The Shadoe Davis Show - Shadoe at Nite Tues March 5th⧸2024 w⧸Benita Pedersen in Westlock, AB

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00:04:00.000 hello everybody welcome to shadow at night this is tuesday march the 5th 2024 on the show tonight

00:04:25.840 well it's super tuesday down there in the united states so i think there's eight or nine states

00:04:29.880 going tonight, Democrat, Republican, they're going to be voting on who they want to be

00:04:33.980 their candidate for president, so we're going to update you on that in just a little bit.

00:04:38.520 Supreme Court ruling came down from the United States yesterday, a unanimous ruling, 9-0,

00:04:44.500 that Donald Trump will stay on the ballot in Colorado, and because that ruling came

00:04:49.720 from the Supreme Court, all the other states that are challenging Trump's eligibility to

00:04:54.380 be in the election pretty much have to fall off and go, well, I guess we have to let him

00:04:59.300 on the ballot then.

00:05:00.540 Hey, look, Democrats, far left, radical Marxists,

00:05:04.760 if you really don't want Donald Trump to be your president,

00:05:08.360 my suggestion would be going out to the people

00:05:12.300 and earning a win in a free and fair election.

00:05:16.980 How about that?

00:05:18.660 Or is it because you know you can't possibly beat the man

00:05:22.220 without cheating?

00:05:24.860 I suspect the last election was rigged.

00:05:29.300 I'm just coming around to that idea now.

00:05:34.660 We're going to talk more about that in just a little bit.

00:05:38.420 Benita Peterson is the guest on the show tonight.

00:05:41.220 She is from Westlock, Alberta.

00:05:42.700 We've had Benita on the show before, although the signal wasn't that great.

00:05:45.680 It was a couple of years ago.

00:05:46.820 She was just coming back from the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.

00:05:50.080 She's got an interesting story, and she was a part of the neutrality bylaw plebiscite

00:05:55.180 that happened last week to get rid of the rainbows on the crosswalks

00:05:59.540 and the flags in West Lock.

00:06:01.260 So we're going to talk about how they managed to pull that off

00:06:04.540 and what kind of pressure there was on their group

00:06:07.840 because they're activists, they're trying to do the right thing

00:06:10.780 by everybody, neutrality, right?

00:06:12.680 We don't need rainbows or whatever that flag is these days

00:06:15.920 being jammed down our throat 24-7,

00:06:18.700 especially in June when it's Pride Month.

00:06:21.540 Like, but yeah, I mean, we respect you.

00:06:28.480 You respect us.

00:06:29.300 We don't need you to be telling us all the time that we need to follow your rules because

00:06:35.660 those are not the rules of the majority of people in society.

00:06:39.380 So let's be honest here.

00:06:41.540 As long as we can get governments, municipal, provincial, federal, and corporations to stop

00:06:47.760 buying into the nonsense, I think we're going to be okay.

00:06:51.180 And Benita's going to tell us how they went about this

00:06:53.380 and how they didn't succumb to the pressure

00:06:56.020 because I know a lot of people who want to do the right thing,

00:06:58.860 but then the dogs get stuck on them,

00:07:02.020 and, oh, man, the pressure is too much that they can bear,

00:07:05.520 and they just drop out and they say,

00:07:06.840 I'll try it again in a year or a month, and they never do.

00:07:10.740 So that's coming up in just a second.

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00:10:09.860 as many of you as I possibly can.

00:10:13.360 There's Mark Holland.

00:10:15.480 Remember him from last night

00:10:17.220 when talking about these vaccines

00:10:19.380 are a miracle of modern science?

00:10:23.880 Yeah.

00:10:24.620 Well, here, in case you missed it,

00:10:26.120 here he is again.

00:10:26.840 Listen to what, hang on,

00:10:27.860 let me turn the sound on here.

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00:10:29.760 All right, here he is again

00:10:30.640 telling you the very same thing

00:10:32.040 he said last night.

00:10:34.060 uh the vaccines that uh that happened during the pandemic the uh but whether or not they're

00:10:40.360 m r a or the uh or or not that's m n r a not uh are a miracle of science they saved tens of

00:10:50.240 millions of lives uh and so the fact that that's been politicized is deeply concerning and we're

00:10:55.240 seeing the politicized politicized mark okay the honorable mark holland minister of health for

00:11:00.700 Canada. Ontario mother paralyzed post-Moderna booster. It's been confirmed to be a vaccine

00:11:06.740 injury. She was offered the maid assistance, medical assistance in dying. A healthcare

00:11:14.320 systems dilemma. Kayla Pollack paralyzed after a COVID-19 booster faces a controversial healthcare

00:11:22.400 option. She's not going to take it. Her case ignites debate on vaccine safety and patient

00:11:27.840 writes and Kayla Pollack will join the show tomorrow night at eight o'clock central on the

00:11:34.640 shadow at night live stream all right let's see who is here tonight watching on Facebook it's

00:11:39.320 Tiss and well Benita's already commenting she's not even on the show yet she's commenting she'll

00:11:44.620 join us in just a couple of seconds Jolinda is here Dodie is here man we've got some it looks

00:11:50.520 like we've got ourselves a couple of trolls in here that's why I urge you guys to go ahead and

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00:12:01.780 version of the show every single night past nine o'clock central john is here tonight hello jj and

00:12:07.620 fernie and uh who else wow we don't often get trolls on this show that's why you've got me a

00:12:18.700 little bit surprised right now kirk hello how are you doing kevin is here tonight and patricia

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00:13:19.420 email or group. Let's get this ball rolling. Welcome to the show, Benita Peterson in West

00:13:26.260 Lock, Alberta. Benita, thank you for coming on tonight. I know you had a couple of other

00:13:30.560 places to be tonight or could have been, but you chose to come on my show and talk to the

00:13:35.020 people. So thank you very much. And I want to talk obviously about the campaign that

00:13:40.440 you were one of the people who spearheaded the big plebiscite in West Lock a couple of

00:13:45.160 weeks ago the neutrality bylaw as they're calling it but i wanted to ask you there's a troll in our

00:13:51.280 comments tonight do you know this person what's the name i missed it uh doty or something or other

00:13:58.120 i mean somebody was criticizing you on on the on the promotion post i put up on facebook this

00:14:03.400 afternoon yeah that was a gabby and i don't know gabby either somebody was saying that uh that you

00:14:10.980 made kids wear masks a few years ago during a christmas thing with santa claus what happened

00:14:16.860 with that well actually in late 2020 we were still under the covet rules in my town of westlock

00:14:25.700 alberta and what i sensed was a lot of pain in the kids like the kids were hurting because we

00:14:31.460 weren't having those socializing activities and i love kids i have a background as an entertainer

00:14:37.080 So I organized Santa photos in December of 2020, as well as a whole bunch of other wonderful

00:14:43.160 community activities. And yet I obeyed the COVID rules. So I figured out ways to obey the COVID

00:14:49.020 rules yet have fun. And sometimes I was making fun of the COVID rules. And so I made a promotion

00:14:54.920 about the Santa photos. And in it, I did say, make sure you wear your masks. So I did say that in

00:15:00.740 December 2020 during the promotion. But when the people actually showed up to the photos,

00:15:06.400 if they were not wearing a mask i did not hassle them at all okay so this is interesting because

00:15:13.320 you told me a little bit earlier this afternoon that at that point you weren't fully awake yet

00:15:19.880 what what happened there what what was the transition from that particular you were

00:15:24.460 following the rules what happened between then and the time you woke up because i do remember

00:15:28.820 you being at the Freedom Convoy? Yes, I woke up in January of 2021. And January 2021 was actually

00:15:37.420 a really, really rough time for me. Waking up was very painful. Because previous to that,

00:15:43.840 in the fall of 2020, I basically had it in my mindset that we just have to get through this

