00:00The Prime Minister commented today during the post-Cabinet media conference about foreigners
00:04who have been coming to this country, going into specific areas and making videos and
00:09posting them online.
00:11He noted the case where one such visitor, who has been charged with sedition after having
00:16posted a series of videos on YouTube featuring interviews with alleged gang members.
00:23The people who are doing that, they're not doing it because they want to help us or they
00:27like us.
00:28They're doing it because it works for them.
00:32They get likes, and the more ridiculous, the more violent, the more shocking, the better
00:39for them.
00:40So they come and do it here.
00:41We are an open society.
00:43We are an open society, open to nationals and open to foreigners who are friendly to
00:48Trinidad and Tobago.
00:49Canadians, United States.
00:50If it wasn't him, it would have been somebody else.
00:53And if the question you want to ask is, how come he could find them and we can't find
00:57them, it's that they make themselves available to him, they don't make themselves available
01:05to the police.
01:06That's the first thing.
01:09The Prime Minister also spoke about the difference between information and evidence.
01:14While being an open society, we are governed by the rule of law, and our laws here permit
01:21certain things.
01:22You have to step very carefully.
01:26Information is not evidence.
01:27In the absence of evidence, you can't arrest people.
01:30And if you do arrest them, they have rights that you have to respect and so on and so
01:34on.
01:35So these are all part of a wider web.
01:38And I don't think the country should be embarrassed or ashamed about it.
01:43I don't think we should try to fight anybody over it.
01:48What we should do is try and learn from it and learn of it and ensure that our security
01:54people find these miscreants, whoever they are, because they are threatening all of us.
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