In the midst of all the insanity, the state of Texas and Florida and many others are fighting back. And so is the nation of Hungary. All that and more on this episode of The John Henry Weston Show. Sponsors!
00:00:00.000The president of the Philippines went on national TV to threaten citizens that he would have all those refusing the COVID jab arrested and thrown into filthy prisons.
00:00:12.360A scientist has admitted that the COVID-19 lab leak theory was ignored because it was, quote, scarier to be associated with Trump, end quote.
00:00:21.260And in the midst of all the insanity, the state of Texas and Florida and many others are fighting back.
00:02:20.200But this is where so many of the world leaders are coming from.
00:02:24.200Of course, in the West, it sounds so much more sophisticated, but it's the same thing.
00:02:30.200Here, watch Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announce COVID passports coming in a few weeks for Canada and internationally in the fall.
00:02:42.200We are working on two tracks in terms of proof of vaccination for Canadians who wish to travel.
00:02:48.200In the coming weeks, so that people can have a few more options if they're fully vaccinated this summer.
00:02:54.200But for the fall in the medium term, we are working with the provinces to establish a national certification of vaccination status that will be easily accepted around the world for people who need to travel internationally.
00:03:10.200And if you think, but that's not jail, remember that in Canada, we have the insane practice of locking people in what they call COVID hotels or quarantine hotels for three days after you enter the country unvaccinated.
00:03:27.200Those so-called hotels are horrendous lock-ins.
00:03:32.200And for the joy of this imprisonment, you are forced to pay approximately $2,000 per person.
00:04:47.200He invoked cabinet confidence on the evidence used to decide at cabinet on why those COVID hotels should be used.
00:04:53.200Meaning those records are sealed for 20 years and can't be accessed in a number of court challenges saying that the hotel stays are unconstitutional.
00:05:03.200But a few Canadian politicians are fighting back against the insanity.
00:05:08.200One of them, MP Derek Sloan, held a press conference last week with doctors and researchers to condemn censorship of scientific inquiry and suppression of information on risks to children of the COVID jab.
00:05:22.200They called out the liberal Trudeau government for concealing the harmful effects of lockdowns and the efficacy of treatments for COVID that make the so-called vaccine unnecessary.
00:05:36.200The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, known as CPSO, issued a dire statement threatening any doctor who spoke out about what they were witnessing on the front lines of our hospitals, in their own clinics and in our communities.
00:05:49.200The purpose of governing bodies like the CPSO is to protect the public, not to stifle legitimate scientific inquiry or dissent by professional doctors.
00:05:59.200I first got into speaking out, seeing the massive harms from these lockdowns on my patients.
00:06:05.200I've never seen so many suicidal children.
00:06:08.200But Canada has gone crazy, not only in terms of COVID.
00:06:13.200Just this week, the Canadian House of Commons passed a bill to criminalize therapy for those with same-sex attractions who want help to rid themselves of their abnormal sexual inclinations.
00:06:30.200Canada would still allow kids questioning their sexuality to be convinced to identify as homosexual or transgender, not, however, to identify as heterosexual.
00:06:40.200Here's the quote from the bill defining what they call conversion therapy.
00:06:44.200It is that they deem any practice, treatment, or service designed to change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual or to change their gender identity to cisgender or to repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behavior.
00:07:31.200There's another piece of legislation that also was rammed through this week in Parliament in Canada, Bill C-10.
00:07:38.200It's a China-style bill seeking to regulate the internet and specifically social media to allow the government to curtail what Canadians are allowed to view.
00:07:48.200And of course, for the leftist Canadian government, all porn all the time is just fine.
00:07:54.200But the conservative speech to defend family, well, that's considered hatred and incitement to violence.
00:08:01.200You might wonder how such an insane bill could ever pass Parliament.
00:08:06.200Well, it was done at 1.30 a.m. on Tuesday.
00:08:10.200So in the middle of the night, the Trudeau liberals rammed through the legislation and are hoping that the Senate gives it a rubber stamp.
00:08:19.200Both these pieces of legislation, in fact, are up for rubber stamping by the Senate so that the senators, of course, can get out in time for their summer break, which was supposed to start today.
00:08:29.200And it's not only Canada that's crazy.
00:08:32.200In Colorado, a court has ordered a Christian baker to make a cake to celebrate a transgender transition.
00:08:40.200LifeSite's Claire Murkowski reported last week that Christian cake shop owner Jack Phillips will be forced to bake cakes celebrating transgender ideology.
00:08:50.200Phillips has actually been harassed by homosexual activists for nearly a decade.
00:08:55.200It was way back in 2012, a homosexual couple requested that Phillips make them a cake celebrating their wedding.
00:09:02.200And being a Christian, Phillips, of course, refused to compromise his beliefs that marriage is between one man and one woman.
00:09:09.200He was taken to court, which ruled that he must make the cake, but he appealed.
00:09:14.200And in 2018, the Supreme Court overruled the former ruling and determined that forcing Phillips to create the cake was a violation of the First Amendment.
00:09:24.200But before that ruling came out, Autumn Scardina, who's a biological male attorney, he claims to be a woman, of course, he demanded that Phillips create a cake celebrating his transition.
