Confronting Gender Violence: Lessons from the Montreal Massacre and Media Bias
Show Notes
Is society ignoring the lessons of the past, allowing history to repeat itself? Join us as we confront the chilling reality of the Montreal massacre at Polytechnique and examine the media's often misplaced focus. Fourteen women fell victim to a brutal act of gender-targeted violence, yet we question why stories like these fade into the background while less pressing headlines dominate the news. This episode challenges listeners to reflect on societal priorities and consider the broader implications for crime and security in our interconnected world.
00:00:03.349 --> 00:00:16.931 Normally in the Rant Network, we would probably start off with some sarcastic remark we would probably be you know foolish joking, make some stupid comment about my shirt, or I would make some comment about you know, his lack of hair something stupid.
00:00:16.931 --> 00:00:29.754 But on December, the 6th 1989, I was at the University of Western Ontario and I get a phone call asking where I am from my family overseas, wondering if I'm okay.
00:00:29.754 --> 00:00:44.631 And I had no idea in the days where the internet was primitive and news was not available on the net, didn't have a cell phone to get a notification that in my hometown of Montreal, one of the largest massacres in a school had occurred.
00:00:44.631 --> 00:00:55.746 One of the largest massacres in a school had occurred 14 women.
00:00:55.746 --> 00:00:58.359 14 women murdered by a maniacal, misogynistic hater.
00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:03.463 A makhlapin shot dead 14 women, 10 women were injured and four men were injured as well.
00:01:04.765 --> 00:01:18.435 On this day, though, rather than the media focusing on what's important, it continues its pursuit of Donald Trump, not of what matters to you and me.
00:01:18.435 --> 00:01:20.516 Welcome back to the Rent Network.
00:01:20.516 --> 00:01:22.662 I'm David Solomon, he's Stuart Brzgal.
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00:01:48.875 --> 00:01:54.215 Stuart, I don't know where you were on that day, but this day means a lot to me.
00:01:54.596 --> 00:02:02.653 It's very painful to know that someone could have walked in to any school with a gun.
00:02:02.653 --> 00:02:05.394 Back then they changed the laws in Canada on gun control, unlike what you have south of the border.
00:02:05.394 --> 00:02:05.530 They with the gun.
00:02:05.530 --> 00:02:08.366 Back then they changed the laws in Canada on gun control, unlike what you have south of the border.
00:02:08.366 --> 00:02:23.388 They changed the laws but Maklapin, jealous of the fact that this was his motive, that he didn't get into engineering school at Polytechnique at the University of Montreal and he thought women should not be allowed.
00:02:23.388 --> 00:02:27.631 This man, nobody wanted to say, came from Muslim descent.
00:02:27.631 --> 00:02:34.312 To this day, even on Wikipedia, they bury that fact.
00:02:34.312 --> 00:02:42.680 Stuart, I don't know about you, but the media seems to ignore this important story, let alone other things that are going on in the world.
00:02:43.222 --> 00:02:45.269 Well, david, the whole woke.
00:02:45.269 --> 00:03:08.615 Why he went after women, allegedly, was because they prioritized women into the program to introduce them as the entrance on not who's best, but who's more diverse, and tried to create the palette which is now known as woke and, to be brutally honest with you, it is, you know, the best of the best.
00:03:08.615 --> 00:03:10.086 Do you want the second best surgeon?
00:03:10.086 --> 00:03:11.609 Do you want the second best engineer?
00:03:11.609 --> 00:03:13.907 Do you want the second best anything?
00:03:13.907 --> 00:03:15.366 The answer should be no.
00:03:15.366 --> 00:03:17.806 I mean, are you willing to settle for second best?
00:03:17.806 --> 00:03:20.407 Maybe, but do you want the second best?
00:03:20.407 --> 00:03:25.508 Probably not, especially if your life depends on it and the world buries the facts.
00:03:25.508 --> 00:03:27.463 It voids them in the press.
00:03:27.463 --> 00:03:30.109 It doesn't want you to think about this.
