EZRA LEVANT ｜ Irish citizens revolt against migrant housing scheme
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The government wants to build a 500-person migrant center in the heart of a low-income community, and the locals don t want it. So they're protesting. And the government's response? Rioting. We're on the ground in a neighborhood in Dublin.
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I'm on the ground in Dublin, Ireland. I came here because there were riots by Dubliners against a
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proposed 500-person migrant center in the heart of a low-income community. The community doesn't
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want it. The politicians demand it. We'll show you what happens. But first, let me invite you
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Ezra Levant here in a neighborhood in Dublin called Kulak. I'm standing outside of Burger
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King. There's lots of kids in there. Behind me, the Leisureplex. As you can see, it's all about
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family fun. Different ages, they even have a ballroom, you know what I mean? A room of all
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those little balls where kids go in. There's the Odeon Theater. This is a place for kids and for
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families. But right across the street there is an abandoned or empty warehouse factory. It used to
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be a paint company, but the government has decided to put hundreds of migrant men in there. Just men,
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hundreds of them. I've heard 250. I've heard 500. I've even heard 1,000. And they're just
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plunking them down in this residential area, an area that's actually low income, where they don't
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have services enough already. That has led to opposition amongst the locals. And there's no
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process. There's no process of objection or consultation. If they were going to build a big
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apartment block there, there would be all sorts of hearings. And is there enough parking? What does it do
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for traffic? None of that applies here. The government has announced they are putting hundreds
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of migrant men here. And the local community can like it or lump it. For months, a group of men have
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been standing outside the front with like a homemade blockade, stopping the construction from getting
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underway. I was here two months ago. Let me show you what that looked like. I'm standing in front
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of a protest that has been here for weeks. It is an encampment. There are men who rotate through
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here. There are flags. There are signs. Who are these men and what are they protesting? They're Irishmen
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from the neighborhood of Kulak who are protesting an empty warehouse that used to be owned by a paint
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company. It's a massive warehouse in which is planned a migrant residence. What they plan to do,
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the government, is turn this warehouse, which used to store paint, into a home for 500 to 1,000
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migrants, including some single men. They seek to put modular homes into this building. And these people
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in the local community are saying they can't bear that. Some of them say to have this many single
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men in this neighborhood with nothing to do is a risk, especially given that right across the street
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is the bowling alley, the Burger King, the place where all the kids mill around. Putting hundreds of
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military-aged foreign men unemployed right across the street could upset the neighborhood, could cause
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issues ranging from safety to access to services. This is not a wealthy part of Dublin. One of the
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complaints is who will service these newcomers. I think the number one complaint, though, talking to
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some of the men who have staffed the protest around the clock, is that nobody asked them. This was being
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foisted on the community. A lot of people are happy to see us here. In fact, we just met one man who
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recognized us from Rebel News and thanked us for her work. He was very articulate, very passionate,
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and, to use a phrase, severely normal. I asked him if he would say anything on camera. He said he couldn't
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because he's part of the army. He's part of the Irish army. And for him to express himself could get in
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trouble. Well, yesterday, things came to a head. There was a protest there, and hundreds of people
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marched. Some of them got violent. They wore black balaclavas. They hurled bricks. They hurled
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Molotov cocktails. They torched a police car, torched some machinery. Police responded in kind.
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80 riot cops wearing exoskeletons. It was a melee. Take a look at what it looked like.
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They're free. They're sovereignty. And they're telling you, you do not. They're telling you
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that all that's gone, that you're under a dictatorship.
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They're the prime minister's prime ministerial party. They allow them to SBIR wag 들어 to get
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Well, that is the news that absolutely dominated today.
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When we landed at the airport in Dublin, we saw nine newspapers.
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The front page of each one was about the arrests.
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It wasn't about the underlying politics or the underlying grievance.
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Of course, violence is not a solution to public policy problems,
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but it also took all the oxygen and all the attention away
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from the underlying grievance in the community.
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I want to show you just a few of the headlines here.
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Mob fury. Again, talking about those people who were arrested.
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Rau brews over plans to house 280 migrants in a village of 165 people.
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Local politicians appalled at lack of consultation with community.
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And here's that local dundrum house hotel has been earmarked
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for accommodating international protection applicants.
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your village of 165 will now have 280 very special guests.
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And we're just doing this to you because you weren't asked.
