Rebel News - EZRA LEVANT | The Best of Rebel News Pandemic Reporting in 2021
Aired: 2021-12-29
Duration: 24:38


=== Championing Charter Rights (03:55) ===

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[00:00:41]  Here's today's show.
[00:00:55]  Tonight, a compilation of the best of Rebel News' pandemic reporting.
[00:01:01]  It's December 28th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
[00:01:07]  Why should others go to jail when you're the biggest carbon consumer I know?
[00:01:11]  There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
[00:01:15]  The only thing I have to say is government about why publishing is because it's my bloody right to do so.
[00:01:25]  Don't become Nazis!
[00:01:28]  Don't become Nazis!
[00:01:30]  It is improved!
[00:01:33]  Shame!
[00:01:34]  Shame!
[00:01:34]  What are you doing here?
[00:01:36]  We're committing assault! This is assault!
[00:01:49]  Move back!
[00:01:50]  I was on public property!
[00:01:52]  And then their kids are gonna grow up and remember them!
[00:01:56]  They threw the Charter of Rights out the window.
[00:02:03]  We're not vandalizing stuff or burning stuff or anything like that.
[00:02:06]  Mom pod plays where it's these buggers too.
[00:02:08]  They get away with it.
[00:02:09]  Steve Matt or you will be arrested!
[00:02:11]  Oh, pray!
[00:02:14]  We say that!
[00:02:35]  Freedom!
[00:02:36]  You are not!
[00:02:37]  Never die!
[00:02:38]  Freedom!
[00:02:41]  What about our charter rights?
[00:02:44]  Protest!
[00:02:48]  They were just doing their job!
[00:02:50]  Don't do those packages!
[00:02:51]  Pepper rights!
[00:02:54]  protesting is not an essential reason.
[00:03:05]  What's on my heart?
[00:03:06]  Mainstream media has decided to sit this one out.
[00:03:09]  Nothing to see here, folks.
[00:03:22]  This is Toronto.
[00:03:24]  This is not North Korea.
[00:03:31]  Fringing on my rights.
[00:03:32]  Officer, why are these protesters not allowed to protest?
[00:03:35]  And people like you took the knee for Black Lives Matter in the summer.
[00:03:40]  I'm not going to leave a communist country to my kids or anyone else's kids.
[00:03:45]  I know the mainstream media is not here because they probably support censorious thugs like you.
[00:03:52]  I know people need to see this.
[00:03:54]  People need to see this.

=== Why Are Protests Forbidden? (02:13) ===

[00:03:55]  If you don't give an idea, they'll be a freaking you can't be arrested for that.
[00:03:58]  That's fine.
[00:03:58]  I've always wanted to go to jail.
[00:04:00]  Are you saying that media is not exempt?
[00:04:01]  Can you say that on camera?
[00:04:02]  Media's not exempt?
[00:04:03]  He's exempt, but it's like 3.4 or stuff like that, right?
[00:04:08]  Step back.
[00:04:12]  Our ancestors fought and died so that we could be free.
[00:04:18]  So we could have a charter.
[00:04:20]  These men are urinating and defecating on the cenotaphs of every dead soldier across Canada.
[00:04:28]  So, would you like to leave or not?
[00:04:30]  Yeah, then please leave.
[00:04:32]  Officer, where do you want her to go?
[00:04:35]  I'm not talking to you.
[00:04:38]  story of my life.
[00:04:58]  Where's he going?
[00:05:08]  What is this, guys?
[00:05:20]  Stop it, stop it.
[00:05:26]  Shame on you.
[00:05:27]  Shame on these police.
[00:05:30]  Shame on these police.
[00:05:30]  Look at the way they started now.
[00:05:32]  You're a hero, Adam.
[00:05:34]  I love you guys.
[00:05:34]  Move back.
[00:05:35]  Get back.
[00:05:36]  Shut up.
[00:05:37]  Shut up.
[00:05:38]  Adam.
[00:05:39]  Small business.
[00:05:43]  Small business.
[00:05:46]  Get back.
[00:05:46]  Shame on you.
[00:05:54]  How does he feel to stop building?
[00:05:57]  He's just beating their kids!
[00:05:59]  You're stopping everybody!
[00:06:01]  Adam, we got your mark.
[00:06:04]  Shame.

