Ezra Levant reports Tommy Robinson’s acquittal on Terrorism Act charges after a judge ruled his arrest unlawful, citing police targeting him for protected political views like discussions on mass immigration and "rape gangs" linked to Pakistani Muslim men. Meanwhile, at Universal Ostrich Farms in British Columbia, the CFIA seized nearly 400 ostriches—including Spirit’s death—based on an anonymous tip about avian flu, despite no live testing or symptoms for 260 days, while blocking cameras and ignoring scientific warnings. The CFIA rejected U.S. research offers, prioritizing culling over potential mRNA vaccine studies, sparking legal battles and a protester-supported "makeshift community." Levant’s coverage contrasts with mainstream media’s focus on unrelated details, exposing systemic bias against dissenters while governments act on policy over evidence. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, a victory for Tommy Robinson for the United Kingdom and for freedom of speech.
It's November 4th, and this is the Angel Levant show.
As LeBan here coming to you from the center of London, I'm outside Westminster Magistrates Court, where Tommy Robinson today was acquitted on charges under the Terrorism Act.
You might recall I spent two days at this in court last month when Tommy was on trial for breaching that law.
It was actually a very strange stitch-up, as they say in the UK.
Tommy Robinson was driving to a train that is part of the Channel Tunnel.
I don't know if you know that, but for several decades now, there is an underground path to a tunnel from the UK to the continent of Europe.
And you can take a train and you can actually drive your car onto a train and go across to Europe and drive onwards.
Tommy Robinson was on his way to his home in Spain, where he has to live for security reasons, and he was identified by a cop who was actually a counter-terrorism cop.
Tommy was driving to Spain and he was actually driving in a friend's car and he had bought his ticket to go on the Channel Tunnel that day.
And these three facts I've just listed, going to Spain, driving a friend's car, and buying his ticket on that day, those were the reasons that this cop said he pulled Tommy over to interrogate him.
And to interrogate him under the Terrorism Act.
Hang on, going to Spain, driving a friend's car, and buying your ticket for the day of, those are not indicia that someone is a terrorist.
That makes no sense.
They had Tommy wait for minutes and then for hours.
And then they grilled him about things, but actually not about terrorism.
They asked him about his politics.
They asked him about things that you could find just by Googling Tommy Robinson.
Again, that's fine if you're out for drinks with Tommy Robinson, but if you're the police and you arrest him with no search warrant and no reasonable suspicion, you've got to do better.
And the thing is, the Terrorism Act contains some extremely powerful tools for law enforcement.
And you can imagine in some extreme cases that civil liberties might be abridged.
For example, and I keep saying this, the ticking time bomb scenario where something is imminently about to happen and you've got to find out where the bomb is located or what the conspiracy is.
The Terrorism Act contains a provision where police can compel you to answer questions.
You don't actually have the right to be silent and they can compel you to give over your electronic devices, including your password, on your cell phone.
Now, there are some protections in place for this.
Anything you say under this duress can't be used against you.
So if you confess to terrible things while you're in this situation, you can't be prosecuted for it.
The purpose is just to help in a counter-terrorism investigation.
But again, none of this applies to Tommy.
He was driving home to Spain in a friend's car, and there was nothing fishy about what he was doing, but he refused to give police the password to his cell phone and thus the trial.
And just think about that.
You're just driving across the channel.
You're looking forward to a nice drive.
And suddenly the police are demanding you for your password.
And if you don't give it, you were charged under the Terrorism Act.
That sounds so awful, doesn't it?
It sounds like you were doing something atrocious when all you were doing is saying, no, you can't rifle through my phone.
In Tommy's case, his main reason was that he had sensitive material on his phone, interviews with rape victims of the UK's grooming gangs, and he didn't want those to be shown to police or to others without the permission of the victims.
Anyways, Tommy refused, and thus the two-day trial here last month.
I attended the trial, and I think what was the most salient to me was that the police didn't have a record of what they said or did.
Their notes were vague and written weeks or even months after the event.
In some cases, they said they lost their notes.
They couldn't remember what questions they asked, and they didn't know what powers they had to ask it.
It was actually the most embarrassing police testimony I've ever seen.
One of the young officers was so nervous, he pounded back an entire carafe of water during his testimony.
I tell you, as I said at the time, I'd love to play poker against a guy like that.
He just cannot hide what he's bibbing.
