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PART 2: Media attacks TRUCKERS by saying the word "FREEDOM" (convoy) is "common among far-right groups!" · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Truckers have become public enemy number one, and anyone that
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Speaker 1: supports them, you are also the equivalent of a domestic terrorists.
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Speaker 1: This is a major roadway has opened up because the
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Speaker 1: truckers did not become violent. You would think that would
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Speaker 1: be actually, I don't know, celebrated or appreciated, but what
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Speaker 1: we do know is truckers around the world are fighting
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Speaker 1: back peacefully. Now a quick reminder, if you're listening to
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Speaker 1: New Zealand is now going after their truckers and they're
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Speaker 1: now blaming a quote mysterious imported force for the freedom
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Speaker 1: convoys that New Zealand's Prime Minister is now having to
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Speaker 1: deal with. Who is that mysterious imported force. It's not
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Speaker 1: Russia collusion, it's Donald Trump collusion. That's right, The Prime
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Speaker 1: minister pointed at Canadian flags. She's also blaming Canada and
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Images on the streets of Wellington is evidence
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Speaker 1: of her new conspiracy claim that this isn't really our
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Speaker 1: people sitting up against me, the Prime Minister of New Zealand. No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: I'm blaming the imported forces of the world for what
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Speaker 1: has just happened. Quote. I've seen Trump flags on the
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Speaker 1: fore court. I've seen Canadian flags on the fore court.
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Speaker 1: That is who is to blame for this. It feels
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Speaker 1: like an imported protest to me. So all the people
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Speaker 1: out there that are actually citizens of New Zealand, I
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Speaker 1: don't see you. All I see is imported people. That's right.
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Speaker 1: Former President Donald Trump is the real problem here in
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Speaker 1: Canada for importing this. Quote. That means at the very
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Speaker 1: point where we are seeing an increase in cases and
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Speaker 1: an increase in risk. She went on to say to
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Speaker 1: the public health with COVID cases she's now claiming are
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Speaker 1: on the rise, the well being of Zealand and the
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Speaker 1: people should be angry. These people, referring to the truckers,
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Speaker 1: which are Trump loving Canadians apparently imported from around the world. Well,
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Speaker 1: they want to remove the very measures that have kept
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Speaker 1: us safe. Have they really kept us safe? Because the
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Speaker 1: dad is showing not so much. Lockdowns haven't kept us safe?
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Speaker 1: Mass mandates have not kept us safe. Vaccines, you could argue,
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Speaker 1: have not kept us safe compared to what they said
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Speaker 1: they were going to do. I'm not saying that I'm
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Speaker 1: anti vaxx. I want to make that clear. But what
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Speaker 1: is clear is this, they want you to believe they've
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Speaker 1: done everything right and anyone that's calling them out as
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Speaker 1: clearly an anarchist or a foreigner or a member of
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Speaker 1: some CIA type group that's trying to infiltrate the country.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly why New Zealand's Prime minister says all of
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Speaker 1: her measures have kept us safe, alive and well, quote,
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Speaker 1: you'll forgive me if it takes a very strong view
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Speaker 1: on that's you'll forgive me if I take a very
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Speaker 1: strong view on that suggestion by the truckers that we
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Speaker 1: should stop all of our mandates. I'm keeping you alive, right,
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Speaker 1: I'm keeping you safe. I very clearly have a view
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Speaker 1: on the protesters and the way that they've conducted their
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Speaker 1: protests because it has moved beyond sharing a view to
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Speaker 1: now intimidation harassment of the people around Wellington. She says
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Speaker 1: that will not be tolerated. New Zealand is now moving
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Speaker 1: to arrest those truck drivers. New Zealand also has mandates
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Speaker 1: that certain workers get vaccinated against COVID nineteen, which is
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Speaker 1: exactly why the truckers are doing what they are doing
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Speaker 1: in Canada. But New Zealand goes even further than that.
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Speaker 1: Their vaccine mandates include teachers, doctors, nurses, police, and military personnel.
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Speaker 1: In New Zealand, you have to have a vaccine passport
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Speaker 1: is required to enter most stores and restaurants. But remember,
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Speaker 1: she's keeping you safe. Even though the cases are rising. Quote,
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Speaker 1: Wellington's have the right to move freely and safely around
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Speaker 1: the city. So all roads being clearer is my top priority.
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Speaker 1: As the government comes down on those truck drivers. Now
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Speaker 1: there's road going back and forth between American Canada has
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Speaker 1: been cleared. Why because the truck drivers they decided to
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Speaker 1: be peaceful. So now it's time for the media to
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Speaker 1: mock them, to demean them, to dehumanize them, to actually
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Speaker 1: act like there's some sort of wooses or empty tigers.
