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Dennis Prager Podcasts

The Dennis Prager Show 20220217 – 1 Taking Away for Liberty

Dennis Prager Podcasts

Salem Podcast Network

News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.5 β€’ 2.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It’s not easy to take away freedoms, but once you start it becomes easier and easier. We’re watching this in real time in Canada… Dennis talks to Ryan Walters, a historian who teaches at Collin College in Texas. His new book is The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding. The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding.

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0:36.0

Hi everybody and welcome to the Dennis Prager show. It's already Thursday. You already know my theory.

0:43.1

Life goes by by the week. Very scary things are happening in Canada.

0:49.3

I wrote at the very beginning of the pandemic. I'll get you the month exactly.

0:59.6

I remember the title of my column. Dress rehearsal for a police state.

1:07.3

And I was right. Once you allow people to take your rights away,

1:12.8

it's like every act in life, every evil act, every sin if you will to put it

1:22.1

theologically. The first time is quite hard. And then after that, it becomes progressively easier.

1:33.4

My assumption is that the first time one is unfaithful to one's spouse is extremely difficult.

1:41.6

The fifth time is extremely easy. The first time you take away people's rights for the first time in

1:50.0

that country's history, basic rights of assembly, of speech, of religious liberty. There's a slight

2:02.4

hesitation, although I'm on the part of the left, I'm not even sure that that's true. And then it

2:08.0

becomes progressively easier. And so it was, as I said, a dress rehearsal for a police state.

2:19.1

Canada is now a police state. I'm going to read to you. This is not from a right-wing

2:24.5

source. Moreover, this is from the CBC, a left-wing source, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

2:32.8

The headline, banks are moving to freeze accounts linked to convoy protests. Do you hear that?

2:43.2

Banks. Here's what you need to know, emergency act directs financial institutions

2:54.4

to cut ties with some people. The government of Canada is telling banks to cut ties with some people.

3:06.8

Tucker Carlson made the point that the media and the State Department are utterly contemptuous

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