Western Standard - October 20, 2023


Greg Ligertwood on the pro Hamas vs pro Israel protests in Canada


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4 minutes

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158.9158

Word count

770

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2

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Hate speech

2

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Pro-Hezbollah supporters were celebrating the murder of jews in Israel by handing out candy and jumping up and down and yelling their support for Hamas. The police stood by and allowed it to go on despite the fact that it is illegal to support a terrorist group in Canada. Canada is no longer a country run by the rule of law.

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00:00:00.480 the monday that i went down to city hall was not a protest that was a celebration by pro hamas
00:00:11.120 supporters celebrating the murder of jews in israel over the weekend in one of the most
00:00:17.120 atrocious heinous acts that we have seen since 2001 and the worst day for the jewish community 1.00
00:00:25.680 since the holocaust this was not a protest these people were celebrating these murders 0.87
00:00:32.960 by handing out candy and jumping up and down and yelling their support for hamas
00:00:38.160 and all joyous over the murder of jews so to me that was just disgusting i couldn't believe the
00:00:46.720 police and i was on the police as much as i was on these loony these lunatics because first of all
00:00:54.880 hamas is a registered terrorist group in canada it has been since 1987. it is illegal to support
00:01:06.560 a terrorist group in canada you're subject to arrest and seizure of your assets under section 83 of the
00:01:14.560 anti-terrorism act so how the police were allowing this to even go on is beyond me but of course now
00:01:23.200 you know it's all clear canada is no longer a country run by the rule of law if it was run by the
00:01:31.200 rule of law these people this this celebration would have been broken up those people should have been
00:01:37.120 arrested as supporters of a terrorist group and the one policeman said to me he said i said hamas is a
00:01:45.280 registered terrorist group she said that's your opinion i said that's not my opinion that's canadian law
00:01:52.400 these are terrorists you cannot support a terrorist group in canada or you're subject to arrest there's
00:01:59.360 no way that any of these other protests either should be allowed to happen because they're all in support
00:02:06.400 of a vicious inhuman medieval barbarian terrorist group and that's illegal in canada so why the police
00:02:18.320 are letting this go on well it's not really beyond me i used to say oh it's beyond me it's not beyond
00:02:23.920 me canada doesn't run on the rule of law anymore canada's run sorry oh that's quite all right i i was
00:02:31.680 just going to interject so yeah that that uh precedent has been long established uh i talked to you on the
00:02:37.600 phone about that the other day like you know i was quite active in the past and i went to an alkud's
00:02:41.760 protest which is you know an annual celebration of anti-semitism and uh i i counter-protested with
00:02:48.400 some others down there just a handful of us and uh the police got on my case and then this is back
00:02:54.480 when i we came from a bar to there i was not drunk but he smelled beer on my breath he says are you
00:02:59.200 drunk you know the police officer getting in my face uh yeah so i could take you in for public
00:03:03.920 intoxication i'm not drunk i said look and the thing that got him worked up was when i pointed
00:03:07.680 because they were waving a bunch of hezbollah flags at that one and i mean that's the yellow
00:03:12.160 flag with an ak-47 on it it makes no bones about it it's a terrorist flag i said why are you not
00:03:19.600 intervening with these terrorists over there he did not like that question he didn't want
00:03:23.600 i don't think though i'll play a little devil's advocate with what happened with yourself with what
00:03:27.360 happened to be i don't know if it's so much the police officers support the terrorists but they'll
00:03:32.720 kind of pick the smaller side to try and defuse things and get them separated and pull them the
00:03:36.880 heck out of there because it's too hard to deal with i mean it's a lazy way to deal with it but i
00:03:41.520 don't know if it's necessarily taking a side it certainly is and the one the the uh officer who
00:03:50.160 seemed to be in charge told me that they're neutral they can't pick sides i said that's ridiculous this
00:03:56.400 is a registered terrorist group it's illegal to support a terrorist group in canada he said oh that's
00:04:02.800 above my pay grade so i said oh so you're just following orders oh yes well i said you know just
00:04:10.960 following orders is illegal under the nuremberg laws you can't use that as an excuse you the police
00:04:20.160 are under no obligation to obey an immoral or illegal order and the order to stand down and allow at least
00:04:28.560 this celebration last monday thanksgiving the order to stand down and allow that to go on
00:04:36.720 was at certainly illegal and absolutely immoral