Ezra Levant marks 9/11’s 23rd anniversary by warning Canada ignored its lessons, citing unchecked Middle Eastern immigration—64% distrust vetting, 78% blame housing crises on it—and recent cases like Pakistani national Mohammed Khan’s June 2023 terrorism-related entry. He contrasts this with U.S. debates over migrant impacts and highlights defamation attacks on critics, including Cat for Canada (Cat Panova), falsely labeled a "Russian asset" by Liberal MP Mark Gerritson without evidence, now fighting back legally via suegarretson.com. The episode ties rising extremism risks to political rhetoric and unaccountable smears, arguing accountability is critical as left-wing backlash intensifies. [Automatically generated summary]
And I hate to say it, but I don't think we've learned a single lesson.
We're making all of the same mistakes again and worse.
And one of the mistakes I want to talk to you about today is mass immigration from countries that hate us.
And I'll take you through the latest poll on that.
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All right, here's today's podcast.
Tonight, immigration reform goes mainstream.
It's September 11th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Securing Borders Post-Terror00:15:37
It's September 11th, the terrible anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in modern history.
The day when Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners packed with civilians, killed the pilots.
and then careened the jets, kamikaze style, into civilian targets.
The first two were the enormous World Trade Center towers in New York City.
The next one was aimed at the Pentagon.
And the last hijacked plane managed to learn, the passengers learned what was going on, and they had a rebellion against the hijackers.
And then in the end, the plane crashed into a field.
It's assumed that plane was targeting the U.S. Congress.
It's hard to believe that ominous day in 2001 is almost a quarter century ago now.
And in many ways, we've learned nothing from it.
Everything that went wrong that day, all of the trends that combined into a terrible perfect storm are actually all worse now.
The acceptance of Islamic extremism in our society, open borders, immigration, politically correct prohibitions about talking about different cultures.
You know, I was in New York last year and I went to the 9-11 Museum and Memorial, and I highly recommend it.
Even though I feel like I knew the story, I was so glad to go.
It was very somber.
It was very sad, very infuriating, and you need to feel those things again.
The highlight for me was the tour guides, real New Yorkers who speak from the heart.
And I loved deeply that they answered every single question put to them, including questions that you might think would be, quote, offensive, questions from 9-11 truthers.
I was very impressed that they calmly and with facts and arguments persuasively answered questions that 9-11 skeptics often ask, such as, can steel beans really melt in the fire?
And what about this building or that building?
Not only did I learn a lot about 9-11 and remember a lot that I had known, but I learned about the power of answering controversial questions honestly, without anger, even hostile questions about things you're not supposed to question.
There's a free speech lesson there.
The people who asked those conspiracy questions got a great answer.
And I think it probably turned them around more than just brushing them off.
Here's what I said about that to John Stossel when I did an interview with him about free speech a couple months ago.
If someone doesn't know about the Holocaust and wants to ask questions about it and is smashed down and called, you're a hater, you're an anti-Semite, that's probably not going to convince them that the Holocaust was real.
Whereas if you air the question out and have a debate and answer the questions, I did a tour of the 9-11 Museum and Memorial in Manhattan.
And in the Q ⁇ A with the tour guide, everyone asked their conspiracy theories.
I was actually shocked with the questions that were put to the tour guide.
And he didn't say shit.
Can the CIA do this?
Yeah, and how can metal burn?
Like, how does steel, how does fire melt steel?
Like, every theory I'd ever heard in the corners of the internet, people put it to the tour guide.
And instead of saying, how dare you?
That's disinformation.
He calmly and in a loving way, actually, explained the answer.
And I think it turned some minds around.
And that's the analogy I would use on the Holocaust.
There are many conspiracy theories.
They didn't happen.
It was less than 6 million.
It's a hoax.
Okay, that's out there.
Whether you ban the conversation or not, it's out there.
How about being like that wonderful tour guide at the 9-11 Museum and calmly proving and answering and disabusing people of falsehoods?
You're not going to convince everybody.