There were, I think, three police officers altogether.
And what we learned from them is that they pulled over Tommy Robinson because they realized they had a kind of celebrity on their hands.
And instead of doing what other people do when they see Tommy, asking for his selfie, well, these were cops who thought, well, we got ourselves a fish here.
Let's try and make something out of this.
So they called, one of the things they did in the trial is they said they called other police agencies around the UK, I presume counter-terrorism squad, 10x5.
But no one cared that they had Tommy Robinson.
Tommy Robinson is not wanted for any crime.
No one has ever accused Tommy Robinson of terrorism.
So you had these Keystone cops, or I guess hot fuzz, as they would say in the UK.
That's their movie The Made Pun of Police.
They had Tommy Robinson in their hands, but they didn't know what to do with them.
And they questioned him under duress, but they actually didn't ask him anything about terrorism at all.
They just asked him for his views on politics and journalism, which is interesting enough, but you don't have the right to stop someone to talk to them about their politics.
It's not terrorism.
And in fact, it's a protected characteristic under UK law.
And that was the heart of the defense that Tommy's lawyer mounted in the trial last month.
Instead of trying to fight on the phone password issue, Tommy's lawyers decided to fight on was the arrest lawful at all to begin with.
And by pointing out that there was no reasonable suspicion, no reason to detain Tommy, the questions had nothing to do with terrorism, they, instead of defending the refusal to give the cell phone, they challenged the legality of the arrest altogether.
And today, the judge gave his ruling and relied heavily on that line of argument by Tommy's lawyers.
You know what I mean?
To use that massive power.
Remember, I told you that police can ask you any question.
You don't have the right to remain silent.
They can get into your devices.
Like, that's shocking access that in the rest of the time, you would never have that right to do that without a search warrant.
I mean, the idea of police coming up to you and saying, give me your password is so alien to us.
But it is only there for those crises, those emergencies of terrorism is afoot.
For example, let's say, God forbid, if there was another 9-11 and you captured a mastermind before one of the jets, like which jet was at which airport, you would want to be able to compel those answers if you could.
But to use that sledgehammer, that civil liberties destroying sledgehammer, without there being a legitimate terrorism case, that is horrific.
Not only does it abuse civil liberties, but it destroys trust in the anti-terrorism tool.
If that anti-terrorism tool is appropriate, and the UK Parliament believes it is, it should be rarely used.
And when it's used, it should be used on purpose and for good reason.
Not because you've got a celebrity crossing into the channel panel and you want to keep a lead, sort of show him off for a bit.
And the fact that they pulled him over without a reason, and the fact that their questions touched on his political views rather than anything terroristy, meant that the arrest and detention itself was unlawful.
And anything that came from that was fruit from a poisoned tree.
The judge specifically said that when the police referred to Tommy's past 10 years ago with a pro-Greenwich group called the EDL, the English Defence League, the fact that the police referenced that, which the EDL, by the way, it's not a terrorist group.
It's not an extremist group.
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The police say as much.
For these cops to say that Tommy's membership in the EDL 10 years ago was their reason for detaining him and questioning him, the judge said that through that their primary reason for arresting, detaining, and questioning Tommy had nothing to do with terrorism, but everything to do with his protected political views.
Very interesting to me that a political view is a protected characteristic here in the UK.
Honestly, I don't know if it has the same strength in Canada, but it was very bracing to hear the judge say that.
The judge rehearsed the facts, recounted the facts of the case, and when he came to the testimony of the police, he was scorching.
He said that the police were simply not credible.
He did not believe what they had to say, and their answers were insufficient and vague.
He actually tore a strip off of it.
It was quite something to see.
We've got the date, we know the date, we want it, but we want to make sure for an event like that, it's going to be big, it's going to be a worldwide event.
We want Hyde Park, yeah, but we need to work with the police property on it, which is what we're trying to say.
It's so important.
It's important.
What's that?
Nah, because what we'll do is they'll start jumping in and trying to block out all the data, you know.
Tommy, how do you feel media have to write that you are not a terrorist today?
They probably won't.
You read that judgment, yeah?
He hammered them.
He hammered them.
Yeah?
They won't report that.
Aiden, what we need to do is now go on.
The thing that frustrates me so much is that they all sat in that trial and they run headlines about expensive car cash.
No, the headline is the police have targeted me unlawfully and arrested me without grounds.