00:09:38.200Upon being refused, Scardina, the lawyer sued Phillips, refusing in, of course, like refusing to do with this.
00:09:47.200And he required Phillips, a new ruling now requires Phillips to act against his conscience.
00:09:54.200I'm sure Phillips will continue his pushback.
00:09:57.200And speaking of pushback, 15 states in the USA have moved to curtail public health powers by, you know, undertaken with the COVID-19 overreach.
00:10:10.200Ashley Sadler reported at LifeSite News this week that legislatures in at least 15 states have passed or currently considering measures to crack down on public health agencies in the wake of the agency's unprecedented use of power during the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:10:27.200A sampling of the laws include North Dakota prohibiting requiring masks.
00:10:33.200Kansas removing the power of the governor to force the closure of businesses.
00:10:39.200Arizona forbidding state hospitals and universities to require vaccines for students and employees.
00:10:45.200Texas blocking local health agencies from acting in a manner inconsistent with the orders of the state health department or the governor.
00:10:53.200And Florida imposing time limits for emergency orders.
00:10:56.200And one of my favorite pieces of pushback was signed into law last week.
00:11:00.200LifeSite's David McClune reports that Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill Tuesday that prohibits closing churches in the state, thereby protecting the religious freedom of citizens.
00:11:12.200It was representative Scott Sanford who actually sponsored the bill earlier in the year.
00:11:20.200He said, quote, churches provide essential spiritual, mental, and physical support in a time of crisis.
00:11:26.200That is, they support the need for religious services at all times.
00:11:30.200He said, and I quote, closing churches, not only eliminated these critical ministries and services, but it violated their religious freedom guaranteed by our laws and constitution.
00:12:00.200Alina Chen, a genetic engineering specialist and postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University told NBC News on Wednesday that some scientists kept silence about their interest in the hypothesis about the lab leak because they didn't want to be considered racist.
00:12:21.200She said, and I quote, at the time it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists.
00:12:37.200So Chan actually tried herself to get her colleagues to take the lab leak theory seriously, but she was shunned and even personally targeted by the Chinese communist media, according to her own testimony on Twitter.
00:12:51.200And that's why it is so refreshing to see those with scientific backgrounds push back against the pressure to give in to the anti-science rhetoric coming from the COVID vaccine pushers.
00:13:04.200Listen to Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey respond to a reporter who pressured him on whether or not he had taken the COVID jab.
00:13:12.200Number one, you didn't answer whether or not you've been vaccinated.
00:13:17.200Well, first of all, it's none of your business, but I'm going to tell you, I'm not vaccinated.
00:13:21.200And until there's some science, by the way, I have a master's of science degree from MIT.
00:13:26.200I'm not a virologist, but I can read data.
00:13:29.200Everybody just needs to read and don't put your head in the sand.
00:13:35.200I'm not going to get the vaccine until there's data that shows that it will improve upon the immunity that's been conferred to me as a result of a natural infection that I had.
00:13:47.200And it's not only U.S. politicians who are pushing back.
00:13:50.200Hungary just passed a law protecting children from homosexual and transgender propaganda, as well as pornography.
00:13:58.200Prime Minister Viktor Orban said about the law, and I quote, education in schools must not be in conflict with the will of parents.
00:14:07.200Prime Minister Orban added that, quote, parents also rightly expect that on platforms used by our children, pornography, sexuality for its own sake, homosexual and transgender reassignment programs should not be available, end quote.
00:14:21.200Predictably, the leftist European Commission is coming after Hungary, trying to force the sovereign nation to bend on the ideological position of the European Commission's push for the LGBT agenda.
00:14:34.200The Hungarian bill is a shame, and I've instructed my responsible commissioners to write a letter to the Hungarian authorities concerning or expressing our legal concerns before the bill enters into force.
00:14:54.200But you can take a stand to support Hungary by signing our petition in support of Hungary, and you will find it at LifePetitions.com.
00:15:05.200It is time, my friends, to stand and fight for our rights to faith, life and family and freedom.
00:15:12.440Just as Senator Rick Scott said at the Conservative Road to Majority Conference in Orlando last week, have a listen to this.
00:15:20.100We saw liberals attack our fundamental right to worship and use COVID as an excuse.
00:15:28.100We know those on the left will take every opportunity to attack America's First Amendment rights and our ability to freely worship.
00:15:42.100You know, the other thing, as Steve Scalise says, there's an all-out attack on the people of faith that respect and cherish the sanctity of life.
00:16:29.100You look at 62 million unborn children who've lost their lives.
00:16:33.100You look at our values being stripped away and the message my father preaches is no one bears more responsibility for that than the pastors in America.
00:16:42.100If I actually preach the gospel, there are going to be some people unhappy in the crowd.
00:17:30.100Because we know that in the end, Christ will be victorious and all his enemies will be put under his footstool.
00:17:36.100We know that the Immaculate Heart will triumph in the end.
00:17:40.100When the clergy, starting with the Pope, do what they are called to do.
00:17:44.100It's time for the bishops and priests in America and the whole world, at least those that remain faithful, to speak and to end the mass confusion.
00:17:54.100To defend the faithful from some of the clergy who are wolves in sheep's clothing.
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