00:15:49.900 till it ends, right? Like we just have to figure out how to get through this till it ends. And

00:15:53.980 there were all these unreasonable restrictions. And yet I figured out how to have fun with kids

00:15:59.340 at Halloween. I figured out how to have a good Remembrance Day service, even though we weren't

00:16:04.700 allowed to have the regular Remembrance Day service. I brought my sound system out and I

00:16:10.740 froze my fingers so I can amplify an outdoor Remembrance Day service and people could listen

00:16:15.280 to the service from their cards. I figured out Christmas. We had a reverse parade at Christmas

00:16:20.160 and a town-wide light up and we had dancing mascots for kids at multiple events. So I figured

00:16:25.340 out all kinds of ways to raise spirit and yet obey the COVID restrictions. And in my head,

00:16:30.800 I was saying to myself, we just got to get through this till it ends. We got to get through this till

00:16:34.620 it ends. We got to weather this, right? Keep our spirits up. We can do this. So January 2021 is when

00:16:40.080 I woke up and it was like hitting a wall. Like I actually went through a period of depression

00:16:46.120 in January 2021 because I realized it's not ending it is not ending and all these restrictions that

00:16:52.580 keep piling them on and it felt overwhelming and unstoppable and it just it felt like this

00:16:59.020 juggernaut that's coming at us and it's unstoppable so I hit the wall in January 2021 and my energy

00:17:04.920 went just like that believe it or not but then I learned about a wonderful lady in southern Alberta

00:17:12.820 with a barber shop and i learned about a gentleman in mirror alberta with a coffee shop and i realized

00:17:19.300 hey these people are pushing back against the restrictions i can push back too and so the end

00:17:24.640 of january early february is when i like in a sense had my full wake up as in i realized there's

00:17:30.940 things we the people can do to push back so february 4th 2021 is when i'm dedicated to the

00:17:37.100 freedom movement so you you woke up because you saw other people pushing back and that's cool

00:17:42.780 But did you see flaws in what the government was doing and the things they were saying to us, all these ridiculous scientists going on television saying, oh, you know, you got to get the vaccine.

00:17:53.020 You got it six feet apart. And, you know, for me, it was like when I first heard those people saying this, the first thing for me that made me laugh was two weeks to flatten the curve.

00:18:02.080 Like, what are you even talking about? Two weeks to flat? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

00:18:06.780 and people were falling for it. 1.00

00:18:08.780 And then you'd see those ridiculous lines on the floors of stores,

00:18:12.060 and you'd be hearing about the six-foot rule,

00:18:15.040 and you'd say, well, what if it's airborne?

00:18:16.380 Six feet means nothing.

00:18:17.740 And of course it's airborne.

00:18:19.000 It's like the flu.

00:18:19.820 It's one of those viruses.

00:18:21.620 It's a congestion virus.

00:18:23.420 It's people cough, and you could get it.

00:18:25.760 So what's the six feet apart thing?

00:18:28.420 It's nonsense.

00:18:29.680 And so then you start waking up,

00:18:31.360 and you start finding alternative media.

00:18:33.140 This is before the censorship started.

00:18:35.020 did you see flaws in their presentation or was it just the other people that inspired you to start

00:18:41.000 becoming an activist in the freedom movement well my my wake up was was very slow like

00:18:47.400 when when they announced two weeks so march 17th of 2020 all three of my businesses were shut down

00:18:53.000 i host karaoke i dj i do event planning plus i'm a workshop facilitator so all my businesses were

00:19:00.560 shut down on one day, March 17, 2020, and I'm out of work. And they said two weeks to flatten the

00:19:05.480 curve. So to be honest, I enjoyed those first two weeks, because I needed the break. But by the time

00:19:11.900 the third week came along, I'm tapping my foot going, okay, I just want to go back to work here.

00:19:15.860 And there was so much that didn't make sense in 2020. And but I at that time, like, I guess,

00:19:22.760 in a sense, I felt helpless, I didn't know what to do about it. I have never protested.

00:19:28.080 And so I didn't know what to do in 2020.

00:19:30.740 And then over time, I was gradually getting information through the Internet and from people I know.

00:19:36.680 And it was like a slow, gradual wake up for me in 2020 that what they're saying doesn't meet the eye.

00:19:42.220 There's something wrong here. This virus isn't as deadly as they say it is, you know, etc.

00:19:46.660 So it was a slow, gradual wake up. But I'd say January 2021 was like when the full wake up hit me and the emotions that came with it.

00:19:55.920 and then february 2021 i dedicated myself to take action wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute

00:20:00.860 wait before you take action before you get into the action taking part you talk about that that

00:20:07.220 kick in the gut when you finally realized what was it like for you was it like a physical pain

00:20:12.900 when you first realized oh my god we've been had it it was a depression it because like i had

00:20:21.240 committed myself October 2020 to this wonderful Halloween event and promoted it for weeks prepared

00:20:27.420 for weeks and then I went live at the event we had these kids come through and I dressed up as

00:20:31.600 a witch and I went before I gave them candy and I got some of them to smile and I frightened some

00:20:37.720 of them which is part of it too and and then Remembrance Day like Remembrance Day is very

00:20:43.440 important to people like and I I usually just prefer to bring people joy with my work but

00:20:49.020 sometimes it's just about easing sorrow and so remembrance day was this really important time

00:20:53.820 where people want to um dedicate some time to those who have sacrificed for us but they couldn't

00:21:02.460 we couldn't have a regular remembrance day ceremony so i reached out to the local legion and i said

00:21:07.420 tell you what do an outdoor ceremony i will provide sound outdoors and and they said yes

00:21:13.660 okay so they did an outdoor ceremony and it was amplified so like going through that and then

00:21:19.980 going through we had a in november of 2020 we had a reverse christmas parade and um i had this area

00:21:26.340 where i set up my dj rag and my funky lighting and i had about 12 people dressed up as mascots

00:21:31.520 get it they're wearing masks and they're just kind of dancing around to the music i'm playing

00:21:35.900 and a reverse parade is where the parade displays stay stationary and the people go by in their cars

00:21:42.760 So the families stay in their cars rather than get on the sidewalk and mix germs with one another.

00:21:49.100 Right. I was very skeptical by that, obviously, of the so-called germ sharing concerns.

00:21:54.040 So the people go by in their cars and you see these kids faces and you see their faces light up.

00:21:58.440 Right. Like, oh, you know, like we had an A&W root bear as one of our mascots.

00:22:04.380 We had a chicken. So to me, it's all about spirit.

00:22:08.140 like we we human beings have this special spirit inside us and our spirits need to be nurtured

00:22:13.200 and the covid restrictions were killing spirits they're they're killing spirits what hurt me in

00:22:19.620 september of 2020 was you know usually you'd go to the supermarket and i i'm i'm a community-minded

00:22:24.900 person i've lived in my community for close to 20 years by that point and i just love engaging with

00:22:30.320 kids i'm a children's entertainer but the kids would like be hiding behind their parents they'd

00:22:35.820 be afraid to smile and that wounded me like this isn't what healthy kids are supposed to be

00:22:45.060 so um so anyway so January when I hit the wall was basically fall late fall late 2020 I was like

00:22:55.480 we just need to weather through this until it ends and January I realized it's not ending and

00:23:00.720 And this, it all came upon me that I realized that the COVID restrictions were part of a larger agenda.

00:23:08.340 So previous to that, I had gotten some hints of it, but I didn't, I guess I didn't internalize it.

00:23:14.460 But January of 2021, I finally accepted it as a reality that the COVID restrictions are part of this larger agenda.

00:23:20.820 It's about power and control of all resources, including people.

00:23:24.620 And so that was my awakening.

00:23:26.280 And it was a difficult time.

