influence on me as a child when I first discovered his work,
00:29:22.920 his broadcasting work in his magazine, National Review, which is nothing like the magazine today, by the way.
00:29:28.100 But he was a huge influence.
00:29:29.140 And there was a wonderful documentary recently produced by PBS, of all places, on American Masters.
00:29:34.840 And I just take you through why Buckley was so good for small C conservatives and small L libertarians.
00:29:43.440 My latest article, of course, is about Donald Trump, who has let down his base, not once, but twice.
00:29:50.300 First of all, by saying the COVID vaccine was a marvelous achievement of his administration,
00:29:55.180 ignoring entirely that people have been potentially affected by it in a lethal way.
00:30:01.780 I'll say that very carefully.
00:30:02.720 And he's also let his base down on Ukraine by insisting on it's now a national security interest and we have to keep giving billions of dollars to Ukraine.
00:30:13.860 So I encourage you to read those articles.
00:30:17.320 And I encourage you to continue to watch Stand on Guard every day because I will be here every day to continue to do this.
00:30:24.240 Thanks for supporting me.
00:30:25.320 Like I say, I'm a professional.
00:30:28.740 I try to be professional in my broadcasting.
00:30:31.980 I've been doing this, my God, now for over 30 years.
00:30:36.000 Yes.
00:30:37.980 As a journalist, as a public affairs officer in the military.
00:30:40.460 And I'm proud of the work I do.
00:30:42.300 I didn't just decide one day, let's do a broadcast and make some money.
00:30:47.080 I've been doing this for many years and I'm proud of the work we're doing.
00:30:49.880 I really am because it is important to get the word out as independent media.
00:30:54.280 So I'll leave that with you for now.
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