Randy Hillier Testifies Before US Senate Panel, For Some Reason
Randy Hillier Testifies Before US Senate Panel, For Some Reason
Mr. Hillier goes to Washington for a Republican senator’s conspiratorial COVID-19 panel
Former Ontario PC MPP Randy Hillier joined US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, far-right European parliamentarians and several prominent anti-vaxxers for a Republican senator’s conspiratorial COVID-19 panel.
The roundtable discussion, led by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, was titled: “Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel: What Are They Hiding?”
Sen. Johnson railed against “global elites” and “the overhyped fear over a virus they helped create in order to push a profitable gene therapy platform and gain greater control over our lives,” before introducing Hillier and other panelists as “dissident voices” who had “paid a heavy price for exercising their right to free speech.”
Hillier has been dealing with nine convoy-related criminal charges, including assaulting a police officer, mischief, counselling others to commit mischief and resisting or obstructing a police officer. Hillier has stated he intends to self-represent himself as his own lawyer at his upcoming trial.
Wisconsin Senator’s COVID conspiracy panel
Held in a congressional building on Washington D.C.’s Constitution Avenue, a media advisory billed the “panel discussion about the COVID Cartel coverup” as a “roundtable discussion” with “advocates, whistleblowers” and “experts”:
“Sen. Johnson and a panel of experts will expose the truth about how the COVID Cartel – federal health agencies, Big Pharma, legacy media, and Big Tech – engaged in censorship and coverups. This discussion will also shine a light on the failures and corruption of the global elite...”
Sen. Johnson is an ally of former President Donald Trump and has promoted a wide-range of conspiracies relating to COVID-19, climate change and the January 6 insurrection.
Other members of the panel of experts included:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a controversial GOP congressperson known for her past involvement in QAnon conspiracies.
Sorin-Titus Muncaciu, a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies who is an outspoken critic of COVID-19 vaccines.
Rob Roos, a far-right Dutch Member of the European Parliament who has a history promoting misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
Robert Malone, an anti-vaccine doctor who regularly appears on US right-wing media and has been flagged as a spreader of misinformation about vaccines and the COVID-19 virus.
Harvey Risch, a controversial Yale academic criticized in an open letter by fellow faculty for promoting hydroxychloroquine.
Jason Christoff, a Newfoundland-born podcaster and self-help guru who purports to be an expert on “brainwashing” and “mind control.”
Lara Logan, a former media personality “dumped” by FOX News who now embraces far-right conspiracies; Logan is also on the board of a group chaired by former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Randy Hillier claims government is hunting and punishing convoy supporters
Hillier’s testimony repeatedly and inaccurately portrayed himself and other convoy participants as victims of government tyranny.
During questions, Sen. Johnson asked about the government’s “persecutions of the truckers,” lamenting they had been “treated savagely.” Hillier replied by suggesting convoy participants are being “hunted down” by police and being subjected to malicious forms of legal “punishment” for speaking out:
Sen Johnson: “Can you describe some of the persecutions of the truckers? Because I thought that was, it was very difficult to watch, they inspired a trucker movement here in the United States as well, but it was really the Canadian truckers that had the courage to step forward and protest and they were treated savagely, weren’t they?
Hillier: “Oh absolutely. There was trucks vandalized by the authorities, there was physical abuse and violence, but then there was the lawfare that was applied and as the Chief of Police in Ottawa said, he said: ‘We are going to hunt all of you down’. During the convoy. And they have. There is people here this weekend that were hunted down and charged a year later who had trucks in Ottawa.”
Sen. Johnson: “Charged with what?”
Hillier: “Charged with mischief, obstruction, generally very trivial, catch-all criminal charges, but as we know senator, when you use the law with malice, you can make due process do punishment very quickly and that is what our authorities are doing in Ottawa, they’re not using the justice as a shield to protect individual freedoms and liberties, they are using it as a weapon to destroy people’s liberties.”
Neither former Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly nor Acting Chief Steve Bell ever said they planned to “hunt” convoy participants, although they did note police would investigate and identify those engaging in criminal activity.
Convoy was happiest time in Ottawa’s history
Hillier, who delivered a speech on Parliament Hill during the Freedom Convoy comparing it to the Battle of Vimy Ridge before declaring “this is the hill we die on,” told the panel that the convoy was a “joyful” and “most happy time”:
“There was never a threat to the security of the nation during the trucker’s convoy, because indeed, it was the most joyful, most family-friendly, most exuberant, most happy time that the City of Ottawa has ever seen in its history.”
Canadians are world leaders in resistance against public health, Randy Hillier says
In an email to supporters of his “No More Lockdowns” group this week, Hillier said his presentation in Washington shows “Canadian voices are being heard around the world”:
“Although our Canadian politicians and media are still playing ostrich, the rest of the world is awakening and taking notice.”
Hillier also revealed that he plans to submit a “factum of evidence” at the end of March to the judge in his criminal trial which he believes will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the “convoy was a necessary response to oppose the deadly and harmful mRNA jabs.”