=== Curfew and Power Play (02:43) ===

[00:06:09]  Who's going to be?
[00:06:11]  Who's going to be there?
[00:06:13]  Same on you, brother.
[00:06:14]  Who's that?
[00:06:25]  My back!
[00:06:26]  Get back!
[00:06:27]  He's on my wrist, bro.
[00:06:28]  Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! He's a hero!
[00:06:41]  This is a hero!
[00:06:42]  Can we ask you what happened over here?
[00:06:45]  Yankee Polak, 25 years old, rebel news reporter.
[00:06:50]  No?
[00:06:51]  Well, I'm gonna ask you.
[00:06:54]  What are you guys?
[00:06:55]  I'm media.
[00:06:56]  I see you guys putting someone in the back of the car.
[00:07:00]  In the last year, we have seen arbitrary rules that make no sense.
[00:07:06]  Government's doing whatever they want in Quebec and Ontario, Canada, and the States, and all over the world.
[00:07:12]  What is your badge number?
[00:07:14]  What is your badge number?
[00:07:16]  They keep saying trust the signs.
[00:07:17]  There's no signs behind the curfew.
[00:07:19]  There is none.
[00:07:20]  Are you proud of the job you're doing?
[00:07:21]  You're ticketing members of the media?
[00:07:24]  Is that like what you signed up for the police force?
[00:07:26]  They're in control.
[00:07:27]  They're the top gang in the city, and they can do whatever they want.
[00:07:30]  And then they leave because they show their force.
[00:07:35]  And then, you know, a few days later, or weeks later, they come back and do it again.
[00:07:39]  Is it there's a big threat going on in the area or terrorist attacks?
[00:07:44]  And it's always, well, we have to protect people.
[00:07:46]  It's this, it's that.
[00:07:48]  And no, it's just you want power.
[00:07:51]  Tonight is not a busy night in terms of curfew and pragma.
[00:07:56]  But we're gonna, you know, we're gonna drive around a bit to see what's going on, right?
[00:08:02]  You know, my great-grandmother used to live right up there.
[00:08:06]  And now my aunt lives here, like this is this is where it really stops.
[00:08:28]  You guys jump out.
[00:08:31]  I'm not sure why.
[00:08:32]  Okay, he's giving it to the name.
[00:08:46]  Do you speak English?