Sorry, I should be happy.
I am happy.
I'm going home to my kids.
I'm very happy.
I'm happy for everyone's support.
Everyone from around the world who's gave me support.
And again, just Elon Musk.
Big upon the music.
And again, Elon Musk.
And also, Carson Kaye and Alistair Williamson, the KC, he absolutely, like, you know when you watch someone who's so good at air trade, skilfully picks out the pieces, I'm watching it thinking, wow.
But this should have never happened.
I shouldn't have been here.
Why have I been here?
Time and time again.
I've got another trial lined up now.
My solicitors just said to me before, we need to see you about your next trial.
And isn't there any possibility of getting compensation for all of the money spent and all of the stress you've gone through?
When I walked out of court last time, important thing.
When I walked out of court last time, when I walked out...
No, you're the back to that one.
when I walked out of court last time...
We love you, Tommy.
When I walked out of court last time and I was looking.
When I walked out of court last time...
We'll have a look.
So Tommy, all I can say is thank you very much.
Yes, sir.
It is great that you're back.
Tommy, pull out this way, Tom.
Come back to the face.
I've got your pepper case.
Thanks for that.
Congratulations, my friend.
No, thank you.
What do you think about the fact that they kept out the citizen journalists, that they refused to let citizen journalists report on your case?
Ezra, they fought.
They dragged, they didn't keep you out.
They physically dragged you out.
But all the others.
The young Bobs and everybody.
Like, there's 20 citizen journalists who were kept out.
Well, Ezra, if you followed, you know, when you listened to that judgment, did that judgment match any of the mainstream media's reporting from this case?
No, it was stunning.
So the mainstream media, he hammered them, yeah?
But when you relay his judgment from what he witnessed, and then you read the BBC and you read all the Daily Mirror, and you read their headlines from this trial, none of them wrote any of that.
You did.
None of them wrote any of that.
So they would have hoped that he'd have found me guilty, and then they wouldn't have had to write any of that.
And then by excluding all of the citizen journalists, by excluding them, they control the narrative.
But they didn't, thanks to that judge.
He gave a damn in verdict.
I'm happy.
Congratulations.
Yeah, I'm happy.
I didn't expect that, did you?
I just don't expect it.
I was too worried.
Even though Maslica says it, I just didn't expect it.
I just think now.
He's an honest judge.
It builds your hope in the system a little bit.
he hammered them he didn't just like he could have sat on the fence on a couple of issues He hammered them.
He hammered them, man.
And I'm pretty shocked by it, to be honest.
And not just shocked.
I'm angry.
I'm angry at the mainstream media's reporting in this case.
When I was on trial, when you was here, they didn't report about you getting dragged out.
They made it about driving an expensive car.
So what?
What's that got to do with terrorism?
It's my mate's car.
There's no big story there.
This judge said you were targeted for your political beliefs, and that's illegal.
Do you think this will make it less likely that police will target you for your political beliefs?
Or do you think the cops will ignore this ruling?
How many people do you think will lose their job over this today?
Nothing.
No one.
Who's going to be held to account for this?
No one.
This happened 12 months ago, Ezra.
18 months ago, we walked out of this court where we found that the same police, they used unlawful bail conditions, unlawful arrests.
They found all that then.
Thanks, Tommy.
Great to see you.
Are you going to first thing?
Good luck, man.
So the name Sphina.
Now, I don't think any of these cops will be fired for this whole schemazle.
And I think if it was a corporation, if it was a company, and three executives went rogue this way, violated someone's civil liberties, indulged their own politics.
If a corporation did to a customer what these cops did to Tommy, headswood goal.
There would probably be a hash settlement.
But I'm pretty sure these police, if anything, will be given a raise on the pat on the head because they continue the government's vendetta against Tommy Robinson.
But for the judge to just excoriate the police this way with racing, and I wonder if it'll be heeded if it'll be taken to heart by police across the UK, who many of whom seem to have a vendetta against Tommy Robinson, a vendetta led by no one less than the Prime Minister, Kier Starmer himself.
Tommy Robinson is a politician, he's an activist, he's a journalist, he's an organizer, he's many things.
But he is not a terrorist, and the court said that clearly today.
Tommy's had an amazing month when you think about it.
It started on September 13th with one of the largest rallies in UK history.
The low ball estimate by police is 150,000 people, but some credible estimates put it over a million.
