‘To whom shall I apologize?’ Freedom Convoy defendants accept house arrest without ‘remorse’



After a trial lasting two years and one month, Ontario Justice Heather Perkins-McVey on Tuesday handed down conditional sentences to Freedom Convoy organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich.

Barber received 12 months of house arrest followed by a six-month curfew.

'I told Lawrence that day that I’ll serve 100 years in prison before I will ever apologize.'

Lich was sentenced to twelve months of house arrest and an additional three and a half months of curfew — reduced from six months because she has already spent 74 days in custody. Both must complete 100 hours of community service.

The judge granted exceptions allowing Barber to continue his trucking work.

'Absence of remorse'

Perkins-McVey rejected an absolute discharge for either defendant, citing “an absence" of remorse. At the same time, she averred that the years-long prison sentences sought by prosecutors — eight for Barber and seven for Lich — would be “unfit." The pair had been found guilty April 3 of mischief charges.

In a video posted to X, Barber thanked supporters:

We're still here, and I just wanted to reach out to everybody and say thank you very much for all the support.

I've officially lost control of the inboxes on all accounts. I cannot keep up with the messages of support, but I will do my best on the way home to respond to each and every one of you. I just had to come on here and say thanks.

I'm going to sum up what my mother said to me yesterday after court:

"Son, I would rather have you home safe for 18 months than have you sit in a jail cell for six."

I agree with her. I can still work. I can still do the farm duties. I mean, there's worse places to be than on the farm, where I have property and I can get some work done and I can still truck.

So again, thank you very much everyone for the support out there. We really appreciate it. It's been quite the ordeal, and I think we've woke a lot of people up around the country, and we continue to wake these people up to … exactly what happened and how the government acted and is still acting.”

No regrets

Lich later posted on X:

Lawrence and I discussed remorse in a meeting at his office prior to our sentencing hearing in July. I told him I would not, and could not, express remorse as it would be dishonest and disingenuous.

To whom shall I apologize? The thousands of Canadians who stopped planning to take their own lives when the convoy started? To the thousands … who were able to return to their jobs? Or should I apologize to all the Canadians who can kiss their dying loved ones or have their families over for Thanksgiving?

I told Lawrence that day that I’ll serve 100 years in prison before I will ever apologize.

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Chris Barber

'Lawful protest'?

Official opposition leader Pierre Poilievre took to X to comment on the verdict:

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber peacefully protested the imposition of emergency measures that the Federal Court found to be unlawful and unconstitutional. Instead of pursuing rapists, drug dealers and other monsters, the Crown sought lengthy prison sentences. Justice Perkins-McVey rightly rejected the Crown's request, and sent Tamara and Chris home to their families. We must get to a justice system that ensures the security and freedom of all Canadians.

Perkins-McVey said she relied heavily on victim-impact statements to determine the extent of the convoy's disruption of business and day-to-day life in downtown Ottawa. She was careful to stress the nonviolent and accommodating nature of the protest.

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Vaccine mandates ‘unlawful’: Pete Hegseth rights Joe Biden’s wrongs



Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has taken it upon himself to right the wrongs of the Biden administration, which unlawfully kicked service members out of the military after they refused to shoot themselves up with the COVID jab.

“We all know that the previous administration issued unlawful orders on mandatory vaccines, on an experimental vaccine — COVID-19. You know it. We know it. We’re doing everything we can, as quickly as we can, to reinstate those who were affected by that policy,” Hegseth said in a statement.

“It hasn’t been perfect, and we know that. We’re having an ongoing conversation with you to get it right, working with the White House as well. We want anyone impacted by that vaccine mandate back into the military. People of conscience, warriors of conscience — back in our formations,” he continued.


Hegseth then announced that he signed a memorandum that directs the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness to “provide additional guidance to the boards that are reviewing these cases concerning the review of requests from service members and former service members adversely impacted by COVID-19 vaccine mandate.”

“The guidance also will facilitate the removal of adverse actions on service members solely for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, including discharge upgrades and less than fully honorable discharges for individuals separated for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine,” Hegseth explained.

Steve Deace of the “Steve Deace Show” is thrilled that Hegseth is declaring the mandate unlawful and getting those brave enough to refuse it back into the military.

“I want to say thank you to Pete Hegseth, man,” Deace says. “The key phrase for people, that you need to understand why it’s key, that Pete Hegseth said, ‘This was an unlawful order.’”

“Him saying that, and saying it on the record,” he continues, “that is essentially the secretary of defense saying, ‘I am tired of working through bureaucratic channels, and I’ve got too much to handle,' because what these bureaucrats do is take every one of these 8,000 service members and little by little try to bog them down and prove that the devil is in the details.”

