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Pro-Hamas demonstrators in Toronto hit a new low after a bystander is brutally assaulted The goons who demonstrate in favour of the terrorist group Hamas continue to push the envelope when it comes to breaking the law of the land. That’s no surprise, really, given that the Toronto Police Service continues NOT to enforce the law of the land. And a truly gross incident happened in downtown Toronto recently near the corner of Yonge Street and Grosvenor Street. Kyle Boisselle was engaged in a discussion with one of the demonstrators when a young man ambushed Boisselle from behind. The hooligan sucker-punched Boisselle and then threw him to the ground, connecting with a flurry of punches to Boisselle’s head. During the fracas, Boisselle suffered a broken kneecap. And if a bystander hadn’t intervened, Boisselle could’ve been killed, given his attacker was so inexplicably enraged. Naturally, the attacker’s comrades in the pro-Hamas march found this brutal assault to be amusing. But of course they did – these reprobates support terrorism after all. Last Monday, the suspect turned himself in to police. Martin Salgatar, 20, of Mississauga, has been charged with aggravated assault. Rebel News recently returned to the scene of the crime to interview Kyle Boisselle, the day before he was scheduled for knee surgery. Boisselle told us he has no history with the attacker and has no idea who he is. What’s more, this brazen act of violence was truly disturbing given that it happened in broad daylight in front of several eyewitnesses, some of whom recorded the attack on their cellphones. Of note, the location of the attack is a mere five-minute walk away from Toronto Police headquarters. Yet the cops were inexplicably AWOL. Then again, this has been the issue for more than three years as hooligans continue to celebrate the slaughter of almost 1,200 innocent people in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Alas, too many politicians and police officers have turned a blind eye to anti-Jew and anti-Israel hate. We have witnessed the river-to-the-sea set chanting for genocide, displaying swastikas, cosplaying as terrorists, and even toting around replica hand grenades (at least we hope those things are replicas). And what do the police do? Well, on cold days, they deliver these kooks coffee and Timbits. Makes you wonder if the Toronto Police Service is actually being run by Hamas… In the weeks ahead, Rebel News will make sure to cover Salgatar’s first court appearance. We already know what he did; the camera doesn’t lie. But we’d love to know his motivation. REPORT by David Menzies:
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I'm on a plane to Ireland tonight. Tomorrow a man goes on trial for a tweet. I'm writing this from the airport. In a few hours I'll be in the air, and tomorrow morning I'll be sitting in the public gallery of Bray District Court, south of Dublin, for the trial of Kirk Loco. You may remember Kirk. He's an ordinary Irishman. Two years ago someone in that group posted a warning: a migrant man had exposed himself on a public bus, in front of a 14-year-old girl. The bus driver stopped the bus. There were half a dozen witnesses. It was on CCTV. Kirk did what any of us would do. He reposted the warning so other parents would know. The migrant wasn't charged. Kirk was. The Irish police charged him under a so-called "fake news" law, Section 12A of the Criminal Justice Act, 1976. It was passed during the Troubles to fight terrorist propaganda. It had never been used against anyone, in fifty years, until they used it on Kirk. He is the first and only person in Irish history to be prosecuted under it. They picked him because of his politics: he's a critic of mass immigration. They are making an example of him. Here's what has happened since. Kirk has been dragged into that courtroom in Bray again and again, almost ten times, for a single retweet. Each time he takes a day off, each time his lawyers prepare, each time the Gardaí (that's what the Irish call their police) turn up and the thing gets put off again. I've flown over for one of those hearings myself. In May the judge lifted an outrageous bail condition that had banned Kirk from attending any protest, anywhere in Ireland. That was a real win. But the same judge refused to order the police to hand over the bus CCTV or the names of the witnesses. The people who saw what happened on that bus could clear him in five minutes, and the state won't tell his lawyers who they are. Kirk said it best himself: "I just can't believe that I'm eight court appearances in for a retweet." That was in May. There have been more since. The process is the punishment. Even if Kirk wins tomorrow, he's already been punished for two years: the stress, the lost days, the cloud over his name, the ban on protesting. That's the point. It's not