Rebel News Podcast - July 22, 2024


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Irish government wages 'war' with citizenry over immigration


Episode Stats

Length

28 minutes

Words per Minute

168.9616

Word Count

4,851

Sentence Count

474

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

39


Summary

In this episode, we visit a migrant camp on the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, and talk to the people inside. They tell us what it's like to be a refugee, and how they feel about the way the Irish government treats them.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tonight, from Ireland, under the watchful gaze of the police, I'll give you a report
00:00:24.140 on one of their migrant camps.
00:00:25.880 It's July 19th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:30.000 Shame on you, you sensorious bug.
00:00:43.440 I'm standing in Newtown, Mount Kennedy.
00:00:46.660 It's a bit of a drive outside Dublin, but not far.
00:00:49.480 And behind these corrugated metal fences is a migrant facility.
00:00:54.980 These are pretty serious fences.
00:00:57.140 I don't know, that's almost 10 feet tall.
00:00:59.160 There's no way through it.
00:01:00.660 There's no way around it.
00:01:02.520 But those fences are not designed to protect the people of Newtown, Mount Kennedy.
00:01:07.040 They're designed to protect the people inside from public scrutiny.
00:01:11.340 Let me tell you what I mean.
00:01:12.820 There's a border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is a country in the United Kingdom.
00:01:19.000 Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, England, Wales, Scotland, you can travel back and forth
00:01:25.060 freely.
00:01:25.400 So what happens is migrants from places like Somalia, Algeria, Palestine, whatever, they
00:01:33.220 make their way to France.
00:01:35.080 And then they get on a dinghy and they cross the English Channel into the United Kingdom.
00:01:39.520 And the policy of the government, not just the Labour government today, but for the last
00:01:43.080 14 years of the Conservative government, has been to accept hundreds of thousands of these
00:01:49.060 fake refugees.
00:01:49.980 I call them fake because if you're already in France, you're no danger.
00:01:54.740 You're in no danger.
00:01:56.260 But the UK at least was talking about deporting some.
00:02:00.340 And the UK is a pretty luxurious place to be as a refugee.
00:02:03.680 But it's got nothing on Ireland where they'll put you in luxury accommodations.
00:02:08.580 So people go from the third world to the UK and then from the UK, they go to Northern Ireland
00:02:15.480 and then they simply walk across the border into Ireland and say, we're refugees.
00:02:22.320 As absurd as that sounds, given that Northern Ireland is a completely safe place.
00:02:27.460 Well, they come here and they get free social services, free housing, free health care, free
00:02:32.520 education, a lot of free things that ordinary Indigenous Irish do not get.
00:02:37.440 But here in Newtown, Mount Kennedy, there's been some resistance to that, especially given
00:02:42.360 that the people inside this facility are not what are typically recognizable as refugees,
00:02:48.320 women and children and old people.
00:02:50.340 They're young, military-aged men, typically from countries that you would have to do a lot
00:02:56.180 of hopping, skipping and jumping to get to here in Ireland.
00:02:59.080 And so they don't have a wall like this between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
00:03:04.660 They don't have a wall on their border, but they have a wall here.
00:03:08.680 But it's not to protect the Irish from these young men.
00:03:13.780 It's to stop prying eyes to see what's going on.
00:03:17.360 And I mentioned earlier that surveillance camera, one of many, when we simply showed up
00:03:23.480 here with a group of local citizens to talk about this, immediately police were dispatched.
00:03:29.160 Now, I tried to knock on the door.
00:03:31.480 It's not much of a door to talk to people.
00:03:34.200 Their first response was to throw a rock at Lincoln J., our videographer.
00:03:38.900 How shocking is that?
00:03:40.260 Well, nothing shocks the folks here.
00:03:42.580 The police, or the guard eye as they're called, they would never arrest the folks inside, but
00:03:47.420 they have arrested several people out here, or pepper sprayed them, for asking tricky questions.
00:03:52.460 This fence is a questions fence.
00:03:55.680 It's a journalism fence to stop people in the city from knowing or asking or learning about
00:04:02.080 the immigration scammers inside.
00:04:04.760 I say scammers because I say, again, if you are a young military-aged man from Somalia or
00:04:09.960 from Palestine or wherever they claim to be from, you're not a refugee because you came
00:04:15.200 from somewhere safe.
00:04:16.220 You're just here for the free stuff.