00:03:30.109 --> 00:03:41.447 The same way, it doesn't want you to think about the crime that's occurring in all these woke cities, whether they're in the United States, canada, france, germany, england.
00:03:41.447 --> 00:03:45.775 They don't want you to see the radical change.
00:03:45.775 --> 00:03:52.498 You know shops getting cops getting shot in the street, women, 14 women.
00:03:52.498 --> 00:03:58.810 You know there have been massacres in schools throughout time, from the 18th, 19th century, 20th century.
00:03:58.810 --> 00:04:00.200 It is not uncommon.
00:04:00.200 --> 00:04:12.028 What was really unique about Polytechnique was 14 women targeted women, not 15 people like in 1989, the Columbia massacre.
00:04:12.028 --> 00:04:22.863 It was very different, but the total number of incidences listed between 17th, 18th and 19th and 20th century is 360.
00:04:22.863 --> 00:04:26.430 It's not a modern occurrence, david.
00:04:26.430 --> 00:04:30.562 This has been going on for 300 years in the United States, documented.
00:04:31.584 --> 00:04:34.699 So I ask you, is it because of gun control?
00:04:34.699 --> 00:04:35.685 Chances are are not.
00:04:35.685 --> 00:04:38.439 Is it probably because of some sort of mental health?
00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:39.242 Maybe?
00:04:39.242 --> 00:04:41.629 I think it's a strong possibility.
00:04:41.629 --> 00:04:42.531 And what?
00:04:42.531 --> 00:04:43.595 What just happened?
00:04:43.595 --> 00:04:47.362 United healthcare ceo was gunned down by an assassin in the street.
00:04:47.362 --> 00:04:50.947 Maybe, just maybe.
00:04:50.947 --> 00:04:56.648 How people are dying in canada, left right and not being able to get to certain health care.
00:04:56.648 --> 00:04:59.081 Certain doctors don't exist there.
00:04:59.081 --> 00:05:04.848 The wait list is years long to slowly get through the program.
00:05:05.735 --> 00:05:08.625 At the end of the day, let's not focus.
00:05:08.625 --> 00:05:13.887 It's not about gun control, because gun control has been proven not to work.
00:05:13.887 --> 00:05:15.447 It's like the war on has been proven not to work.
00:05:15.447 --> 00:05:17.577 It's like the war on drugs proven not to work.
00:05:17.577 --> 00:05:21.468 The war on terrorism proven not to work.
00:05:21.468 --> 00:05:26.822 The war on Donald Trump well, we now know that didn't work either.
00:05:26.822 --> 00:05:40.430 Not that Donald Trump has anything to do with it, but the United States are actually floating and and it may actually pass a federal weapons permit that will allow you to carry a weapon anywhere in the United States.
00:05:41.154 --> 00:05:50.603 In Texas, there are model cities where crime is zero because everyone has a gun that wants one, and the criminals aren't the only ones with guns.
00:05:50.603 --> 00:05:52.822 Go in the streets of Montreal.
00:05:52.822 --> 00:05:54.161 Go in the streets of Toronto.
00:05:54.161 --> 00:05:58.439 Very rarely do you read the gun report of how many shootings there have been.
00:05:58.439 --> 00:05:59.642 Did you know?
00:05:59.642 --> 00:06:04.540 Guns are illegal for the most part in Canada, in most parts, unless a hunting rifle.
00:06:04.540 --> 00:06:09.036 Yet there are millions of handguns running around and AK-47s.
00:06:09.036 --> 00:06:11.321 Is it because they came up from the US?
00:06:11.321 --> 00:06:22.422 No, they're smuggled in from Asia, russia, all over the world, through St Lawrence, seaway, through British Columbia, vancouver and from the United States.
00:06:22.422 --> 00:06:24.922 Maybe it's because it's not a secure border.
00:06:24.922 --> 00:06:25.884 I don't know.
00:06:25.884 --> 00:06:28.704 David, I'm getting way off topic again.