00:23:27.880 but then came the acceptance and then came okay what can we do so you went through the five stages

00:23:34.900 of grief then i'm assuming oh yeah targeting denial depression anxiety all of that yeah

00:23:41.240 well yeah because my last event before january 2021 was actually a new year's eve party

00:23:46.080 december 31st but it was an online party so i booked a facility in westlock i booked a videographer

00:23:52.200 and we did this new year's eve family dance online and uh via zoom and youtube simultaneously and so

00:24:00.180 there we have these families participating in their living rooms dancing around in their living

00:24:04.100 rooms with the little kids right and i had these um volunteers booked and they were my mascots so

00:24:09.100 they'd wear costumes and dance around and we just had a whole bunch of silliness for two hours

00:24:12.580 making kids laugh and some of those kids know me from previous events so it was so cool that this

00:24:19.500 girl they know is on their big screen tv in their living room and uh so anyway when that event ended

00:24:25.740 there was a part of me that thought okay what can i do next to keep up spirit what can we do that

00:24:29.700 obeys covid restrictions and i was thinking oh well once we get enough snow we could have a town

00:24:34.160 wide snow sculpture contest um we could have another family dance in um in february for

00:24:39.960 valentine's day so i had all these ideas but it was that first week of january where like i couldn't

00:24:46.100 even bring myself to start making those ideas a reality because i'm like i can't weather this

00:24:52.740 anymore like i used to think oh we just got to get through it till we it ends but it's not it's not

00:24:58.040 ending it's not so i couldn't even bring myself to start organizing a snow sculpture contest even

00:25:04.760 though it's within my ability so i'm just so uh grateful for certain individuals of january 2021

00:25:12.540 Chris Scott was one of them who inspired me because they were taking action.

00:25:16.560 They were pushing back and they were getting results.

00:25:19.060 And then I thought, well, what can I do?

00:25:20.660 You know, I'm just a DJ.

00:25:21.720 I don't have a restaurant that I can open and break the rules.

00:25:24.620 I don't have a barbershop that I can open and break the rules.

00:25:27.940 But I have a background in music, a background in nurturing the spirit of the people, reading the spirit and nurturing it.

00:25:36.580 I have a background in entertainment and in education.

00:25:40.020 I do workshop facilitation.

00:25:41.620 i have a background in event planning so what can i do so it was obvious rallies

00:25:46.700 resources go to rallies so you started doing rallies once you had the wake up and the acceptance

00:25:54.220 and all of that i'm going to say what february of 2021 and so for that year before the convoy

00:25:59.100 you were out doing things all over westlock all over the area correct oh yes um i and boy was i

00:26:06.100 getting ticketed i got two tickets in westlock two in barhead one in athabasca one in peace river

00:26:11.900 two in bodyville two in white court like i was just collecting ticket after ticket after ticket

00:26:17.300 the rcmp could not write them fast enough and uh every rally i did for the first two months i got

00:26:24.180 tickets now oddly enough when i did a rally i'm sorry i'm sorry no wait wait wait i'm just i'm

00:26:32.040 they couldn't write them fast enough oh it's benita again all right we should just have this

00:26:36.980 photocopy just we'll fill in the date how about that how many tickets did you get and i know

00:26:42.160 that you went and fought them in court on your own too right yes i got 10 tickets initially i

00:26:47.440 did have a um a lawyer with rebel news for a bit and that lawyer did a great job in in a sense

00:26:53.440 amalgamating my matters because i had 10 tickets in six different communities so can you imagine

00:26:59.380 if I had to go to court in six different communities, or even just, it was by phone

00:27:03.640 a lot, right? Even just six different phone calls. So the lawyer amalgamated all 10 of my matters

00:27:08.640 into one. And so now I just had to deal with Westlok Court, because that's where I live.

00:27:13.740 And so I only actually attended court twice in that entire time. I had court in June of 2021,

00:27:20.920 where I spoke with the Crown Prosecutor directly, because by then I didn't have the lawyer anymore.

00:27:25.500 There was a misunderstanding. And so I lost my lawyer, but that's okay,

00:27:28.640 because something felt really right about being self-represented.

00:27:32.140 Because when I'm self-represented,

00:27:33.480 it means now I can talk directly to the Crown Prosecutor.

00:27:36.640 There isn't a lawyer separating me from that.

00:27:39.660 And the Crown Prosecutor, in a sense, threatened me in June 2021.

00:27:45.440 What he said was, okay, so each of your tickets, you have 10.

00:27:48.760 Each was written for $1,200 for breaching the COVID rules

00:27:51.940 because there was an outing that had more than 10 people gathered outside.

00:27:56.920 but he says if you're found guilty each ticket could go up to a value of a hundred thousand

00:28:02.020 dollars and so when I when I first heard him say that I believed him like I thought it was real

00:28:08.780 and I was ready to start crying because I don't have a million dollars and hearing I'm facing

00:28:13.860 potentially a million dollars in fines it just it seemed even insurmountable to face

00:28:18.340 twelve thousand dollars in fines but now I'm facing a million and so I felt like crying and

00:28:23.600 in that moment, I believed him. But it was later on I realized this is just a game of intimidation

00:28:28.940 that they play. And so when we've got these people playing games with us, so whether it's a

00:28:34.480 Crown prosecutor or whatever it is, well, we need to realize we can play some games too.

00:28:40.540 And so one of the games... Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on just a second. This

00:28:43.960 Crown prosecutor came to you and said, you know, each one of these tickets can go up to $100,000

00:28:48.220 in value that was untrue though right well i wasn't sure like i believed it in the moment

00:28:55.840 but at a later date it was never validated it's just something he said to me outside the courthouse

00:29:03.300 which means he was lying to intimidate you he should be charged himself well i'm thinking

00:29:09.920 about it there's some sort of event happening march 19th where we press charges on certain

00:29:14.780 people we go to the cop shops and press some charges and i am considering it you are okay

00:29:20.380 well you know i i think that probably would be a good idea so we got through that you went to court

00:29:24.820 you represented yourself and you won right you got all those tickets wiped away in a sense so

00:29:30.580 part of my strategy was i did not plead i i had chatted with a lawyer i chatted with multiple

00:29:36.280 lawyers just consultation i didn't engage the services of any more lawyers um i also interestingly

00:29:42.940 enough, chatted with a pastor. And the pastor was great. He helped me read the legal material I was

00:29:49.540 receiving. And he helped me to understand it, because he studies the Bible and knows how to

00:29:53.740 understand the Bible. So what a perfect person to help you understand legal material. And so I had

00:29:59.260 all these different advisors and supporters. And one of them said, do not plead. Because if you

00:30:04.500 plead guilty, or you plead not guilty, in a sense, you're, you're stepping into something. And I

00:30:10.420 refused to plead. And I said this again and again to the Crown Prosecutor and the judge,

00:30:15.480 I'm not pleading because these tickets are invalid. They never should have been issued.