00:04:17.540 It's an incredible statement of who the boss in Ireland is.
00:04:22.760 It's not the Irish.
00:04:24.420 It's foreign migrants who lie their way into Ireland and the Irish government that's at
00:04:30.100 war with its own people.
00:04:33.640 For the course of the next half hour, you'll see my conversations with the people in Newtown
00:04:37.620 Mount Kennedy.
00:04:38.600 And when four of the migrants started walking down this road, I tried to have a chat with
00:04:45.040 them.
00:04:45.360 Like I say, they're allowed in and out.
00:04:48.000 It's not a prison for them.
00:04:49.640 They're not kept in.
00:04:50.980 It's to keep the Irish out.
00:04:53.740 Take a look.
00:04:55.960 This is where we had our second camp.
00:04:58.340 We had a camp here originally before all this came.
00:05:01.580 And then we set up a second camp in here because we were told we weren't allowed to have one
00:05:04.940 out here.
00:05:05.220 So we went in behind this kind of gate and the police came with their diggers and they tore
00:05:13.220 up everything from us.
00:05:14.900 Our right to protest again being denied.
00:05:17.200 And the camera is rotating.
00:05:20.660 It's watching you.
00:05:21.380 Yeah, it's watching you.
00:05:22.220 The camera is spinning around literally as we're here talking.
00:05:26.700 They're filming us.
00:05:28.800 And we have no access that we can't see who's filming that, who's watching us, who has access
00:05:33.680 that where that footage is going.
00:05:35.660 You're terrified for your kids to walk on this road.
00:05:37.480 But you're sure that is a government, the government put that up?
00:05:40.980 Like who put that up?
00:05:41.600 Did the police?
00:05:42.380 The IPAS.
00:05:43.440 The people who are running this.
00:05:45.520 It's turning around now.
00:05:49.340 Here's the guard.
00:05:50.120 So they've rang the guards to tell them that we're here.
00:05:53.340 And by guards, you mean the guard eye, the official police?
00:05:56.260 Well, maybe they'll have a word.
00:05:57.620 I mean, I'm a very curious person.
00:05:59.140 I'd like to talk.
00:06:00.040 Tell me a little bit about Newtown and Kennedy.
00:06:01.760 It's basically a town not far from Dublin.
00:06:04.520 A small population, about 2,800 people.
00:06:10.920 And, you know, until this happened, of course, peaceful.
00:06:16.200 There's only a few shops in it, a few pubs in it.
00:06:18.840 There's not enough facilities even for the people that are here, people that are moving
00:06:23.720 in here, of which there are all races and all creeds and colours.
00:06:27.440 We have no problem with that.
00:06:28.700 What we do have a problem with is this, as you can see.
00:06:31.540 Now, I can't see because there's a big corrugated metal fence all around.
00:06:35.240 They've erected here.
00:06:36.200 It's like something you'd see in 1970s Belfast when you've seen the soldier forts, as we
00:06:41.760 called them then.
00:06:42.760 That's what they were.
00:06:43.800 This is exactly what they look like.
00:06:45.400 What's behind this corrugated metal?
00:06:47.480 Before this was all erected, it was a big convent house.
00:06:51.360 And it used to be a...
00:06:52.280 Nuns were in there.
00:06:53.200 And school, yeah.
00:06:53.980 And the walls would have only been about four feet high.
00:06:59.020 And you could see into the grounds quite clearly.
00:07:02.020 Am I hearing voices over there?
00:07:03.900 Is there activity behind them?
00:07:05.940 There are over a hundred and so men.
00:07:07.240 We don't know.
00:07:08.040 Nobody has ever told us.
00:07:09.360 It's indeterminate.
00:07:10.700 So why is there a wall around here?
00:07:12.980 They say it's to protect them from us scary people.
00:07:16.440 You're not very scary to me.
00:07:17.540 No, the working class people of Newtown are very scary people, apparently.
00:07:22.100 And so, anyway, Newtown, this road here, as you see, there's no lightning on it, no
00:07:27.240 footpath, no nothing else.
00:07:28.640 But still, it was a great facility for people who would be out cycling, running, walking,
00:07:33.420 that kind of thing.
00:07:34.280 And now nobody does that anymore because we feel unsafe with unknown men in there, no
00:07:40.700 matter where they're from.
00:07:41.500 So it's not just being constructed now.
00:07:43.400 It's done and there's people there.