00:06:29.997 --> 00:06:42.790 But I'm tying this all in these 14 women 35 years ago gave their life to a Muslim person who went ballistic because a woman was chosen before a man.
00:06:42.790 --> 00:06:43.831 I don't know.
00:06:43.831 --> 00:06:49.028 I think that's probably the first woke incident of the modern era.
00:06:50.817 --> 00:06:57.829 Well, listen, I'm going to tell you that I don't necessarily agree with what you just said, that it was a woke decision.
00:06:57.829 --> 00:07:03.348 I don't know if I agree that it was a woke decision, and I think it's just a question of and this is what he claimed.
00:07:03.348 --> 00:07:06.182 He claimed that he was picked before a woman.
00:07:09.696 --> 00:07:10.800 Women was picked before him.
00:07:11.021 --> 00:07:11.463 That's right.
00:07:11.463 --> 00:07:15.221 Even post-Polytechnic, that question came up and the answer was no, that's not it.
00:07:15.221 --> 00:07:18.247 He did not have the cred to get into the program.
00:07:18.247 --> 00:07:19.569 It was irrelevant.
00:07:19.569 --> 00:07:25.427 His cred was published back afterwards and sure enough he would have not made the program.
00:07:25.427 --> 00:07:26.677 So it's really.
00:07:26.677 --> 00:07:32.718 I don't believe it was woke, stuart, and I don't think that the University, montreal at the time, was going down that road.
00:07:32.718 --> 00:07:34.800 But I'll tell you what I'm frustrated about.
00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:36.403 The University of Montreal at the time was going down that road.
00:07:36.403 --> 00:07:41.930 But I'll tell you what I'm frustrated about, and that is the attention to what other violence happens to women, and it's ignored and tucked under the rug.
00:07:41.930 --> 00:07:47.232 Stuart, women are raped.
00:07:47.232 --> 00:07:52.637 I mean, we went through a Me Too movement which decided to pick okay, he decided to pick.
00:07:52.637 --> 00:07:53.798 You know what stories are worthwhile.
00:07:53.798 --> 00:07:55.560 He decided to pick you know what stories are worthwhile.
00:07:55.581 --> 00:08:22.706 And during the Me Too movement, many credible individuals went to jail, were canceled, and that movement was powerful, but it was to the point where it, you know where it tipped okay, where it tipped and gave you know, it emboldened certain people to to, to you know, falsely accuse men do that and and so like.
00:08:22.706 --> 00:08:22.966 There's this.
00:08:22.966 --> 00:08:26.297 No conversation was allowed to be had about what we?
00:08:26.297 --> 00:08:27.120 You know what we do.
00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:36.307 You have the whole issue today of transgender sports, where a biological male comes to play sports with women, identifies as a woman.
00:08:36.307 --> 00:08:38.884 I mean, we've seen this story, stuart, during our years of doing this.
00:08:38.884 --> 00:08:49.605 Guys who decide they're going to go into sorority and say, yeah, yeah, I'm a girl, identify as a girl, I'm transitioning to a girl, and they're really excuse me, you know, pleasuring themselves.
00:08:49.605 --> 00:08:54.456 Not saying all of them, but there are a lot of them and we see it again and again and again.
00:08:54.456 --> 00:09:17.931 You know sports, you know, in sports, what we're seeing with the women here, you know, but if you have that conversation, even Martina Navratilova, who was one of the first athletes, female athletes, to come out and say I'm gay and got ripped for being too masculine, like we are such a hypocritical society.
00:09:18.390 --> 00:09:27.581 Okay, and as you continue to pump into my feet here about Mark LePin, you know, and I'll let you go into that the reality is, stuart, that the media picks and chooses.
00:09:27.581 --> 00:09:38.842 What is the story of the day when it comes up to this, and while the world you know, we, we taught, you know, we, we taught you know we have governments falling in Europe, we have problems in Africa, whatever, on this day.
00:09:38.842 --> 00:09:52.519 I'll give you another example, and it's again the women who were murdered, raped and I talked about this on Wednesday in Israel do not get any mention.