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Can you see why some people would be driven to such extremes?
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Let's go across the street now to where the actual riot happened.
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This is where the men had a kind of encampment.
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It reminded me a little bit of the Canadian truckers
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or the anti-carbon tax protests west of Calgary.
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There were a bunch of ordinary people here with Irish flags.
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I think this was put up last night after the fiery, riotous protests.
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Enormous concrete blocks making it very impassable.
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You really would have difficulty climbing over those.
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You wouldn't want to, I mean, that certainly wouldn't be for anyone
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You wouldn't have the kind of mass protests that 90% of the protesters were yesterday.
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I see 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 15 people here with Irish flags.
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it's concerned parents for Kulak, protect our children.
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I mentioned that town, that village of 165 people,
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You can see that massive structure behind there.
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That used to be a paint factory warehouse kind of thing, and it's empty.
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And at least the plan I was told, and I'm not sure if the government's being candid with this,
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was to have like those giant intermodal sea can boxes turned into little housing units,
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I mean, to turn that windowless warehouse into basically a warehouse of people,
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I showed you before this mall across the street.
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The Burger King, the Odeon, the kids' leisure plex.
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Imagine putting 500 single military-age migrant men there and saying,
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Let's go across the street and see if anyone will talk to us.
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Were you at the protest in May, the big march in the city?
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It was a big, big thing for Kulak, and it's what we've been trying to prevent.
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We've given up so much and sacrificed so much to be here.
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We tried to find a better way, but unfortunately, they didn't listen.
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Is there any process, legal process, political process, zoning, planning?
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Is there any way that you can express yourself through the system?
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We're being called uneducated, jobless, you name it.
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In fairness, our concern here is for the concerned parents of Kulak, for us.
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As concerned parents, we don't want a thousand men or 500 men, wherever they want to put in.
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We want the safety of our children to be able to walk and go where they want.
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Our children are going to be able to come down here, cross the road.
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We have our Plex and our Burger King and a few little things over there.
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Our children aren't going to be allowed to do this.
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So they're going to be, you know, all these men coming in are unvetted.
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We're not going to stand there and let that happen.
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They disrespect the way we live, you know what I mean?
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Is there any politician, even a local councillor maybe, who's championing your point?
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Not one local councillor from around here wants to know.
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They've ignored us and ridiculed us from day one.
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And yet just standing here, car after car is honking in support.
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But is there no one in the community who is willing to take your point of view?
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Kevin Pepper came down and he gave us a great bit of fucking support.
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But we have no Kulak representative that wants to come out here and support our own people.
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Now, was there just recently the elections for that position?
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And was it a particular political party that won?
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John Lyons, one of the ladies arranged a meeting with John Lyons and he let her down.
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I know that there were some Ukrainians who were flown in.
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When I was here in May, I went along the canal and there were a lot of men sleeping in camps.
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And then they go over to Northern Ireland and come down?
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The people that's over there, they've been training.
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They're going to be pulling about and put back to Rwanda.
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So they go to Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, and then they come...
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Which they're destroying the passports on the planes.
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But when they get to the other end in Dublin...
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So they don't know where they're from or who they are or record what...
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You know, like, if they're running from Crimea or not.
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So most of them are coming from the UK, is that right?
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They come across from France to the UK and make their way through England.
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So what kind of a damn fool idea is it for Ireland to say you're possibly a refugee if you're coming from the UK or France, which are lovely places?
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They'd be sent back on planes back over to Wanda or whatever.
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You know, I've been talking to these local Irish here in the Kulak neighborhood of Dublin about a lot of things.
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A lot of what they say they don't want on camera.
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And cancel culture is shockingly powerful here.
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Some people here work in a company that would be susceptible to public pressure.
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You can hear people when they're in the privacy of their vehicles honking their support, including government vehicles.
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There was a fire truck that went by and they had a siren, but they also honked.
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So when people have the privacy and the knowledge that they won't be ashamed or embarrassed or canceled, they show their overwhelming support.
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But when I ask them to come on camera to talk about some of these things, I'd say most people have said no.
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But when the camera's down, they talk to me at length.
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But one of the things I want to talk about, if I may, and I'm not very good at talking about this.
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That's why I wanted to interview someone, but they wouldn't.
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What does it mean to have a country called Ireland and to be the indigenous people?