But I left thinking, that guy knows his stuff.
I trust him.
And the tone in which he answered was compelling.
By the way, I don't think I've shared that full interview with you yet.
It was a few months ago in New York.
I think it was a whole hour that interview about free speech.
I think I did okay in it.
We'll have to play the whole thing for you one day.
But back to my main point.
I don't think we've learned the lessons of 9-11, have we?
Look at the appeasement of Islamic extremists today in 2024.
It's much worse than it was back in 2001.
Because of mass immigration since then, it's like we deliberately oversampled from the parts of the world where Islamic extremism is a problem.
We've loaded up on Islamic extremist immigrants.
Not a week goes by in Canada where there's not another arrest of a terrorist in the late planning stages.
One of these days we won't catch them in time.
As Norm McDonald joked, the late Norm McDonald, he said, what terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans, imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims.
He's so funny, the late, great Norm McDonald.
Not only did we not fix the old problems, we created new problems instead.
We brought in a massive surveillance state spying on us, not just our foreign enemies, violations of our civil liberties, so we've just learned to accept, like the security theater and airport has never actually caught a terrorist.
But we normalized violations of our privacy and even having the government grope our personal bodies.
Don't tell me that 20 years of airport groping didn't desensitize the mass population to the government commandeering our bodies with their COVID mandates.
I mean, we gave up our body autonomy to be groped, didn't we?
We're less free now.
And we didn't solve the actual problems of mass immigration and Islamic extremism.
And we created new problems like trying to set up colonies in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which have failed.
I mean, you really have to admit the terrorists have won.
Which brings me to the subject of the day.
Mass immigration in 2024 at a level never before seen in Canada.
Two million people a year, Trudeau is bringing in.
Just astonishing.
A million are foreign students.
Obviously, most of those are fraudulent or fake students.
They're just paying tuition to come into the country.
In addition to that, there's three quarters of a million temporary foreign workers who aren't so temporary.
And why are we bringing them in?
So that foreign multinationals like McDonald's or Tim Hortons, which is now owned by a Brazil megafund, by the way, so they can save a buck an hour in salaries instead of hiring Canadian workers.
And then we take fake refugees.
Sorry, there are no actual refugees from India or Mexico, yet those are two of the biggest sources of refugees to this country.
So you're not a refugee from Mexico.
I wouldn't want to live there.
Parts of it, I wouldn't mind, but you're not a refugee.
It's all a scam and we know it.
Hey, did you see this insanity from Mark Miller, whose sole qualification for being immigration minister is that he was in Trudeau's wedding party?
Take a look at this.
I've been getting questions about an individual that entered Canada and has been arrested in charges related to an attempt to cross the border for a terrorist plot.
I can confirm that Mohammed Khan is a Pakistani national who entered Canada on May or was issued a visa in May of 2023 and was given and entered Canada on the 24th of June of the same year, so 2023.
So yeah, he's in charge of not getting us killed.
Good luck to us all.
But people are getting fed up by it.
We're still scared, I suppose, a little bit of being called racist, but not so much.
So we laugh about things sometimes.
Did you see the debate last night between Trump and Harris?
Trump talking about how Haitian migrants are allegedly raiding pets in the town of Springfield, Ohio?
They're eating the cats.
They're eating the pets of the people that live there.
And this is what's happening in our country.
And it's a shame.
As far as rallies are concerned, as far as the reason they go is they like what I say.
They want to bring our country back.
They want to make America great again.
It's a very simple phrase, make America great again.
She's destroying this country.
And if she becomes president, this country doesn't have a chance of success.
Not only success, we'll end up being Venezuela on steroids.
Sort of funny, sort of crazy.
It's a way of talking about immigration.
By the way, our David Menzies is on his way down to Springfield, Ohio to see what's up.
You can follow him at a website we set up.
I don't know if it's up now, but it'll be up by tomorrow called the truthaboutspringfield.com.
And in Canada, we all had a laugh, sort of, about some of these millions of migrants just pooping on the beach because that's what they do back home.
