EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ezra reports from the massive Irish protest against illegal immigration
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1 hour and 6 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of the largest anti-immigration protest in Ireland s history, Ezra takes us on a whistle stop tour of the country's immigrant tent cities and refugee camps to see what's going on, and who's to blame.
Transcript
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Tonight, I'm in Dublin for the largest anti-immigration march I've ever seen.
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It's May 7th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
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I'm standing on the street next to the river that courses through Dublin, Ireland.
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This majestic building behind me was the center of the largest anti-immigration march I've ever seen.
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I want to take you through some of the interesting things we saw today,
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the interesting places that we went, the interesting people we spoke to.
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And we're going to put this show outside the paywall,
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because it was crowdfunded in part by viewers who wanted to see what was going on,
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because they knew the mainstream media would not cover it.
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If you want to go to that website, it's called MigrantReports.com.
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So for the course of the next half hour, enjoy what we saw today in Ireland.
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I've touched down in Dublin, Ireland, for a whistle-stop trip
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to see what's going on with their migrant crisis.
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the largest anti-immigration march in Ireland's history will be happening.
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We want to see if indeed it is as large as its proponents say it will be.
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And how are they responded to by the pro-immigration factions,
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globalists, left-wingers, and the immigration industry,
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I have in my hand a copy of the Irish Independent.
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Demand for answers as new immigrant tent city grows.
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I'm standing in front of one of those tent cities.
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There's modern things, too, like over there, the electric company office.
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But there's squalor because in the last couple of years,
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Ireland has become the drop zone for a massive wave of migration.
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I learned from the Irish Independent that 100,000 of those migrants are from Ukraine,
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Millions of Ukrainians have been displaced because of the war.
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It's smaller in population than the greater Toronto area.
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And imagine taking 100,000 migrants, many of whom don't speak the language,
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In Canadian terms, Canada's eight times larger.
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That would be like nearly one million Ukrainians.
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not in big cities like Dublin, and certainly not in smaller towns.
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A few weeks ago, one such town called Newtown Mount Kennedy, excuse me,
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was going to be given a gift of hundreds of migrants.
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Locals were shocked by the idea, and they rioted.
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There have been cases of buildings that are scheduled to take migrants
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being torched by the locals to try and stop it.
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but the fact that people are driven to such ends
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suggests to me that the political system is not listening.
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the globalist prime minister of Ireland at the time, Leo Varadkar,
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he has since resigned, put forward two referendums
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that were so shockingly out of touch with the Irish people.
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One of them was to take the concept of motherhood
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Don't know if you know, but Ireland is a beautiful constitution
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and protecting women and their role as mothers.
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Leo Varadkar and the entire establishment voted to remove that
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I tell you that because although it sounds unrelated
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that likes to hang out at the Davos World Economic Forum meetings
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and swan around with the likes of Justin Trudeau,
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an out-of-touch elite versus ordinary Irish people
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I'm going to see if any of the people in this tent city want to talk.
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It doesn't look like many of them are up, but I'm curious.
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I suppose it's better to be here sitting in a tent next to a canal
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It's one of the things we'll ask and try and find out
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We got here on the overnight flight from Canada.
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It was sort of interesting that this was on the front page
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I just bumped into a cameraman from the state broadcaster here
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Being the state broadcaster and the left-wing government,
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It's still early, and everyone here seems to be sleeping in.
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But I see someone looks like he's just getting up now.
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and want to talk to us, I'm happy to talk to them.
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So obviously the folks here came through a second country.
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you have to present in the first safe country you arrive at.
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I don't know if they'll speak candidly around here,
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so I'll wait for people to come out themselves,
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Oh, it looks like he is going into one of the tents.
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I have sympathy for the people in these tents, obviously.
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And how do you feel with your current situation?
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hundreds of thousands more migrants being brought in?
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I want to ask you, please, don't film me, please.
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You just want to get your wages, man, you know?
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Well, there's a fellow who wasn't happy with us here.
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I don't think I'm in a position to help these folks, and I don't think that's my job.
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I think that's more the job of the Irish government.
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Perhaps he doesn't want attention being put on these people, but surely he can't think that this is good.