00:07:44.680 It's dusted.
00:07:45.080 Behind there, there's large marquee-style tents.
00:07:49.080 Tents?
00:07:49.620 Tents.
00:07:50.620 Apparently, there's eight in each tent.
00:07:52.420 But we don't know.
00:07:53.220 Again, we're told nothing.
00:07:54.900 This is what's so unusual to me.
00:07:56.480 I was in Kulak in Dublin, and then we went to Dundrum, further south.
00:08:00.780 And now we're here in Newtown, Mount Kennedy.
00:08:02.260 And the same thing I've heard in every place is lack of information, let alone consultation
00:08:07.680 and input and variation.
00:08:10.980 No engagement at all.
00:08:12.060 So it's a secret?
00:08:14.440 Yes.
00:08:14.680 It's a secret.
00:08:15.520 It is.
00:08:16.020 Have you tried using something like an access to information request?
00:08:19.400 I don't know what that's called.
00:08:20.860 Every which way.
00:08:21.960 On what ground?
00:08:23.440 They just say, we don't need to know.
00:08:25.280 It's none of our business.
00:08:26.160 We shouldn't want to know who's moving into our area.
00:08:30.000 Isn't there some sort of legislation that allows you to access some government records like that?
00:08:35.120 Well, if you try to get access to any information, you're shut down very quickly in this country.
00:08:42.240 You're put down as if it's anything to do with IPAS or anything like that.
00:08:45.620 You're shut down right away.
00:08:46.720 You're a racist.
00:08:47.420 You must be a racist because you're looking for information.
00:08:49.380 Now, is your prime minister the local TD, the local member of parliament for this region?
00:08:55.500 Yes, Simon Harris.
00:08:56.880 He lives about six, seven kilometers away from here.
00:09:01.180 But it might as well be on the moon because he never has come into Newtown.
00:09:05.120 He's never consulted with the people of Newtown.
00:09:07.220 He's never asked them how they feel.
00:09:08.480 There is no IPAS center, though, anywhere near where he lives or his people.
00:09:15.020 So is this the gate here?
00:09:16.560 Does this open?
00:09:17.360 No.
00:09:17.760 This one, the actual gate that they go in is just further down there, about 100 meters.
00:09:22.620 And that's their main access.
00:09:24.540 So who is in there?
00:09:26.800 Is it families?
00:09:27.540 Is it men?
00:09:28.420 It's all single men.
00:09:29.420 It's all single men?
00:09:30.240 Single men.
00:09:31.620 So are these people, you use the initials IPA, that's like an asylum seeker?
00:09:37.420 Yeah, it's International Protection Applicants.
00:09:40.600 And where are they from?
00:09:41.240 Do you know what countries they're from?
00:09:42.520 No.
00:09:43.500 Do you ever see them?
00:09:44.420 They don't interact with us.
00:09:48.240 So we have no communication with them.
00:09:51.400 We don't know what's going on.
00:09:52.500 We're just imagining, they seem to be of Middle Eastern origin, most of them.
00:09:56.720 But we're surmising because we have no idea.
00:09:59.560 They don't give us information on who's in there.
00:10:01.460 Do people come and go?
00:10:02.700 They do.
00:10:03.360 They walk up in groups all the time towards the village.
00:10:06.360 And we have Newtown, GAA there, just about 300 meters up the road.
00:10:11.840 What does GAA mean?
00:10:12.980 GAA is the Gaelic, the Gaelic Association.
00:10:15.780 And they have children playing up around the pitches there all the time.
00:10:20.040 They're going to be running a summer camp for six-year-olds upwards.
00:10:23.060 So Irish children, not...
00:10:25.860 Irish children.
00:10:26.320 Are there kids in here?
00:10:27.740 No.
00:10:28.520 So you're telling me this is just single men?
00:10:30.860 All single men.
00:10:31.620 That doesn't...
00:10:32.580 When I think of refugees in my mind, I think of women and children.
00:10:36.100 I think of old people.
00:10:37.560 I think of...
00:10:38.560 But I don't think of single military-aged men.
00:10:41.300 Oh, no, no.
00:10:42.360 And we have, as a country, taken in the most per capita in Europe of refugees from the likes
00:10:48.260 of Ukraine.
00:10:49.360 Women, children.
00:10:50.220 And they don't live in anything like this.
00:10:53.280 Because guess what?