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Speaker 1: They're fakes, they're frauds, they're not real. These people should
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Speaker 1: be crushed easily because look how spineless they really are
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Speaker 1: when the government came in against them. Here's part of
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Speaker 1: the conversation from CNN just a couple hours ago. Traffic
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Speaker 1: is flowing once again across a key trade route linking
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Speaker 1: the US and Canada, this after police cleared out COVID
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Speaker 1: mandate protesters there. Demonstrators blocked the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit
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Speaker 1: and Windsor, Ontario for nearly one week, crippling supply chains
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Speaker 1: and costing millions of dollars in lost business CNS. Miguel
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Speaker 1: Marquez is live in Windsor, and Miguel, traffic, as we
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Speaker 1: see behind you is moving. Now. Are there concerns that
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Speaker 1: protesters may come back and they're not done causing these disruptions? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: most definitely. That is the main concern in the immediate
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Speaker 1: future for police here, which you know, after all of
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Speaker 1: the drama of the last week, it ended sort of
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Speaker 1: with a whimper, about thirty arrests, About twelve cars were
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Speaker 1: eventually towed. Great patience and restraint on the part of
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Speaker 1: police who just basically waited out the protesters for a
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Speaker 1: couple of days before moving them all out. But now
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Speaker 1: the challenge is going to be keeping that corridor open
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Speaker 1: because the bridge when you get off on the Canadian side,
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Speaker 1: it's about three miles of surface streets until you hit
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Speaker 1: the next highway, and there's lots of areas where they
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Speaker 1: can Protesters have said they're going to get in, they're
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Speaker 1: going to try to slow things down. There's still a
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Speaker 1: very heavy police presence along this route trying to keep
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Speaker 1: anyone who moves in there moving along and not letting
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Speaker 1: anyone basically. So it's going to have to continue for
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Speaker 1: a while because you have protests, border protests across Canada
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Speaker 1: as well, several other locations across Canada, much smaller border
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Speaker 1: crossings than this one, and not they don't pack nearly
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Speaker 1: the economic punch as the as the closing of the
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Speaker 1: border crossing here. But other protests in Canada still going on,
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Speaker 1: and obviously in Ottawa as well, where protesters have taken
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Speaker 1: over Parliament Hill there and refusing to leave, and maybe
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Speaker 1: some will leave and then they don't. So there's there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of fighting going on among the protesters themselves.
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Speaker 1: The start offices and hold on, hold on hold. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of fighting going on among the protesters themselves
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Speaker 1: based on what based on what these guys are completely united,
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Speaker 1: the citizens are supporting them, are united. They're also willing
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Speaker 1: to abide by many of the laws and be peaceful.
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Speaker 1: This bridge between the US and Canada reopens after protesters
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Speaker 1: are cleared. Many of them walked away because they were peaceful.
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Speaker 1: They didn't want to fight, but they wanted to make
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Speaker 1: a point. And now you're mocking them. You say this,
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Speaker 1: and again I'm quoting exact quote here from CNN. You know,
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Speaker 1: these protesters, these truckers are wrapped in the notion of
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Speaker 1: freedom quote whatever that means. And then you're going to say, well, basically,
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Speaker 1: and this is exact quote, basically, they want exactly what
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Speaker 1: they want, which is all of those restrictions gone. That's
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Speaker 1: exactly right, that's what they want. But you mocked them.
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Speaker 1: Now you think this is going to make them just
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Speaker 1: go home and stop fighting. Now, the other part about
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Speaker 1: this hypocrisy is you notice how now they're they're trying
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Speaker 1: to just demean them as like, oh, this is just
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Speaker 1: a bunch of empty tigers. These people are wooses. They
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Speaker 1: got you know, they left when the government showed up.
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Speaker 1: We should crush them all easily. I have a question
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Speaker 1: what changed so quickly, because for the last three weeks
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Speaker 1: you've been telling me that these truckers are the most
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Speaker 1: dangerous people in the world. You've been telling them me
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Speaker 1: their domestic terrorists, they're anarchists. You've been telling me they're
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Speaker 1: going to be violent. You've been telling me they're clansmen.
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Speaker 1: You've been telling me that they are the worst people
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Speaker 1: in the world. So which one is it? Are they
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Speaker 1: empty suits? Are they an empty tiger? Or or are
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Speaker 1: they actually terrorists? Because you can't have it both ways.
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Speaker 1: Right in New Zealand, they're still referring to them as like, oh,
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Speaker 1: these are imported domestic terrorists. In Canada, they were terrorists
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Speaker 1: for two and a half. Three weeks now Trudeau refer
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Speaker 1: to them as anarchists, right, these are not Canadians. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know these people are are racists, they're bigots. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna try to burn down cities, which they haven't done.
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Speaker 1: Now you're like, oh, they're empty suits. No problems here.
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Speaker 1: I go back to her montage. This is the news,
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Speaker 1: and this is the politicians, and this is what they've
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Speaker 1: been saying about the truck drivers in Canada, and now
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the entire story changes. They're a
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Speaker 1: bunch of just woosses, They're a bunch of just empty suits.
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Speaker 1: They're just a small minority that can be crushed by
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Speaker 1: the government. Sedition insurrection, a threat to democracy. Sedition insurrection,
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Speaker 1: threat to democracy. That's how they were profiling them on
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Speaker 1: CNN A week ago, Ottawa mayor declaring a state of emergency.
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Speaker 1: Is vaccine mandate? Protests grow across Canada. Right, We're gonna then,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna tow them, We're gonna drag them from their trucks.
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Speaker 1: This is this edition. This is anarchy. They're holding us hostage.
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Speaker 1: They were referred to as some of the media see
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Speaker 1: this city is under siege. They are now calling it
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Speaker 1: another it's under siege. This is a this is a
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Speaker 1: moment of war. This is all under we are under siege.
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Speaker 1: Alarming situation there in Ottawa, Yes, an alarming situation there
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Speaker 1: in Ottawa. It's alarming. Well what happened to being alarmed?