00:30:20.900 I was simply exercising my constitutional right to do a peaceful demonstration. These tickets are

00:30:26.360 invalid. And I just kept arguing that over and over and over. Plus, I kept insisting on receiving

00:30:31.380 more disclosure. So they sent me one disclosure package. It was incomplete. So I had to pastor

00:30:37.840 them and then insist on another disclosure package because I said, well, I'm still missing

00:30:41.500 this, this, this, this, this, the crown hasn't come through. That was incomplete. So I had to

00:30:45.960 pasture them for a third disclosure package. And every disclosure package I received, it,

00:30:51.860 in a sense, it opened another door, so to speak, because you realize, so they kind of give you a

00:30:56.880 little more information, but a whole bunch of it is like blacklisted, or there's a new name

00:31:00.800 mentioned. And then you're going, okay, well, that just takes me down a whole new path. I want more

00:31:05.380 information so i kept pestering them for disclosure and then so court was actually

00:31:11.480 it's just that you're just so persistent with with all of this i mean for me and you know

00:31:20.640 people say the penalty is the process right and for you it sounds like you're almost enjoying it

00:31:28.060 no no I was not it was high stress very high stress like as soon as I would finish you know

00:31:37.260 one court hearing over the phone my stress would ease off for a bit but then the weeks would go

00:31:42.200 by and it'd be time for that next court hearing and my stress would just be like this and I

00:31:46.860 like I couldn't sleep um so it was a very stressful time I endured and it um being

00:31:56.680 self represented. I mean, one of the things someone said to me was when you hire, when someone

00:32:03.160 hires a lawyer for you, they're not necessarily representing you. It's when you hire your own

00:32:07.900 lawyer, then potentially you're getting the best representation, because then they have to do as

00:32:12.420 you guide them. But if someone else is paying for that lawyer, you might not have as much

00:32:16.140 influence. So anyway, it just felt right that I was self represented. I prayed about it. And it

00:32:22.500 felt right and I had this pastor advising me and once in a while I'd call a lawyer get advice

00:32:27.080 so we had the basically it was monthly meetings with the prime prosecutor and the judge

00:32:31.520 and then December of 2021 that meeting really stood out to me because in that meeting they

00:32:38.120 didn't just have the crown prosecutor and the judge they had three constitutional lawyers at

00:32:44.000 that meeting three of them and they were there to like put this pressure on me and at one like

00:32:52.000 I was kind of getting flustered, but there's these moments when just the right words come out.

00:32:57.000 And at that time, I said to them, I said, the Charter of Rights does not give me my rights.

00:33:05.540 The Bill of Rights does not give me my rights. None of the legislation ever written or has given me my rights.

00:33:12.340 My rights are my God-given rights, and these documents are simply intended to protect them.

00:33:19.760 but they do not give me my rights and so i stated a statement like that and i said i am a woman with

00:33:25.840 rights simply just because i was born and they were all stunned into silence for about 30 seconds

00:33:32.480 they didn't know how to respond to that but you know what that's amazing that you could take three

00:33:37.120 constitutional lawyers a crown prosecutor and a judge and have them all going like that

00:33:43.440 based upon faith in god yeah well and i wouldn't call it a common law defense necessarily like i

00:33:51.180 don't even understand the common law stuff yet but it's just the words that came out of me so

00:33:55.920 here i've been this you know entertainer for 20 some years and you stick a mic in my hand and i

00:34:01.220 just start rattling things off i i don't always know what i'm gonna say it just comes out so

00:34:05.660 sometimes i say the wrong thing but um in that moment it was right and and then a few more months

00:34:11.920 went by and what happened is there was a similar case in Calgary and the lawyer went to court

00:34:17.980 fighting a ticket very similar to my 10 ticket and one of his arguments was that when Dina Hinshaw

00:34:25.620 wrote the rules in Alberta she wrote all these health orders she stated social gathering of more

00:34:33.260 than 10 people outside is not allowed and so the lawyer argued it wasn't just social gathering it

00:34:39.260 was a constitutionally protected peaceful demonstration it was a protest and the judge

00:34:45.380 there was a judge named judge dinkle in calgary and it was on tuesday may 9th i believe he ruled

00:34:51.960 um yeah correct and boom that ticket disappeared and so my 10 tickets were very similar to that

00:34:59.240 ticket issued in calgary to someone else and boom my tickets disappeared in june they were all

00:35:04.720 withdrawn and i celebrated with a helicopter ride nice so did it rankle you at all that

00:35:12.060 maybe a year later all of those covid tickets in alberta were declared null and void because

00:35:18.200 of the mistake the government made were in regards to dina hinshaw not issuing the orders instead she

00:35:23.440 gave recommendations to the government and they issued the orders i forget exactly what that

00:35:28.240 ruling is called but that is the thing that has gotten pretty much everybody business owners

00:35:34.580 even people who got issued tickets off of their COVID-19 tickets,

00:35:39.140 which I find hilarious.

00:35:40.480 And now there's a lawsuit and the guy with without papers,

00:35:43.820 pizza down in Calgary is going to be suing as well.

00:35:46.460 This is,

00:35:47.040 it's going to turn into a big,

00:35:48.520 huge mess for the government in Alberta,

00:35:51.360 which I think is hilarious.

00:35:52.340 And Daniel Smith has already come out and apologized anyway.

00:35:57.180 It must be great to be in Alberta.

00:35:59.780 If you're a freedom lover right now,

00:36:01.480 I think there's some aspects in Alberta,

00:36:04.580 that are terrific yes and and i'm obviously very glad when the truth comes out um what i i look at

00:36:13.020 it kind of like a chess game though so if you and i are playing a game of chess and let's say i love

00:36:18.440 my rooks and my knights and you take both my rooks and both my knights well should i surrender the

00:36:24.120 game or can i still do damage on you with my queen and my bishops and my king well maybe i can right

00:36:29.220 so what we have to do is basically when we take a hit or we we have a perceived loss is we have to

00:36:36.540 pivot change strategy adjust we can still win it's just like a chess game and so the tickets

00:36:43.840 imposed on me and all that I had to endure in over a year of of court by phone etc and having

00:36:51.520 that stuff hanging over my head you know other people might not have to endure it the same as

00:36:56.300 me and that's okay and I'm always grateful that I never ended up in jail because there were times

00:37:02.580 in 2021 when I was hosting rallies it was I remember April of 2021 I was on my way to a

00:37:08.380 rally in Grand Prairie and I just had this feeling that I'm going to be arrested this weekend like

00:37:15.880 this feeling just came over me I'm going to be arrested and I'm like well none of my closest

00:37:21.840 friends can come with me to the rally I'm thinking I need someone to drive my van back it never

00:37:26.180 occurred to me that I wouldn't go to the rally. I knew I'd do the rally, but I'm like, I'm going

00:37:30.820 to be arrested. And I called someone who worked in law enforcement. And I said, if I'm arrested

00:37:35.180 this weekend, what am I allowed to bring with me? Like, can I have a bag with a change of clothes

00:37:39.560 and a toothbrush? Like, what am I allowed? And he's like, what? They take all that stuff from

00:37:48.120 you. You get it back when you leave. I better pack a bag. So I go to the rally and I roped in

00:37:53.720 this fellow to go with me who I barely even know but I said in the event that I'm arrested I need

00:37:58.240 you to drive my van you know back and I need you to call this person to pick up my van and I gave

00:38:03.760 him a name and a number because I just I just had this feeling I'm going to be arrested so it turns

00:38:08.700 out I go to the rally in Grand Prairie the friend and I are setting up and the cops do show up we've

00:38:14.480 got the police showing up and they're wearing their masks and they look all intimidating and

00:38:19.180 and me and this fellow go talk with them and we make sure we stay six feet away from them right

00:38:23.180 and we have a little discussion and then they left and not only was I not arrested I never got a

00:38:28.780 ticket in Grand Prairie so um I look at that as kind of like a test because I run a lot on like

00:38:36.560 I'm just very heart driven um I'll in a sense receive guidance in a sense like February 4th

00:38:42.860 2021 I received all kind of guidance like I received this guidance and it guided me and the

00:38:47.960 freedom convoy too i received guidance to do the jericho march and it guided me and i obeyed and

00:38:53.120 i followed the guidance and there are times the guidance uh can send us down a path that is scary

00:39:00.620 and difficult like uh guess what if you go do this you might be arrested when we obey we do it anyway

00:39:06.240 even with that risk like we acknowledge that risk um like it's something we have to do you know i

00:39:13.520 knew i had to do and maybe sometimes it's a test or maybe sometimes it's for a greater purpose and