00:10:54.400 We don't feel unsafe with those people.
00:10:56.720 Those people are actually benefiting in the community.
00:10:59.840 They're working away.
00:11:00.760 And we have no problem with those.
00:11:02.000 I heard that at Dundrum as well.
00:11:04.200 There have been Ukrainian families there.
00:11:06.600 And from what I heard from the locals, that they were somewhat integrated.
00:11:12.200 And I think they were not...
00:11:15.840 People didn't feel threatened by them.
00:11:17.360 Exactly.
00:11:18.020 Because they make the effort to integrate with us, to work among us, and speak with us.
00:11:25.060 And they're very pleasant people.
00:11:27.500 And, you know, mostly they also know English, which is very handy.
00:11:32.300 You know, so we have no problem with them.
00:11:34.340 They're coming from a genuine situation where their country is at war.
00:11:38.020 We don't think these men are.
00:11:39.760 However, even our own ministers have admitted that 85% coming into the country at the moment
00:11:44.600 are all economic migrants.
00:11:46.760 Well, of course they are.
00:11:47.760 They call them refugees, but they're not refugees.
00:11:50.040 Now, are these the folks who just walk across the border from Northern Ireland?
00:11:52.860 Yes.
00:11:53.480 A lot of them are.
00:11:54.360 Well, I mean, I haven't been to Northern Ireland, but I've been to the United Kingdom.
00:11:57.140 And I've been to France.
00:11:59.040 And a lot of migrants go to France, then go to the UK, often in a dinghy.
00:12:04.320 And then they'll come down across that border.
00:12:06.220 My understanding of the rules of refugee is that you apply for asylum.
00:12:13.440 Exactly.
00:12:14.060 The UK and France are not dangerous places.
00:12:16.000 We are not implementing any of them laws, it seems.
00:12:22.100 Our government has not taken any opportunities to refuse people that have no passports,
00:12:30.680 no identifications, nothing.
00:12:32.860 So they come in and they get a new identity card and they can be who they want to be.
00:12:37.500 But they have no way of checking.
00:12:39.380 I'm just trying to understand the wall because sometimes walls are to keep people out.
00:12:45.620 Sometimes walls are to keep people in.
00:12:48.320 Here it's sort of funny because the people who normally are kept out by a border wall,
00:12:53.500 they're in already, and now they're keeping out the citizens, I think maybe they should
00:12:59.380 deploy this wall at the Irish border with Northern Ireland.
00:13:04.480 Feel that wall.
00:13:05.160 Feel that wall.
00:13:06.360 Feel that wall.
00:13:07.600 Well, it's my experience that you will always have a wall.
00:13:10.700 You will always have a lock, whether it's around your country or around a gated community
00:13:15.600 or around some...
00:13:16.800 Like, I think this is as much to keep citizens out and non-citizens...
00:13:22.980 Like, I don't understand the wall.
00:13:24.440 It's very strange.
00:13:25.440 They're unvetted, undocumented.
00:13:27.920 Mike, they're unvetted and undocumented.
00:13:29.700 Now, how can that be?
00:13:30.880 Because they flush their passports down the toilet.
00:13:33.460 Is that not an offense under Irish law?
00:13:35.640 It is, yeah.
00:13:36.820 But just because the EU...
00:13:39.420 We're a vassal state of the EU.
00:13:41.340 But if you know that they came from the UK by just walking across the border
00:13:45.220 from Northern Ireland, why don't you just deport them to the United Kingdom?
00:13:48.840 The United Kingdom seemed friendly enough.
00:13:50.120 They would have set the EU.
00:13:51.860 Oh, is that why?
00:13:52.740 Yeah.
00:13:52.840 So you're under some European Union migration policy?
00:13:55.600 Is that why?
00:13:55.980 Yeah, it still determines everything.
00:13:58.780 Huh.
00:13:59.260 So they tell the Irish government what to do.
00:14:01.600 So we're a vassal...
00:14:02.260 75% of all our legislation comes from the EU.
00:14:06.100 So that's why.
00:14:07.580 Because I haven't...
00:14:08.780 All our freedom was lost for nothing.
00:14:10.720 It's all gone...
00:14:11.260 See, they sold us out.
00:14:12.620 Well, I mean, Hungary is part of the European Union.
00:14:14.820 Victor Oberton does his own thing.
00:14:16.860 Yeah, he's not very popular.
00:14:18.900 So is this the official...