really about convicting Kirk. It's about making sure every other Irish person who sees something on a bus thinks twice before saying a word. Tomorrow is finally the trial itself. A full day. Kirk's barrister, Laoise de Brún, and his solicitor, Padraig Langsch, will fight it in open court. They are principled lawyers who refused to do what Irish legal aid lawyers do, which is tell you to plead guilty, pay the fine and go home. Kirk won't plead guilty to telling the truth. And then I'm staying on. Because four days later, on Tuesday, the same two lawyers are back in court in Wexford, for Hugh Fagan. Hugh is the man I wrote to you about this week: he sits quietly on a bench in his town square with homemade signs, wearing headphones, and for that he's charged with a public order offence. Same country, same pattern, same week. One man for a tweet, one man for cardboard. I'm going alone this time, no videographer, economy flight, cheap hotel, to keep the costs down. I'll live-tweet from inside both courtrooms (I'll be the only journalist there; RTÉ never shows up) and I'll film my own reports outside on the courthouse steps and send them to you the same day. Ireland's "fake news" law had never been used on anyone until Kirk Loco. If they get a conviction, it becomes the template. That's why this one trial matters far beyond one man. Kirk's trial is Friday, October 23 in Bray. Hugh Fagan's is Tuesday, October 27 in Wexford. One trip, two trials. REPORT by Ezra Levant 🍁🚛:
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Ireland put the tweeter on trial, not the groper I cannot believe the resources the state has mustered to go after a guy for making a tweet. I'm writing this on the lunch break of Kirk Loco's trial in Bray, County Wicklow, about an hour south of Dublin. Kirk is being prosecuted for a tweet warning young women about migrant men harassing girls on a public bus. The tweet was true. And the man he warned about was in the courtroom today as the prosecution's main witness. I can't identify him. He's a refugee claimant, and the lawyers and police warned me not to say anything that could reveal who he is. I'll say only that he needed an Arabic translator. He testified he did nothing wrong, that he was just looking for a place to plug in his phone. Then he said his phone fell on the floor, which is why he got up and sat down next to the teenage girls. He never explained why he moved from the seat in front of them to the seat beside them, blocking the aisle. According to the girl, he groped her, his belt was undone and his pants were so low his pubic hair was visible. She was so frightened she fled downstairs on the double-decker bus. How do we know all this? There were about 10 CCTV cameras on that bus. They show him moving back and forth around the girl. They show that when the bus stopped and it was clear he was in trouble, he went to the back and played possum. Thirty-eight seconds from chatting to another passenger to out cold. The driver testified he was obviously faking. Asked about that, he told the court: “I'm known as a very quick sleeper.” I've been to 100 trials in my life, maybe more, and I don't think I've ever seen a shiftier witness. He took two or three positions on every question and switched mid-answer. I don't think the judge was buying it either. Laoise de Brún, the barrister we're crowdfunding for Kirk, sliced and diced him on cross-examination. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. Then a senior Garda took the stand and talked about the refugee accommodation at Newtownmountkennedy. He described the migrant men there as “vulnerable.” Irish teenage girls are allegedly being harassed, and the men are the vulnerable ones? He also described an incident where men from that centre were filming young girls at a sporting event. His response was to have them delete the videos — he deleted the evidence. There's a term in psychology, DARVO: deny, attack, reverse victim and offender. That's what I watched today. The whole system is upside down. The hero of this story, according to the prosecution, is a man who admitted touching this girl and having his pants down. The villain is the man who warned the neighbourhood. This is Kirk's 10th court appearance. He faces possible jail. The trial is only half over, and I'll have more from inside the courtroom. If you want to help pay for Kirk's lawyers, and for Hugh Fagan, who goes on trial Tuesday, please go to I don't think I'm easily shocked. I've seen too much. But I have never seen anything like this. Ireland needs help. REPORT by Ezra Levant 🍁🚛:
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who represents the Wainwright area, flew in after the deadly fire at CFB Wainwright: "There are acts of courage that are almost unimaginable. People who ran towards rather than away from the danger and are now paying a cruel price fighting for their lives in hospitals."
