The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 10, 2024


Liberals weaponize the police against journalists

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Wyatt Claypool
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David Menzies Justin Trudeau Bill C-63 Chrystia Freeland Daniel Boardman Lisa Laflamme
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Rebel news reporter David Menzies was manhandled and arrested by police for merely attempting to ask Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland a question about the Liberal soft on terrorism policy. This episode highlights how the Liberal government has weaponized the police against the independent media, and also corrupted other institutions in Canada in order to try and shut down independent media.

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00:00:00.000 As infuriating as it was to watch rebel news reporter David Menzies getting manhandled and arrested by police for merely attempting to ask Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland a question about the Liberal soft on terrorism policy, I think it was also important for many Canadians to just witness how much the Liberal government has weaponized the police against the independent media and also corrupted other institutions in Canada in order to try and shut down independent media, whether it's their ability to actually report the news or their ability to ask questions like in this instance.
00:00:29.640 Our government is very anti-free speech and pro-censorship, and this clip basically encapsulates the entire issue.
00:00:36.940 Just watch this and see how this police officer seems to, in a rehearsed fashion, run up to David, hits him, and then accuses David of assault so that he can make an excuse to arrest David to get him away from Chrystia Freeland.
00:00:48.300 It's completely absurd.
00:01:11.560 You can even see it in David Menzies' face that when the cop bumps into him, he's looking at him like, what's going on here?
00:01:18.060 And then the cop very angrily says, well, you're under arrest for assault.
00:01:21.620 That's assault.
00:01:22.660 It's so rehearsed that you can tell that either Freeland's office or the PMO itself is instructing these officers, acting as security for ministers, how to get rid of independent journalists.
00:01:33.600 This is not something that this officer probably came up with on the spot.
00:01:37.580 This is obviously something he does in order to prevent certain news outlets from being able to ask questions.
00:01:43.160 And how ironic is it that he's asking a question to Chrystia Freeland as to why they haven't listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization,
00:01:52.080 which is, you know, the terror arm of the anti-free speech Iranian government, and that she's having him arrested for even asking the question.
00:02:01.340 And not to do too much of a shameless plug, but this is exactly why I myself am running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative nomination. 0.92
00:02:08.600 There needs to be independent journalists in the next government so we can get rid of all these stupid pro-censorship, anti-free speech laws that are on the books 0.75
00:02:16.760 and make sure that we crack down on this corruption of the police force, that they shouldn't be going after journalists of any stripe. 0.91
00:02:24.440 Unless David was harassing her and was following her for four or five minutes, getting up in her face and bumping into her, there's no reason to arrest him.
00:02:31.380 The reason why he was having to do these sort of, like, you know, scrum, these walking talk scrums with the Deputy Prime Minister
00:02:39.120 is because the Liberals do not allow outlets like Rebel, True North, the National Telegraph, the Counter Signal, to ask questions during real press conferences.
00:02:48.620 They get them thrown out, and organizations like Rebel and True North have to sue to be able to actually be in the scrum at official debates that go on during the federal election
00:02:57.360 and other sorts of, like, press conferences, both in and outside of Parliament.
00:03:01.480 This is all what David's doing, and people are saying, he's being annoying, he should be arrested.
00:03:06.420 Well, if they find that annoying, maybe they should actually let him ask questions during official functions.
00:03:12.120 Or maybe they should just, she should just turn to him and say, I don't want to ask questions, or actually maybe answer the question for a change.
00:03:18.000 That would be a thought.
00:03:19.380 This government just seems to just think that media should just always be saying nice things about them.
00:03:25.780 That media is, the job of media is to promote liberal messages.
00:03:29.300 This is why they're trying to, they're trying to fund the legacy media, because the legacy media acts as stenographers for the Liberal Party.
00:03:37.720 They merely say what the Liberal Party said, and they'll have an expert come in and say why it's so correct.
00:03:43.340 And every once in a while, they'll let a conservative maybe give a rebuttal, but not often.
00:03:47.680 That's the way that the Liberals think the media should work.
00:03:50.120 It should work like CTV and CBC.
00:03:52.260 They omit anything that the Liberals don't like from a story, and they mostly just give a narrative that promotes whatever the Liberals are doing, despite the facts on the ground saying otherwise, that the reality on the ground is against the narrative that most of the legacy media puts out.
00:04:07.340 This is what makes things like Bill C-11 and C-18 so dangerous.
00:04:11.700 The independent media's only avenue to be able to gain viewers is through social media and platforms like YouTube and Facebook.
00:04:18.980 Yet we have the Liberals trying to shut down all news on Facebook through Bill C-18, trying to extort Meta into paying them $56 million a year to the legacy media outlets, or they don't get to put up Canadian news.
00:04:32.000 My thing is I actually believe that Trudeau's Bill C-18 was meant to ask Facebook for way too much, to extort them into basically just saying we don't want to do any Canadian news because it costs us too much, and shutting down the entire operation.
00:04:44.520 The CBC and CTV do not benefit that much from being on social media.