00:39:20.340 like the freedom convoy for example the whole reason i went to ottawa was to do the jericho

00:39:25.200 march around canada's parliament because i knew it had to happen it took three trucks to get me to

00:39:31.060 ottawa and uh two of those truck drivers i didn't even know i'm just catching rides i remember you

00:39:37.300 telling that story that's quite a story that's that's quite a story i want to get to i mean we

00:39:44.680 got rid of covid for at least now i mean people are suggesting they're going to try and bring it

00:39:49.360 back oh it's going to be the worst strain ever or some other disease x or vaccination thing that

00:39:54.880 they're going to try and bring up but right now we've got another fight actually we've got several

00:39:58.720 other fights that are still going on with the globalists we've got climate change obviously

00:40:04.600 that's a big one still all those forest fires never mind arson that's climate change but we've

00:40:10.300 also got the dei and esg and the trans tifa people who are out there and they're all over west lock

00:40:19.420 at least they were all over west lock they had the rainbow crosswalk and flags all over the place and

00:40:25.320 you had a plebiscite was it last week or the week before it was on february 22nd and um there's a

00:40:33.560 whole backstory to this, and I hope we have time to go through it. But the plebiscite is

00:40:38.600 predominantly due to the work of the Westlock neutrality team. And I was a supporter of the

00:40:45.920 Westlock neutrality team, but it was that team that did the work. So maybe one day you can

00:40:51.840 interview Stephanie Baker, and she led that team. And it's because of their hard work where they did

00:40:57.860 a door-to-door petition and they basically forced first reading on a bylaw on neutrality

00:41:04.580 and the town refused the town council refused to do second reading and third reading on the

00:41:10.020 bylaw neutrality so they had to put the matter to publicite and so the key is in writing a petition

00:41:15.140 that is done in such a professional manner that it's like it's acceptable and it goes through and

00:41:20.760 then following all those petition rules collecting um over 10 of the population in signatures in

00:41:27.540 60 days that how many people how many people live in west like is it about three or four thousand

00:41:32.360 it's about forty eight hundred and some we were at five thousand but we lost some

00:41:37.380 probably in part because we have a woke town council but uh forty eight hundred so they only

00:41:43.420 needed you know say 480 signatures and they got over 700 in less than 60 days like they didn't

00:41:51.440 even do the full 60 days signature collecting. But one of the other things I'd like to share

00:41:58.400 with you is what happened before that, because even before that petition existed, there was a

00:42:02.880 whole bunch of drama in June of 2023. But what was your next question? No, no, no, go ahead,

00:42:09.240 because June, that's Pride Month, right? And I'm sure there was drama. So please go ahead,

00:42:13.540 tell the story. Well, in May of 2023, I was focused on the provincial election, and I was

00:42:20.580 doing some work associated with that. Once the provincial election wrapped up, I started actually

00:42:26.380 reading my local paper again, and I realized that our town council had plans to paint a rainbow

00:42:32.100 crosswalk on Father's Day. So it was scheduled to be painted Sunday, June 18th. This caused great

00:42:40.180 concerns in me. And so my reflex to learning that information was to compose my first flyer.

00:42:47.600 and in the flyer I shared the information with community members and I said just so you know

00:42:54.580 the town of Westlock has plans to paint a rainbow crosswalk on Father's Day. If you want to push

00:43:00.520 back against this here's what to do and what I had done is I had gone to the website of westlock.ca

00:43:08.080 and I found all the names of the mayor and all the councillors all their email addresses and

00:43:13.560 all their phone numbers it was on there publicly posted so i took that information and i put it on

00:43:19.980 the flyer and one of the calls to action i listed on the flyer was i said if you don't want the

00:43:24.620 rainbow crosswalk contact these people and tell them so say cancel the rainbow crosswalk but the

00:43:30.500 other thing i did is on a previous occasion so back in um remember that reverse parade i told

00:43:37.180 you about uh so that it occurred in november 2020 but i actually presented in front of westlock town

00:43:45.020 council in october 2020 in order for that to happen because i had to have town council's

00:43:50.820 approval for this reverse parade concept so back then i got along well enough with my town council

00:43:56.180 and so i had applied to be a delegation at a meeting to give a presentation they said yes

00:44:02.240 come give the presentation so I presented the concept of a Christmas parade we agreed on the

00:44:07.920 date and terms and the town agreed to insure it because events need insurance and that's what

00:44:13.360 happened for that Christmas parade so basically I know some about the process of presenting to

00:44:19.220 town council and so what I did is I wrote that process into that flyer in June of 2023 where I

00:44:25.680 said, instead of just calling and emailing the councillors and the CAO, go present at the upcoming

00:44:33.820 council meeting June 12th. The deadline to some request to present is the preceding Wednesday at

00:44:41.740 12 noon. And you need to send an email to this email address. And it was one of the administrators

00:44:46.420 of the town of Westlock. So in the flyer, it wasn't just, hey, Westlock's having a rainbow

00:44:53.460 crosswalk, hey, you should say no to this. It was, hey, Westbrook's having a rainbow crosswalk,

00:44:59.300 you should say no to this. And here's how. And I gave people step by step by step instructions 0.68

00:45:05.260 of what to do to push back. And so there are people that took me up on those action steps,

00:45:12.820 and they called and they texted and they emailed elected representatives and the CAO.

00:45:17.860 and there were two people that signed up to actually be a delegation at the town council

00:45:23.760 meeting on June 12th. One of those individuals was Stephanie Baker, who later composed the

00:45:29.160 petition we're talking about. She worked with a team of people on that. And then the other was a

00:45:34.380 fellow named David Thomas, who's also a pastor and now a good friend of mine. So these two people

00:45:40.640 presented to town council June 12th. So there was just so much that happened in June. There were

00:45:46.780 flyer distribution campaigns. We had a rally outside town council chambers. We had another

00:45:53.860 rally outside the town office, which is a different building. We had a roadside rally where we were

00:45:59.820 collecting petition signatures. So a lot of people don't realize this, but there were actually three

00:46:04.240 petitions. There was an online petition at change.org in early June of 2023, and that collected

00:46:12.920 500 signatures very quickly like within within a week and a half 500 signatures and it was a

00:46:19.240 petition for the removal of the rainbow crosswalk here's my recommendation to all of you never use

00:46:25.720 change.org never that petition disappeared huh isn't funny and i i at the time i was preoccupied

00:46:35.120 with my flyer campaign and my other stuff so i didn't connect with the person who had initiated

00:46:39.680 that petition and i didn't get the list of the supporters on it so basically when that petition

00:46:45.360 disappeared we're starting from scratch right so then i did another petition and but i wrote it up

00:46:52.560 very very quickly because um and so i had another one in june 2023 so it wasn't written with

00:46:59.440 following all the rules but it was like okay let's do something here so i have this petition going

00:47:03.840 and it was at that rally outside town council chambers june 12th so a bunch of people signed

00:47:09.360 it. So I got, I don't know if I got 130 signatures in the week or two that I had it out, but I

00:47:15.960 presented those signatures to the chief administrative officer in late June, the day before they

00:47:22.740 rescheduled the rainbow crosswalk. So God works in interesting ways. The rainbow crosswalk was

00:47:28.740 scheduled to be painted on Father's Day, June 18th, a Sunday. Well, forecast for rain. So they didn't

00:47:36.380 paint the crosswalk. So that's the day I had a rally outside town office. And that's of course

00:47:41.240 where they wanted to paint the rock. So even in the rain, there was a mini rally. There weren't

00:47:45.100 that very many people in attendance in the rain, but thousands of people watched that rally online

00:47:50.560 with some really good speeches. So, um, so that created a momentum to that social media stuff.