00:14:20.040 This is it, yeah.
00:14:20.840 This is the game?
00:14:22.100 Yeah.
00:14:24.960 Yeah, well, I mean, it doesn't look very inviting.
00:14:29.820 So this is the door?
00:14:31.160 Like, I just...
00:14:32.060 I would just...
00:14:32.820 Just knock?
00:14:33.540 Knock, knock, knock.
00:14:35.400 Knock, knock, knock.
00:14:35.900 Hello, boss?
00:14:40.840 It's quite a manly knock I have, if I may say so.
00:14:59.180 Do they answer?
00:15:03.200 From where?
00:15:04.680 Where are they looking?
00:15:06.240 Can I...
00:15:08.040 This is the front door.
00:15:12.500 It's not even labeled.
00:15:14.080 Like, there's not an address.
00:15:15.320 There's not a, what is this?
00:15:19.880 How long has this been up here?
00:15:21.600 How long has this been this way?
00:15:23.760 May?
00:15:24.780 June?
00:15:27.140 July?
00:15:28.140 So it's only a couple months.
00:15:29.880 Hello?
00:15:30.120 Hello?
00:15:30.240 Hello?
00:15:31.400 Hello?
00:15:32.960 Open up.
00:15:35.660 Who's there?
00:15:38.500 It's Ezra Levant from Canada.
00:15:41.580 I might seek asylum also.
00:15:44.680 Hello?
00:15:47.800 Can I borrow a cup of sugar?
00:15:51.460 They're wearing balaclavas.
00:15:54.360 They're wearing masks over their faces.
00:15:56.840 Yeah, they're wearing balaclavas.
00:15:58.720 This is Ireland 2024.
00:16:01.500 Wow.
00:16:02.180 Balaclavas.
00:16:02.960 And they're not even out of it.
00:16:05.100 Now, who would those people be wearing the balaclavas?
00:16:08.540 They're probably out of the Grand Hotel.
00:16:10.120 They're probably not going to be there.
00:16:12.180 Hello?
00:16:12.500 Hello?
00:16:14.880 Are you throwing things at us?
00:16:25.860 That's not very neighborly.
00:16:28.640 That's not very nice of you.
00:16:33.280 They threw a rock at our camera.
00:16:38.280 That's not very friendly.
00:16:39.640 They peed.
00:16:41.160 They weed in our church.
00:16:43.000 In the front door.
00:16:43.740 In the front door of the church.
00:16:46.480 When did that happen?
00:16:47.280 And when we asked the guards about it, the guard said, well, why doesn't anyone report it?
00:16:51.100 What are we supposed to do?
00:16:52.500 I said, I'm telling you now.
00:16:54.020 He said, we have no evidence.
00:16:55.500 So they won't look for it.
00:16:56.740 They won't find it.
00:16:57.660 They won't do anything.
00:16:58.900 They are allowed to do what they want.
00:17:00.980 They drink all over the town.
00:17:02.940 They leave rubbish around the place.
00:17:04.720 They peed up in someone's front doorway, kind of like a little gateway going up to it.
00:17:09.620 And we confronted him.
00:17:11.220 We said, that's disgusting.
00:17:12.120 What are you doing?
00:17:12.660 Go home and go to the toilet.
00:17:14.100 I need to piss.
00:17:16.180 Where was he from?
00:17:17.040 What did he look like?
00:17:18.800 He sounded like he was very much from London.
00:17:23.180 He had very perfect English.
00:17:24.880 Now, he was kind of Eastern European look about him.
00:17:32.060 But he definitely had a London accent.
00:17:35.320 And we've heard them in there with their London accents.
00:17:37.940 Fam, blood, this kind of stuff.
00:17:40.360 That's really weird.
00:17:41.680 No, it's not.
00:17:42.380 Because what has happened is that the word has gone out that they're getting everything given to them here.
00:17:47.940 Housing, food, benefits, everything.
00:17:50.540 And they're getting more here than they would in the UK.
00:17:53.320 So, naturally, they're saying to themselves and their buddies, let's go to Ireland.
00:17:57.520 We'll have a good life there.
00:17:59.720 We'll be giving everything and not have to work or anything like that.
00:18:03.680 So, hey, presto, here they are.
00:18:05.440 And they're with their London and Manchester accents, pretending they're Palestinian or something like that.
00:18:10.660 And they're fleeing more.