00:04:47.900 It doesn't know when he watches or listens to them in the first place.
00:04:50.880 Obviously, Trudeau would rather just no media be on Facebook because that's where independent media was gaining so much traction.
00:04:56.960 And now Bill C-11 is how he's going to try and corrupt institutions or platforms like YouTube by forcing their algorithm to be able to push Canadians towards Canadian content.
00:05:09.480 There's good, clean Canadian content, which is obviously going to be CTV News, CBC, or independent creators who have a pro-liberal agenda.
00:05:17.100 The National Telegraph, me and Daniel Boardman are never going to get approved as Canadian media.
00:05:21.560 Rebel News won't be considered Canadian media.
00:05:23.620 True North definitely isn't going to be considered Canadian media.
00:05:26.580 What the Liberals consider being like helping independent journalism is helping the individuals who work at the CBC and CTV.
00:05:33.940 They're so weaselly when it comes to their language around the media.
00:05:38.720 And it's been hilarious people going back into Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland's Twitter timelines and finding their pro-independent media comments about how independent journalists shouldn't be facing arrest in other countries and they shouldn't be harassed by governments for holding people accountable.
00:05:56.480 Yet Chrystia Freeland, is she going to release a statement about how, well, I don't think that the police treated David right.
00:06:01.280 I don't like those questions, but, you know, he has the right to give me those questions.
00:06:06.020 She doesn't think that.
00:06:07.040 She thinks that anyone that annoys her should be arrested.
00:06:10.180 This woman used to work as a journalist. 1.00
00:06:12.220 She used to work as a journalist in Russia, where it actually can be quite dangerous to do journalism.
00:06:16.860 I think she was also in Ukraine.
00:06:17.880 The places where oftentimes freedom of the press is not always guaranteed, and she's totally fine with her own government walking down the same pathway towards tyranny, making it so that only government state approved journalists get to ask questions.
00:06:31.220 And once something's state approved, it's no longer legitimate in any way because the people asking the questions, although they are technically allowed to ask tough questions, are they really, when the government is holding the purse strings and basically determining whether this outlet survives or not, are they going to ask Justin Trudeau tough questions?
00:06:47.740 Just look at the sorts of questions that Justin Trudeau gets from the CBC, CTV, all the other legacy outlets, Global, the Toronto Star.
00:06:55.440 He only ever gets tough questions when a scandal or an issue gets so bad they have to ask or people will start watching independent media.
00:07:03.160 The legacy media just puts out little droplets of sort of true information in order to make people think there must be some legitimacy to them, when at the end of the day, they're all, what they do is subtle propaganda that moves people into a more liberal frame of mind.
00:07:17.140 By reducing the amount of facts that they give throughout their reports so that when the person puts them all together, they think they're naturally coming to a pro-liberal conclusion when it was just so that the game was effectively rigged from the start.
00:07:29.340 So the only information that the person was given or the only substantial information the person was given would have obviously made them think that the liberals are right.
00:07:36.680 That's why people who watch a lot of legacy media become proud liberals and think that the conservatives only lie or the conservatives are corrupt because the lying by omission of the CBC and CTV always makes it seem like the conservatives are up to something.
00:07:52.300 It's Lisa Laflamme on CTV News back in the day, whenever a conservative would say something, whether she can't argue that whatever they said was wrong, but she rolls her eyes about how ridiculous it is that this conservative said this thing.
00:08:04.520 Obvious propaganda. 0.64
00:08:05.520 Obvious propaganda.
00:08:06.520 Anyways, I don't want to ramble on too much, but this, I hope that this David Menzies episode actually makes both Canadians and international observers look a little bit less favorably into the supposed free speech democracy that Canada has under Trudeau.
00:08:23.560 It is turning very quickly into a very bloated authoritarian government that only that wants that will rig the rules in order to try and help themselves electorally.
00:08:34.300 Anyways, that should be it for me today.
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00:08:40.660 I'm being sued by a billionaire. 0.86
00:08:42.460 He's trying to basically just his lawsuit against myself and the National Telegraph is completely ridiculous.
00:08:47.720 And he's just trying to drag it out in order to hurt us financially because of all the costs that we incur.
00:08:52.420 However, all the evidence of the case goes in our favor.
00:08:55.620 He basically didn't even submit any evidence when he had to.
00:08:58.340 He's so late on submitting the non-evidence he had.
00:09:01.340 He actually owed me money at one point.
00:09:03.420 But other than that, I'm also, again, running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
00:09:08.060 So if you live in Calgary Signal Hill, make sure you have a conservative membership.
00:09:11.640 And if you know anyone who lives in that riding, it's like the west side of Calgary.
00:09:14.940 If you know anyone in that riding, make sure that they get a membership and support me, number one on the ballot,
00:09:19.600 because we need real conservatives who and some independent journalists to get into government to make the changes that we need made.
00:09:26.520 I don't want a conservative government getting in, getting a couple of big ticket item, big ticket piece of legislation from the liberals repealed.
00:09:33.320 We need to repeal all of it.
00:09:34.960 There's not an ounce of liberal legislation that should stay in place.
00:09:38.600 But other than that, I'll see you guys in my next video.
00:09:41.000 We'll see you guys in the next video.