00:47:57.740 Then after I presented the petition on, it would have likely been the Monday, June 24th,

00:48:03.780 something like that. Then they painted the crosswalk the next day and I just stayed away.

00:48:09.020 Like I drove by, but I was a block away and I did see the crowd, but I didn't, I didn't go in

00:48:14.240 because I... Benita, let me ask you a question here. Just sorry to interrupt you, but I mean,

00:48:19.420 the town of Westlock is 4,800 people. It's what, about 45 minutes away from Edmonton.

00:48:25.820 How does a town so small in rural Alberta become so woke?

00:48:30.240 right alberta health services has an administration building here and a wonderful hospital

00:48:36.260 and we've got three schools that's part of it it's the dei that's going on in the schools in

00:48:43.420 the unions they're just part of it yeah no it's part of it there's there's some union people here

00:48:49.240 alberta health services because that alberta health services administration building and

00:48:53.500 that hospital employ a lot of people and ahs like the the union influence for anybody who works for

00:49:01.180 alberta health services is strong like let me ask you this is is ahl unions are they woke or is it

00:49:09.740 just the leadership preaching this stuff and the the rank and file members have got to sit back and

00:49:14.260 take it both yeah no it appears a good number of them are woke especially the leadership

00:49:20.860 yeah oh i have a friend she's she's someone i got along with for years and years and years

00:49:26.220 and but then she started working for alberta health services and in 2015 we were discussing

00:49:31.720 the provincial election and that's when i found out she supported the mdp and we had a big argument

00:49:36.980 because my values are different and i'm like how can this person who i have so much respect for

00:49:42.980 you know like she's so funny we get along our value we share many values and yet she supports

00:49:49.320 cndp and i found out later it's because of part of it is the indoctrination of that union she's in

00:49:56.260 wow so you you had a fight i mean they paint the crosswalk the next week you said you stayed away

00:50:03.160 from it but the whole time that crosswalk was down you were working to get rid of it right

00:50:09.100 oh yeah like we had the petition and then they painted the crosswalk and um i'm like i had

00:50:16.960 already collected some signatures and submitted them we had done we have done so much like we

00:50:21.700 have this roadside rally um just so much going on actually do you have that video to show shadow

00:50:26.740 i don't i don't have the video i've got i've got the picture that we uh we're going to throw up

00:50:33.640 here but we can save that for the end okay it's the uh it's the come come to the i don't agree

00:50:39.440 with you but i love you block party unless you want to throw that up right now well we'll have

00:50:43.740 to get to that we don't want to miss that but not yet um so basically after the rainbow crosswalk

00:50:48.680 was painted in a sense i took a rest at that time because i i have many projects i work on and

00:50:54.200 that's just one of them so what i was so happy to learn about was in july i learned that stephanie

00:51:01.360 baker and this neutrality team had been created and so i talked to them a bit behind the scene

00:51:07.560 and Stephanie went and spoke to town council and announced this petition and so um so she and I

00:51:13.940 had had touch base a bit behind the scenes um but she went public with it and she partnered with

00:51:19.320 someone named Robin Brett he's on the neutrality team as well and Robin Brett actually served as

00:51:23.860 a councillor for the town of Westlok for many years and he's against rainbow crosswalks as well

00:51:28.100 so when I spoke about being against rainbow crosswalks some of the things I would tie into

00:51:34.260 it is I would say this is a concerning symbol because it's affiliated with the United Nations, 0.98

00:51:40.920 it's part of the depopulation agenda. The more people that they can guide towards homosexuality 1.00

00:51:48.660 and transgenderism, if they can guide them that way, then that serves the depopulation agenda, 0.98

00:51:54.340 because of course, transgenderism generally means you're now no longer fertile. So I use that 1.00

00:52:01.020 argument whereas Stephanie and Robin used more just of a neutrality argument and they stated

00:52:07.380 this isn't this movement isn't anything against any one group this isn't about the symbol it's

00:52:14.860 just about neutrality public spaces need to be neutral places and so that's the argument they

00:52:21.260 used and they focused on and so what had happened is do like my flyer campaign back in June I stated

00:52:29.480 on there the transgender agenda and the depopulation agenda like i was i was talking

00:52:33.960 about agenda 2030 which is over some people's heads like they can't get it they don't understand

00:52:38.580 united nations interference in local politics yeah you gotta use you gotta find a way to reach

00:52:43.680 them on a level that they understand right and the neutrality approach worked yes yep so so that

00:52:51.020 team put their petition together and then they went door to door and then i helped where i could

00:52:55.520 And I collected pink edition signatures, too.

00:52:58.160 So let me ask you this.

00:52:59.560 You had the entire NDP machine, the union machine, fighting you the whole time.

00:53:05.380 And I remember just a couple of weeks ago reading about how you won and this plebiscite by like 30 votes.

00:53:11.120 It was very close.

00:53:12.380 But you're going door to door.

00:53:14.420 You're doing flyers.

00:53:15.700 You're probably making phone calls and sending emails and trying to get people out to vote that day.

00:53:21.380 But what was it like from the NDP and maybe even the Trans Tifas were out there?

00:53:27.640 I'm not sure how much pressure they put on you guys, but were they trying to shut you down in any way?

00:53:35.860 The mayor himself, back in June of 2023, essentially called anybody opposed to a rainbow crosswalk a hateful bigot.

00:53:45.800 And the councillors at the November 27th meeting, and I wish the recording was still available, but there's people who took note.

00:53:55.900 One of them said, this petition is lipstick on bigotry.

00:54:02.000 That's what one of those councillors said.

00:54:05.020 And so, yes, there were all of these attacks.

00:54:08.600 And so anyone who's interested in activism, you need the skin of a rhinoceros.

00:54:15.240 because there will be attacks.

00:54:18.100 And so I've received things, phone calls, text messages, emails, Facebook messages.

00:54:22.820 I've been called names.

00:54:24.780 I've been people telling me to die, whatever.

00:54:30.900 It's a shame that it's come to this.

00:54:33.320 It's such a shame that, you know, I mean, I hate to see this.

00:54:36.020 All you're asking for seriously is neutrality.

00:54:38.880 You just want to go downtown and not have to see a rainbow every time you turn right.

00:54:44.660 like what's wrong with that well exactly and so in june so even on june 18th that was the day the

00:54:51.840 rainbow crosswalk was originally scheduled to be painted later that evening i hosted an online

00:54:56.760 meeting and um i think i sent you a poster for this one but i don't know if you got it

00:55:01.520 and basically it's um the the concept of the meeting is should westlock get a rainbow crosswalk

00:55:07.880 and on one side it said no because public spaces need to be neutral spaces and the other side said

00:55:17.380 yes you know because I have these two fake heads you know because it's supposed to be a debate

00:55:22.060 thing and the other side said yes because people who've been bullied need to be validated or

00:55:28.160 something like that is what I wrote and so I actually hosted two of these online events

00:55:32.360 and I had a fellow from an LGBTQ Alberta support group come on the call and so he gave the

00:55:41.980 perspective of why Westlough needs a rainbow crosswalk and so I hosted the call and I let

00:55:46.840 him talk and he talked about how people who identify as LGBTQ have been bullied and there's

00:55:53.440 these problems and I just let him talk and I let him you know get it out okay right and and let

00:55:59.360 them feel hurt that's very important if you're if you're trying to bridge with someone of an

00:56:02.960 opposing view let them feel hurt so then it was my time to talk about why we don't need a rainbow

00:56:09.280 crosswalk and why rainbow crosswalks are not the answer to address the bullying issue they're not

00:56:15.180 the rainbow crosswalk has actually caused problems our town council has attempted to paint it on on

00:56:22.280 people like me that they say people like me have created divide in the community instead our town

00:56:29.940 council is refusing to acknowledge that their decision to approve of a rainbow crosswalk is