00:18:12.600 We all know they're fleeing nothing but economic.
00:18:15.880 They're fleeing the Rwanda pact.
00:18:16.380 Yeah, they're fleeing the Rwanda pact as well.
00:18:19.660 Hi, guys.
00:18:21.000 I'm Ezra Levant from Rebel News.
00:18:22.740 I'm doing a story on the facility there and who's in there.
00:18:29.380 English sounds pretty good.
00:18:31.060 Where are you from?
00:18:32.740 Sorry.
00:18:33.940 Where are you guys from?
00:18:35.740 Are you refugees?
00:18:37.460 No.
00:18:38.520 Where are you guys from?
00:18:40.600 Is it all single men who live in there?
00:18:42.600 What's your name?
00:18:44.460 Where are you from?
00:18:45.420 How come you guys don't want to talk about anything?
00:18:50.960 What's it like in there?
00:18:52.420 Is the food good?
00:18:54.360 Is there stuff to do?
00:18:56.720 Who takes care of you in there?
00:18:59.360 How long have you been here?
00:19:01.980 Where did you come from?
00:19:04.100 Did you come from the United Kingdom first?
00:19:06.180 How can you be a refugee if you actually came from the United Kingdom before you came here?
00:19:15.160 Aren't refugees usually women and children?
00:19:20.000 Did you guys destroy your documents before you came over?
00:19:23.640 I hear that happens a lot.
00:19:25.200 That people get on a plane, but then they shred their documents.
00:19:28.000 Did you guys do that?
00:19:32.200 Why did you come from the UK to Ireland?
00:19:35.040 Isn't the UK a pretty safe place?
00:19:39.060 Is it that you guys just think the Irish are suckers and they've got a soft touch and they'll be more generous than, say, the Brits or the French?
00:19:51.800 Can I interview you a bit?
00:19:53.860 Why are you hiding your face?
00:19:55.400 Why are you hiding your face?
00:20:01.460 That's not very hospitable.
00:20:02.840 But I like the idea of a man who has a gate and a fence.
00:20:07.060 I think the Irish should take inspiration from this guy with a gate and a fence.
00:20:12.320 I think an Irish government should have a fence just like this.
00:20:16.500 And I think the Irish government should hire a security guard just like that.
00:20:20.680 And if anyone wants to illegally come in the country, they should slam the door in their face just like that.
00:20:25.960 Where did you come from?
00:20:31.420 Are you from inside here?
00:20:33.340 No.
00:20:33.740 No?
00:20:34.700 Do you live around here in Newtown Mount Kennedy?
00:20:37.200 No, I'm security.
00:20:38.480 Oh, you're security?
00:20:39.520 No.
00:20:40.200 Are you from Ireland yourself?
00:20:41.420 Are you Irish?
00:20:42.580 No.
00:20:42.980 Are you Irish?
00:20:43.780 No, Italian.
00:20:44.620 You're Italian?
00:20:45.520 Yeah.
00:20:46.060 Oh, whereabouts?
00:20:47.000 Roma?
00:20:47.900 No, Ferenze.
00:20:48.880 Ferenze.
00:20:49.320 That's one of the most beautiful cities in Italy.
00:20:51.920 Are you a citizen of Ireland?
00:20:54.980 Or are you a citizen of...
00:20:57.840 Who are these guys?
00:21:01.300 Why are they so rude?
00:21:02.440 Don't slam the door.
00:21:03.480 You're so rude.
00:21:04.720 There.
00:21:05.180 That's a nice, gentle close.
00:21:06.960 That's less rude this time.
00:21:08.340 We'll get them practiced.
00:21:09.380 We'll teach them some Irish manners.
00:21:10.800 So, what happened here on April 25th?
00:21:20.100 So, in the early hours of the morning, I think it was about half two, three o'clock in the morning,
00:21:23.780 there was a small camp set up here, literally right where we're standing.
00:21:27.320 The local residents had a protest camp set up, and Gardaí came in with the public order in tow,
00:21:32.360 at half two, three o'clock in the morning, and just plowed through.
00:21:35.700 There was a chain on the gates.
00:21:37.080 They cut through that, and they forced in masked workers.
00:21:41.100 Now, at the moment, there's a big hullabaloo about protesters wearing masks and such,
00:21:45.520 and essentially, they're covering up for guys that are going on site and carrying out illegal works
00:21:51.140 on sites that have no regulation passed on them whatsoever,
00:21:55.120 and they're wearing masks.