00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:54.921 When it comes up to this day, it's foreboding.
00:09:54.921 --> 00:10:03.875 Now, here in Montreal, this is a very, very problematic day, because this is when we let women down.
00:10:03.875 --> 00:10:05.764 We let society down.
00:10:05.785 --> 00:10:08.746 Now, by the way, stuart, I'm going to give you a crazy statistic, because this is when we let women down.
00:10:08.746 --> 00:10:09.187 We let society down.
00:10:09.187 --> 00:10:16.730 Now, by the way, stuart, this I'm going to give you a crazy statistic Montreal has more school shootings than any other city in North America.
00:10:16.730 --> 00:10:17.889 We've had three.
00:10:17.889 --> 00:10:20.571 Okay, and what do we do?
00:10:20.571 --> 00:10:23.231 Nothing Can't have the conversation.
00:10:23.231 --> 00:10:26.253 The media won't have the conversation, right?
00:10:26.253 --> 00:10:30.014 So you know, let me wrap this up and I'll throw the back to you.
00:10:30.014 --> 00:10:38.376 The problem with this media today is that they think still like arrogant politicians.
00:10:38.376 --> 00:10:43.119 These arrogant media still believes what you and I should be talking about.
00:10:43.119 --> 00:10:45.360 They're not interested in the real stuff.
00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:47.500 They're not interested in what impacts women.
00:10:47.500 --> 00:10:51.621 They're interested in what impacts them with their woke agenda.
00:10:52.062 --> 00:10:54.243 All right, david, you know, guns don't kill people.
00:10:54.243 --> 00:10:55.203 People kill people.
00:10:55.203 --> 00:10:58.696 Correct, yes, and the left?
00:10:58.756 --> 00:10:59.681 hates when you say that.
00:10:59.681 --> 00:11:01.291 The left hates when you say that, by the way.
00:11:02.849 --> 00:11:03.913 Let me get to the facts here.
00:11:03.913 --> 00:11:10.437 This guy legally purchased a gun a month earlier, on November 21st, from a store.
00:11:10.437 --> 00:11:11.379 Legally, Okay.
00:11:11.379 --> 00:11:13.912 Now where is this taught?
00:11:13.912 --> 00:11:22.793 Okay, the investigation learned that he had been around the school a week earlier Scouting the school, planning the thing Scouting yep Okay.
00:11:23.427 --> 00:11:24.230 He's born.
00:11:24.230 --> 00:11:26.495 His father is in algeria.
00:11:26.495 --> 00:11:36.639 You know the family taught the children, the, the son mark levin, and the sister that women are not equal to men.
00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:39.950 They are non-baptized christians, right.
00:11:39.950 --> 00:11:45.538 So they in all intents and purposes were being raised in a Muslim-leaning family.
00:11:45.538 --> 00:11:51.893 Because his sister, nadia right, was given instructions that women aren't as good as men.
00:11:51.893 --> 00:11:57.417 So the anger against women and the vitriolness was taught at the home.
00:11:58.085 --> 00:11:59.048 But why isn't this story?
00:11:59.048 --> 00:12:00.393 Why hasn't this story?
00:12:01.167 --> 00:12:03.855 David, but this is why I'm bringing up the facts.
00:12:03.855 --> 00:12:09.595 They want to write the narrative, to sell airtime and get paid commercials.
00:12:09.595 --> 00:12:16.976 That's it, that's all, and that is, frankly, the disgusting part about modern news.
00:12:16.976 --> 00:12:22.697 In fact, news should be removed and stricken from every single broadcast that's out there.
00:12:22.697 --> 00:12:24.471 Fox News take it down.
00:12:24.471 --> 00:12:26.350 Cnn News take it out.
00:12:26.350 --> 00:12:31.289 It's editorial, it's not news, and that's just the truth.
00:12:31.289 --> 00:12:33.933 The news is facts.
00:12:33.933 --> 00:12:35.677 John went into the school.
00:12:35.677 --> 00:12:37.659 John shot 16 people.