Then he was a guest of the state of Israel at a state visit that just ended a few days ago where he met very senior government members.
And then this victory today, Tommy Robinson is a political force to be reckoned with.
But he should be reckoned with in political ways.
Kirst Starmer and the Metropolitan Police and all these other police forces should abandon their schemes of trying to get Tommy Robinson and just deal with him either by ignoring him or debating him or frankly adopting some of his ideas and you know co-opting him.
That's not a deal with a political rocker.
Ironically, Tommy today was saying he has to get ready for his next court case.
I don't know if you remember, but Tommy and his family were hit by paparazzi on their vacation.
The paparazzi flew to the resort, took pictures, and put the family in danger actually.
Tommy returned fire in the same way.
He took pictures of the paparazzi.
He had a paparazzi shoot pictures of the paparazzi, and they went to the government complaining, saying Tommy was criminally harassing them.
The paparazzi who stalked Tommy on his family vacation complained to the police about Tommy photographing them.
And so Tommy is being prosecuted, if you can believe it, for criminal harassment.
It just doesn't end.
This vendetta doesn't end.
The countless millions of pounds spent by the British government chasing Tommy Robinson is absurd.
Another absurdity, I mean, we were just talking about the Terrorism Act all day in court today.
If you've been following the news in the UK, over the last week, there have been a number of stabbings in the street on a train.
It was a mass stabbing on a train.
I think 10 people were injured.
And in every case, police say, oh, no, no, no, it's not terrorism.
It's mental illness.
Yeah, that's a ticket, mental illness.
Or they come up with some statement like that.
So let me get this straight.
Tommy Robinson won't give you his secret password through his phone.
That's terrorism.
But migrant men stabbing people on the train, that's not terrorism.
I mean, the UK has to get its priorities straight.
The amount of policing and prosecuting and harassing and haranguing that this government targets on Tommy Robinson compared to actual crimes, the priorities of this country are out of land.
But I think that's why they go after Tommy Robinson.
They want him to stop talking about what he talks about.
Tommy talks about mass immigration and he talks about rape gangs, which in the UK are primarily done by Pakistani Muslim men.
That's just a fact, even if it's an unhappy fact.
You could try and silence the guy who's talking about the problem, or you could fix the problem itself.
So far, the UK has chosen to go after the guy talking about the problem.
But at least for today, the guy talking about the problem won, and the government was chastised.
And a special thanks to Elon Musk, who has supported Tommy Robinson in this trial and another, paying for his legal bill.
In the past, as you know, Rebel News would crowdfund legal defense for Tommy.
But Elon Musk has picked up the tab in amazing, I mean, great freedom of speech around the world.
Anyway, that's my report from the Streets of London outside Westminster Magistrates Court.
Unfortunately, my travels to the UK to cover Tommy's court cases are not done.
I mentioned the harassment case of the paparazzi.
I'll come out to do that.
And one of the reasons is because I love live tweeting in court, if you know what I mean.
And I don't know if you saw that, but my tweets today got millions of views.
I just like sitting in the court and typing as fast as I can, trying to capture the moment by moment what's happening in the court, what people are saying.
And it's a good alternative to having to wait to the end of the day to read the long essays in the regime media.
But more importantly, I'm not taking the point of view that the regime even takes.
Every single one of them, with maybe one exception, hate Tommy Robinson, attack Tommy Robinson, and distort the news.
So I feel like I'm not just in there to report the news, but to offset the BS coming from the regime media.
And in fact, that was a bit of a story.
If you recall, a BBC journalist complained to the court that I was unlawfully tweeting, and the judge, during the trial, made me stand up and answer, what are my credentials?
Am I a real journalist?
And I had to furnish to him proof that I'm a credentialed journalist in Canada.
Still, I wasn't allowed to sit with the cool kids in the court itself.
I had to be in the public gallery, but I didn't mind that too much other than it was a bit hard to hear.
But although I have access to the public gallery and I'm allowed to open up my laptop and tweet, other citizen journalists are not because they don't have the same credentials I have, but I think that's a major problem.
I think the world has moved online.
I really don't know anyone under 40 years old who gets a newspaper.
Everything is digital now.
Everything is Twitter-based or X as it's now called or Facebook or Instagram or TikTok.
The idea that citizen journalists who primarily use digital forums are kept out of the court while the legacy newspapers and TV and radio have a prestige position is untenable to me.