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In fact, the Irish themselves were slaves in a number of ways, including, believe it or not,
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African slave raiders came all the way up to Ireland and seized thousands of people, including the entire town of Baltimore,
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The Irish have been dominated by various powers.
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As you know, they resisted Great Britain and they had a rebellion against the UK.
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It used to be called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, but now only Northern Ireland is British.
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Can the Irish people have a homeland of their own?
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I mean, don't we all just want to sometimes go home?
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A place that we are from and that we recognize and that has fond memories for us, but not just memories, hopes for the future.
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And if Ireland isn't for the Irish, where does an Irish person feel at home?
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And if Irish no longer feel at home in their own country, if in their own towns and villages, where do they go?
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Well, I'm right across the street from all these children's venues, and they want to put 500 men here.
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There's a town in County Tipperary, 165 people in that village, and it's been that way forever.
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And the government has announced they're putting in 280 migrants in a village of 165 people.
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They're just dominating them, overwhelming them, flooding them, diluting them.
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I don't want to use the word ethnically cleansing them, but I have no doubt that many of those people in that town will leave.
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They're destroying their home, and not just their home, the home of their parents and grandparents and great-grandparents,
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There's Italy for the Italians, France for the French.
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But why can't Ireland have a place that's Irish?
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I think in many parts of the West, there's a woke guilt.
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In America, some of that guilt is real over slavery, although America shed more blood to end slavery than any other country in modern times.
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I think that the United Kingdom had an empire, and so did France, and so did France, and so did the Netherlands, and Spain, and Portugal.
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Ireland didn't do any of that, and I don't understand the motives of the government and supranational organizations like the UN and the World Economic Forum.
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I don't understand why they want to deracinate, pull out by the roots, the one place that the Irish have.
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I mean, I'm a Jew myself, and I think about where is home, and for me, the answer is Canada.
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It's been my family's home for more than a century.
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There is a Jewish longing to be in the land of Zion.
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That's where the word Zionism comes from, Mount Zion, the country of Israel.
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I just don't understand why they're doing this to themselves.
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And you can blame the United Nations, and you can blame the World Economic Forum, and you can blame outside forces,
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but at the end of the day, it is the Irish government that has allowed and decided to do this.
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So, like I said, when I was here in May, these huge concrete blocks were not here.
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There was rather a makeshift sort of shantytown by protesters.
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After the riot last night, riot protests, it was both, these enormous blocks were placed here.
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It wouldn't surprise me if they were a ton or more each.
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And you'd have to be pretty slender to slip through here.
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You'd have to be pretty ambitious to climb over it.
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I think it could be done, but it's probably under surveillance by the police.
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We saw some of the police, or guard eyes, as they're called, come over and tell some folks to move cars.
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I think everyone wants to tamp down the energy level since last night.
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But the irony of putting up a massive Mexico-style wall, a border wall-style barrier, here,
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As this one gentleman was saying, a lot of these so-called asylum seekers,
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Remember, if you know your geography, Ireland, it's an island.
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The full name of the U.K. is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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So Northern Ireland has an international border with the Republic of Ireland.
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But a lot of them come, make their way to France, go across the channel into the U.K.,
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and then make their way from Great Britain over to Northern Ireland,
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then come down through the land border into Ireland.
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Of course, Northern Ireland and the U.K. is not a scary place.
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There's no such thing as being a refugee from the U.K.
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There's no such thing as being a refugee from France.
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But because Ireland will not put a border wall like this up between Northern Ireland and Ireland,
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they're putting it up here, you will have walls in your life.
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The only question is, will you have them around your country, protecting your whole country?
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What has happened, this form of urban vandalism,
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that's what happens when you don't block foreign citizens.
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We went to meet a journalist who was arrested last night.
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We left this zone because part of his police conditions for release
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While we were meeting with him, we heard that this gathering here had increased,
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It looks like, just a quick estimate, that there's approximately 100 Irish who have gathered here.
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Remember, yesterday there were hundreds of protesters and a number of young folks,
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teenagers we hear, who did throw some rocks and dominated the front pages.
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What's interesting is both the journalists we just spoke to and the protesters we interviewed earlier
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thought it was very unfortunate that rocks were thrown.