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Ireland is prosecuting a man for his signs — I'm going back for his trial 🇮🇪 Hugh Fagan sits on a bench in Wexford with seven homemade signs and his headphones on. The Irish state has charged him with a public order offence. His trial is October 27, and Rebel News has hired him a lawyer. The Irish government is prosecuting a man for his signs. His name is Hugh Fagan. He lives in Wexford, a lovely little tourist town in the south-east of Ireland — cobbled streets, coffee shops, a medieval abbey. Most days he walks down to the town square, four blocks from his house, and sits on a bench with seven handmade signs propped up around him. He wears headphones. He doesn’t shout. He doesn’t hand out leaflets or ask anyone for anything. He isn’t a member of any party. If you want to talk to him, he takes the headphones off and talks to you — and he told me that happens every day. If you don’t, he just sits there. And for that, a summons came in the post. He’s charged with a public order offence. When I asked him which of the seven signs he was being charged over, he said the police hadn’t told him, that he’d find out in court. I (Ezra Levant 🍁🚛) sat with Hugh in the square this spring, when I was in Ireland for Kirk Loco’s case, and talked to him for 20 minutes. (It was filmed in May, so when Hugh says his hearing is “next week,” that was an earlier appearance. His trial is now set for Tuesday, October 27.) Let me tell you how he started. In May of last year, he was walking past a church near the Tesco on a Sunday. A funeral was coming out, the casket was being put into the hearse, and a beggar was lying across the entrance. Hugh said to himself, enough is enough, and the next week he was in the square with two signs; now, there are seven. They’re about mass immigration, about churches being burned down across Europe, about the safety of women and children, about the European Union. I’ll be honest with you: the signs are blunt. I read one of them out loud on camera, and I don’t agree with every word. Where I disagree, it’s with the style more than the substance — I’m worried about mass immigration too, and about what’s happening to women in Ireland. But even if I disagreed with all of it, that’s the point of freedom of speech. It’s the gift you give your opponents if you want it for yourself. Here’s what gets me. The Guards — that’s what the Irish call their police — get called on Hugh almost every week. People walk up to him and scream “racist” and “fascist” in his face. The buskers have told him to move. Pro-Palestine activists have told him “nobody wants you here.” Tourists have stood over him waiting for the Guards to come and arrest him. The local paper has written about him twice. None of those people have been charged with anything. The only person charged is the man sitting quietly on the bench. Hugh said something to me that stuck. “We’re living in the upside down at the moment,” he said. “What’s true is not true anymore.” By the way, Hugh told me he’s lived in four countries and never so much as had a parking ticket. He’s not a troublemaker. He’s an unusual man with an unusual way of making his point — I called him the Unreasonable Man, after Bernard Shaw’s line that all progress depends on the unreasonable man, and he liked that. It reminded me of my friend Chris Elston back in Canada — better known as Billboard Chris 🌎 — who stands on street corners with a sandwich board. Eccentric, maybe. Criminal? Come on. This is the pattern in Ireland now, and the more I look at it the more worried I get. Kirk Loco was charged under an anti-terror law for a tweet — for reposting a warning that a migrant had exposed himself to a teenaged girl on a bus. The migrant wasn’t charged; Kirk was. His next hearing is in Bray on October 23, four days before Hugh’s. And now a man with cardboard signs. The Taoiseach, Ireland's prime minister, goes abroad and calls the country a bastion of free speech. The Irish media cheer the prosecutions on. Nobody in Ireland is pushing back in an organized way. So we are. An old friend of mine used to say it’s easier to fight in the first ditch than in the last ditch. Hugh Fagan is the first ditch. If the state can shut up a quiet man with signs in a tourist town, it can shut up anyone. He’s the tripwire. If they get him, they move on to the next one, and the next. We’ve hired him a proper legal team: Laoise de Brún, a Dublin barrister, and Padraig Langsch, a solicitor. They’re the same lawyers defending Kirk. Their fee for Hugh’s case is €10,000 euros, all in. We’ve already paid half, through the Irish free speech crowdfund you’ve been supporting. The rest is due after the hearing. And I’ll be in Wexford District Court on October 27, in person, live-tweeting from inside and filming outside. I’ll be in Bray for Kirk four days earlier. One trip, two trials, and you’ll get a report from both courtrooms.
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