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Speaker 1: Because now you're acting like these people are empty suits.
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Speaker 1: Police chief is calling it a nationwide insurrection driven by madness. Yes,
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Speaker 1: driven by madness, I tell you, yes, a nationwide insurrection
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Speaker 1: driven by madness. Yes. The people that want freedom are
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Speaker 1: the mad men of society, the mad women of society.
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Speaker 1: Remember this is the same exact thing over and over again.
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Speaker 1: We are seeing this over and over and over and
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Speaker 1: over again. We are seeing this. When people stand up
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Speaker 1: for freedom, what do they do? They call you a terrorist?
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Speaker 1: You don't believe me. Do you remember what they were
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Speaker 1: saying about the parents that showed up at school board meetings,
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Speaker 1: how they referred to them as domestic terrorists. Do you
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Speaker 1: remember that parents that showed up for school board meetings
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Speaker 1: were they wanted to label them the Democratic Party and
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Speaker 1: the teachers' unions labeled not wanted to They did label
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Speaker 1: them as domestic terrorists. They wanted to ban them forever
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Speaker 1: from school board meetings. They were domestic terrorists. And now, haha,
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Speaker 1: you better get ready because they're trying to organize in America,
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Speaker 1: these truckers trying to organize in America. Yeah, we got
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Speaker 1: something coming for you now. It's very important that the
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Speaker 1: truckers in America understand what they're up against. You have.
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Speaker 1: The media wants to indict you. So I'm warning you
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Speaker 1: about that. You have to make sure that you don't
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Speaker 1: break laws because in America we are different than other countries.
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Speaker 1: And if you break laws, they're going to punish you,
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Speaker 1: and they're going to attack you, and they're going to
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Speaker 1: come after you, and organizing this thing comes with a
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Speaker 1: lot of risks because the media is all ready to
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Speaker 1: describe these people as domestic terrorists. So if you are
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Speaker 1: a truck driver, if you know a truck driver, and
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Speaker 1: you're excited about hearing that there's going to be activity
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Speaker 1: in America, you need to know the details. You need
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Speaker 1: to know the facts, You need to know how this
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Speaker 1: is going to be put together and how you're going
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Speaker 1: to organize. Joining me now to talk about this as
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Speaker 1: a man that is behind getting these truckers organizes. The
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Speaker 1: chair and the founder of GAP, the Great American Patriot Project,
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Speaker 1: Alex Phillips, is with us. Alex, I appreciate you coming
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Speaker 1: on and we set the stage before we brought you
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Speaker 1: in about what's happening to these truckers, how they're being
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Speaker 1: described by the media, how they're being attacked, and there's
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Speaker 1: a real problem now logistically to organize. And I think
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Speaker 1: you've seen this and I want to get your reaction
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Speaker 1: to what has happened in Canada. You know, they tried
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Speaker 1: to suffocate these truck drivers in Canada by stopping the
12:16
Speaker 1: funds when they went in to go fund me they
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Speaker 1: raised you know, twenty million dollars or whatever the number was,
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Speaker 1: and they froze those funds. Then they found another place
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Speaker 1: that would be willing to accept donations, they had to stop,
12:26
Speaker 1: all start all over to get more funds. And then
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Speaker 1: the government said, we're going to take that money because
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Speaker 1: we believe it could be used for terrorism or anarchy
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Speaker 1: or the attacks on cities and the burning of season
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Speaker 1: not a joke, even though you can still get money
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Speaker 1: to Black Lives Matter all over these sites on go
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Speaker 1: fund me, and they were actually doing this in America.
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Speaker 1: So in this country, we've got to clearly organize the
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Speaker 1: right way. We have to make sure that when we
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Speaker 1: give money that the money is not only one transparent,
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Speaker 1: but there's honesty and integrity involved in the process, but
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Speaker 1: two that it doesn't get stolen or not delivered to
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Speaker 1: the people that are going to need it. And that's
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Speaker 1: where you guys came in and said, hey, we can
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Speaker 1: accomplish all this by learning from what just happened in Canada. Yes, Ben,
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Speaker 1: thanks for having me on. So, yeah, we've been paying
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Speaker 1: attention closely to what's been going on. The Great American
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Speaker 1: Patriot Project is all about you know, supporting, you know,
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Speaker 1: the Great American Dream, so to speak. And you know
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Speaker 1: that it comes down to what the Constitution says. And
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Speaker 1: truckers in the United States as well as many people
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Speaker 1: on social media specifically, are not getting a chance to
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Speaker 1: speakum and get their opinions across. And you know what
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Speaker 1: we saw in Canada is that you know, the truck
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Speaker 1: drivers there, you decided they were going to get together.
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Speaker 1: And really what we're seeing is old school you know activism.
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Speaker 1: You know, Um, they can't speak publicly online anymore where
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Speaker 1: they had the power to do so, and so they
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Speaker 1: got they went old school that you know, they decided
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Speaker 1: they were going to do a convoy and um, you know,
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Speaker 1: they are counter narrative. They are against you know, the
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Speaker 1: government narratives of many government is actually all across the world,
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Speaker 1: and so you know there's a problem with that from
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Speaker 1: their perspective, the government's perspective, and so they've gone to
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Speaker 1: great lengths to to demonize what these people are doing
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Speaker 1: when they're just regular people just like the rest of us. Uh.