00:21:57.340 But as the day progressed, tensions essentially escalated,
00:22:00.520 and as you chat there to one of the women, her daughter was arrested.
00:22:04.460 She was at the front line in that famous footage from April 25th.
00:22:08.200 She's the woman that was saying, bring the women to the front,
00:22:10.820 because she thought that the Gardaí wouldn't storm them.
00:22:13.580 But moments later, they did with battens, the shields, and the pepper spray.
00:22:19.240 So, what's basically happened after that then,
00:22:21.120 their names and faces have been smeared all over the media.
00:22:24.800 But any time it seems to be, you know, a migrant who's guilty of a crime,
00:22:29.460 and, you know, their details are withheld.
00:22:31.580 There's not really much said about them at all.
00:22:33.580 A perfect example is the stabbing incident, you know,
00:22:36.440 that happened in November last and led to the riots in Dublin.
00:22:39.940 Riyad Bouchakar, that's about the only information that we have in that he's Algerian.
00:22:43.580 His image is nowhere to be found across social media.
00:22:47.240 But meanwhile, you get four people that are trying to stand up for their community
00:22:50.040 and protect their history, heritage, and culture.
00:22:52.720 You know, they get demonised.
00:22:54.500 Their addresses right down to the house number are put all over across our nation's media.
00:23:00.200 And you were there yourself on the 24th?
00:23:01.800 I was. I was right there at the front line.
00:23:03.240 It's very scary, to be honest with you.
00:23:04.380 And I look at the footage now that's happening in, you know,
00:23:06.980 in other communities like Koolock that you were at earlier on today,
00:23:10.520 and seeing what happened there this week,
00:23:11.940 it is genuinely traumatising.
00:23:13.460 You get flashbacks.
00:23:14.180 I've likened it to having a form of PTSD.
00:23:16.740 It genuinely is.
00:23:17.560 It's terrifying to see, you know,
00:23:20.120 essentially military-style action charging towards you
00:23:23.200 and hearing the screams.
00:23:23.940 My partner across the way over here, you know, there's a kids' GAA pitch.
00:23:27.460 She was assisting those there at the pitch that were pepper sprayed.
00:23:30.920 Like, there was kids as young as, I think, 14, 15,
00:23:33.260 and they were absolutely brutalised.
00:23:34.520 You know, their faces all bashed up.
00:23:37.360 You know, pepper spray swelled up.
00:23:40.060 And my partner's over there trying to give them, you know,
00:23:41.800 bottled milk and water, trying to help them.
00:23:43.600 It was genuinely, I liken it.
00:23:44.820 It sounds a bit extreme, but it sounds, you know,
00:23:47.840 when you're there in the moment,
00:23:49.820 it was like something out of Vietnam or something,
00:23:52.660 because all you're hearing is screams all around you.
00:23:54.240 People are terrified.
00:23:55.760 And you have the guard, you're just storming up this little laneway,
00:23:58.240 narrow little laneway, screaming at people,
00:24:00.220 you know, to get out, get out of the way.
00:24:01.900 And you've got rocks coming from the other side and being hurled back over.
00:24:04.740 It was absolutely terrifying.
00:24:06.280 Where this country is going, I just, honestly, I don't know anymore.
00:24:08.800 It's actually, it really is scary.
00:24:10.460 Thanks for coming over.
00:24:11.720 I really appreciate it.
00:24:12.640 We have obviously nobody to speak on our behalf,
00:24:15.280 except for we've won local media.
00:24:17.600 But I want to know what the plan is.
00:24:20.520 Bringing all these men into Ireland, young single men, putting them in a tent.
00:24:24.480 What is the plan?
00:24:26.000 What's this integration they're talking about?
00:24:28.540 What does it mean?
00:24:29.860 How are they going to integrate?
00:24:31.080 How are they going to integrate into our society?
00:24:33.280 The only jobs I've seen them doing is security.
00:24:35.580 I was in a main bus station in Dublin.
00:24:38.400 And who was doing security in the bus station?
00:24:41.480 The immigrants.
00:24:43.200 They're guarding their own place.
00:24:45.220 You know, like, they're stopping Irish people going into,
00:24:49.820 they're protecting themselves.
00:24:52.260 You know, they're, anyway, it's just...
00:24:53.540 And this fence is not protecting you, it's protecting them.