00:56:36.060 what has created divide in the community so do you see how they did that projection there

00:56:41.220 they said it's not about there's divide in the community it's people like benita it's her fault

00:56:46.460 she's a hateful bigot she created the divide because she's opposing what we're putting through

00:56:51.540 here and so what we need is we need more of these events whether they're online in person

00:56:56.580 where we bring different viewpoints together and we let them both talk and we don't talk on top of

00:57:04.020 each other and we don't censor them and this is an example when i first saw this ad shadow i wept

00:57:12.100 okay so i saw this ad um so the the plebiscite vote uh was scheduled for february 22nd and this

00:57:21.060 ad came out i think february 20th 21st that's when i saw it and what this is is that's uh stephanie

00:57:28.820 on the left and she says vote yes for a bylaw neutrality so in other words she doesn't want a 0.83

00:57:33.140 rainbow crosswalk and the other lady there her name is lilith and she says vote no so she wants 0.99

00:57:40.660 to vote no on the bylaw neutrality um because she would like a rainbow crosswalk but these two

00:57:47.940 had apparently gotten together and talked and said, well, no matter what the outcome is of the

00:57:53.880 plebiscite on February 22nd, let's have a gathering on February 23rd. And that's what they said. And

00:58:01.960 Daphne is such, she's such a person of grace. So she's the one, my understanding is she organized

00:58:07.960 the sound system, the generator, the entertainment, the stage for this event, because it's an outdoor

00:58:13.620 event the weather weather was somewhat mild um and they used just an empty parking lot in west

00:58:18.740 block and this event took place on february 23rd and so when i see this poster it's come to the i

00:58:25.780 don't agree with you but i love you block party this represents bridging where we get people from

00:58:31.780 these different perspectives to come together so i'm just so so glad that this poster was created

00:58:39.460 and that the event happened and that some bridging has occurred of the difference.

00:58:44.280 So this was after the results of the plebiscite came and you guys had won, right?

00:58:49.160 The poster was issued before the plebiscite occurred.

00:58:54.120 The event itself took place the day after the plebiscite.

00:58:58.160 Did you go to the event?

00:59:00.300 I couldn't make it.

00:59:02.300 I was in Lethbridge actually that week.

00:59:05.100 Did you hear about how it went?

00:59:08.220 I'm just curious because I'm wondering if there was a lot of sour grapes and maybe some crying and yelling at that event.

00:59:17.480 So it's interesting because it looks like Lilith herself actually didn't make it to the event.

00:59:25.500 So Lilith, the one on the right there, she had said, let's have this event.

00:59:30.240 No matter what the results are of the plebiscite, let's have this event.

00:59:33.520 So my understanding is after the plebiscite, Lilith's kids were unwell.

00:59:37.860 Um, and Lillith decided to stay with her kids, but there were people who shared Lillith's view

00:59:45.100 that came to the event. So it wasn't as big of a crowd that as Stephanie would have liked because

00:59:51.360 Stephanie loves the idea of, of talking more with these folks, connecting with them. Like

00:59:56.660 more people need to realize that if you oppose a rainbow crosswalk, it doesn't mean you're against

01:00:03.680 lgbtq people can be lgbtq one of my best friends identifies as part of the lgbtq community

01:00:10.820 and people need to realize that when we say no to a rainbow crosswalk it's not about hatred

01:00:16.200 it's just about healthy boundaries so um but too many people have painted it they they somehow have

01:00:23.280 this equation in their mind that oh well if you're opposed to a rainbow crosswalk you must therefore

01:00:28.060 the lgbtq and that's well that's the reason that i asked about that event because you know my next

01:00:33.900 question to you is is there a bridge that we can reach out because every time and i'm not exaggerating

01:00:41.700 when i say this every time i have tried tried to talk to somebody about lgb i don't add the q and

01:00:47.580 most of the lgb people don't add not the q sorry the t the lgbt trans that kind of stands on its

01:00:55.220 and most people acknowledge that i don't know why they all got lumped in together but it seems to me

01:01:00.100 that there's no having that conversation everything goes awry within the first 30 seconds and it's

01:01:05.860 just it turns into a a name calling bonanza which is unfortunate and that's true and um what i just 0.89

01:01:16.240 want to share with you a little victory from the last week there was a woman in a different

01:01:20.360 municipality who supports rainbow crosswalks um and etc rainbow everything um and she has been

01:01:29.400 very vocal in her viewpoint she private messaged me last week and uh let's just say the first half

01:01:37.000 of the conversation was not pleasant uh she's coming at me she's calling me names she's attacking

01:01:41.720 so what i did is i didn't call her name i stayed calm i presented some facts one of the things she

01:01:48.720 was upset about was a person named next down in oklahoma did you hear that story yet uh that was

01:01:57.600 next who was murdered no next died yes but not murdered what happened there refresher please

01:02:06.660 next benedict uh passed away in february there was allegedly a bullying incident in a girl's

01:02:14.160 bathroom so next what's in the girls bathroom but next looks like a boy but next was born a girl

01:02:19.240 and there was some uh sort of incident and next passed away the next day and when i read the

01:02:26.060 cause of death report it was not nexus death had nothing to do with that's right injuries sustained

01:02:34.200 from the bathroom altercation because there was a bit of rough housing in the bathroom which by the

01:02:38.240 wait next instigated okay yeah next instigated the physical interaction and so this um so next

01:02:47.620 is trans and so i have this person who supports trans reach out to me last week very angry because

01:02:54.900 essentially i'm being blamed for the death of next me and my attitude are being blamed because

01:03:01.620 allegedly i'm sharing hate or something because i push back against rainbow crosswalks

01:03:08.080 so it's just really interesting to study that to see how someone's mind is so twisted because

01:03:14.260 you're right shadow you you try to reach out to them and they get emotional they get irrational

01:03:18.720 they can't stay on logic but we got to keep trying yeah you know it's interesting because

01:03:24.980 they never bring up the fact that i think the last four or five mass shooters in the united states

01:03:31.300 have all had trans ideologies and trans manifestos and are trying to kill as many 0.66

01:03:37.200 what do they call us, cis people as they possibly can.

01:03:41.400 And, you know, look, I don't, I personally don't care what the ideology of a shooter

01:03:47.340 is or a bully.

01:03:49.220 All I care about is the fact that these things happen and they're bad things.

01:03:54.280 And I believe that government, media, corporations are turning this into a worse place, not

01:04:00.180 better, because it's divisive. 0.78

01:04:02.080 When we do have these rainbow crosswalks and all of these ridiculous flags flying everywhere you look,

01:04:08.880 I mean, it's basically a campaign to silence anybody who doesn't agree with them.

01:04:15.020 And that is divisive. That's not inclusive.

01:04:18.660 If everything were inclusive, then we wouldn't need the flags.

01:04:23.640 Then we wouldn't need the sidewalks, the crosswalks, and all of that stuff.