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Speaker 1: They work, you know, they work, they go, they go home,
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Speaker 1: they've got families, they've got you know, dreams, and and
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Speaker 1: they're being put down and they're taking time out of
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Speaker 1: their lives, and these funds that were that were donated
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Speaker 1: by the public, whether it's you know in Canada or
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Speaker 1: around the world, was designed to help them sustain themselves
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Speaker 1: while they were moving forward. And and I'm kind of
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Speaker 1: surprised that the lengths that that the government in Canada
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Speaker 1: has gone through, but you know, we're taking we're taking
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Speaker 1: an example from that, and so we're trying to focus on,
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Speaker 1: you know, how can we do it in a way
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Speaker 1: that we cannot be labeled and so you know, we're
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Speaker 1: going to be very transparent. We're using you know, our
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Speaker 1: pack as a as a means to take funds because
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Speaker 1: there's absolutely no way to hide anything there. Everything will
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Speaker 1: be completely transparent to the public of where the funds
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Speaker 1: are coming from and where they're going. UH. And we're
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Speaker 1: also asking everybody's participating that we're going to be working
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Speaker 1: with to agree to not break the law, and if
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Speaker 1: they violate that agreement, you know, they're not going to
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Speaker 1: be part of this group. UM. We want everybody to
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Speaker 1: have a chance to voice their opinions. We're going to
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Speaker 1: allow uh social media to participate with this UM and
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Speaker 1: if it's not you know, on Twitter or Facebook, it's
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Speaker 1: going to be on gap and rumble, and so you know,
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Speaker 1: that's where it's going to be. And that's that's the
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Speaker 1: people we're going to work with, because they're the ones
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Speaker 1: that are ready to take on the mantel to to
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Speaker 1: convey the message at these truckers because you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: just a regular guy, right, I'm not I'm not a politician,
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Speaker 1: I'm not superman, I'm not anything. I'm just a regular guy.
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Speaker 1: And I know that these guys are out there and
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Speaker 1: gals are out there, you know, delivering and working hard.
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Speaker 1: They were asked to work through the entire pandemic to
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Speaker 1: make sure that we had food, toilet paper, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: and everything else we needed to sustain life on a
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Speaker 1: regular basis. And we're seeing that, you know, they're being
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Speaker 1: pressured to to deal with some restrictions and mandates that
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Speaker 1: are are just really unconstitutional. And I think that everybody's
16:04
Speaker 1: really starting to wake up to that, regardless of where
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Speaker 1: you are left or right, and then they're going to
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Speaker 1: make a statement. And so there's a lot of groups
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Speaker 1: out there that are going to be doing these convoys
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Speaker 1: and so all we're doing is we're trying to create
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Speaker 1: an environment where we can help let people who want
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Speaker 1: to help, because not everybody's gonna you know, not everybody
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Speaker 1: drives the truck, but they want to help these people
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Speaker 1: and you know, you know, help them pay for gas
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Speaker 1: or diesel and lunch and dinner and breakfast, you know,
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Speaker 1: as they take time off of their schedules to do
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Speaker 1: this away from their families, to make a statement and
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Speaker 1: you know, basically to put the hammer down on some
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Speaker 1: of this, uh what's going on with the government and
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Speaker 1: the mandates and and really a lot of unconstitutional activity.
16:44
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, were you shocked? And again,
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Speaker 1: if you want to get involved in help And that's
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Speaker 1: the reason why we're doing this series about these truckers
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Speaker 1: and what we're trying to do here in this country.
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Speaker 1: Knowing the limitations, I think is also part of the
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Speaker 1: reality that you guys have accepted on the front end
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Speaker 1: that you don't want to break the law, that you
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Speaker 1: want to set a tone example of we are rising
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Speaker 1: and we are standing up, but we're going to do
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Speaker 1: it in a lawful way, which is why so many
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Speaker 1: law enforcement I've actually already started back these truckers and
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Speaker 1: you can go online to American Truckers Freedom Fund dot com,
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Speaker 1: American Truckers Freedom Fund dot com and get involved. But
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Speaker 1: part of this, and I think I want to explain
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Speaker 1: the expectations here so that we can let you know
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Speaker 1: what the goal and the objective is before the media
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Speaker 1: tries to find it. It is to get as many
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Speaker 1: truckers involved in the country as we can. Whether it's
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Speaker 1: leaving from Fresno on the on the second of March,
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Speaker 1: whether it's leaving in Ohio, UH, in Cleveland on the sixth,
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Speaker 1: whether it's UH and going to DC. There's all of
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Speaker 1: these different corridors. You can see their maps, and it's
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Speaker 1: all transparent. UH. There's no hiding here, all right, So
17:54
Speaker 1: people understand this, UH coming there, going from Cleveland and
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Speaker 1: going from Columbus and going from Fresno, and truckers are
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Speaker 1: going to be joining along the way in this convoy.
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Speaker 1: But you guys are not trying to do a blockade.
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Speaker 1: You're not trying to surround the White House. You're not
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Speaker 1: trying to shut down Washington, DC in the Capitol building.