And I think that it has within it an inherent bias.
Tommy Robinson's populist conservative supporters are citizen journalists.
The regime journalists, the haters, they get access.
Tommy's people don't.
It distorts the news on the courts.
It gives people a false idea of what's being said and done.
As I said to someone today, if your sole source of information about Tommy's trial was watching the BBC or reading the Daily Mail, you would be shocked that he won today.
You wouldn't have seen that coming because all you would have heard before was how nasty Tommy is and they would have covered up the clear credibility gaps of the police witnesses.
So I think that the justice system is doing itself no favors by shutting out grassroots citizen journalists and not even being allowed to open up their laptops is quite incredible.
So I'm lucky that I have that privilege based on my credentials in Canada and I'll keep using that as long as I can.
But I'll also advocate for others to have media credentials.
Look, that's the way of the future.
Transparency and I don't believe that there should be a monopoly allowed for regime journalists just because they write for a fancy newspaper.
And yeah, that's my report from the Westminster Magistrates Court.
What a great day for freedom, a great day for the UK, and a great day for our friend Tommy Robinson.
Ezra Levant here in London.
It's almost 10 p.m.
I've had a few hours to think about what happened today at Westminster Magistrates Court.
Obviously, the headline is that Tommy Robinson has been acquitted of the ludicrous charge under the Terrorism Act.
That's obviously the big takeaway.
I think a very important second story is how the judge absolutely excoriated the police, saying they were not credible, that they were deceptive in their vagueness, they lost their notes, etc.
He was really harsh on their conduct.
But I think the most important thing by far was that the judge said several times and in several different ways that Tommy Robinson was targeted because of his political beliefs.
Not because of any wrongdoing, not because of any crime, certainly not because of any terrorism.
That he was interrogated, stomped, detained, humiliated, and put through this entire prosecution because he has a different political point of view than the government.
That is a stunning thing to hear from a judge.
That's certainly not what I expected to hear in a trial on Tommy Robinson not giving up his cell phone password.
And I think it vindicates and validates everything that Tommy's allies and supporters have been saying for years, that he is being turned into an enemy of the state and the resources of the police and the prosecutors and the regime media have been dispatched to destroy him.
Not because he's done anything wrong, but because he dissents from the mainstream point of view.
Actually, I think he represents the mainstream and it's the establishment that has fringe radical ideas about mass immigration and censorship.
So the more I think about the outcome today, yes, of course, Tommy being acquitted is very important.
He could have theoretically gone to prison.
But I think the lingering legacy of today's ruling will be the first time that a judge has ever said, stop persecuting Tommy Robinson.
Stop turning him into a political prisoner.
Those phrases have only been said by Tommy's allies until now.
And now a judge at the Westminster Magistrates Court, well, he's practically sounding like a Tommy Robinson supporter, isn't he?
In fact, he's not a Tommy Robinson supporter.
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He's just a supporter of the law.
And I think he's a little bit sick of the government abusing its resources in two-tier justice.
For Rebel News, I'm Ezra Levant.
And to follow all my coverage on this subject, go to TommyTrial.com.
I can't believe how much is involved in this story.
You've got the farming rights on the line, which is connected to food rights being on the line, even though they're not for food.
You've got your property.
I mean, they've come in here.
They arrested two of the farmers because they said, well, can't we just feed them?
Can't we just love them?
Can't we just care for them until you guys set up?
It's completely insane.
They have no rights, but the bureaucrats think they're above the law to the point that they won't even let the farmers have the recourse of going through Supreme Court.
Sydney Vizari for Rebel News en route to the Universal Ostrich Farms in British Columbia.
I'm driving from Calgary, so it's been a bit of a drive.
As you can see, I'm taking the ferry just to get there.
There's two ferries atop what was supposed to be a seven-hour drive, but this is a story that matters.
This is foundational to the way that Canada is set up in our government, in the bureaucracy, in the global order that we try to ascribe ourselves to, at least in terms of the government's desires.
This farm in BC raises ostriches, which are studied for purposes of advancing science, specifically natural immunity.
These birds are not raised to be slaughtered like poultry.
Instead, their value comes from long-term studying of said birds alive.
In comes the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in December of 2024 on an anonymous tip that some of the ostriches were sick.
They used overly sensitive tests on two deceased birds and obtained a positive test for avian flu.
