Posted on 11/24/2024 5:56:00 PM PST by george76
Ezra Levant .. I was arrested two hours ago, handcuffed, searched and jailed for “causing a disturbance”.
I was just released moments ago.
I wasn’t causing a disturbance — I was standing by myself on a public sidewalk, silently filming a grotesque pro-Hamas mannequin in a Jewish neighbourhood — a reenactment of Hamas leader Yayha Sinwar. It would be like someone reenacting Hitler — and police were stopping me from filming it.
I was pushed away from it by one officer. And another officer, named Macduff, said if I didn’t go to a special “free speech zone” they’d set up far away, I’d be arrested. I told him Canada was my free speech zone, I was a citizen and taxpayer, and I would not get off the sidewalk.
Macduff said that was causing a reaction. I said the hysterical reaction of foreign thugs who hate Jews (and most other Canadians) doesn’t give them a veto over my Charter rights.
Macduff said he “was the law”. I told him no, he was a servant of the law. So he arrested me and had me taken to jail. I was just released and I’ll have more to say — including in a lawsuit against Macduff and @TorontoPolice for violating my rights and refusing to protect me.
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Welcome to Justin Trudeau's Canada.
Canada is not a free country anymore.
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A free speech zone implies everywhere else in Canada is not a free speech zone
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Canada is truly in a state of doom, as far as I am concerned. Those terrorists are roaming free while praising terrorist organizations and threatening Jews, and you're being arrested for doing absolutely nothing. Madness.
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Our leaders now work for Hamas.
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Same thing basically happened with @OsherFeldman in Australia. Antisemitism is everywhere. I'm sorry.
Police officers "just following orders" are enemies of the people.
Bump for later.
So sad
Free speech zone = oxymoron.
The USA is a free speech zone.
If you carve out free speech zones, that means the rest of the US in now...
Completely unconstitutional.
A creation by the buerocracy, for the buerocracy, and supported by George W. I can’t believe I once supported that guy.
Canada is truly in a state of doom, as far as I am concerned. Those terrorists are roaming free while praising terrorist organizations and threatening Jews, and you’re being arrested for doing absolutely nothing. Madness.
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Our leaders now work for Hamas.
How horrible.
Same thing is happening in UK, it appears.
Just sickening.
Hey man, I know you for a while on the board so I know you’re on the up and up.
I wish I didn’t.
That’s a very disheartening thing...and obviously no fun at all for you.
It’s frightening on a level too.
People will follow orders to keep their jobs...and their roof and food on the table...etc.
It should send a chill up everyone’s spine.
We are not out of the woods in the US yet.
Sorry for your lousy day.
Make sure to have friends to film you filming in case the police get out of hand. Then have someone filming him in case you both get arrested. It’s like having hidden security cameras watching your obvious cameras to take pictures of the police destroying, covering or reaiming them.
At least he was willing to make a stand and sacrifice for what is right. Not too many here in the US are willing to do that.
If organizations like the ACLU were actually about “civil liberties,” this is the sort of stuff they would go after.
Canada has fallen. May they never win the Stanley Cup again.
Huh? It looks like George76 is just reporting Levant’s post on X. Not that he is Levant.
Justine Castreau’s Canada ….
Very disturbing news from our neighbors to the North, but we need to clean up our own backyard.
Canada is sister to the UK....hand in glove.
Ezra Levant is Mark Steyn’s old ideological partner. I’m sure Mark will comment on this.
Thank you.
Ezra Levant is the author, not me.
Yup.
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The ACLU is not about civil liberties and Planned Parenthood is Not about Parenthood..
These are political platforms hijacked by the Alinsky Left.
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