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Speaker 1: That's not the objective and the goal here, and before
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Speaker 1: the media tries to tell you that these people are
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Speaker 1: domestic terrorists, and before the media tries to tell you
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Speaker 1: that they're anarchists, and before they tell you they're trying
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Speaker 1: to do January sixth over again, that is absolutely not
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Speaker 1: what you guys are planning and what these truckers are
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Speaker 1: trying to do. And I want to make that very clear.
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Speaker 1: So we have it on record two and a half
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Speaker 1: weeks in advance that this is what our objective is
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Speaker 1: and it's not what they're going to tell you it is.
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Speaker 1: That's correct. So again, like I said, we're going to
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Speaker 1: old school. We're trying to bring awareness and sometimes people
18:45
Speaker 1: have to gather in mass, but we're working with law enforcement.
18:49
Speaker 1: We're communicating with those people. We're telling them, hey, you know,
18:53
Speaker 1: we don't want to be perceived as some kind of
18:56
Speaker 1: group that it's going to obstruct or block or you know,
19:00
Speaker 1: make a make a mess of the highways. So tell us,
19:03
Speaker 1: you know, give us, give us your feedback, tell us
19:05
Speaker 1: what you want. We've been working. You know, DC is
19:09
Speaker 1: one of the areas that we're being very sensitive about.
19:12
Speaker 1: We're not going to be surrounding the White House. We're
19:13
Speaker 1: not going to be going into DC to shut down
19:15
Speaker 1: that that district. You know, we're gonna be very conscientious
19:18
Speaker 1: about it. But it's very important for people to be
19:20
Speaker 1: aware that, you know, there's no there's no class of
19:24
Speaker 1: American that has more or less rights. And these people,
19:30
Speaker 1: the truck drivers, they're very important, but it doesn't mean
19:33
Speaker 1: that they're more important than anybody else. But it doesn't
19:35
Speaker 1: mean they're less important than anybody else. They're all equal
19:38
Speaker 1: under the law, and so their voice is not being heard.
19:41
Speaker 1: A lot of people's voices are not being heard. They're
19:43
Speaker 1: they're a symbol right now, not just for the truck
19:45
Speaker 1: drivers and the suppliers, but you know, the postman, you know,
19:49
Speaker 1: all the people that are having to work hard during
19:52
Speaker 1: the pandemic that you know, people that are working at
19:54
Speaker 1: the grocery stores, everybody that has been forced to contend
19:58
Speaker 1: with this situation. It's just these truck driver that they've
20:01
Speaker 1: decided they're going to make a stand. They're going to
20:03
Speaker 1: be the symbol for this right now. They are the
20:06
Speaker 1: working class, uh leaders in this particular event. And but
20:10
Speaker 1: they represent everybody and not just you know, not just
20:13
Speaker 1: the people that are a blue collar, but they represent
20:16
Speaker 1: the white collar, they represent anybody's collar. You know, they're
20:19
Speaker 1: just taking the stand right now because you know, they
20:22
Speaker 1: are a unified group. They're you know, they're they're Americans,
20:26
Speaker 1: and they are white, they're black, they're all different races,
20:29
Speaker 1: all different ethnicities, all different genders, all different religions. They're
20:34
Speaker 1: not anything but Americans. So you know, it's very important
20:37
Speaker 1: that people understand that. And like I said, we're gonna
20:39
Speaker 1: we're gonna be very transparent about this. We're we're just
20:42
Speaker 1: focusing on logistics and communications and making sure that you know,
20:45
Speaker 1: people get to support they need, and making sure that
20:48
Speaker 1: we help the people that you know are doing the
20:50
Speaker 1: right thing too. You know, we we don't want to
20:52
Speaker 1: uh enable troublemakers and obstructionists and terrorism in any war.
20:57
Speaker 1: You know, we're not We're not about that because that's
21:00
Speaker 1: unproductive and it's not the American way. You know. Let's
21:03
Speaker 1: talk about how the media is covering, um, these truckers
21:07
Speaker 1: really anywhere in the world. Uh. They're referring them to insurrectionists,
21:10
Speaker 1: They're referring to them as anarchists, they're referring to them
21:13
Speaker 1: as KKK members, they're referring to them as is also
21:16
Speaker 1: as Trump lovers, as they put it. I mean, they
21:20
Speaker 1: are really doubling down on the rhetoric. Uh. And and
21:25
Speaker 1: this rhetoric is that these are the worst people in
21:29
Speaker 1: the world coming together, uh you know, Trudeau is referred
21:33
Speaker 1: to them as a as a minority that should not
21:36
Speaker 1: be looked at, that should not be supported, that they
21:40
Speaker 1: are not true Canadians. They've tried to take away their
21:43
Speaker 1: uh you know, even their citizenship in a way that
21:46
Speaker 1: they're that they're somehow not advocating for freedom. And if
21:49
Speaker 1: you look at these truckers in Canada and what they've
21:51
Speaker 1: been able to accomplish while being peaceful, I think it's
21:56
Speaker 1: truly incredible. I think it's truly unbelievable what they've been
21:59
Speaker 1: able to accomplish. And now you see a media that's
22:04
Speaker 1: mocking these Canadian truck drivers as some of them are
22:07
Speaker 1: going back to work, some of them are trying to
22:09
Speaker 1: just go and support their families now after making a
22:12
Speaker 1: statement and inspiring others, And I worry that what you're
22:16
Speaker 1: going to witness here is a dehumanization of you guys
22:21
Speaker 1: in a way that I think is anti American. I
22:25
Speaker 1: think this is the most American thing that you can
22:28
Speaker 1: do to go get in a truck, take days off work,
22:32
Speaker 1: drive across the country and make it clear that these
22:35
Speaker 1: vaccine mandates for truckers going across the borders absurd, especially
22:39
Speaker 1: when we have an open southern border and we're not
22:41
Speaker 1: testing people coming across the border. That this is all
22:44
Speaker 1: about the tyrants showing how much power they have over you.