And I told my kids, if we're going to go on the beach, watch out so you don't step in any human poop.
I've heard people are using tents and they're just like doing it in the sand so no one can see.
I think it's really gross.
They're digging holes and they're pooping and putting tents up because they don't want to go to the washrooms.
And I'm here to fact check that because that's not a lie.
It makes me not want to swim and not want to be on the beach.
To be a responsible parent, you should be showing your kids how you can actually throw out their diaper in the washroom, not bury it at a beach.
Some of it's just common sense.
Like, why would you do that?
And they dig a hole and they use it to further bathroom.
Can you imagine the police going to someone's home because you're talking about pooping on the beach?
Not you're doing pooping on the beach, but you're complaining about it.
So the police come to give you a lecture and a threat because you're racist or something.
Well, people have had enough.
Even the Conservative Party, which is usually terrified to talk about immigration, is finally talking about immigration at least a tiny bit.
We will also secure our borders to make sure that never again Do accused ISIS terrorists get into our country and become citizens of Canada, even after the existence of a video apparently showing that same terrorist mutilating a human body on a crucifix during the ISIS war of over a decade ago.
These are the kinds of disastrous mistakes, radical approaches of the liberal government that must end so that we can replace their costly incompetence with our common sense.
But let me show you a poll by Leger, which has very interesting stats in it.
Here's the poll itself.
As you can see, it was commissioned by the National Post.
It actually came out two weeks ago, but I think it's still very current, the numbers.
The sample size was about 1,600 people.
Look at page five, some of these summary points.
Two-thirds of Canadians, 65%, believe the government of Canada will admit too many immigrants.
Only 20% think it will admit the right amount, while 3% believe it will not admit enough.
Not enough.
Who's saying that?
I guess those are the immigration lawyers.
And look at the next point.
Pretty obvious math, though.
Trudeau and Christia Freeland and Mark Miller don't know it.
A majority of Canadians believe that the current immigration rates are contributing to the housing crisis, 78%.
To stresses on healthcare services, 76% think that.
And Canada's immigration policy is too generous, 72%.
Sort of a mixed bag on Gaza refugees, which I think is insane, which shows we've forgotten 9-11, haven't we?
But 64% of people are not confident that the government of Canada is thoroughly screening immigrants from the Middle East.
So that implies 36% are fine with it.
They must be deluded.
Look at page 19 of the poll.
Just 26% of Canadians think the government does a good job checking the background of new immigrants.
Of course they don't.
In fact, there really are no checks at all.
There's no background checks, no meetings.
You used to have an interview to become a Canadian.
Not anymore.
You just fill out a form online.
I mean, you can't do 2 million interviews a year, so they do zero interviews a year.
I should point out that these poll numbers worried about immigration are vastly higher than the support for any single party.
60, 70% are opposed.
And this is uniform across the country.
Men and women, Quebec, English Canada, Atlantic, whatever, everyone is united on this.
And by the way, I don't even think people know how bad the problem is.
One of the things this poll shows is that most people don't even know about the temporary foreign workers program.
If you were to tell people that we're bringing in foreign workers to undercut people on the first rung of the ladder, of a career ladder, they'd be appalled.
And if you talk about, and by the way, this poll is only about legal immigration.
It doesn't even talk about illegal immigration, the people who walked across the border at Roxham Road, and the frauds and tricksters who claim they're refugees from places like India and Mexico.
Yeah, as I said a moment ago, I think we've learned nothing from 9-11.
Stay with us for more.
Well, the Justin Trudeau liberals can be so unoriginal.
I remember when they tried to frame the 2022 trucker convoy to Ottawa as a January 6th insurrection.
Oh, they wanted that to happen because they had watched the playbook South of the Border that the Democrats and their friends in the media had used quite successfully.
Alas, that didn't work because the truckers didn't break into anything.
They were outside in the cold.
It was the most peaceful, large protest in Canadian history.
I think one of the reasons why Trudeau's framing didn't work, frankly, was because of independent media like Rebel News.
