Debanking, the process of de-banking, has been going on for a few weeks now, and it seems to be having a big impact across the world. In this episode of the John Henry Weston Show, our European correspondent, Andreas Walzer, and his regular contributor, Frank Wright, discuss what debanking is all about.
00:00:45.180And at the same time, we're seeing grand insanity almost everywhere.
00:00:49.940That, remember the case in Canada of the young man, Josh Alexander, who was just with us at our gala in Toronto, Canada.
00:00:59.100You know, he was 16 when it happened, banned from his school for daring to protest the trans folks allowed in the opposite gender bathrooms.
00:01:07.280He wanted privacy for girls in their bathrooms, not have young men in there.
00:01:11.860So he was suspended first, and now it seems expelled, arrested for coming when he was suspended.
00:01:18.160But get this, his parents in different school boards, both of whom were teachers, are also suspended from their jobs.
00:01:31.520There's something going on in the world today that's connected to this debanking movement.
00:01:36.200And with us to discuss it on this episode of the John Henry Weston Show is our European correspondent, Andreas Walzer, and another one of our frequent correspondents from Europe, Frank Wright.
00:01:49.060When I was in seminary, I was reading a book by Henry Nowen.
00:01:56.960He talked about a nuclear man, you know, and people who grew up in the 1980s were kind of formed by that immediate and constant threat of nuclear annihilation.
00:02:07.580And my generation has grown up, you know, under the specter of priestly sexual abuse.
00:02:15.820What say you, Mr. Foreperson, is the defendant guilty or not guilty?
00:02:19.840I think that for many of us, that has also been all-encompassing.
00:02:24.700You know, I mean, I entered the seminary in January of 2004, and it's basically been there for me from the beginning.
00:02:32.060I think that for many of us, we're going to be able to do this.
00:03:02.060Yeah, so there were two big stories that broke in the past days.
00:03:08.700One was, of course, the biggest with, like you mentioned already, Nigel Farage, you know, known as Mr. Brexit, who led the Brexit movement in Great Britain and the UK.
00:03:20.640He was debanked from his bank, probably one of the most, you know, highest figures sort of in public policy who was debanked so far.
00:03:30.300And also, Dr. Joseph Merkula, who's one of the most well-known critics of, you know, the whole COVID narrative and everything around that, and also a critic of globalism in general.
00:03:43.960We at Lifeside, we actually, we reprint a lot of his articles, which are excellent.
00:03:48.640And so these were two high-level figures that have been debanked in the past couple of weeks.
00:03:54.880And also, their families, like you mentioned, have been targeted as well.
00:03:59.480So that is, you know, sort of what's going on.
00:04:02.640This debanking trend seems to be getting steam and targeting more and more people.
00:04:07.780So, Frank, you've analysed some of this.
00:04:11.460What do you think is actually going on here?
00:04:13.340Well, I think that the scandal that's unfolding speaks of a far wider ideological capture of the institutions,
00:04:18.980where we cannot any longer believe that these people are acting in good faith.
00:04:23.900What happened is technically legal, but it demonstrates the distance between legality and morality.
00:04:29.940When you are dealing with people who captain your institutions, such as your banks and your media, and indeed your professions,
00:04:37.420you expect these people to act in a good faith that they actually don't have.
00:04:40.600You are talking about the expectation of principle among the unprincipled.
00:04:44.840The principle that governs these people is evidence of a, well, of a soft collusion between the major institutions of state and broadcasting,
00:04:53.920and indeed financial institutions, to exclude and destroy the life chances of people who simply disagree with their political views.
00:05:02.100Okay, those claims, they sound pretty far-fetched.