22:48
Speaker 1: And yet they're going to call these truck drivers and
22:52
Speaker 1: already are on TV un American. Yes, you know, it's
22:55
Speaker 1: inevitable that kind of stuff when anytime you're counterne narrative
23:01
Speaker 1: that you know, the people that are in charge of
23:03
Speaker 1: the elite, the government, uh will will basically say that you're,
23:07
Speaker 1: you know, doing something Unamerican. But I think something interesting
23:10
Speaker 1: has been happening, um. And you know, I think that
23:13
Speaker 1: in Canada, they had not only the media against them,
23:16
Speaker 1: but they had the government against them, and they were
23:18
Speaker 1: able to shut them down from being funded, but it
23:20
Speaker 1: didn't stop them from conveying their message, and they were
23:23
Speaker 1: able to make a lot of people aware of what
23:25
Speaker 1: was going on and make some change. And I think
23:28
Speaker 1: that's going to happen here. Um. But public is starting
23:31
Speaker 1: to become aware of, you know, the differences between right
23:34
Speaker 1: and wrong, and truth and fiction and and what's propaganda
23:37
Speaker 1: and what's actually real because you know, most of these
23:40
Speaker 1: truck drivers are just regular Americans. They're just like most
23:43
Speaker 1: people in this country. Yes, there's a lot of people
23:46
Speaker 1: that are afraid of the pandemic, and they've been they've
23:48
Speaker 1: been conditioned to be afraid. And they wear the masks.
23:51
Speaker 1: They wear two masks, three masks, they've got five different
23:54
Speaker 1: you know shots in their arm, you know, and those
23:57
Speaker 1: people are afraid, and and I feel bad for them.
24:00
Speaker 1: But most most people are starting to become aware that
24:03
Speaker 1: you know, hey, you know, we got to move on
24:05
Speaker 1: with life. You know, things are bad all over the
24:08
Speaker 1: all over the world for one reason or another. But
24:10
Speaker 1: you know, nothing that that that the government is doing
24:13
Speaker 1: right now that's taking away our civil liberties, making that
24:16
Speaker 1: much of a difference. And so it's time to move on.
24:18
Speaker 1: It's time for everybody to stand up, pull up, you know,
24:20
Speaker 1: pull their pants up, so to speak, and and basically,
24:23
Speaker 1: you know, get on with life and not be afraid
24:26
Speaker 1: all the time. And these truckers are our core component
24:30
Speaker 1: of American life. And that you know, they're a blue
24:32
Speaker 1: collar class of people. They work hard, there's no doubt
24:36
Speaker 1: about that. You know, they work tirelessly, long hours, uh,
24:41
Speaker 1: unrespected by you know, the elite. But yet you know,
24:44
Speaker 1: the first thing everybody complains about is that the grocery stores,
24:47
Speaker 1: uh you know, bear of you know, frozen foods or
24:50
Speaker 1: toilet paper. And that's because you know, we've we've made
24:53
Speaker 1: you know, such a bad example um in policy to
24:57
Speaker 1: these folks that you know, they just they can't do
25:00
Speaker 1: but so much. But they are working their butts off.
25:03
Speaker 1: They're putting the hammer down on this situation and they're
25:05
Speaker 1: going to start, you know, going old school and put
25:08
Speaker 1: together a convoy and demonstrate legally like this country was
25:14
Speaker 1: meant to be. You know, there's a lot of people
25:16
Speaker 1: online and we've been getting so many messages from people
25:20
Speaker 1: just with even our part one about what is being
25:24
Speaker 1: organized here and saying how can I get involved? I
25:27
Speaker 1: would argue, it's two things you can do at this point,
25:29
Speaker 1: and I want to get your response to this one. Yes,
25:33
Speaker 1: these truckers are going to need money for their basic
25:36
Speaker 1: food and for the diesel and taking the days off
25:38
Speaker 1: work so that they can able to accomplish, especially driving
25:41
Speaker 1: literally from California all the way to watch INDC. But
25:44
Speaker 1: number two, as you see this corridor map, which is
25:47
Speaker 1: again this is all being incredibly transparent and that's part
25:52
Speaker 1: of why I love the way that you guys are
25:54
Speaker 1: organizing this. There's not secrecy, this is transparency. Here's where
25:58
Speaker 1: we're going to be, here's what we're doing, this is
26:00
Speaker 1: what time we're going to be there. If you see
26:02
Speaker 1: this convoy coming across the country close to you, you
26:05
Speaker 1: can join in, even if it's for twenty miles or
26:09
Speaker 1: fifty miles or one hundred miles, just so that people
26:12
Speaker 1: understand that it's not just the truck drivers are standing up,
26:16
Speaker 1: it's Americans. And that's what we've seen in Canada. We've
26:18
Speaker 1: witnessed people in Canada doing exactly that. I'm shocked at
26:23
Speaker 1: what's happened in Canada and and and honestly how it's
26:27
Speaker 1: evolved into the fact that you know, first to go
26:30
Speaker 1: fund me shut them down and there was no reason
26:32
Speaker 1: for that. And then you know, another organization took up
26:35
Speaker 1: the mantel to sit to be a focal point for fundraising,
26:38
Speaker 1: and the judge you know, in that and that in
26:42
Speaker 1: that country has basically uh blocked that money from being
26:45
Speaker 1: handed out, calling it a crime and so and to
26:48
Speaker 1: go so far as I have read on social media
26:52
Speaker 1: over the weekend that that somebody's hacked and shut down
26:55
Speaker 1: that that organization. And I'm thinking myself, who is doing this?