=== Filming Police Encounter (03:31) ===

[00:08:52]  Do you have any papers to allow you to?
[00:08:54]  Yeah, we have favors.
[00:08:55]  Okay, I'm gonna change.
[00:08:57]  What we're doing?
[00:08:59]  We're filming you guys.
[00:09:00]  Why?
[00:09:01]  Because that's our job.
[00:09:02]  We're media.
[00:09:03]  We're filming.
[00:09:04]  Okay, I'm gonna take your paper.
[00:09:05]  Yeah, yeah, sure.
[00:09:06]  You can take all the papers.
[00:09:07]  So we're all together.
[00:09:09]  We caught these officers putting this young Hasidic Jew in the back of their police cruiser, allegedly for breaking the curfew.
[00:09:16]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:09:16]  So here's my paper.
[00:09:21]  In Quebec, police officers don't have body camps.
[00:09:26]  Can we ask you what happened over here?
[00:09:30]  No?
[00:09:31]  Well, I'm gonna ask you.
[00:09:34]  What are you doing?
[00:09:34]  I'm media.
[00:09:36]  I see you guys putting someone in the back of the car.
[00:09:38]  Yankee is out and about almost every night past curfew time to document the police interactions with the members of his community.
[00:09:47]  So I have three papers over there.
[00:09:49]  One is a paper, a letter of my lawyer.
[00:09:51]  One is a letter of the SPVM that I have the right to be out.
[00:09:54]  That one is a curfew note.
[00:10:01]  It's all in backup, I see.
[00:10:03]  If you want to talk to our colleagues, we're gonna do our job that we're doing.
[00:10:06]  Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
[00:10:08]  And you can talk to our colleagues, they're coming to meet us.
[00:10:15]  You're gonna just take them home?
[00:10:16]  Yeah, yeah, that's all.
[00:10:22]  Nice to meet you.
[00:10:22]  Nice to meet you.
[00:10:23]  Hi, sir.
[00:10:24]  Will you go inside my piece?
[00:10:29]  We're going to go back to the situation.
[00:10:31]  We're going to go back to the situation.
[00:10:47]  So the supervisor, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[00:10:50]  Yankee, what's happening?
[00:10:52]  What's going on?
[00:10:53]  They put someone in the back of the car and then they decided to bring in five cars as backup for some reason.
[00:10:59]  What's with all the police cars here?
[00:11:01]  Just wondering.
[00:11:03]  One for each of us, right?
[00:11:10]  Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
[00:11:15]  I said, we are going to get to know you intimately because we are going to sue you forever.
[00:11:48]  We are going to sue these thugs forever for assault, for false imprisonment, for abuse of office, and you know what else?
[00:12:00]  For being a racist bunch of thugs.
[00:12:03]  And why do I call them racist?
[00:12:06]  Because again and again, when Montreal police accost our reporters, you know what they call us?
[00:12:12]  Jew media.
[00:12:14]  Are you a Jew, they say?
[00:12:17]  These thugs, when they see us on the street, say, are you Jew media?