The rest of the media were in on it.
They wanted that to be terrified of the truckers.
But when you saw the bouncy castles and the hot tubs, it was just hard to be scared.
Had that festival feeling, as I say.
Well, one of the other plays from the Democratic Party playbook in the States is to talk about Russia, Russia, Russia, and to accuse anyone who disagrees with Justin Trudeau of anything of being in collusion with Vladimir Putin.
And it's sort of tough to defend against the accusation that you're in league with a foreign enemy.
And I know this from personal experience.
You might remember that a couple of years ago, one of Justin Trudeau's disinformation czars, he's a professor at the University of Calgary named Jean-Christophe Boucher, published a bogus study where he claimed to look at which Twitter accounts were pro-Putin.
But the measurements he used were absurd.
Like if you oppose Justin Trudeau, you are pro-Putin.
Yeah, no, about 80% of Canadians oppose Trudeau, and we're not all looking for Russia, but it's that DNC Democratic Party playbook they're trying to use.
Again, it doesn't really work.
Remember when the CBC actually claimed that the truckers were in league with Putin?
Russian Influence on Protests00:14:12
Remember that?
I do ask that because, you know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia, I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from the outset.
Well, again, I'm going to defer to our partners in the public safety, the trained officials and experts in that area.
Well, I don't think people take that seriously anymore, but I guess word hasn't gone through the dumber regions of the liberal caucus because the other day, a liberal MP of no great repute named Mark Garritson tweeted an accusation at an independent conservative-leaning journalist who happens to be Russian in ethnicity, accusing her of being a paid Russian asset.
Not expressing it as an opinion, but saying as a fact that Cat for Canada, who works for the Counter Signal, is, well, let me read the tweet to you directly.
He said, I finally blocked someone on here.
I draw the line at a foreign government paying you to engage with me.
Parliament needs to study this, and this person needs to be brought before committee to answer questions.
So it's not phrased as a matter of opinion or speculation.
It's phrased as a matter of fact that Cat for Canada is not just a legitimate opposition conservative journalist and activists in Canada, rather a Russian asset.
And joining me now via Skype from Nanaima is Cat for Canada, also known as Cat Panova.
Great to see you, Cat.
And I'm sorry that this idiot liberal MP is accusing you of being disloyal to Canada and in league with a foreign dictator.
But what I like about you, and you work for Counter Signal, which is, of course, a product of alumnus Kian Becksy, is that you guys aren't taking this lying down.
You're not rolling over, are you?
No, thanks for having me, Ezra.
Yeah, we have sent Mark Gerritson a demand letter with certain demands of ours.
People can see that on Kian's page, on my page, on the counter signals page.
And we do not want to back down because what he's done is egregious.
He has used his public office to attack a citizen who is essentially his opponent in terms of politics.
And we don't want to let him get away with it.
We want to hold him accountable.
So that's what we're doing.
That's our plan.
And I hope people support us in that regard.
You know, about a week and a half ago, there was a news item out of the United States.
Their Department of Justice is trying to prosecute two Russian nationals who are setting up a covert media company in the United States.
It's very interesting, very curious.
And there were two Canadians involved with it.
One was named Lauren Southern, an alumna of ours, and one is named Lauren Chen.
You're obviously not part of that organization.
And I think what happened here is Mark Gerritson saw what was happening in the States and said, uh-huh, I'm just going to extrapolate.
I'm just going to, it's cool again to accuse people of being Russian spies.
I don't like this cat for Canada, Kat Panova.
I'm just going to say it.
And really, who's going to fact check me?
The CBC?
The CBC never fact-checks liberals.
So it's not that he said, oh, Kat Panova is sympathetic to Russia.
And I don't really think you are sympathetic to Putin.
It's not that he said, I think or I believe or it looks like.
He said categorically that you are paid by Putin to basically engage and harass liberals.
Like he just, he just made up a fact and then said, because of that false fact, you ought to be subpoenaed before the committee.
Like that's just such an astonishingly reckless thing for a grown-up to say, let alone a member of parliament.