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I think that's for the Irish government to do, the Irish people to do.
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Perhaps he thinks that we're going to be biased in some way.
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I don't feel like I have a bias, other than I suppose my instincts are there's only so much absorption that a country can have.
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Ireland is obviously being taxed, and I think Canada is, too.
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Canadian immigration numbers used to be 250,000 people per year.
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Then Trudeau raised it to a third of a million per year, and everyone thought that was shocking.
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But we now know that in the last couple of years, it's actually hit more than 2 million, 900,000 of whom are students.
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Now, there's not room for 900,000 college and university students in Canada.
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It's an immigration sham that these diploma mills sell.
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So there's actually 2.2 million people who have been brought to Canada in a single year.
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We're having enormous absorption problems in Canada, and indeed, we are starting to see tense cities like that in our country, too.
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We were just walking down here, and a fellow was walking his dog, and he said, hey, Rebel News.
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He said he didn't want to appear on camera, so we turned it off.
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First of all, it's exciting to be recognized in a faraway place like Dublin.
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Second of all, I mean, he says something that I think I feel, too, which is you can't really blame the people who are here.
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If they were invited here especially, if they were made promises here, and then the government didn't have a place to put them.
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I don't know how easy it is to get to Ireland without the government's permission.
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What I mean by that is it's an island far away from the Middle East, far away from Ukraine, far away from Gaza, if that fellow was telling the truth earlier.
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So if you are here on this canal, which he says it's a beautiful canal, which it certainly is, but he says he's reluctant to walk on it because the garbage and sometimes even human excrement, he says.
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He says that it's the government's fault as much as anyone on the street, and I think he's right.
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We're going to head back this way now, and I see a few more people are up.
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I want to be careful that I don't get into any fisticuffs.
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It was sort of interesting to be accosted a few minutes ago by that one fellow with the scar on his face, and he's obviously angry about something, but I don't think I gave him any cause to be.
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Let's see if there's anyone else here who's more chatty and less angry.
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Can we talk to you a little bit about what's going on around here?
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We finished the circuit, and the guy we saw before with the scar on his face was not happy
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No real physical threats, but I think he was trying to be intimidating.
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That's not my purpose, and I don't really believe in violence.
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I talked to another fellow who was happy to talk with us a little bit, as long as the
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He said he arrived only in the last couple of weeks, and that he's claiming asylum.
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I asked him on what basis he's fleeing Pakistan, and he said he wouldn't tell me.
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I asked him what his prospects were, what he thought would happen.
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He said that he imagined he would stay in a tent situation or something like that for
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four or five months before being given free housing.
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I'm not sure who the fellow was who was swearing at us, but it appears to me that everyone in
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this encampment is from Pakistan or another Muslim country.
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I didn't see any Ukrainians, even though, according to the newspaper, there's been 100,000
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This appears to be an ethnically homogenous group of Muslims, and some of them were shy,
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some of them were just annoyed by us, and we didn't pester them, but that one guy was
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And I've got to say, if that's the face of immigration, of asylum seekers, it's easy to understand why
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I don't think I was provoking anything sort of the opposite.
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But sort of the angry, the rage, and I'll say this, every single person in a tent that
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we saw, and we didn't see everybody, obviously, a lot of the tents were closed, they were all
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So when you see some of the anti-immigration protesters say, this isn't immigration, this
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There have been refugees throughout the course of time.
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Refugees, in my mind, the mental image I have of a refugee is a woman or a child, not particularly
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A refugee, in my mind, is someone who is desperate and absolutely grateful for the hospitality they
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receive, not someone who's making threats and swearing and being insulting to the local
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I don't know if you saw it, but as we were walking around, there were a lot of young Irish
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people out jogging, including a lot of young women.
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The canal, which is basically a system of locks, is beautiful.
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I see a bunch of people going by on bicycles, even right now.
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That's based on safety and feeling confident that you're not going to be attacked.
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I felt a little bit unsafe there, to be honest.
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And I'm a guy with our cameraman, who's also a guy.
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If I was one of the young women who I've seen jogging or biking along here, I would certainly
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be careful, and I certainly hope nothing happens to them.