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And I think the main reason is because that absolutely changed the narrative
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from one of local community members pleading for the attention
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and understanding of the establishment and authorities
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to the shocking images that were on the front pages of all the newspapers today,
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I have no doubt that they were genuine emotions in those youngsters throwing rocks.
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There is a chance they could have been agents, provocateurs,
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designed to make the Kulak residents look rough or violent or play into the stereotype.
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As we showed you earlier, they have built the tall border-style concrete fences there,
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so I don't know if there's going to be any access by the protesters
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You can see up there a police helicopter surveilling the area.
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Down the road, we saw four police vans, probably with exoskeleton-wearing SWAT-style riot police on standby.
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Of course, nothing is actually going on other than people sitting and standing and talking.
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There are mums and dads and kids and grandmas and grandpas.
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So I think that that's a reason why police actually aren't anywhere to be seen in the site.
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But the helicopter is a signal to people here that they're watching.
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I mean, we heard earlier that there might be some tough kids around here
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who maybe don't like the cops at the best of times,
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see the community as being pushed around by politicians and wanted to throw a rock or two.
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I don't know if we'll ever know who was behind those balaclavas.
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But for now, there are no police here, but obviously police are watching.
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You can see there's lads behind me with their faces covered.
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Those were the images that were on the front pages of the newspaper.
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Balaclava-wearing youth, throwing rocks and even incendiary devices.
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They know that I'm with Rebel News, and so I'm not the detested mainstream media.
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Otherwise, I think they would be giving me the buns rush right now.
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That said, the lads here, I mean, I don't remember what it was like to be a teenage boy.
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Because police are investigating people protesting.
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Are you worried about being canceled if someone knows who you are?
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I'm just trying to listen to what you have to say.
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Do you think the police will give you a hard time?
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Do you think the guard eye will give you a hard time?
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It's not just the young masked lads putting on the pepper spray visors.
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I don't know if they really are ready to stand against police pepper spray.
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But the thought of middle-aged, middle-class people putting on pepper spray masks,
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I don't think they're going to do much good, by the way.
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My experience with pepper spray or tear gas is very limited,
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but you need a seal around the eyes and the nose.
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I think it's more a symbolic statement towards the police
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and a criticism, almost a performance art criticism, of policing yesterday.
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I just come here to support the people up in Kulak
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because they have a public plantation of 160 acres ready to go for tents.
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which hopefully the public have done successfully,
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the next move will be they'll bring them up to Thornton Hall,
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and they want to turn that into a migrant center.
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You're worried that whether or not this goes ahead,
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there's another 160-acre park or natural habitat.
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You're worried that that will be turned into a kind of refugee camp?
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And there's people up there camping, sleeping there in tents to prevent this on the gates.
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Oh, so you're saying Irish people are sort of squatting on the land to keep out those who would build the refugee camp?
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They have the gates locked, and they're manning the gates, trying to prevent a plantation to go in there.
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You sound like very dramatic, even desperate acts.
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It's like we have a steady flow of immigration for years here, but this is chaotic.
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This is like we don't know who these people are.
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As far as I know, in Europe, they've opened mental institutions, released the people because they don't want to pay for them anymore, and criminals.
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So with them coming here with no documents, we don't know what kind of criminal background they have.
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And believe me, they have criminal backgrounds because they're coming here straight away and doing criminal activities.
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There was me there, and I didn't do them myself.
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Oh, they had a beautiful look, and they had the rooms and everything built in it.
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People donated couches and beds and stuff, so they had it like that.
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I am originally from Dublin, but it's outside of Dublin.
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This is north side, and I'm living in Carlow a good few years now.
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But I came up here to give me a bit of support, you know what I mean?
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You know, you hear all these bad things about, oh, cool like this, cool like that, they're bad.
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They didn't turn around and say, you're not from around here.
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They actually turned around and said, oh, you're very welcome.
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And they came up there and they gave me food for the dogs, they gave me everything.
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Like, I had stuff for myself anyway for the dogs.
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So how did it end when the police came in to dismantle your setup?
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Well, I wasn't actually here, no, when it happened.
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I'm on one of the pages there to do with Koolock.
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And when the lads had to put up on the page that the guards were all over the place here
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and that they surrounded everything and they were tall, they only had a couple of minutes
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And when they got out of there, they didn't have much.
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And then they come in and bulldozed a whole lot out of it.
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So you can see it all behind the back of there.