00:24:56.580 Oh, it's protecting them.
00:24:57.840 No, it's actually, we're actually the ones behind the fence, really.
00:25:01.680 Because we don't have a say.
00:25:03.240 We have nobody protecting us.
00:25:04.980 We have, you know, the government, our local TDs, our local representatives,
00:25:11.400 the Gardaí and who else, even the people in the town.
00:25:16.940 You know, there's a split in the people.
00:25:18.560 It's a lovely small community and people get on really well on the whole.
00:25:23.360 But now there's a divide that was never there before.
00:25:26.080 And then we're being called racist.
00:25:27.820 And there was a senator in the government.
00:25:30.180 She called us thugs.
00:25:32.120 And then I was looking at a picture, I was looking at a video yesterday of Kulak.
00:25:36.260 And I saw there was one young guy under about 10 Gardaí.
00:25:39.960 And you should have seen the looks on their faces.
00:25:42.860 You know, who are the thugs?
00:25:45.140 I saw the prime minister use that language as well.
00:25:47.660 That's right, yes.
00:25:48.880 Absolutely.
00:25:49.300 And he only lives five miles away from here.
00:25:51.360 You know that?
00:25:52.020 The Taoiseach.
00:25:52.520 And he's absolutely no empathy.
00:25:55.380 Not only that has he got no empathy, but he actually condemns us.
00:25:59.460 Well, I don't understand why.
00:26:01.400 That's the part I don't get.
00:26:03.180 I've heard because of money.
00:26:04.900 I've heard because of the EU.
00:26:06.660 But surely, surely there's a plan.
00:26:10.640 There is a plan.
00:26:11.680 But none of us know what it is.
00:26:13.500 There's no sign up there.
00:26:14.940 There's nobody.
00:26:15.460 See, we've tried to, like, when we've had worries about local, the guys coming out, walking around the town, hanging around close to playgrounds, children, they had to put extra fencing up around a kindergarten school because they're worried about men passing by looking in at the children.
00:26:30.900 You know, the changes that have taken place.
00:26:32.520 I saw a woman walking up the road here.
00:26:35.140 And then I saw one of the immigrants running behind her.
00:26:38.360 Now, he was probably jogging, probably nothing to do with her.
00:26:40.800 But I didn't know whether to stop to the woman and say, do you know that there's a strange man running behind you?
00:26:46.640 You know, it could be fine.
00:26:48.020 But it's what it does to us.
00:26:49.920 You know, like, the effect it has on us.
00:26:51.960 Women don't feel safe now.
00:26:53.820 I walked down on the beach.
00:26:55.200 I was down on the beach the other day.
00:26:56.800 And there were two immigrants, one behind the other.
00:26:59.480 And I was saying to myself, they're probably fine.
00:27:01.680 But I didn't know whether they were or they weren't.
00:27:03.720 You know, it could be an Irishman either.
00:27:05.560 But I've been walking there for 30 years.
00:27:09.060 I've never had a problem.
00:27:09.980 I've never felt afraid.
00:27:11.540 Now I'm afraid.
00:27:13.800 Ireland was a safe country.
00:27:15.860 Nobody ever had closed their gates.
00:27:18.940 Front doors of houses were left open.
00:27:21.040 Cars.
00:27:21.980 Nobody locked their cars.
00:27:23.920 Children were left in their prams outside some houses.
00:27:27.500 Because they were safe.
00:27:29.820 Now?
00:27:32.140 Like, we're losing our safety.
00:27:33.800 We're losing our identity.
00:27:35.500 We're losing our Irishness, our individuality.
00:27:38.380 It's not just Ireland.
00:27:39.220 I know it's happening in the UK and lots of Western Europe countries where we're seen as irrelevant.
00:27:46.040 And I can see we're going down the road like the American Indians, becoming an ethnic minority in their own country.
00:27:51.340 Well, what do you think of that?
00:27:52.320 I say again that this is not an internment camp.
00:27:55.160 It is not a prison or a detention facility whatsoever.
00:27:58.420 It's a fence designed to keep the people of Ireland out.
00:28:03.200 Out in the cold.
00:28:04.820 Out of the know.
00:28:06.420 Out of the loop.
00:28:07.680 And certainly out of power.
00:28:08.980 From Newtown, Mount Kennedy, not far from Dublin, Ireland, on behalf of Rebel News, this is Ezra Lantz saying, keep fighting for freedom.
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