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However, we do know in recent months there have been cases of violence by migrants, and
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it's one of the reasons why the anti-immigration mood is rising in this country.
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I think we've seen everything there is to see here.
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I don't particularly want to get into the tents and annoy anybody.
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I think that one guy was furious for his own reasons.
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But I think what we can safely say about this encampment here is it wasn't Ukrainians.
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It was military-aged men from Pakistan or other Muslim countries who, if they talked to us,
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I had an interview cut short a little bit because I was holding things up.
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Newtown Mount Kennedy is that small town I was referring to of about 2,800 people.
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When the citizens tried to block it, the Gardai, which is the name of the Irish police,
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We were talking to a mom who said her daughter was brutally sprayed.
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And Newtown Mount Kennedy, a town of about 2,800 souls?
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I heard that there was quite a showdown the other day.
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My daughter that's standing here to the right of me, she was in the protest.
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I was always one for never wanting mobile phones in your face and everything.
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But if the mobile phones hadn't been there, my daughter was in a tent.
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She got sprayed pepper sprayed by the police, by the Gardai, and she was in the tent.
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Somebody was trying to clean her eyes and her husband.
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She had to, a good Samaritan came and took her through the back of the tent.
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They kicked over the fire, the Gardai, kicked over the fire.
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And her and her husband, and I'm not saying this like for a sensation.
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My father, when I was a little girl, told me about the black and tans.
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The black and tans were men that were took out of prisons in England to come to Ireland to fight the Irish.
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And they would go, my father's mother had a small farm.
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They went to that farm and they could take the poultry.
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Do they still plan to proceed in Newtown, Mount Kennedy?
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I would like to say, if I could now, and this is from a mother and grandmother.
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What are the government going to do for the people who are suffering with post-traumatic stress?
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It's very interesting to me to hear the chants and the slogans.
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That's a riff on the American Black Lives Matter.
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That's a typical labor organizing chant that's being co-opted by these people, too.
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It's very interesting to me to see the classism.
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We met a soldier today who said that this is about class as much as anything else.
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And that fighting spirit, you hear now a football chant, a soccer chant.
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You have the elite Davos class, the millionaire class, the jet set class, the UN class.
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One more piece of the puzzle, and I talked to that one gentleman about it, is so what party
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Back home in Canada, for a generation, there has been a uni party on the issue of immigration.
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The Conservatives opened the doors just as much as the Liberals did.
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You could say it's similar in other countries, like the United Kingdom.
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I think that there is perhaps a populist movement in Europe that has finally come to Ireland
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I want you to meet Ezra Levant from Rebel News in Canada.
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Brian Garrigan, representing the Irish people and all good people all over the world.
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We're concerned citizens, concerned fathers and mothers about undocumented men coming
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Yes, Ireland has to help genuine refugees, and we do.
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We don't have us coming into our country, and we need to look after our own.
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Now remember, the Irishmen all over the world, everywhere and built it.
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But the thing is, we went and we slept on couches.
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We got digs, we got jobs, we paid our way, we paid our own healthcare.
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And what's going on in some of the smaller places like Newtown Mount Kennedy?
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They're getting planted with people who are undocumented in such a small town.
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Kulak, we believe, is going to get between 1,000 to 1,500 undocumented men.
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There's enough problems in Kulak with drugs and with unemployment.
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We don't need the house to hold all people who don't belong here.
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There's no direct flight from here to Nigeria or from here to Pakistan.
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The mainstream media denounces people here as far-right or racist.
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Just because you stand up with a flag or you say you're a concerned citizen, straight away you're far-right.
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So I have nothing to say to the main media because they're never here.
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But we're here as a peaceful protest, as concerned parents.
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Remember, we have people like Paul McGrath, Phil Lynn who claim Irishhood,
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We just want to look after our own people and house our own force.
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Let me ask you, do you think anything will change?
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Because I'm an outsider, but it seems to me that all the parties in Ireland are for open borders immigration.
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In June of next month, there's new local elections all over Ireland, okay?
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So I'm running in Dublin inner sea, vote number one, Brian Garrigan.
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85% of people's concerns are about illegal immigration.
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And remember, we have to help genuine immigrants.