=== Hey Hey Protesters (11:24) ===

[00:12:23]  Well, most of our reporters are not, but I am, sir.
[00:12:27]  And I will see you in court for your bigotry.
[00:12:32]  Hey, hey, what's going on?
[00:12:32]  Hey, I'm media in the media.
[00:12:34]  Hey, hey, what's going on?
[00:12:36]  Are you taking me?
[00:12:37]  I don't remember me.
[00:12:41]  This is like, we're documenting what's happening here, guys.
[00:12:45]  So why are we getting such a tough time?
[00:12:47]  We've been through this so many times.
[00:12:48]  With you guys.
[00:12:53]  I'm giving you my paper.
[00:12:55]  No problem, just...
[00:12:58]  What?
[00:13:00]  I'm with Rebel News.
[00:13:02]  I'm a media Jewish.
[00:13:04]  Who are you?
[00:13:05]  What's your name?
[00:13:06]  I will get to know them intimately because we are going to spend years together and I will see your wicked faces no matter what your masks are.
[00:13:18]  My name is Andrew Levant and I work with dozens of independent journalists who don't take a dime of money from any government.
[00:13:27]  And that is the reason why we can show you the police brutality.
[00:13:31]  Thug, thug, come here, coward, come here, come on camera, you bigoted bully.
[00:13:38]  Come on camera.
[00:13:40]  These cowards are pretty freaking brave when the cameras aren't on, which is why they raided our Airbnb.
[00:13:48]  But when the cameras are rolling, they're running high.
[00:13:51]  Running high, coward.
[00:13:57]  Oh my gosh, the affirmative action hire.
[00:13:59]  Are you seeing like me on?
[00:14:03]  Go cover Menzies.
[00:14:04]  Do not touch you!
[00:14:06]  Oh here comes the real boys!
[00:14:07]  Do not touch him!
[00:14:08]  Do you touch him?
[00:14:09]  Did you touch him?
[00:14:11]  Why did you touch him?
[00:14:13]  No, no, no, no.
[00:14:14]  He throwing it to me.
[00:14:15]  He told him to me.
[00:14:17]  Are you hiding your name into me?
[00:14:20]  Keep your distance.
[00:14:21]  Hey, hey, hey.
[00:14:21]  Put the shack on.
[00:14:23]  You want to get arrested for this?
[00:14:24]  Good.
[00:14:25]  He touched me.
[00:14:26]  Here are the bugs.
[00:14:27]  Here are the thugs.
[00:14:29]  Here are the fucks.
[00:14:30]  Shake.
[00:14:31]  Shea.
[00:14:31]  Shake.
[00:14:36]  Shea.
[00:14:38]  Shake.
[00:14:39]  Shea.
[00:14:40]  Shake.
[00:14:42]  Shea.
[00:14:43]  Shake.
[00:14:43]  Shea.
[00:14:46]  Shea.
[00:14:46]  Shay.
[00:14:47]  Shea.
[00:14:54]  Shane! Shane! Shane! Shane! Shane! Shane! Shane!
[00:15:01]  Look at this!
[00:15:02]  More cuffs, more fucking cuffs More cops, look at the fucked up cuffs Shake.
[00:15:09]  Shake.
[00:15:10]  Deploying tear gas and other non-lethal weapons.
[00:15:14]  They will taser you.
[00:15:16]  They have already arrested one of our reporters after physically assaulting him.
[00:15:22]  This is the police brutality.
[00:15:25]  You come here to observe.
[00:15:27]  And here they come.
[00:15:29]  All good, Kyle, all good, all good, all good, all good.
[00:15:40]  Why?
[00:15:43]  Speak English.
[00:15:45]  I don't know what you're saying.
[00:15:46]  Why do you need to get it?
[00:15:47]  Hands off her.
[00:15:48]  Hands off her, man.
[00:15:59]  Crooked cops.
[00:16:00]  Correct.
[00:16:01]  You're crushing me with a bicycle.
[00:16:03]  Watch your fucking body.
[00:16:04]  Are you kidding me?
[00:16:06]  Hey, hey.
[00:16:11]  Wash your fucking hands.
[00:16:16]  SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!
[00:16:20]  Because you have no valid reason to be outside after curfew.
[00:16:29]  It's for you.
[00:16:31]  Officer, can you tell me why you're clamping down on members of the Jewish community in Montreal?
[00:16:37]  Is there no other pressing crime in Montreal right now?
[00:16:40]  Gun crime, sexual assault.
[00:16:43]  You're ticketing people for walking at night?
[00:16:52]  Don't have your mask.
[00:16:54]  It's okay.
[00:17:00]  You're not allowed to manhandle somebody, you're not allowed to manhandle somebody.
[00:17:03]  Why are you putting your hands on me?
[00:17:05]  He doesn't have to go.
[00:17:07]  Give him a ticket.
[00:17:08]  I'll leave my badge number.
[00:17:11]  You are targeting me because I'm recording, right?