“This is him testifying as a witness in any form of a proceeding, or in any filing, in court on behalf of those 8,000-plus military members. That’s why that is so key and vital,” he adds.

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Small doses add up: How Big Food and Big Pharma are poisoning YOU



Donald Trump is once again the president of the United States of America, and it’s thanks in no small part to the growing coalition of those who want to Make America Healthy Again — like RFK Jr.’s former running mate, Nicole Shanahan.

“It’s weird how you’ve kind of come towards the conservatives and so many conservatives have come towards you,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Podcast” tells Shanahan. “We’re not in separate corners any more; we have so much we agree on.”

“One of the core principles of health, too, is vitality and truth. Truth to yourself, truth to God, and that is something, I will say, that MAGA and the conservatives talk about very, very, successfully,” Shanahan agrees.

And one of those truths is that our food supply is anything but healthy.


“We are in a place now where Big Food is frightening,” Glenn says. “All this crap, you know, with the Red Dye No. 7. And I guess if I was only having Froot Loops and everything else I had didn’t have any red dye in it, maybe that bowl of Froot Loops that I have once a month, maybe I wouldn’t get affected.”

“But this is the accumulative effect, right? It’s in everything, and that’s the problem. Because if I understand right, the food companies only have to say it’s not unhealthy at this dose,” he continues.

“Correct,” Shanahan comments.

“And that means a bowl of Froot Loops. It doesn’t mean plus the Hostess cupcakes and all of the other things that have that chemical in it,” Glenn says.

“Yeah, you know, the pharmaceutical companies gave them that playbook. That’s where that comes from. So there’s all of these residual contaminants in making drugs, and there’s some vaccines that use something that creates cyanide. It results in the creation of cyanide, and it’s micro, it’s a small amount, and so they say, ‘You’re stupid for thinking that could ever have an impact on a human, such a small amount,’” Shanahan explains.

“And so then they’ll use another one with a similar kind of standard,” she says. “Small amounts of contamination which can’t be detected are fine, as long as they’re, again, in small enough amounts the human body can just flush it out through their liver.”

“But if we do that now with a lot of our food, many of our medicines, including the aerosols we’re breathing from the cloud seeding,” she continues, “the threshold that your body can take in recovering from these exposures, it wears down over time.”

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ESPN’s failure to broadcast National Anthem at Sugar Bowl makes former anchor Sage Steele glad she left



From the time she was a child, Sage Steele wanted to be a sportscaster. And after years of climbing the ladder, she landed her “dream job” at ESPN in 2007.

Nearly 17 years later, however, it all came to a screeching halt when Steele left the sports network after settling lawsuits she filed against both ESPN and its owner, Disney.

What happened to make Steele leave the job she loved at one the top sports networks in the world?

Anyone who watches ESPN and/or Disney already knows the answer to that question. Wokeness is what happened.

“These [ESPN] executives talk so much about DEI and, you know, inclusiveness and accountability and accepting, and then when it came time for me to have my own opinions off the air on my private time — I never crossed that line; I was a sportscaster, not a political analyst — that's when I got punished. And when I got punished for being me when the others were allowed to talk about abortion on an NBA show, that's when I said, 'Okay, enough,'” Steele told Blaze News Tonight’s Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson at AmericaFest two weeks ago.

What opinions did Steele share that landed her in hot water with the network? It all started when on a podcast with Jay Cutler, Steele expressed her displeasure with being forced to get the COVID vaccine.

“That day that I recorded that podcast — mid-September 2021 — was the last day possible for me to become fully vaccinated to comply with ESPN/Disney's vaccine mandate policy. I waited to the very last moment to get it because I was contemplating walking away from my entire career over the jab,” she recounted. “I didn't have the ability to walk away financially, nor did I want to (I love my job), and so I literally came [to Cutler's podcast] from this stupid grocery store where I had gotten my shot sobbing because I felt forced.”

When Cutler asked her about the bandage on her arm and her tears, she candidly told him the truth: “I think it's sick and scary for any company, employer, business to force their people to do something to their bodies.”

Before she knew it, her assignments were taken away, and she was suspended and taken off the air. Thankfully, she didn’t bend the knee.

Although Steele calls the events that led to her departure from ESPN as “devastating,” she is grateful for the new path it has set her down.

“I have this crazy platform just from talking about sports. What a waste it would have been to stay quiet,” she told Jill and Matthew.

She is also glad to have her name removed from a company that due to “timing issues” didn’t broadcast the National Anthem at the Sugar Bowl last week, even though it was sung by New Orleans native Samyra in the wake of the Bourbon Street terrorist attack that left 14 dead.

In response to the scandal, Steele tweeted the following.

To hear more about Steele’s tumultuous exit from ESPN and the exciting path she’s leading now, watch the clip above.

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