00:12:37.659 --> 00:12:47.953 John grew up in a house of a Muslim descent father with an ideology that was women are less equal than men and men deserve more than women.
00:12:47.953 --> 00:12:51.250 And he shot up a damn school because he was inadequate.
00:12:51.250 --> 00:12:55.366 I don't know mental health, I mean where, where?
00:12:55.366 --> 00:12:55.727 Why did?
00:12:55.727 --> 00:12:57.251 Why wasn't that in the news, David?
00:12:57.832 --> 00:12:58.114 You know what?
00:12:58.114 --> 00:13:05.692 Because, stuart, at the time and I remember when I was working at the newspaper the, the editor I was with he's the one who brought it to my attention I said, you know, I never heard.
00:13:05.692 --> 00:13:06.855 And this was like in the late.
00:13:06.855 --> 00:13:08.948 This is like 2009,.
00:13:08.948 --> 00:13:10.793 Right, so 2009,.
00:13:10.793 --> 00:13:11.755 He says hey, did you know?
00:13:11.755 --> 00:13:13.908 You know about Mark LePin's background?
00:13:13.908 --> 00:13:16.014 Like no, the news buried it.
00:13:16.014 --> 00:13:23.499 And he said, for years he fought the idea that the news buried an important part of the story.
00:13:23.499 --> 00:13:32.774 And this is exactly what we've seen time and time again distorted news and, by the way, it's not even news, like you said, it's opinion and everything's an alert.
00:13:32.774 --> 00:13:34.076 No news alert.
00:13:34.076 --> 00:13:37.514 Everything's breaking news when in reality, nothing's breaking.
00:13:37.514 --> 00:13:46.325 Slow down, but the media has literally twisted the story.
00:13:47.086 --> 00:14:04.215 They frame the actions of this, as society's changes led to the increased poverty and powerlessness of the individual, the isolation between man and oh my God- this is such nonsense it's disgusting.
00:14:04.777 --> 00:14:06.469 You know what If someone was today?
00:14:06.469 --> 00:14:13.216 Now listen, this was 35 years ago, so kids in university don't even know about it, haven't heard about it, don't know.
00:14:13.216 --> 00:14:14.549 All of a sudden they're waking up this morning going.
00:14:14.549 --> 00:14:15.413 What are you talking about?
00:14:15.413 --> 00:14:17.393 There was a mass shooting in a university.
00:14:17.393 --> 00:14:19.351 Oh, it must have been a hateful man.
00:14:19.351 --> 00:14:23.105 He was a hateful man, but he was Muslim, he was on Muslim descent.
00:14:23.105 --> 00:14:24.107 Oh, you can't say that.
00:14:26.831 --> 00:14:31.759 Although they say the father was Muslim, the kids were Spare me, spare me.
00:14:33.707 --> 00:14:34.070 You know what?
00:14:34.070 --> 00:14:34.426 Listen.
00:14:34.426 --> 00:14:37.014 If you want to go down that road, fine, so I'll tell you what.
00:14:37.014 --> 00:14:38.791 You still have values.
00:14:38.791 --> 00:14:42.634 You're still being taught something at home, and if you're going to bury that, Exactly.
00:14:46.164 --> 00:14:47.248 You were taught that all women are not equal to men.
00:14:47.248 --> 00:14:47.609 You know what?
00:14:47.609 --> 00:15:01.749 Burying that story and on this day, when these 14 women should be 35 years into their career or thereabouts, they're dead and the survivors have survivor guilt and it's unbelievable to what extent you know.
00:15:01.749 --> 00:15:02.571 It's horrifying.
00:15:02.571 --> 00:15:06.602 But let me tell you something, stuart watch the news cycle.
00:15:06.602 --> 00:15:16.688 You tell me how many broadcasters in the United States are going to identify today as International Women's Day of violence to women.
00:15:16.688 --> 00:15:18.253 You'll see virtually nothing.
00:15:18.253 --> 00:15:22.533 And with that, ladies and gentlemen, stuart wants me to wrap up another week of the Rant Network.
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