26:58
Speaker 1: You know, who is behind this massive onslaught of of
27:03
Speaker 1: attack to stop people from driving down the road in
27:06
Speaker 1: an organized and peaceful manner um to to basically protest
27:13
Speaker 1: something they don't believe in. When you know, just it
27:15
Speaker 1: was just, you know, not too long ago that fundraisers
27:19
Speaker 1: were abound for destroying city. You know this, all this
27:24
Speaker 1: money was being funneled into campaigns to shut down cities,
27:29
Speaker 1: to create crime and rea havoc in a manner that's
27:32
Speaker 1: totally Unamerican, and people on both sides of the aisle,
27:37
Speaker 1: on every race, creed, color, religion, didn't agree with, you know,
27:44
Speaker 1: and yet it's just allowed. And so we're gonna we're
27:47
Speaker 1: gonna learn, you know, we we we they set the rules.
27:50
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be very transparent. Everybody's going to commit
27:53
Speaker 1: to not breaking the law. They're gonna have to be
27:56
Speaker 1: law abiding citizens. They're gonna you know, we're working with
27:58
Speaker 1: law enforcement to make sure that we don't create any
28:01
Speaker 1: kind of disruption of thoroughfares or anything like that. But
28:06
Speaker 1: but we're going to be seen. These people are going
28:08
Speaker 1: to be seen. They're going to be heard, and they're
28:11
Speaker 1: going to be noticed, and people are going to have
28:13
Speaker 1: to recognize that there's something that's not right. And I'm
28:16
Speaker 1: so proud of the truck drivers. You know, they're they're
28:20
Speaker 1: a mainstay of our society. There. They keep us supplied
28:24
Speaker 1: with things. They deliver our our food, they deliver our
28:28
Speaker 1: toilet papers, they deliver our boxes or Christmas gifts, you know,
28:32
Speaker 1: everything we need to make our lives work every day.
28:36
Speaker 1: And they're just sort of like they're in the background.
28:38
Speaker 1: But now they're not. They're going to be in the foreground.
28:41
Speaker 1: We're gonna see and they're going to represent not just
28:43
Speaker 1: themselves in their industry, but every American that is being
28:47
Speaker 1: forgotten about, every American that's being you know, shut down
28:51
Speaker 1: by the elite in this particular case, they're gonna be
28:55
Speaker 1: I think there's big change that's happening in this country.
28:58
Speaker 1: And one of the ways that I describe it as
29:01
Speaker 1: look at the Olympics and how people have just saying
29:05
Speaker 1: I'm not watching this anymore, I'm not going to give
29:07
Speaker 1: you my money, I'm not going to support you anymore.
29:10
Speaker 1: When you do what you're doing, when you're the genocide
29:13
Speaker 1: games as I describe them. I mean, even NBC News
29:16
Speaker 1: has had to come out and say they admit, hey,
29:17
Speaker 1: fifty percent ratings down compared to the last window Olympics.
29:20
Speaker 1: And it's because people have just had enough. They've had
29:22
Speaker 1: enough of what of what's happening in China, They've had
29:26
Speaker 1: enough of the American media treating them the way they
29:29
Speaker 1: are treating them like their domestic terrorists. If you're a
29:31
Speaker 1: parent that shows up for a school board meeting, I
29:33
Speaker 1: truly believe that Joe Biden is going to be the
29:38
Speaker 1: biggest gift to freedom that we've seen probably in forty
29:41
Speaker 1: years in this country because of the way that he
29:44
Speaker 1: has treated and Nancy Pelosi have treated people. Look at
29:47
Speaker 1: look at what happened even with a Super Bowl, the
29:51
Speaker 1: number of celebrities and the number of elected officials that
29:53
Speaker 1: have demanded mass mandates, put mass mandates on your kids
29:56
Speaker 1: in schools who were there clearly not wearing masks. And
30:00
Speaker 1: it's another example of do as I say, not as
30:02
Speaker 1: I do. Right, it's I have rules for you, and
30:06
Speaker 1: I get to play by a different set of rules.
