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[Victoria Watcher]

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[Victoria Watcher]

Dear Friend,

I was arrested today. Toronto Police handcuffed me, searched me, put me in a police car and took me to a jail cell.

None of that has ever happened to me before. I’ve never committed a crime in my life. And I didn’t today, either.

I was arrested because Toronto Police said I was “causing a disturbance”. But I wasn’t. I was quietly doing journalism — filming a grotesque pro-Hamas demonstration in a Jewish neighbourhood in Toronto.

It really was sick: they had someone reenacting Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of Hamas. They had a whole display on a sidewalk.

I live nearby and I wanted to film this astonishing act. It was as brazen as the KKK burning a cross on the lawn of a Black church. Except in this case, the police were defending the Klansmen. Bizarre.

One cop kept pushing me away, which I told him was inappropriate and illegal. But then the boss of the whole police operation — named Officer Macduff — told me that my mere presence there was a “disturbance”, because the Hamas people didn’t like me.

In other words, he was giving them a veto over my Charter rights. In my earlier analogy, it would be like police telling the folks inside the Black church not to antagonize the KKK outside, because they could get violent.

Since when do foreign provocateurs, promoting a banned terrorist organization, get to veto who can and can’t walk on a sidewalk? Or which journalists can film a news story?

Outrageous.

I was finally released from jail. And the police wisely declined to press charges.

But I’m not done with them.

Officer Macduff was as plain as day. He said my Charter rights to walk on the sidewalk and film a public spectacle only go as far as these Hamas thugs say they go. Well, that’s not how it is. And I think he needs a judge to tell him that.

I’ve spoken twice to a top lawyer today, who agrees we’ve simply got to stop this. Canada is being ruined by these pro-Hamas thugs — you probably saw their full-out riot in Montreal over the weekend.

Someone’s got to stand up to them — and stand up to woke policing that permits this kind of mayhem on our streets.

So I’ve decided to sue the Toronto Police for violating my Charter rights, for being errand-boys of the Hamas thugs, and for not enforcing the actual laws to protect Canadian citizens. I’ll have more details in the days ahead — I’m still getting my bearings after being arrested and jailed.

In Trudeau’s Canada, journalists are routinely arrested and jailed.

Actually, scratch that. Only Rebel News journalists are routinely arrested and jailed. Which tells you everything you need to know: these are political decisions. They’re the result of two-tier policing. And that’s got to stop.

If you want to help me continue our journalism and push back at these illegal arrests, please click here. Suing the police is no easy thing — they have unlimited funds. But I think they need a judge to tell them what they’re doing is wrong, because Trudeau certainly won’t tell them, will he?

Yours truly,

Ezra Levant
Rebel News 

P.S. We’re already suing the police for arresting our reporter David Menzies FIVE TIMES this year. But today’s arrest of me was particularly egregious, in that the commanding officer was crystal clear: the only reason he was arresting me is because the Hamas thugs were upset by my mere presence. Could you imagine allowing that to stand? Please click here to help me fight back. (Thanks.)

[Victoria Watcher]

WATCH the arrest here on X:

 

https://x.com/Timcas...813259307139332

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toronto police arrested Rebel News founder and journalist Ezra Levant while he attempted to record a pro-Hamas protest taking place in a Jewish neighbourhood in Toronto.

 

Levant was covering a now weekly anti-Israel counter-protest against pro-Israel supporters who gathered at the same time at Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue when police pulled him away from recording the group.

 

https://tnc.news/202...-hamas-protest/

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think the "problem" here is that almost inevitably, they will arrest these guys (Ezra or David Menzies) but they never charge them.  Now, why do they not charge them?  Because they will probably lose in court.   Once they lose in court the next time it will be harder to justify an arrest.   So arrest and release seems the easier option for police. 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 November 2024 - 08:31 PM.

[Mike K.]

At what point does the arrest itself cross a line? Can police arrest you indefinitely without laying a charge?

[Victoria Watcher]

Longer clip:

 

https://x.com/Caryma...763797423534344

[m3m]

He was arrested for breaching the peace - which a power police have. He was not charged, because breaching the peace is not a crime. It’s just a remedy police can use.

[Victoria Watcher]

He was arrested for breaching the peace - which a power police have. He was not charged, because breaching the peace is not a crime. It’s just a remedy police can use.

 

The problem of course, is that nobody else is being arrested.  