[00:17:13]  No, you're not recording.
[00:17:14]  I just came here.
[00:17:15]  Hey.
[00:17:15]  You're allowed to record it.
[00:17:17]  Yeah, I am recording.
[00:17:18]  Okay, wait, wait, wait.
[00:17:19]  I'm going to give you a ticket.
[00:17:21]  Are you taking me right now?
[00:17:25]  I just arrived here right now.
[00:17:27]  And you're grabbing me.
[00:17:28]  Yes, I'm grabbing you because you have to.
[00:17:30]  Acknowledge that.
[00:17:30]  Okay?
[00:17:31]  No, I don't have to.
[00:17:32]  Yes, you have to.
[00:17:33]  Okay, okay, give me the ticket.
[00:17:35]  Stay calm.
[00:17:35]  Okay, I am calm.
[00:17:37]  Okay.
[00:17:37]  You want my ID?
[00:17:38]  You record, you can record, there's no problem.
[00:17:40]  Yes, I need your ID.
[00:17:41]  Okay, I'll give you the ID.
[00:17:43]  Give me your ID.
[00:17:45]  Okay, Savannah, sir.
[00:17:46]  What's your name?
[00:17:48]  7987.
[00:17:51]  What have I been doing for?
[00:17:52]  Because you're going to give me your mask.
[00:17:54]  For what?
[00:17:54]  I'm not part of the protest.
[00:17:55]  You're already part of the protest.
[00:17:56]  No, no, wait, wait, wait.
[00:17:57]  Listen, listen, I'm reporting.
[00:17:58]  Listen, I'm reporting.
[00:17:59]  I'm not part of the protest.
[00:18:02]  So it doesn't matter to you that I'm not reporting.
[00:18:03]  I'm just here to report.
[00:18:06]  What will I do?
[00:18:08]  I'm giving you the tickets.
[00:18:09]  You're going to have to sit in the car because I have to verify your identity.
[00:18:12]  I'm here.
[00:18:12]  I'm not going anywhere.
[00:18:13]  Yeah, you have to sit in my car.
[00:18:14]  I have never heard of that.
[00:18:15]  Why are you putting me?
[00:18:16]  Can I sit over here?
[00:18:18]  No, of course not.
[00:18:18]  You have a remote car.
[00:18:19]  This is my fourth ticket.
[00:18:20]  And I've never put me inside there.
[00:18:24]  I don't have to.
[00:18:24]  It's for you.
[00:18:25]  No, I'm okay standing here.
[00:18:27]  Yes.
[00:18:27]  You're going to sit there?
[00:18:28]  No problem.
[00:18:28]  Okay.
[00:18:29]  I'm going to go to my car and then I'll go.
[00:18:30]  Okay, I'm waiting here.
[00:18:31]  You're going to verify the intermix, okay?
[00:18:33]  Okay.
[00:18:36]  So as you guys saw, this lady was just cautious for not wearing the mask upside.
[00:18:42]  Really?
[00:18:42]  You're going to touch those.
[00:18:44]  You're going to touch that mask with naked hands and give it to us?
[00:18:47]  Okay?
[00:18:47]  I'm giving you the tickets?
[00:18:49]  Yeah, okay, thank you.
[00:18:50]  And this is your two pieces of identity.
[00:18:53]  No, I don't have to.
[00:18:54]  If you don't, another one you can.
[00:18:56]  Okay, you can give me hundreds of tickets.
[00:18:58]  That's okay.
[00:18:58]  I'm not going to wear a mask that you touch like that.
[00:19:01]  No, sir.
[00:19:02]  Would you like to take it for yourself?
[00:19:03]  No, I don't have to.
[00:19:04]  Yeah.
[00:19:05]  Okay, have a great day.
[00:19:18]  So Giselle, who is a wonderful woman.
[00:19:22]  No, the tips are just.
[00:19:29]  and go to the prison.
[00:19:37]  Right now, it's five past ten.
[00:19:44]  35 minutes after the curfew.
[00:19:46]  Hey, hey, hey, hey!
[00:19:48]  You're in this health care!
[00:19:50]  You have prayed for the prayer, okay?
[00:19:52]  It was to protect and serve the people.
[00:19:54]  So I would like to know if you will respect it.
[00:19:57]  I'm talking to the force of the order.
[00:19:58]  You will respect this prayer for the people because your people are suffering.
[00:20:02]  That's why I'm here right now.
[00:20:19]  So just right now, they ask for the people who are filming to show their papers that prove that they are actually essential workers.
[00:20:29]  You are at the front door.
[00:20:29]  Let's not do it.
[00:20:29]  Let's, like you are at the front door.
[00:20:29]  If I hit the finger schnee I BRaEPEelin has a little presence in the head.
[00:20:45]  Look at her!
[00:20:47]  How are you not protecting this?
[00:20:49]  Unlike what Jamie told us last time, closed for construction, it doesn't look like it's under construction.
[00:20:57]  Oh, why is that?
[00:20:58]  Because you're gonna be charged for trespassing right now.