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I don't know what will become of this, but there's energy here and there's anger.
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There's a, to use an analogy, the parade is walking.
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Which politician will come in front of it to lead it now that it's already going?
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All of a sudden, the protest went silent as a mouse and everyone stopped.
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The reason was, this was a place where, if I'm not mistaken, a young child was stabbed.
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If it's the incident I'm thinking about, three young children.
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Three young children coming out of a crash, along with their care worker, were attacked by an Algerian migrant.
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That was just in the last few months, wasn't it?
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So, that was where it happened, which is why there was a moment of silence.
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Now, I was just asking myself the question, what comes from this?
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There's plenty of Irish who are upset by this, but where's the political party that would...
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Well, there are no political parties that support our position.
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There will be a number of independents standing in the European and local elections right across this country.
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There are political parties like IFP and National Party who support us.
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The mainstream political parties are totally out of touch with the ordinary people in this country.
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That was shown very clearly in the two most recent referendums.
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The European and local elections on the 7th of June here are a referendum on immigration.
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Because you actually had a referendum recently and the ruling class got smashed.
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I'm talking about the motherhood referendum and the care referendum.
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And it was a rejection by the people of woke liberalism.
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And it was, in fact, a referendum on immigration.
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Now, I understand that the new prime minister actually comes from the county in which Newtown-Mount-Kennedy is.
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He fully supports the destruction of our state.
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He has been somebody who's been in political office for the past 12 or 13 years.
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He's somebody who never had a real job in his life.
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I think there's more Irish people around the world than there are in Ireland, including the president of the United States.
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What does the Irish diaspora have an opinion on mass immigration?
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Well, all of our people who are abroad, many who are forced to go abroad, by the same parties who are still in governments because of economic necessity, fully support us.
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And when they come back here on holidays, for instance, from the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, they see the destruction of our country.
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And they see it's not the country that they left, and it's a country in a far worse state.
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It's nice to meet you, and thank you for your support.
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That's the neighborhood where we were, where that old paint warehouse is being proposed for a new migrant residence.
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Kulak, Newtown, Mount Kennedy, those are two of the flashpoints in the migration battle.
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I'm getting a vibe that I have in the UK with Tommy Robinson.
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And what I mean by that is working class people who have been left out by the system.
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I don't know enough about Ireland to make the comparison strongly, but the word class comes to mind.
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I think that these people are not politically cool.
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They're not the kind of people that the former Prime Minister Leo Varadkar would pose for in a photo.
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These are people who are the bedrock of Ireland, who have been ignored in Ireland, and who are speaking out for Ireland.
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We're part of a newly formed party called the Irish People.
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My name is Andy Heisman, and I'm running in the Europeans across Dublin.
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Oh, we stand for no open borders, education not indoctrination.
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We want to stand up for the farmers in Ireland.
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And also my main mission in running in the Europeans is getting us out of Europe.
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Yeah, we want to invoke Article 50 just like the British did and get out of Europe.
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And we want that to resound all over Europe because Europe has failed us.
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Holding their feet to the fire, they don't like it very much when you point the camera at them
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and ask them questions that they're not used to.
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I'm with the Irish people you just spoke to, Andy.
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Yeah, running it for the locals and for the Europeans as well.
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And the mainstream media is losing a lot of ground because of this reason.
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There's a lot of stories that people want to hear
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and that they're being kind of pushed aside by the mainstream media.
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For example, there was a 12-year-old boy raped by a Ukrainian in Cork just the other day.
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And it's absolutely – these crimes in Ireland, we've never had these things happen.
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The damage in this country with cultural Marxism, the damage is unreal, right?
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It's Islamic fascism is becoming very, very strong now in our society.
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And the Irish people are very naive to the fact that they don't even understand it.
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And we really – the Irish people have to take a stand because if they don't,
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by the end of this year, we're going to be in very, very serious problems.
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Behind me, the counter-protesters, a line of guard-eye.
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You can see that they're quite worried about the two sides coming into contact.
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There's one guard-eye officer filming things, I think, for souvenir purposes.
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I think the numbers on the other side, if I had to estimate,
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Most of the signs on the other side are prefabricated signs,
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as opposed to many of the homemade signs on this side.