 

Hamas supporters are blocking streets and rioting, and there are few if any arrests on that side, just the "easy" ones like Levant and Menzies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Police said that during the march, smoke bombs were deployed, metal barriers were thrown into the street and windows smashed of nearby businesses and the convention centre where delegates from NATO parliamentary assembly, including members and partner states, gathered for a session set to wrap Monday. Among the issues being broached were support for Ukraine, climate change and the future of the alliance.

 

Dagher estimated that about 800 people took part in protests from several groups, but about 20 to 40 people were allegedly responsible for the trouble.

 

"I do not want to advertise these groups and glorify these groups, it is a big trap to do so," Dagher said. "But I can assure to you … it is a few groups."

 

Montreal police arrested three people following Friday's demonstration — a 22-year-old woman who was arrested for allegedly obstructing police work and assaulting a police officer and two men, 22 and 28, also each facing a charge for allegedly obstructing police work. All are scheduled to appear in court at a later date.

 

 

 

 

https://montreal.ctv...otest-1.7121580

 

 

 

Montreal police appear to have arrested exactly zero people that did all the damage on Friday.  Even though there is lots of video of the damage being done.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 November 2024 - 09:38 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Only Postmedia and the right independants will even mention the Levant arrest.

 

 

Does the rest of the Canadian media not care, or they do not want to give Rebel any mentions?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 November 2024 - 02:10 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

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[dasmo]

Their schtick is to agitate and get arrested and then fund raise. While it’s true, no one else is really covering what they cover. They aren’t really covering it. They make the story about them.
I do appreciate that they expose the clown show that is journalism these days though….

[Victoria Watcher]

They are the only ones to report that the protest included the Sinwar chair etc.

[dasmo]

Like I said. But it’s still not quality reporting. But I appreciate that they expose the fact that no journalist reports on those things haha.

[Victoria Watcher]

They’re going to arrest me again this weekend — unless you do this one thing.

 

https://www.rebelnew..._this_one_thing

 

 

I intend to go to the exact same sidewalk. But if I’m there with 50 law-abiding Canadian citizens, all of us standing peacefully on the sidewalk, waving Canadian flags, the police might actually do their job.

 

 

 

Toronto Police arrested me last Sunday for standing on the sidewalk. I was reporting on a pro-Hamas protest, and police claimed that my mere presence was “breaching the peace”.

 

And I’m certain they’re going to arrest me again this Sunday, because I intend to go to the exact same sidewalk (The pro-Hamas bullies invade the same Jewish neighbourhood every week.)

 

But that’s only if I’m by myself — arresting me was a lot easier for the police than arresting the 20 pro-Hamas extremists who were shouting at me.

 

But if I’m there with 50 law-abiding Canadian citizens, all of us standing peacefully on the sidewalk, waving Canadian flags, the police might actually do their job.

 

Will you come to join me in solidarity, as a fellow Canadian citizen?

 

Will you help me take back our streets from these pro-Hamas thugs?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 November 2024 - 09:04 AM.

[max.bravo]

I was shocked when Ezra levant said this one thing.


…that he was asking for people to show up rather than for donations to his legal fund.

[Benezet]

I was shocked when Ezra levant said this one thing.


…that he was asking for people to show up rather than for donations to his legal fund.

Scroll down for the donation part :-)

[Victoria Watcher]

Nobody has to donate.

He’s almost the only Canadian journalist that doesn’t take government money.

Even though journalists are not supposed to take government money. Under their very own ethics code. That they threw out - when government money became available. Definition of hypocrisy, all of them.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 November 2024 - 11:15 AM.

[Mike K.]

Scroll down for the donation part :-)

What’s the difference between a donation, and a subscription fee the TC charges?

[dasmo]

To be fair, they wouldn’t exist without their routine. People don’t subscribe enough even to MSM who get government funds to keep them around. IDK. I can’t hate too much on Rebel. Drea was the only journalist that would be onsite at the many rallies in town protesting the mandates. She would show that perspective. Zero other news outlets did that. They would send a photographer to take a picture at the start or end and say a dozen people showed up. They had to say dozens when thousands showed up.
That doesn’t change what they do. They agitate, they make the news. It’s part performance part journalism I guess. I can’t say it’s right or wrong. It’s just not what I would call journalism. It does show a side of things you won’t see elsewhere though so I think we would be worse off without them.

[Mike K.]

I’ve come to question what the word journalism even means.

90% of journalism today is the re-printing of press releases. Is that journalism?

I learn more about everyday going ons via Adam Stirling, who isn’t a journalist, than I do via any other medium outside of educational videos on YouTube.

I don’t think Victorians realize how fortunate they are to have someone like Stirling.