As a consequence of this positive test result, without testing any remaining ostriches, the CFIA decided all of them must be killed.
To combat disease outbreak, the CFIA has many powers at their disposal, from quarantining to isolation and disinfecting to testing and monitoring to mass culling and so on.
They have decided the only option they want to pursue is the mass cull option, despite international and national pushback.
They referenced the stomping out policy by the World Organization for Animal Health, to which Canada is a treaty member, which was designed to stop highly contagious disease spread in livestock.
They have the ability to provide exemptions to the mass culling policy, such as for the ostrich farm, but decided they would rather kill them all.
Despite the CFIA's intentions, Universal Ostrich Farms brought the matter to the courts.
The fully vaccinated Supreme Court of Canada is set to decide whether they'll hear an appeal from the farm on November 6th.
If they refuse, the CFIA may proceed with the call.
If they approve, then the matter will be brought before them in the courts.
And the birds will remain legally protected from the CFIA's hands of death for the time being.
The Minister of Health, Majorie Michel, could intervene, but has remained silent on the subject.
While the matter is before the courts, the CFIA has seized lands and properties of locals, has had almost half a dozen people arrested, and already killed one of the birds.
They're a bloodthirsty gang of bureaucrats on a literal killing spree while being granted seemingly unlimited power from the federal government.
As you can see behind me, there is the designated kill zone for these ostriches, the ones that the CFIA, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, is trying to murder.
The question remains, why did they set up a double perimeter with a police enforcement around it with fog lights that get set up at night to prevent people from coming onto the property on the opposite side of the property where everyone is attending those supporting the ostrich farm?
Why are they continuing to attempt this in the first place?
Why is it that there's got to be a cull on these birds?
There doesn't have to be a cull on these birds.
That's the problem.
The birds that are here have never even been tested for the avian flu.
There's nearly 400 of them.
They're over 260 days healthy and asymptomatic since a sickness passed through the herd late last year.
The CFIA, they were the first ones on the property with their full, you know, pandemic attire, as it were.
Day one, they didn't even wear it.
I think they watched themselves on the news and went, oh, shoot, we forgot to act like these birds are sick.
When that sickness passed, there were some that passed away.
They were the younger birds that had weaker immune systems.
And the farmers believe that that also, and scientists, by the way, support their belief that these birds that are older likely had the avian flu already as well.
And also, these are prehistoric creatures.
And their eggs are full of antibodies, which is exactly what this farm was actually doing since 2020, using their eggs and the antibodies to further viral research for therapeutics to fight COVID-19.
And so now they're saying, why not save them so that they can actually find a solution for actually fighting the avian flu without mass culling, which happens in British Columbia more than any other province in the country.
So let's back up to that point there.
There is an avian flu that came through here last year.
Some of these birds got sick.
Much like any flock of birds on the planet, sometimes they get sick, sometimes a couple of them don't make it.
That is mother nature for you.
Why is it specifically that they need to be called in the government's eyes?
They have a stamping out policy, and this is really what the farmers here at Universal Ostrich Farm are pushing against.
And that stamping out policy, it guides them to just mass kill.
Now, you have to understand that ostriches are not chicken.
These are not poultry.
And viruses do not pass through a herd like this the same way that they do with chickens.
69 of them died, the younger ones, which is less than 15% of the herd, which is also supposed to put these birds in a different category.
I forget the exact terms.
What I'm getting at here is, although the CFIA continues to say our reasoning for why these birds should still die, regardless of if they're healthy or not today, and why they refuse to retest, is because they just go to the policy.
It's policy over sanity.
But they are also superseding the policy a little bit in the fact that it was less than 15% and in the range of there being no other farm animals within a certain range here.
So they point to the WHO, but then they're also going further and they're bureaucrats.
They're not farmers.
They're not veterinarians making these decisions and they're not scientists making these decisions either.
Here where I'm standing is the main action point for the demonstrations.
There are the ostriches.
To my left is where the RCMP have stationed themselves behind a police line.
They are there setting up and holding this perimeter for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
There was a temporary pause so the birds are going to be safe for a little while, but the CFIA got control of the farm.
They're locking out veterinarians from taking care of those birds and ostrich experts.
They're refusing any help that these birds might get.
And what have they done instead?
They decided to feed them some, I'm going to call it suspicious food.
And they have not only this, you know, dinky little police line, they've also set up a big blue fence, as you can see here.