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And I'll tell you one other thing I just noticed.
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And I see a mysterious flag that I cannot identify.
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But there's not a single Irish flag on the other side.
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I'm going to step about a foot away from these big cops,
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because I don't need to get caught in the crossfire.
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think that their opponents are the United Nations,
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I was going to join them motherfuckers over there.
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We're from Canada, but I couldn't help but come up to you
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because I just thought, that is real life in Canada.
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They really do have that in military bases in Canada.
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but I tell you, that's that Irish sense of humor.
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and he made an observation, none of them are wearing masks.
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Now, our side, as in the freedom side, the conservative side,
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the left side, the progressive side, certainly the pro-Hamas side,
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to be in a political culture where people own what they're saying.
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but I respect them insofar as they're willing to stand by their point of view.
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In North America, the left is too cowardly to own it,
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and they feel empowered when they're anonymous,
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and they actually commit vandalism, riot, and crime when they're hidden.
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to protest against this monstrosity that's been unleashed upon us?
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Well, I was thinking, I mean, I don't know that much about Ireland.
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But if I'm not mistaken, Ireland has never had an empire.
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We've only done good in the world, as far as I know,
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Now, you can say that maybe that's not too good.
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Yes, well, my family's been here about four generations,
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or not four, about ten generations at least, you know.
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And they're just, what you see with all these young men coming of a military age,
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During the lockdowns, initial lockdowns, there was an Irish fellow on the WHO called Mike Ryan.
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Mike Ryan told us that they would have to go into everybody's house and take,
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The reason I ask that is I'm not very familiar with the Irish political scene,
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but I understand that most of the parties representing most of the politicians
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That there's no party that has said we're going to rein it in,
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And so if you have this political energy on the streets,
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Well, the problem is that everybody in power in Ireland at the moment
00:41:06.020
came through the young future leaders, WHO, not WHO, WEF school.
00:41:18.320
and like you have your Trudeau, or Turdow as you call him,
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And then they have Macron, and every place, every country in the world
00:41:27.460
has got their little New World Order or leader, let's say.
00:41:32.020
So it's very, very hard for us to fight against that,
00:41:37.880
And the scam, the scandemic that came out in 2020 was a precursor.
00:41:48.480
Soon, we won't have, we'll be a 50-50 in a few years' time.
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There'll be nearly more foreigners than there are Irish.
00:41:57.940
We took a break from filming because we sent the drone up.
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The reason we sent the drone up is we wanted to do a count.
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The reason we wanted to do a count is because we wanted to see,
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did this March Against Immigration in Dublin, Ireland reflect a small niche,
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as the regime media would say, the far right, or was it broader than that?
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Did it show a large cross-section of Irish, severely normal people, as I say, from different backgrounds?
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And as you'll see from the drone footage, which we'll post shortly, this is enormous.
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I'm not an expert at counting based on an Eye in the Sky video.
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It just went on for blocks and blocks and blocks.
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And I've got to tell you, I've seen Irish flags everywhere I've gone.
00:42:45.160
I didn't see any Irish flags with the counter-protesters.
00:42:51.620
I'm glad I haven't seen a lot of Hamas flags here.
00:42:59.360
And what's so fascinating and frustrating to me
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is I don't think these folks have a political outlet.
00:43:17.440
These people, they're polite, but they're mad at the same time.
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And I'm enjoying being surrounded by so many Irish flags.
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you have no idea if it's 1,000 people or 15,000.
00:44:00.560
And then there were some amazing speeches on the steps of this dominant facade.
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Now we're just hearing some politicians round out the event so people are leaving.
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And I bumped into one of my favorite journalists in Ireland.
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Fatima Gunning, it's a pleasure to see you in the flat.
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Not particularly because they care about Canada,
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I think immigration is hotter in Ireland than it is in Canada.
00:44:53.000
Well, I think, you know, if you look at the history of this nation,
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it isn't so long since we kicked out a colonial power in the form of the British.
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And now I think that, you know, from what I hear from people,
00:45:03.240
you know, the Irish are feeling as though they're not in control of their own,
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you know, the borders certainly, but even politics more generally.