I can't believe he did it.
What was he?
Did he think that no one would push back or do you think you would just roll over?
What do you think was going through his mind?
Right.
Yeah.
So I think the biggest issue on top of him defaming me is, as I said, his abuse of public office.
In terms of what was going through his mind, obviously I can only speculate.
I don't view Mark Gerritson as a particularly sophisticated intellectually.
I think he landed in his role with some fortune by being close to Trudeau, most likely.
And, you know, as I said, I can only speculate what his motivations were.
All I can say is that it's absolutely not true.
And it's kind of disappointing to see a member of parliament to espouse such lies without doing any due diligence in terms of checking his facts.
He didn't message me.
He didn't bother doing any fact checking whatsoever.
He just stated a lie as a fact.
And that's egregious.
This kind of thing, you know, was pretty common for the country that I came from, a communist country of USSR, where, you know, people were free to smear anyone they liked without any accountability and any repercussions.
But we're not going to let him get away with that.
We are going to hold his feet to the fire and hopefully get some justice out of this because this is just unacceptable for a country that's supposed to be free, democratic, Western, like Canada, a country that I love, a country that took me in after my own country would, you know, persecute me for saying things that they didn't agree with.
You know, I think there's an ethnic angle here too, because you're ethnically Russian.
I think you're from Moldova originally, if I'm not mistaken.
To be accused of being secretly in league, secretly paid by Putin, in a way, it's an ethnic attack.
Oh, you're not actually a true Canadian.
You're loyal to a foreign power.
You're secretly taking money under the table.
It would be like if someone said, Ezra, you're not actually pro-Hamas.
You're just getting paid by Benjamin Netanyahu to say propaganda.
It would sort of undermine, I mean, obviously that's not true, but if someone were to make that accusation and say, I know for a fact you are being paid by Netanyahu to undermine, like the accusation of dual loyalty, you're a Jew, so you're not really loyal to Canada.
That's what they're doing to you.
And again, it's not that they're saying, oh, it looks like it, or maybe, or he's saying it as an incontrovertible fact.
You know what?
Members of parliament and senators have pure immunity.
They have absolute privilege for what they say in parliament.
You can get up in parliament and accuse someone of murder falsely.
You'll be disciplined by the speaker, but you can't be sued in defamation law.
So maybe he's used to saying stupid things because no one can touch you when you're in parliament.
But on Twitter, you say stupid things.
Most of the time, people just laugh at you.
But he's defamed you.
And I hope you go after him, by the way, the way that we're suing that Jean-Christophe Boucher for accusing us of being Russian assets.
Yeah, so that's the plan.
As I've said, we've sent her a demand letter and I hope we can pursue it further.
If he doesn't fold, we will pursue it further because, you know, being defamed obviously doesn't feel good.
And it's not a huge issue when it's some random anonymous troll on X who is just tweeting at you with not much of an audience or anything like that.
But it's a whole other story when it's a member of parliament coming after a citizen without any evidence and making such egregious accusations.
And, you know, I'm just a girl on Twitter.
I'm a single mom.
And, you know, there has been some extremely unpleasant backlash after Garritson has posted that tweet.
And to say the least, it doesn't feel good.
You know, and at worst, I feel a little bit unsafe sometimes because of my political views because it's, you know, the people on the left feel very emboldened to attack people and say egregious things about you if they don't agree with you politically.
So it's quite concerning.
Yeah.
Well, after you and Kiam Becksy, and I actually wrote a tweet about this subject myself.
I have too much familiarity with defamation law.
I think Garrison sort of either he got spooked or someone said, yeah, buddy, you've gone too far.
And so he deleted the original tweet, but he didn't apologize and he didn't retract and he didn't correct.
He wrote some, well, let me just show you what he wrote.
He said, okay, my language may not have been that clear.
I find Cat Canada's, and he put the wrong name there, content to be divisive, alarmist, and deeply offensive.
The press progress report of the video of Katrina with Lauren Southern and Press Progress has reported the video's alleged connection to a Russian influence campaign is deeply alarming.