And that was put in after they decided that they were going to try and get a bunch of hay bales to hide the bird so that they could do a kill pen.
Yeah, literally.
Now, that burned down spontaneously.
I can't say I'm upset, but it's unfortunate.
It's still there, though.
Let me talk about that for a second because this is also insane.
I mean, I don't know why the CFIA is so hell-bent on what they're doing, but they are making so many missteps.
And this farm's not going to let it go whether their birds live or die.
And with the hay bales you're talking about, yes, there was a suspicious fire.
We were here four in the morning, you know, showing you that.
There were two more fires after that, and it wasn't suspicious.
It was most likely just the hay was combusting because the CFIA wasn't dismantling it.
They kept it up and they put this whole area, the animals, the farmers, and this whole region at risk for wildfires, which aren't always wild, as I'm saying.
So that is another form of negligence, in my opinion.
In totality, them taking control of the farm, taking control of the ostriches is almost their way of creating the reality that they were trying to get in the first place.
It's like under their control, we see already one ostrich has died.
People are mentioning how these birds look like they've been drugged.
They don't look as healthy or active, all following the CFIA's takeover.
So being here on the ground for an extended period of time, is that a legitimate thing?
Do these birds, are they acting different?
Absolutely.
The farmers are concerned that something's in the food and they are not being crazy.
I see it.
Everybody who's seen these birds before see that they are way less active.
I've seen them play with balls before.
I saw them mating nonstop.
We showed you guys that as well.
They look depressed.
They look sad.
They look slow.
I think it's a combo of things.
Is it something in the food?
I don't know.
Is it just neglect?
Like they're not seeing their farmers.
They're so confused at what's going on.
The smoke could have played an issue.
They were under smoke for a few days and they're separated from each other more.
So they actually really like people and they've come to really love people as all the spectators would come.
So it used to be if anybody stood there, you would see like 60, 80.
Now you're lucky if you see two and they're all separated from each other.
It's really inhumane.
It's disgusting.
And among all of the many questions is where are the animal humane societies on this issue?
We've also covered them pleading with them.
Can you care for the hen?
Can you tell us if it's okay?
Can you let us go in?
We know how to care for her.
Can you give them these electrolytes?
She's probably dehydrated.
Leaked footage, snuck over there after the CFIA tried to snuff out your eyes.
They literally, after the farm got their stay relief from the Supreme Court pausing the call, they blocked their cameras so that the world can't see and the farmers couldn't see.
And somebody got a shot of that neglected hen dying on her own.
It's really disgusting.
Her name is Spirit.
And so Dave got the news, as we all did, as we published today, that Spirit died.
only after, only after it was exposed that she was being neglected in the CFIA's care.
So you're right, he said she's a pet when she broke down.
And he said she's more than a pet because of the antibodies as well.
To emphasize the point of there being no reason, RFK actually put out offers to Canada inviting the states to take these ostriches away from Canada, but the Canadian government said no, we'd rather kill them.
This is another layer of the hypocrisy and the why.
So Secretary of Health, RFK Jr., like you're talking about, head of Medicare, Dr. Oz, the FDA and the NIH have all gone to bat for these birds, saying, hey, there is a research opportunity.
These vaccines we're relying on, like Moderna, which is trying to do the mRNA vaccine, they're leaky.
We don't like this mass calling thing because they've had to kill a lot of animals too.
We want to find a better way and they want to go into therapeutics, which is exactly what this flock is lined up for.
So in this whole elbows up Mark Carney Canada, it's all awas.
Everybody can see that when you have the Americans say, hey, let's do this trade deal.
We'll pay for the science.
We'll test the birds at our own expense.
And you guys just get to simply win.
That could have been huge or can be if there is some shift for British Columbia and Canada.
It could literally ease trade tensions between our biggest trade partners.
And if you could throw him a bone and say, sure, Secretary Kennedy, you can study these birds.
It's certainly no skin off Canada's nose.
And don't you think it would be helpful to have an ally in Trump's cabinet when we're doing our trade negotiations?
That's my question.
Don't you think it would be helpful to have a friend?
Next reporter, Merci.
Oh, you're not going to answer, Minister?
Reminds me of, unfortunately, the state of Canada, which is a bird gets sick, we got to kill the whole flock.
You don't feel that well?
Maybe you should try assisted suicide.
So that's what the CFIA said.
