Hate speech laws were always designed to shut down criticism of groups and policies that enjoyed the favor of the elites. Ezra Levant notes below how they’re being applied inconsistently; that was always going to be the case.
With images on the side of advertising cube truck of Muslims praying and statements like “Is this Yemen? Is this Syria? Is this Iraq?”, the truck’s messaging then says:
“No. This is Canada. Wake up Canada. You are under siege!”
Kudos to courageous Canadian journalists who are… https://t.co/4EP8Fdt0Fr
— Uzay Bulut (@bulutuzay_) June 20, 2024
“BREAKING: Toronto Police investigate Rebel News for hate speech,” by Ezra Levant, Rebel News, June 20, 2024:
I’ve got some breaking news — it’s another censorship battle, probably our biggest one ever. I need your help to save free speech in Canada.
The Toronto police are officially investigating Rebel News for running these ads by local community activists on our Rebel News billboard truck. The ads were created by a group called “Canadians Opposed to the Occupation of our Streets and Campuses.” It’s a bit of a mouthful but it tells you everything.
They’re anonymous because they know they’d face retaliation for speaking out — that’s how bad things are these days. The ads just show actual footage of what the pro-Hamas gangs are doing to Toronto — including committing real crimes ignored by the police and politicians. In the case of this particular ad, the images included pro-Hamas gangs shutting down the streets in downtown Toronto.
Here’s the official police announcement, declaring those ads “Islamophobic” and suggesting that a hate crime has been committed. A crime!
Toronto police don’t think the pro-Hamas street gangs themselves are committing hate crimes. They think the ad we ran on our truck is a hate crime. In Trudeau’s Canada, you’re allowed to support terrorism. You’re NOT allowed to criticize terrorism. That sounds more like 1984 than 2024.
Here, let me give you some more background — and then I’ll tell you how you can help us fight back at a special website we’ve set up called SaveTheTruck.com. But it’s really about more than this truck. It’s about cancel culture. And the weaponization of hate speech laws. And two-tier policing. I’ve hired a lawyer and we’re going to fight. Because this is Canada, not Gaza. We still have free speech here, for now.
It’s actually pretty serious.
If convicted for “hate speech” I could be jailed for up to two years just for running that ad. And don’t think they won’t try — our Rebel News reporters have been arrested by Toronto police several times just for asking Hamas supporters questions. The police hate us because we’re not silent and obedient, which is what they’ve told the Jewish community to be.
The police chief isn’t dumb: he’s doing what his political bosses want. Toronto’s mayor denounced the truck. No surprise — she’s a pro-Hamas NDP mayor, who has refused to attend key Jewish community events.
And it goes much higher than the mayor.
Here’s a tweet by a pro-Hamas Trudeau member of Parliament, who wrote: “There needs to be an investigation and there needs to be justice.” Can you imagine? That same MP hosted a Holocaust denier on Parliament Hill, but she wants me prosecuted.
Other Trudeau supporters joined in, including Trudeau’s personal friend, Mohamed Fakih. He owns a chain of restaurants called Paramount Foods — and he notoriously said he didn’t want Jews as customers.
This is the guy calling for a hate speech investigation. He’s even put a $25,000 bounty on my head. Easy, Mohamed. You’re not in Lebanon anymore….
Snowy says
Easy, Ezra, you’re not in Canada anymore… Better be careful and look over your shoulder, with this bounty on your head. Man, this truly is serious. Can you imagine? A bounty on one’s head? In a Western country? This ‘Fakih’ should be arrested for incitement to violence and the rest.
And we should do like the enemy: operate in groups, for self protection. Call your buddies when you get attacked; the buddies call their buddies, everyone rushes to the indicated place and there you have your self protection group. Or maybe organise a Whatsapp group. That may be even faster.
Heidi says
Arm yourselves, get training and protect each other.
kasahub says
It is better and greater to fight the evil islam before it is too late.
somehistory says
The slime should be arrested, charged, tried and imprisoned for hiring a hitman. They know he did it.
Two mozlums in the UK. hired a hit-woman to kill a competitor…she wore the mozlum scarf while she tried shooting the target, missed twice (her gun jammed) and then flew back home to the U.S. where she is being hunted.
Seeking to have someone murdered is serious business. But evidently if one is a mozlum in Canada, that one can order a hit and it’s hunky-dory if the intended target is getting the Truth out to the public.
A sad and serious state of affairs.
40 rounds says
I’m relieved that the US is not the only country with a two tier justice system. It can be lonely at the top.
James Lincoln says
Ezra Levant’s feature article states:
“In Trudeau’s Canada, you’re allowed to support terrorism. You’re NOT allowed to criticize terrorism.”
That, my friends, tells it all.
jerry glenn says
Canada surges in the international Islamopandering derby.
MH says
Of course, this is a double standard. It is celebrated when anything is posted that is negative and false and or true about Christians et al. If Christians were doing this it would receive much more media attention and would not get covered up. Why don’t they pay to post a counter-billboard?