And then he says, I'm not interested in interacting with or amplifying that kind of division.
So I'm going to be blocking Katrina because of her connection to that mess.
I am not alleging that Katrina herself was paid by the Russians.
Well, actually, that's exactly what he did allege.
And he's saying you're connected to the mess.
Like he sort of restates it.
He pretends that he wasn't clear.
I don't think he's taken legal advice.
What he did there did not undo the damage of over 150,000 people saying the original.
I think you got to sue.
You know, I mean, maybe people occasionally say, Ezra, you're too litigious.
Well, when politicians do bad things, like when Stephen Gilbo and others block citizens from Twitter, when David LeMetti try and destroy public records, sometimes you have to go to court to get these people's attention because they just ignore you when all you do is use your voice.
I don't know.
I hope you go through with it.
I hope you take this guy to task just not just to cure him of his slanders, but as a message to other liberal MPs and other politicians of All Stripe that they should treat citizens with respect.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So I hope that we can pursue this matter to the full extent because I do want to hold people like that to account because I don't want to let them get away with smearing the average citizen over and over without any repercussion.
Because, you know, if we let them get away with it once, we let them get away with it twice, three times, then they can just, you know, say whatever they want to say.
And if we don't fight back, they can just say, well, they didn't fight back.
It must be true.
So I don't want to give him any inches to smear Canadian citizens and to push lies about a person without even doing any basic fact checking.
And so our plan is to push it as much as we can to hold Garridson to account.
And hopefully that will be a warning for anyone else who would be so carelessly willing to smear the average Canadian just because they oppose them politically, Ezra.
Yeah.
You know, I see this a lot from Trudeau, from Christopher Freeland.
They really like to accuse their critics, like they accuse Pierre Polyev all the time, of being a Putin asset.
And I think it's just sort of the go-to slur in the Liberal Party.
And if you sue Garritzon for yourself, I think that'll chill out all the liberals that say, oh, so you get sued if you say that falsely.
We should be more careful in what we accuse people.
I hope you sue, because I think it'll cure the whole liberal government of this slander.
And it'll probably save many other people from being.
And the thing is, it causes damage.
Because you're denounced as a professional, people don't take you seriously anymore.
As a person, maybe some people doubt your ethnic loyalty to the country.
I think it was a really nasty thing.
Last word to you.
You guys are crowdfunding the litigation at suegarretson.com.
Am I right?
What's next?
Are you waiting for him to respond?
What happens if he doesn't give in to your demands by the deadline?
Yes.
So, yes.
If he doesn't fold after our initial demands that we sent in, we plan to pursue this.
If people want to chip in to help us out, because we don't have endless piles of taxpayer money to burn through like the Trudeau liberals do, people can support us at suegarretson.com if they want to help us win this fight and if they want to help us hold Garritson to account.
And yeah, we're just hoping that people are supporting us.
We're hoping people can donate because, as I said, it's very expensive.
And we want to pursue this to the fullest extent possible.
Well, I believe in using lawyers in battles.
It's probably because I'm a former lawyer myself.
And also, I see that other means the liberals are impervious to.
They don't care what grassroots people say.
Sao Paulo's Scale00:02:05
They don't even care what independent journalists say.
But a lawsuit seems to clarify their mind sometimes.
Kat, great to see you again.
Thanks for taking the time.
And it's nice to chat with you.
I like the fact that you guys stand up to the liberals.
We do too, which is why we're always battling them in the court of opinion as well as the court of law.
We'll keep following you on Twitter also.
See you later.
Thanks, Edra.
Right on.
Great to see you.
There you have it.
And I don't know, Matt Mark Gerritson.
He looks a little, I think he looks afraid, if I can say so.
And it's a good look on him.
Stay with us.
more ahead.
Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me.
You seem to like our reports from Brazil.
Seth Latchford said, love the Brazilians.
I liked them too.
I had never been to South America before, and I didn't know what to expect.
And Sao Paulo is such a massive city.