01:04:28.160 it would just be hey man if you want to wear a dress and identify as a woman that's fine but

01:04:33.940 don't force me to call you ma'am because i know better than that and i'm not going to bow down

01:04:39.540 to your psychosis and also stay away from my children other than that go and enjoy your life

01:04:46.160 buddy have yourself a great time i don't care it just doesn't matter and that's the way i've always

01:04:52.540 been with it and i think most people are kind of like that too look man float your boat whatever

01:04:57.120 I don't care. It's your life. Just don't make me pay for your ridiculous surgery that never will

01:05:02.360 work and the medications you're going to need for the rest of your life. Stay away from my kids and 1.00

01:05:07.320 keep the rainbows off the sidewalks. Is that unreasonable? Really? Does that make me a hateful

01:05:13.960 bigot? Well, I'm mostly in agree with you, Shadow. I mostly agree. But I guess where I come from is

01:05:21.420 i'm an entertainer and no matter what audience that i would do music for i love them all right

01:05:28.760 even the typical people even the quirky people and so i hosted karaoke once where someone who's

01:05:35.160 clearly a man uh is wearing lipstick and a dress and he signs up as rose and he proceeds to attempt

01:05:41.580 to sing girl songs and so i just allowed it i'm like everybody here's rose yeah and that's fine

01:05:48.340 as long as rose isn't walking into the women's bathroom later on if my girlfriend or wife is in

01:05:53.600 there right i mean that that's just to me that's a bridge too far and i have i have a problem with

01:05:59.680 it yeah right so what i'm trying to say like and i learned this actually from stephanie baker and

01:06:04.380 the neutrality team is if like i understand where you're coming from and i understand everybody

01:06:08.860 who's got these very strong views like i get it i get it but what i'm sensing is that the the

01:06:15.040 trans it's here to stay okay and so we my preference would be we figure out how to um

01:06:26.720 how to live in peace without having them impose their agenda on us but without us necessarily

01:06:33.840 imposing on them like some way of just allowing everybody to coexist so does that mean every

01:06:39.600 public facility needs a third bathroom is that what that means so that there's now a bathroom 0.58

01:06:44.000 for trans maybe that's the solution so that the the trans individual either bathroom they walk

01:06:51.360 into maybe they're going to have a conflict right so you know what i'm saying like we i'm not saying

01:06:58.640 i want to bend over completely backwards and accommodate but i'm saying maybe we could like

01:07:03.280 accommodate like this much and when danielle smith delivered her remarks january 31st and then the um

01:07:10.640 the leftists like the rainbow people got very upset about that I actually went to one of their

01:07:19.980 protests and I integrated with the protest and by the way that's thing we need to do I have all

01:07:25.740 these different things going on and one is called operation integration so I look forward to teaching

01:07:29.800 that to people so I went to the protest and I carried a sign and on one side it said I accept

01:07:34.900 you as you are and on the other side it says I care about you and so I said to people what do

01:07:38.840 you think of my side and they said oh I like it and so I'm talking to people with rainbow hair

01:07:43.400 etc and I said did you know that these are words from premier Daniel Smith and she said these to

01:07:48.880 the transgender community of Alberta in her speech last Wednesday and that's what I said and they're

01:07:53.440 like what because as soon as I say the word Daniel Smith that's a trigger word they don't like her 1.00

01:07:57.540 and so I said and did you know in her speech that she promised to bring at least one transgender 0.78

01:08:03.860 transgender surgeon to Alberta to do transgender surgeries for adults, not kids, and provide

01:08:12.340 aftercare. Did you know that? And they're like, no, because of course, they didn't actually listen

01:08:17.640 to her remarks. They just hate her because they're told to hate her. And so we just got to keep

01:08:22.480 challenging them. Let's keep on challenging them. And let's meet them in the middle, wherever that

01:08:28.020 is. Let's figure out where that is. And I think Daniel Smith found it. What about sports?

01:08:32.540 oh yeah daniel smith also stated it's not appropriate for biological men to compete 1.00

01:08:38.720 with women it's not safe and i agree with that as well for the safety of the females

01:08:44.020 and even just the competitive right because the guy would always be winning 1.00

01:08:47.480 well yeah i mean we've seen example after example of that but then what do we do about that do we 0.98

01:08:54.060 create a third division the trans division or do we need two trans divisions because there's women

01:08:59.680 who have trans to men and then there's men who have trans to women so that would be a problem

01:09:06.880 too right if you've you're a man but you've trans to women and you're still taking on a woman who's 0.98

01:09:11.860 trans to a man but you're in the trans division you're still going to beat the crap out of her

01:09:15.840 if it's anything to do with strength and we probably shouldn't have that um in competitive 1.00

01:09:21.500 sports because people get hurt anyway just a thought there but uh yeah there have to be

01:09:27.140 boundaries yeah we're gonna have to leave it at that is there anything that we missed tonight you

01:09:31.240 want to get a website out there i see you've got your phone number up on the screen yeah people

01:09:35.700 can call text me um i guess mainly what i wanted to talk about is making change at a municipal level

01:09:40.920 so if you even want to change one policy bylaw resolution at a municipal level so it might have

01:09:46.600 to do with a rainbow crosswalk but maybe it has something to do with something else i have the

01:09:50.840 strategies for you. And I share strategies once a month at a meeting. And the way to get to that

01:09:59.700 is tinyurl.com slash conservatizing. It's on the 27th of every month at 7pm Alberta time. But people

01:10:06.760 from across Canada are welcome to join us. And we share strategies for influencing policymakers and

01:10:13.860 replacing them. And we have different guest speakers every month. Actually, Ken Drysdale

01:10:18.460 is our one of our guest speakers march 27th you got ken excellent yeah he's uh he's a good guy

01:10:24.440 manitobastrongertogether.ca and of course commissioner for the national citizens inquiry

01:10:29.300 you know i had a message on the promo post i made on facebook this afternoon uh and i was talking

01:10:36.240 about you and and what you and your team had accomplished there in in westlock and this woman

01:10:41.120 said wow shadow this is absolutely amazing what they did there sadly it'll never happen here in

01:10:47.100 Ontario and I said it starts with one person right so do you have any words of encouragement

01:10:55.920 for that that person who's probably watching um so I have another resource tinyurl.com

01:11:03.180 slash team conservatize so let's pretend that you feel like you're the only one in your community

01:11:08.540 with your values you don't have a team yet just like shadow says it can start with one and we can

01:11:13.420 very easily build you a team. And what I would love to do is be of service as an advisor. So I

01:11:19.660 don't necessarily want to lead your team, but I could help guide you. And I've got all like I've

01:11:24.600 got just lists and lists and lists of things you can do if you're looking to make a difference

01:11:29.480 somehow. One of the things I'd like to illustrate about the Westlock success is that the actual

01:11:35.140 plebiscite went from early August until mid-September. That's when the actual, sorry,

01:11:42.860 I meant to say the actual petition signature collection time. You only have a 60-day window

01:11:47.180 to collect the signatures you need. But in early June, the awareness campaign started, okay? I

01:11:55.260 started the awareness campaign in early June. So, what I'm trying to say is if you want to have a

01:11:59.640 petition on anything, you have a 60-day window to collect those signatures. So, if you actually

01:12:04.160 launched it today, there's a good chance you won't get your signatures in time. You need an awareness

01:12:09.480 campaign first, probably two months before, three months before, and then you launch the official

01:12:15.740 petition because you only have a 60-day window. And so anyway, the point is I can give a ton of

01:12:21.480 advice on that. My number's on the screen. Call me, text me. Cool. Benita, thank you for coming

01:12:26.220 on. I'm going to have to get you on again. You're a pleasure to have on the show and you've got a

01:12:29.280 lot of great insight to share. Thank you. And we'll talk to you again soon. Thank you, Shadow.

01:12:34.160 All right, there is Benita Peterson from Westlock, Alberta, you guys, and some great stories.

01:12:40.520 You know, it's interesting, I had Benita on the show, like I was saying, just after the Freedom Convoy, she was on her way back, I think on truck number two, on her way back from Ottawa to Alberta, and they had stopped in Thunder Bay for the night, and we had planned to have her on the show that night.

01:12:54.500 and the signal was so bad

01:12:56.600 and she had so much to say

01:12:58.720 but the signal was so, so bad

01:13:01.600 that we just could not

01:13:03.120 continue on with the discussion

01:13:05.100 so I'm so happy to have had her back on

01:13:07.180 even if it is two years later.

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The Shadoe Davis Show - March 06, 2024

Shadoe at Nite Tues March 5th⧸2024 w⧸Benita Pedersen in Westlock, AB

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