00:45:10.080
And I think that there is a huge appetite for political change in this country.
00:45:16.540
but I talked to a few folks here who use the language of the Irish
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That's a powerful language around the world to kick out colonizers.
00:45:36.800
when they say things like Irish lives matter or Ireland is full,
00:45:41.040
there's a progressive reflex to kick them and say you're racist.
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But I don't think we would say that to any other indigenous person around the world.
00:45:48.960
We wouldn't say you're racist for wanting Italy to be Italian
00:45:52.320
or France to be French or Russia to be Russian.
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But I think people here just want their country.
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And I don't even think that there's a zero immigration feeling here.
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So I don't want to pretend that I know everything.
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What do you think of what I've just said about the indigenous people
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I think you're mostly spot on in that Irish people do have a strong sense of identity,
00:46:33.420
or at least we would have until quite recently,
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all those kind of, like, American, you know, racism,
00:46:42.800
well, I suppose some people might call it race-baiting kind of stuff is coming in,
00:46:46.600
which nothing got to do with the history of Ireland.
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Like, we never colonized anyone, as you said, never owned slaves,
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And yet we're almost being treated as though we were.
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And I do think that the Irish as a people are a bit of a thorn in the side of people
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because we can say, like, hey, we were never part of that.
00:47:05.460
Why are you kind of tearing us with the same brush?
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But be that as it may, yeah, I think that people are just,
00:47:16.400
thousands of people coming in with no identity documents.
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I'm sure you had to have a passport to get into Ireland here this morning
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I have to have a passport if I want to go somewhere.
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And I think that's all the Irish people are really asking for,
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You know, and even if Ireland had a history of slavery,
00:47:39.260
there were slave ships that came to Ireland to raid.
00:47:45.100
the entire town was scooped up on pirate ships and sold as slaves.
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So the Irish have a history of being, of being slaves.
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what does a historical action hundreds of years ago
00:48:04.820
from Ukraine, from the Middle East, from whatever?
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I mean, I think, yeah, well, it's being used as an excuse
00:48:17.340
whether it has anything got to do with a nation's history or not.
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And, you know, I lived in Japan and Korea myself.
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I didn't feel that there was anything wrong with that when I was there.
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And so it is quite puzzling why people get offended.
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And people do get offended when Irish people hold their flag
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and say that they want to be Irish and that they're proud of it.
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It seems like that's almost a dirty word these days.
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But I felt a wonderful feeling of solidarity and family
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just walking with so many Irish and so many Irish flags.
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And I sort of missed that, even though it wasn't mine.
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You told me last week that you thought this would be a very large event.
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Or do you think this will just be demonized by the media like RTE?
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I mean, if the people are expressing that they want change,
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and it seems that huge numbers are, it's up to them really, isn't it?
00:49:43.160
Like, I can only really speak about what I've observed reporting on this over the last two years.
00:49:50.520
People are extremely angry about being called names like far right and racist when, you know, they want, you know,
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as you said earlier, that you don't think it's an anti-immigration sentiment.
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Well, listen, I want to compliment you and the whole team at GRIPT, G-R-I-P-T dot I-E.
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And watching people here come up to you and express to you their gratitude tells me that you are filling a very important information void.
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People trust you, and I think you're building something very important.
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I've been a fan from afar, so congratulations to you and your journalism.
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There you have it, Fatima Gunning from GRIPT dot I-E.
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You are an enemy of the people, and you disrespect us, and you can spin us how you will.
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And lastly, can I just say something about our history?
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Let me say something about remembrance, seeing as we met at the Garden of Remembrance today.
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The powers that be, now we have a strong spiritual connection to them, and it frightens them.
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Because our legends, poetry, and song tell time and again how we rose up against oppressors who tried to vanish us.
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We simply must win, and if we don't, our children will fall just like the children on that statue of the Garden of Remembrance,
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who are trapped there in stone, making their downward descent towards the ground.
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I wonder now, would that statue even be here in a hundred years?
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And with that, I ask you to stand up and ensure the survival of not just your children,
00:51:56.940
but also Irishness, and all that it means to be so.
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Thanks for listening, and I'm an independent candidate for the Tala community.