Imagine 20 million people in the greater Sao Paulo area.
It's, yeah, we went up on our last day, we just went up to a tall building and looked out to the observation deck.
And it was just skyscrapers and towers and apartments as far as the eye could see.
It's just astonishing how big it is.
And I'm sort of surprised how few people spoke English there.
It's their own world, though.
You got almost a quarter of a billion Brazilians speaking Portuguese.
I mean, I suppose some of them listen to Taylor Swift and get English through movies, but they have their own music.
They have their own movies.
And I like how interesting the people look, different races and backgrounds, and they all seem to mix very freely together.
It felt, I don't know, I was excited.
Of course, I only based that on two days there.
What I really liked was how 200,000 people came to fight for freedom.
I hope one day we have 200,000 people fighting for freedom in Canada, but I hope we never let it get as bad as they did in Brazil.
Next letter from someone named GGFD.
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Letter says, Justin Trudeau suggests that freezing innocent people's accounts is the best way forward.
Just ask Klaus, his boss.
You know, it's very interesting because down there in Brazil, there's this authoritarian president named Lula.
He's got a longer name, but they all call him Lula.
He was president once before, then he was jailed.
He's president again.
But the real activist extremist, everyone seems to tell us, is this judge, this hunter-killer judge named Alexandra de Moraes.
And he has these secret trials where he would mete out punishments to the political enemies of Lula.
And since Twitter wasn't going along with his rulings, this judge just banned Twitter.
And you might say, well, who cares?
Twitter's a waste of time and it's just like it's just candy.
It's just a social media.
That's BS.
Well, that's where the opposition would organize.
And they went to Twitter because unlike, for example, WhatsApp or Instagram or Facebook, which are controlled by Mark Zuckerberg, who's happy to censor, Elon Musk refused to censor.
So it was very interesting how many people there were talking about Elon Musk.
So yeah, Klaus Schwab maybe, but really the battles between the Alexander de Moraeus, this out-of-control judge, judge activist, and the freedom of the people.
It was very interesting.
I had never used a VPN before.
I don't know if you saw my note on that.
A VPN censor virtual private network.
It's a way for your phone to sort of trick the system to think you're actually logging in from a different country.
Like if you turn on your phone and your internet, the whole world that's following your phone knows you're in Canada.
But you can use a VPN to make it look to route the internet traffic through any country.
You can literally choose any country in the world.
So when I went down there, I set my phone to look like I was in Argentina.
So I could get on Twitter that way.
Now, a lot of Brazilians started to do that.
And so they made a $9,000 fine if you used a VPN.
But can I give you a shout out?
You know, I never do this.
I never do a brand advertisement on my show, but I want to tell you about this VPN because I actually had to use it.
And it worked.
First of all, it's called PIA VPN.
That's what it's called, PIAVPN.com.
And I downloaded it with two clicks of a button.
And then, like I say, I just pushed the button for Argentina and it was on.
I didn't have to do anything.
I didn't have to mess with any settings.
I'm not that great technology-wise.
And I figured this out on my own really quick.
We have a deal with PIAVPN.com.
And this is the ad part I was warning you about.
If you go to PIAVPN.com slash Rebel News, not only do you get a big discount, but we actually get a commission if you sign up for the PIA VPN.
And I don't think I would be doing this little pitch if I hadn't used the system myself.
And it worked.
It got around that judge.
I was using Twitter in Brazil despite this tyrannical judge saying it's banned because I was using the PIA VPN.
So this is a real testimonial.
It worked.
And God forbid they try and do that to us in Canada.
We'll use the VPNs also.
They sort of are doing that to us right now.
Try and get Canadian news on Facebook and Instagram.
You'll see it's blocked.
So that's what you use the VPN for.
Anyways, I'm talking too much about VPNs, but I really had never used one before in my life.
And you had to use it in Brazil.
And I felt slightly naughty.
You know, I felt sort of safe where I was, but I could theoretically see a situation where I would be charged or even, God forbid, arrested for using a VPN.
That's the show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.