30:08
Speaker 1: And time and time again, you can see these politicians
30:11
Speaker 1: who are out there who clearly right, clearly are not
30:18
Speaker 1: playing by the same rules that they are mandating and
30:21
Speaker 1: dictating on each and every one of us. And I
30:23
Speaker 1: think that's one of the reason why, whether it's the truckers,
30:26
Speaker 1: whether it's the parents, whether the kids that are walking
30:29
Speaker 1: out on schools, I think you have an awakening that
30:33
Speaker 1: is taking place in this country in a way that
30:36
Speaker 1: people are now not going to just walk away or
30:40
Speaker 1: back down or submit any longer because they've lost two
30:43
Speaker 1: years of making memories with their families, two years of business,
30:47
Speaker 1: two years of traveling, and really, to put it simply,
30:50
Speaker 1: two years of freedom that has been taken away by
30:54
Speaker 1: quote medical experts that have gotten it all wrong on
30:58
Speaker 1: every single level, and none of them have apologized and
31:01
Speaker 1: say they're sorry or try to correct their mistakes. They're
31:04
Speaker 1: still wanting lockdowns, they're still wanting mass mandates. They're still
31:07
Speaker 1: wanting to mandate that you get vaccine. They still want
31:09
Speaker 1: to mandate that you have a vaccine passport. They want
31:12
Speaker 1: to mandate truck drivers who are a threat to no one.
31:15
Speaker 1: And let's just really talk about the science here and
31:18
Speaker 1: what happened in Canada. These truck drivers are in their
31:20
Speaker 1: cab ninety plus percent of the time, ninety eight percent
31:23
Speaker 1: of the time locked in a and a cab by themselves.
31:25
Speaker 1: They are not a threat. You have a wide open
31:28
Speaker 1: southern border right now, which is a threat to this country.
31:31
Speaker 1: And that's why these truck drivers where they did in Canada,
31:34
Speaker 1: they're like, this is no and ninety percent, by the way,
31:36
Speaker 1: the truck drivers are vaccine They're not. They're not even
31:38
Speaker 1: anti vacs. They're they're in favor of freedom. And this
31:41
Speaker 1: is this is not even about a vaccine that I I
31:43
Speaker 1: would argue anymore. This is about freedom. And I think
31:46
Speaker 1: that's why you guys are hearing this from some of
31:48
Speaker 1: the truck drivers, is you're organizing. Yeah, they are. They're
31:52
Speaker 1: they're basically your typical Americans. They are not any you know,
31:56
Speaker 1: they don't they don't expect to be treated any differently.
31:59
Speaker 1: They don't expect any privilege for what they do, no
32:02
Speaker 1: matter how important their job is. And I think that's
32:05
Speaker 1: what you know, people need to understand. You know, in
32:06
Speaker 1: a country, you know, like the United States, where the
32:09
Speaker 1: constitution makes everybody equal to the law, but over time,
32:13
Speaker 1: I think some people feel like they're a little bit
32:15
Speaker 1: more equal than others, and you know, we talk about
32:18
Speaker 1: the elite, we talk about the you know, the people
32:20
Speaker 1: that sort of in charge. And you know, when it
32:23
Speaker 1: comes right down to it, the American people have an
32:27
Speaker 1: unwritten contract, so to speak, with our government, and we
32:32
Speaker 1: give them the authority to govern us, and we become
32:35
Speaker 1: the governed. And there's a trust that's supposed to be there.
32:37
Speaker 1: It's a social contract. And you know, you can see
32:41
Speaker 1: that over time over the years, you know, since since
32:44
Speaker 1: literally the mid seventies, but that trust has gone down significantly.
32:48
Speaker 1: I think that the Pew Charitable Trust looked at at
32:51
Speaker 1: this study and you know, they've got to kind of
32:53
Speaker 1: juggle the numbers and fun get a little funky with
32:56
Speaker 1: them so that people don't think that at the end
32:57
Speaker 1: of the world. But you know, trust and government is
33:00
Speaker 1: that it's probably its lowest rate ever in history. And
33:05
Speaker 1: you know, when that trust finally collapse, if it collapses,
33:08
Speaker 1: then there is no social contract and then you know,
33:12
Speaker 1: there's no reason for the government to be governed anymore.
33:14
Speaker 1: And honestly, I don't want that. I'm not interested in anarchy.
33:18
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in feudalism. I'm not interested in you know,
33:21
Speaker 1: going back in time and you know, the good old
33:24
Speaker 1: days of the Western, you know, where the cowboys ruled
33:28
Speaker 1: the planes and and and people you know, just sort
33:30
Speaker 1: of did whatever they want to do. I like the
33:33
Speaker 1: fact that we have governance in our country, but it
33:36
Speaker 1: has to be a representative People have to have a voice,
33:40
Speaker 1: and there has to be an understanding that everybody is
33:43
Speaker 1: equal under the law, and no one no matter if
33:46
Speaker 1: your white collar, blue collar, you know, no matter what's
33:48
Speaker 1: your job, if you're the trash man or you're you know,
33:51
Speaker 1: a brain surgeon, there's no difference. Everybody's got a place
33:56
Speaker 1: in our life. Everybodys got a place in our government,
33:59
Speaker 1: and everybody's got to play in the United States. But
34:01
Speaker 1: everybody is equal under the law and the Constitution is
34:05
Speaker 1: what we have to fall back to. Well, if you
34:07
Speaker 1: want to get involved in this convoy, if you want
34:09
Speaker 1: to support it, or you want to ride with them,
34:11
Speaker 1: you can go online to American Truckers Freedom Fund dot com.
34:16
Speaker 1: American Truckers Freedom Fund dot com and the chair on
34:22
Speaker 1: the founder of the Great American Patriot Project, Alex Phillips,
34:24
Speaker 1: as always nice to talk to you, Thanks for coming
34:26
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34:29
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