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They have protests every Monday and Thursday outside St. John's house between 6 and 8,
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and the protest is actually tomorrow because of the protest today between 6 and 8 outside St. John's house.
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I've been following politics for 35 years, and I've listened to maybe a thousand speeches.
00:52:31.920
I have to say, your speech up there today was the most authentic, passionate, powerful, and moving speech I can remember.
00:52:46.660
It's odd to be asked that question, because I'm a very introverted sort of a person,
00:52:52.000
but because of what's happening in our country, I've had to come out and stand up.
00:52:56.660
My name is Suzanne Delaney, and otherwise known as Suzy D online,
00:53:04.740
but the name was picked because there's a lot of targeting of you
00:53:12.420
if you have the views I do in this country, and I was trying to protect my child.
00:53:16.980
But I've decided to run for election, so I've put my name out there.
00:53:23.720
I'm from Dublin, and I run the Irish Enquiry with my partner Stephen Kerr,
00:53:33.720
We're running as independent candidates, because we don't want to be having to talk.
00:53:37.480
Is this for town council, or what level of politics?
00:53:39.380
So it's local council, it's only once every five years,
00:53:42.520
but our aim is to get into the Dáil, into government.
00:53:49.480
Yeah, when I say get into government, we wouldn't be in as a party,
00:53:53.060
but we want to be in there, because that's where you can make a bit of a difference.
00:53:57.560
And I wish you good luck, I wish you all good luck, because it was so powerful.
00:54:03.600
You talked about your daughter, who's obviously young,
00:54:06.860
and I think the most terrifying thing you said was that,
00:54:10.060
in a way, you don't want her to grow up, because you don't want her to go out,
00:54:12.480
because you're worried about her in the streets of Ireland.
00:54:33.300
my mother would wipe my knees, and she'd send me back out the door.
00:54:36.340
And my daughter has never played outside alone.
00:54:40.620
And where I live, it's not, I'm not running where I live,
00:54:59.860
a man, a foreign national who was led into the country without checks,
00:55:05.560
tried to take a two-year-old child out of a buggy here,
00:55:10.640
And a 12-year-old boy in County Cork was in the toilets,
00:55:16.580
he was pushed back into a cubicle, and he was sexually assaulted.
00:55:31.080
And when people ask for her to go and do things with them,
00:55:34.680
like I have a friend who wanted to take her to a show,
00:55:38.100
because I'm so afraid that there might be a terror attack or something else.
00:55:47.780
And I've spoken before publicly about the fact that my daughter is the only Irish child in her class at school.
00:55:54.640
And I have nothing against these other children, but that's not normal.
00:55:59.740
My daughter is the foreign national in her own country,
00:56:02.820
and she doesn't understand what her school friends say.
00:56:09.040
So they speak various languages, Slavic languages,
00:56:19.260
And I've never had any, you know, they're just kids, you know.
00:56:23.080
But it is a sign of the times, and it's concerning to me.
00:56:27.760
I want my daughter to go to school and be happy.
00:56:31.160
And she, you know, they had National Book Week here where they were encouraging children to read.
00:56:35.340
And all of that week, every day, they had someone come in and read a story.
00:56:41.100
And every day, the person who came in and read the story read it in a different language and not in English.
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So that is where I'm living, and that is why I'm not running in my area,
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And the evidence is there if people care to look.
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And mass immigration is a part of that flooding Ireland.
00:57:19.360
Like, Irish people have a very, very strong sense of themselves and their identity.
00:57:24.000
And, you know, we have 800 years of oppression behind us in this country.
00:57:28.340
And I think they've come down particularly hard on this little country,
00:57:38.400
I mean, I've heard some slogans today, Ireland for the Irish, Irish lives matter.
00:57:44.620
But your political class, I mean, there are some people who I guess you could call newcomers,
00:57:55.060
The people who made these decisions, are they not Irish?
00:58:06.540
But these people who, in my shallow knowledge of Ireland, are passionate Irish.
00:58:12.380
You could call them even Irish chauvinists, Irish nationalists.
00:58:15.820
Whatever phrase you want to use, I mean, being Irish is the center of their identity.
