Western Standard - January 11, 2024


MORGAN： Canada HasLost Control To A Pro-Hamas Minority...


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5 minutes

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Word count

1,069

Sentence count

77

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Misogyny

3

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Hate speech

2

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Pro-Hamas thugs take over a skating rink in Toronto and the police let them have their way with it. Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Canada and police are doing nothing to stop it. Why is this happening?

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00:00:00.000 So, I mean, there's a few things more Canadian, if we're going to talk about things being Canadian,
00:00:03.500 than going out for an afternoon of ice skating with your sweetheart.
00:00:06.680 I mean, that's just what a couple of seniors tried to do last weekend in Toronto.
00:00:10.800 The weather was mild, holidays are wrapped up, it looked like it'd be a perfect day to get out and enjoy themselves together.
00:00:16.740 Unfortunately, the local Hamas thugs had other plans in mind. 0.68
00:00:20.420 Masked and screaming, they came pouring onto the skating rink, waving flags, intimidating other skaters.
00:00:26.400 The older gentleman was upset and he let the protesters know as much.
00:00:29.080 She spoke up. So this, they chased him.
00:00:31.120 And one of the thugs even laid a hand on him.
00:00:32.960 The man's wife intervened and they managed to skate away, but their day was ruined,
00:00:36.400 as with dozens of other people who came out to skate.
00:00:39.320 There were police in the area, but they meekly stood aside and just let the intimidation happen.
00:00:43.600 This pattern is getting really common.
00:00:46.480 The same day, same area, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow.
00:00:49.540 And she's made a point of pandering to the pro-Hamas gangs for months now. 0.61
00:00:53.600 It was to no avail. She tried to make a short speech at the event.
00:00:55.980 She was drowned out by the howling of the pro-Hamas demonstrators and they overwhelmed her.
00:01:00.740 Security kept the thugs from actually touching Chow, but no arrests were made or efforts were made to remove them from the site.
00:01:06.480 The thugs won the day and they took over the park.
00:01:08.740 And Mayor Chow at the end of it says, this is what democracy looks like.
00:01:12.700 No, Ms. Chow, that's an uncontrolled mob rule is what that is. 0.98
00:01:16.400 And it's the opposite of democracy.
00:01:18.460 But what do socialists know about democracy?
00:01:20.000 That's something they always have difficulty with.
00:01:21.780 It all follows a pattern of appeasement and lack of law enforcement when it comes to the pro-Hamas lobby in Canada.
00:01:27.960 And it's coast to coast.
00:01:29.440 In Vancouver, Jewish girls were assailed on a public transit by thugs howling anti-Semitic threats.
00:01:35.380 No effort seems to have been made to lay hate crime charges, though.
00:01:38.000 Had the victims been anybody else but Jews being targeted for their race or ethnicity or religion, I suspect it would look different.
00:01:44.860 Jewish students have been intimidated and threatened on post-secondary campuses across the country.
00:01:48.920 A University of BC family medicine professor of 30 years resigned from the university in disgust due to the anti-Semitism.
00:01:56.380 He's had it.
00:01:56.760 He says, screw you, I'm retiring.
00:01:58.400 At York University, the staff and some faculty found themselves charged for vandalizing a Jewish-owned business.
00:02:04.340 So what happened?
00:02:05.280 Well, anti-Semitic students and faculty staged a protest and a walkout in support of the anti-Jewish vandals.
00:02:12.640 And how does it feel being a Jewish student in that school or any Canadian university?
00:02:16.740 They're not feeling protected by institutions themselves or, of course, the law.
00:02:20.940 While they were trespassing to try and block commerce at a Jewish-owned business in a mall in Toronto, we saw that. 0.73
00:02:25.420 One of the protesters took the time to threaten to kill somebody right in front of the police officers.
00:02:30.740 The emasculated officers just stood there and did nothing.
00:02:34.200 The ongoing incidents of pathetic policing are too long to list.
00:02:38.960 I'm going to finish with the granddaddy of them, though, in Canada.
00:02:41.080 When Hamas supporting anti-Jewish protesters, they've been regularly and illegally blocking an exit in Toronto from a freeway going into a Jewish community.
00:02:48.640 Yes, pure targeting and terrorizing of the local Jewish community and population.
00:02:53.120 Be considered a hate crime, as I said, with any other community.
00:02:55.800 In response, the police officers acted as concierges and blocked the road for these guys and brought them nice hot cups of coffee to help them beat the chill while they spread their hatred and intimidation.
00:03:05.900 I wish I was making this up.
00:03:07.760 So how has this campaign of appeasement of Hamas thugs been going?
00:03:11.080 Have the anti-Semitic incidents declined?
00:03:13.240 Have the pro-Hamas protests become less aggressive?
00:03:16.100 Or are they starting to obey local laws?
00:03:18.280 Of course not.
00:03:19.540 The protesters are only becoming more emboldened.
00:03:21.900 They know they have nothing to lose in intimidating the members of the public and public officials as well,
00:03:26.560 because the cowardly police forces refuse to intervene.
00:03:29.940 Things are only going to end one of two ways now, guys.
00:03:32.480 If the police continues its campaign of inaction in the face of these hateful, aggressive, illegal protests,
00:03:39.740 citizens will eventually step up and take matters in their own hands.
00:03:42.660 This is the natural progression when a state allows things to descend into chaos and lawlessness.
00:03:47.920 But vigilantes are rarely gentle with the application of justice, and they can often target the wrong people.
00:03:52.060 It is not a good way to deal with issues.
00:03:54.780 The police could also actually step up and start making arrests.
00:03:58.220 Hate crimes, death threats, they can carry some serious sentences.
00:04:00.620 That is, when those charges are laid.
00:04:02.400 So get on with it.
00:04:03.200 You know, you don't need to arrest them all.
00:04:05.400 They just need to arrest some of them. 0.87
00:04:07.360 Arrest the leaders.
00:04:08.620 Give them serious charges.
00:04:09.780 Rest assured, many of the protests will suddenly back down for fear of being incarcerated or getting fines or losing work,
00:04:15.520 or perhaps their student visas or residency in the country, depending on their citizenship status, might be at risk.
00:04:21.460 I suspect those protests would suddenly fall dramatically.
00:04:25.260 As it is now, though, these extremists have nothing to lose, and they know it.
00:04:28.460 This shouldn't be that complicated, but it won't get any easier for waiting.
00:04:31.640 Multiple Jewish schools have been shot at.
00:04:34.020 A Jewish deli was just firebombed.
00:04:36.280 This is serious business.
00:04:37.340 This is crystal knot, guys.
00:04:39.080 And eventually somebody's going to be killed if this isn't brought under control soon.
00:04:42.240 The pro-Hamas gangs, they're only a tiny minority of a minority, yet they have Canadian authorities hiding with their tails between their legs.
00:04:50.220 Permissiveness has allowed a group to feel above the law, and they're getting bolder, and it's an embarrassment for the entire nation.
00:04:55.180 This has to stop.
00:04:56.640 It's up to police and politicians now, and who's going to do it, though?
00:04:59.600 It'd be better if authorities found their balls and did it themselves.
00:05:03.000 But if not, citizens will.
00:05:05.420 I just wish the government and police would do their jobs.