How Ezra Levant's bounty on doctors could end very, very badly.

Having been absolutely excoriated for his public $5,000 bounty on health care professionals, Rebel News' Ezra Levant does what he always does -- he doubles down on the stupid and blathers on, justifying his incredibly stupid idea:

This rule-following stuff? This lockdown stuff? This privacy-invading stuff? It’s just for you.

Being checked up on — it’s just for you.

And the moment anyone dares to ask the ruling class if they’re compliant? Holy hell.

They’re just not used to it, I guess. That’s what happens when 99 per cent of Canadian journalists are on Trudeau’s payroll, I guess. 

So is it actually fair to check whether the doctors who are advising on or setting public lockdown policy are following their own rules? You know, maybe it is, and if Ezra wants to offer thousands of dollars for evidence that that's happening, that might be typically sleazy and classless of him but, in the end, would it be newsworthy? Perhaps ... but here's the question I don't see anyone asking: What if someone provides alleged footage of that, hands it to Ezra, collects the bounty, and Ezra publishes it ... and it turns out to be completely wrong, thereby opening up several people to a massive lawsuit of harassment, invasion of privacy and malicious defamation?

Here, let me give you an example.

Let's imagine one of the Ezra's dimbulb followers decides to try to collect that bounty, so he parks himself across the road from said doctor's residence, and begins filming, hoping to catch said doctor allowing more than, say, the limit of 10 people inside for a holiday party. Dimbulb follower (let's call him "Adam" for the hell of it) waits patiently until, here we go, three people come walking around the nearest corner, up to the house, up the sidewalk and ring the doorbell, whereupon they are invited in, and the door closes.

"Awesome," thinks Adam, "that's three," carefully making notes. And another half hour passes, whereupon two cars pull up and unload -- four people from each car, total of eight -- all of whom similarly enter the front door of the house, to the sound of holiday revelry inside. "Bingo!", thinks Adam, with the damning lockdown-violating footage that he promptly emails to Rebel News, which is just as promptly published with a suitably damning headline, resulting in the doctor being on the receiving end of harassment, insults and the occasional death threat ... all based on a mistake ...

... because imagine that the first three people arrived on foot from around the corner because they had parked in the alley behind the house, and were just there to collect the snowblower they had purchased on Kijiji, whereupon they simply wandered through the house to the back door, then out to the garage where they bundled their new snowblower onto the back of a pickup truck and drove off, totally out of sight of the snitch waiting out front in the street.

Whoopsie.

And is this scenario that hard to believe? The "journalists" at Der Rebel already have a reputation as being pathetically sloppy in terms of confirmation and corroboration; imagine, then, the screaming incompetence of Rebel News' faithful followers, who are guaranteed to fuck up almost everything they touch, and it would surprise absolutely no one if they made a total mess of something like surveillance, thereby inspiring Rebel News to publish a wildly inaccurate and defamatory article.

It would be easy enough for someone with legitimate journalistic skills to screw up something like this; to count on the accuracy of someone who reads Rebel News on a regular basis to get something like this correct is really asking for a fucking holiday miracle.