[00:21:03]  I don't understand or do so, you'll be placed on arrest.
[00:21:06]  Well, this is a hotel, it's open to the public.
[00:21:08]  We were lied to, saying it was under construction.
[00:21:11]  And we've been told that the people here that are being incarcerated are being lied to, that they don't have to remain in this hotel.
[00:21:20]  You know, I'd like to say to the police officers here that there is a crime being committed, and it's being committed by this hotel by the people that are incarcerated in it.
[00:21:32]  I don't know, kidnapping, forcible confinement.
[00:21:35]  How's that for starters?
[00:21:37]  I'm not going to cooperate.
[00:21:38]  I've done nothing.
[00:21:38]  I am just practicing journalism here.
[00:21:40]  Are you going to get a restaurant for the fail to identify?
[00:21:43]  You're going to own the Trespass Property Act.
[00:21:44]  Well, my name is David Menzies.
[00:21:46]  I'm with Rebel News.
[00:21:47]  Here's my newsletter.
[00:21:49]  Remember how four months ago, Justin Trudeau told us that this was a conspiracy theory.
[00:21:55]  This was not going to happen.
[00:21:57]  Yeah, and I remember clearly a couple months ago, Randy Hillier, when he raised this at Queen's Park, he was mocked.
[00:22:05]  Where will these camps be built?
[00:22:08]  How many people will be detained?
[00:22:11]  They laughed at him, but wow, it looks like he was prophetic.
[00:22:16]  We're in violation of the reopening of Ontario Act, gathering with a crowd of more than five people.
[00:22:20]  So that's a pre-written ticket again, just for the record.
[00:22:22]  And there's your provincial offense.
[00:22:24]  Thank you.
[00:22:24]  Now, this is an administrative penalty notice.
[00:22:27]  Oh, for what?
[00:22:28]  Yeah.
[00:22:28]  This is for shaking hands with the public.
[00:22:31]  No way.
[00:22:35]  Section bylaw 2164, section 2.1.
[00:22:40]  Ontario.
[00:22:41]  Another ticket here.
[00:22:44]  More tickets here.
[00:22:45]  It's an absolute.
[00:22:46]  And we have the police here.
[00:22:49]  This is kind of like a police station.
[00:22:51]  I know you guys are just doing your job, but this is unbelievable.
[00:22:55]  I gotta go home and have watches through.
[00:22:58]  This is way overkill.
[00:22:59]  There's what, maybe five protesters here.
[00:23:01]  I got an 880 and I got two 880 tickets.
[00:23:04]  That's unbelievable.
[00:23:05]  What do you have to say to like this government?
[00:23:07]  And let's say, you know, Doug Ford's watching right now, what do you have to say to him?
[00:23:10]  Doug Ford, you're a disgrace.
[00:23:14]  I haven't been given any notice.
[00:23:16]  So guys, watching, I've been trespassed for simply reporting and putting it on my blast.
[00:23:20]  Because they're afraid to see this in public.
[00:23:23]  They're afraid to see what they're doing in Hamilton, Ontario.
[00:23:26]  And I've been trespassed for simply holding a camera to them.
[00:23:30]  Ticketed each.
[00:23:32]  Can you explain for what reason were you guys ticketed?
[00:23:38]  Yeah, stand-home murders.
[00:23:39]  Officer, so what exactly do the photos go to?
[00:23:42]  Is it going to court evidence?
[00:23:43]  Is it going to these tickets?
[00:23:44]  Is it going for police records or something?

=== Highlights Of Our Pandemic Coverage (00:49) ===

[00:23:48]  Either all of us have breaks or none of us have breaks.
[00:23:51]  It's like the before.
[00:23:52]  If you don't think these people should have rights, then one day they're coming for you.
[00:24:04]  Well, I hope you enjoyed this compilation.
[00:24:07]  I think our pandemic coverage over the last two years really has been the highlight of Rebel News in our entire existence, almost seven years now.
[00:24:16]  And I think it comes back to our motto, which as you know is telling the other side of the story.
[00:24:21]  Never has that been so rare.
[00:24:24]  You know, our very first motto, I don't know if you know this, going back in 2015, was fearless.
[00:24:30]  I think that applies today still.
[00:24:32]  Thanks for watching.
[00:24:34]  Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.
[00:24:37]  Good night.