They said that these birds got to get killed.
The farmers here are obviously putting up a good fight.
Why haven't they been called yet?
So you said it right there.
I've interviewed these farmers and something they've said a couple of times and they've hit it on the nail is that the CFIA has messed with the wrong farm here.
They have not given up the fight because you remember when the CFIA comes to these farms, over hundreds of them in British Columbia alone, culling 9 million birds since 2022, they also dangle a price for each bird.
And so that plays into why you don't always hear about this.
There's even non-disclosures involved.
So they've come to the wrong farm here that says, no, these are not just animals that we're selling for meat.
These are actually our pets.
We've raised some of these for 30 years, sorry.
And they have a promise for the future that they believe is going to change the world.
So they're like, no, we are not giving up this flock.
And this policy needs to be taken down.
So they have challenged the policy in the federal court, in the federal court of appeals.
And what is crazy here is, as you see, they're at a standoff on their property with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency who's hijacked their flock and part of their land.
And all of that happened on the tax dollars when the CFIA knew the farmers were going to try to take this fight to Supreme Court.
So they risked this whole standstill that we're paying for shouldn't even be happening because the stay that they knew was possible happened when they came to the grounds.
It's really shocking.
Omar Sheikh, is he on this case still?
I know he does a lot of great work.
He doesn't stop.
He got that miraculous stay order, which was literally in the nick of time, it seemed.
Like they could have called these birds maybe that day, the next day.
And so he got that stay order.
And then, of course, there's all these submissions.
And the next, what's being weighed right now is whether or not the farm will be granted leave, which will pause the call longer.
I assume it means they will leave because it would be ridiculous for us to pay for them to still be here.
And that will allow them to prepare for, you know, we would like a hearing in Supreme Court.
First of all, there's not really anything like this before, but normally when you're waiting to see if you can get a leave for something, it could take one to three months.
It could take a long time.
But obviously, everything is expedited right now because of the resources, because that the police are here instead of cracking down on drug crimes and all of our crime going up.
They're acting like the farmers and the supporters are criminals.
And of course, the CFIA is here.
As you can see behind me, this is where supporters are camping out.
Some of them for days, some of them for hours, some of them for weeks and months.
There are people here who are 100% dedicated to standing by with the farmers here at the ostrich farm to support them for anything that comes up.
It's a bunch of people that have set up in their cars.
A lot of them, most of them sleeping here.
There's a food setup.
People are being fed.
It's turned into a little town.
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How did this happen?
What is this?
How did these people get here?
What are they doing here?
Yeah, so we're at 301 Landjale Road and the farmers since the beginning of their fight with the CFIA have been saying, come here.
Come see the ostriches.
That was their big thing.
They wanted people to look the ostriches in the eye, which is slightly harder to do now that the CFIA is here.
And they wanted people to see for themselves that these birds are not sick.
So you've had people come here for the whole nine months.
You've had people stay for a week, a month at a time, and you've had many people come here for a couple days and go.
And some people come for just a day.
So I don't know the number of people that have come here.
I also know that there is a huge reach online.
There are people internationally in Holland, in China, and of course in the United States that are going, wait, Canada has ostriches and they're killing them for no reason.
And they're very invested in this story too.
Thank you to you, just as an outside observer for your reporting here on the ground consistently more thoroughly than any other journalists from any of the mainstream outlets.
And if we want to stay tuned or help out, where do we go?
Well, save theostriches.com is where you can go to donate for our coverage.
Sid saw my little ostrich mobile that's here, which, you know, keeps me on the ground, but is also just the same as a cheap motel.
Rebel News has been committed to be here on the ground.
You've come to help.
Thank you so much.
I know Sheila's coming.
Ezra was here.
You know, at some point, I'm so invested in the story that I don't want to go home.
But if I have to, somebody else will be here to make sure that we're here for you.
One thing we are doing is sorting through facts and fiction.
I love that everybody is here with a phone, but you'll notice that sometimes they beat me because I have to go verify what people think is accurate.
And a lot of times what's going out immediately isn't.
So that's something Rebel News is for sure bringing you is to make sure that you're knowing what exactly is happening at the right time.
And then we are breaking some news right away too.
So save theostriches.com.
And also I always link, you know, the GoFundMe to help the farm itself too with their legal expenses.
Let me know in the comments, what do you think needs to be done to save these ostriches?
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