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These people are here, as they said themselves, they're here to protect our communities.
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That's what they're about, to protect our communities.
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There's a lot of reasons this is happening, but I think that it could not happen without
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the consent and approval and energy and dedication of the Irish government.
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But none of this can happen without your prime minister, your Taoiseach.
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So why, at the end of the day, is Ireland choosing to go down this path?
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Well, for the European Union, the WHO, they obviously walk for other people.
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Because you see what happened to you yesterday.
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Are you scared that you will be pepper sprayed today?
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Well, I'm sure they're going to come out in force, like they did yesterday.
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Because right now, it's a peaceful, I'm not going to say like a festival feeling, but
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There's some young lads sort of stomping their feet like a horse ready to race.
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No one can get through those cement barrack raids.
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Why wouldn't the police just let this burn itself out?
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Well, they'll come up with some idea, like soliciting or whatever.
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What happened yesterday to cause the police to move in?
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I mean, I know there were some youths who were throwing rocks and whatnot, but that only
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So if the police stay back, doesn't this burn itself out like a fire?
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You know, we don't know what they're capable of now at this stage, because as far as we're
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Well, we've been here a few hours now, and there's lots of folks.
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There's a lot of young people out here, a lot of young guys, and where there's young
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guys, there's young gals, and the whole community's out here.
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There's moms and dads, and a lot of teenagers, I'd say between 14 and 20, have face masks,
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and last night, they did what young men sometimes do.
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Well, they threw rocks, and in some cases, crude Molotov cocktails at police.
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And of course, there was an arson in the area of the proposed migrant center itself.
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Obviously, arson is a crime, and so is throwing bricks and incendiary devices, and I suppose
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from that point of view, the police had no choice whatsoever but to deploy, to stop the
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And I don't think police can abide people throwing rocks.
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Today, the migrant center is walled off by high concrete fences.
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There's no arson, and police have been fined giving the protesters a wide berth.
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There is nothing to provoke the police to engage, so for hours, the crowd has stood on either
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What's interesting is there is no sign whatsoever of any wiggle room, any compromise on the part
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Let me show you two videos that I saw on the internet while I was here today.
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The first is the state broadcaster, which here is called RTE, tried to find a single person
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in the neighborhood of Kulak that supported the migrant center.
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On the streets around Kulak today, the events of last night, still fresh in the minds.
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And as with most things, opinion divided on the issues that have fixed attention onto the
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From the light, his honor, they should be bringing their migrants into the country.
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It says an awful lot about something like that can bring hordes of people in, into one
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area, and the area itself gets the reputation, and it's not even the locals that are causing
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I didn't like the other stories, but at the end of the day, people are writing what they're
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Like, they're standing up for themselves in the community.
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There might be more protests, but if they're going in there, there's going to be a lot
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But here is the government saying they will not bend.
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It is so important that we can provide accommodation to men, women, and children who are fleeing extremely
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We have an obligation to provide international protection.
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It will be done in consultation with the communities.
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This does not reflect the communities in Kuluk, so many of whom have been extremely welcoming
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Communications cannot be used as an excuse for these type of violent scenes.
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Why would any political leader, why would the police, why would politicians, why would
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journalists look at the hundreds of local residents opposed to this and say, we are going
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Because it's because if they blink in even one of these towns or cities, then that gives
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courage to anti-migration activists anywhere, that they can stop it.
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By the way, the reason I'm wearing this press vest is that there was a point there earlier
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we thought maybe things would get a little spicy, and I wanted to indicate in some way
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to police that even though I was standing amongst the protesters, I was a journalist,
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Well, Ireland seems absolutely dead set in hurtling forward in its mass immigration policy.
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Tomorrow, we're going to do something a little bit different.
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If our plans maintain, we're going to go to a very small village about two hours from here
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in the county of Tipperary, a village of 175 people, where they're going to bring 280 migrants.
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They're going to more than double the size of the village with foreigners, almost all
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of the men, who they're going to absolutely transform and destroy the village in the name
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It won't be a day with a lot of people like this.
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I mean, there's more people here than live in the entire village we propose to go to.
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This is a crazy place, and I don't understand the basic question, why?
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of Rebel News, I'm here in Dublin, Ireland with our videographer,
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And of course, in the U.S., we have Efron Monsanto and Yankee Pollock on the ground at the
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To you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.