00:58:23.220
The 800 years you talk about, it's about being Irish.
00:58:27.060
So how can people who fought to be Irish, who had a rebellion about being Irish,
00:58:32.560
though I don't understand the troubles, but that was about Irishness.
00:58:36.520
How can people who cared so much about being Irish, then give it away?
00:58:40.500
Because, sure, I agree with you that there are globalist forces, we're familiar with those.
00:58:46.280
But at the end of the day, it was Irish politicians who allowed it.
00:58:55.440
They're under the control of these people in the EU and beyond.
00:59:02.900
And I think what happens is these people are, we say, selected, not elected.
00:59:09.900
We believe that our votes have been rigged here.
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Or that people have gotten in, you know, on the 10th or the 11th count of a vote.
00:59:20.400
And they're, in my opinion, people who would never get to the top if it wasn't for the fact that they're doing what they're told to do.
00:59:36.840
It sounds like there's a multiple transferable ballot the way you described it.
00:59:40.780
But my theory, and you tell me if I'm wrong, is that so far there's no party willing to embrace this issue.
00:59:50.200
And so even if people wanted to vote against this, they don't have an option.
00:59:57.300
All the parties that have a likelihood of election are unified in terms of open borders.
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So I wouldn't, again, I don't know about the vote rigging here.
01:00:10.100
But you don't need vote rigging if every party on the ballot has the same view on immigration.
01:00:19.140
But even over the last few months, that appearance has slipped away.
01:00:23.000
You asked me about Sinn Féin, and that would have been the alternative party for people to vote for.
01:00:28.300
But people have lost their faith in Sinn Féin.
01:00:30.720
And they're not the Republicans that they have built their reputation on.
01:00:40.680
So there isn't really, you're right, there isn't really another party to vote for.
01:00:49.220
And I think if people, actually, people are disillusioned.
01:00:52.860
So a lot of people aren't even registered to vote, particularly in working class areas.
01:00:56.320
But the people in the working class areas need to get out and vote.
01:00:59.380
Because they're not putting these unvetted, undocumented migrants into the affluent communities.
01:01:26.420
But there were people here from all walks of life.
01:01:30.140
I thought, I mean, there's that Irish proclivity to use colorful language.
01:01:44.560
Do you think anything will change because of it?
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I mean, you know, it's great to see people out.
01:01:53.920
And when RTE reports it on the news, they'll say there was 200 people here.
01:02:01.560
The last time there was a march, there was absolutely no trouble.
01:02:06.020
And they were entrapped by the Gardaà or the police in order that they trapped them in a corner of the street and asked them to leave.
01:02:19.200
And, I mean, I've been looking for three hours.
01:02:22.220
You'll see the misbehavior from the radical leftists that were around the corner.
01:02:36.520
We've had someone drive through a crowd here and hit people in a car.
01:02:54.520
And I know the mainstream media or the regime media here is very, it's a clique.
01:03:01.340
That said, I probably saw 20 people live streaming or filming today.
01:03:09.080
And I don't mean just holding their cell phone up.
01:03:11.800
I mean, having like a bit of a rig, like a, like a, more than just a selfie stick.
01:03:19.920
And I thought to myself, it looks like there's a bit of an independent citizen journalist movement in Ireland.
01:03:31.460
They actually have some credentials and accreditation.
01:03:35.220
But I'm talking about there must be, there must have been at least 10, I would call them, serious live streamers here.
01:03:42.220
What is the independent citizen journalist scene like here in Ireland?
01:03:46.980
Oh, it's really after growing over the past couple of years.
01:03:51.420
Like are you, I think you told me that you're in journalism as well.
01:03:57.860
And we have the platform, the Irish Inquiry, which would be quite well known here.
01:04:03.940
And there's lots of really good independent journalists like Philip Dwyer and other people like that.
01:04:12.900
The mainstream media would have been here today.
01:04:15.320
But they'll hide and then they will try to report something negative.
01:04:20.100
Well, I want to say your speech today was amazing.
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For more from our trip to Dublin, go to MigrantReports.com.
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I want to be in the suite of the ruling election.
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And all you say is that it's a hell of a crisis.
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Because we're all a school bag in this country.