Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Migrants allegedly assault Irish girl, sparking backlash from locals

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I'm going to focus on a series of riots that have been going on for the last two

00:00:04.600 nights in a town in Northern Ireland that's actually part of the United Kingdom. It's

00:00:09.800 called Northern Ireland, and there are Irish people there. A couple of Roma gypsies are accused of

00:00:17.020 raping an Irish girl, and that has set off mass protests, some of which have become violent. I'll 0.96

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00:01:31.280 Tonight, Northern Ireland riots against migrants who allegedly raped a teenage girl.

00:01:37.900 It's June 10th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:39.840 You're fighting for freedom!

00:01:43.020 Shame on you, you censorious bug! 0.60

00:01:48.100 I was in Ireland on Saturday, flew home right away, but as I was making my way home in Northern

00:02:02.780 Ireland, which is actually part of the United Kingdom, but contiguous with the Republic of

00:02:07.740 Ireland, in Ballymena, a town of about 30,000 people, there was allegedly a rape, and the rapists

00:02:17.200 were migrant men by allegation. They appeared in court, and they had translators to the Romanian

00:02:28.260 language. They were allegedly Roma gypsies. Northern Ireland and the rest of Ireland are obviously 0.97

00:02:36.740 culturally similar in many important ways. There are some differences, particularly between Protestants

00:02:42.220 and Catholics, but I don't think those are important here other than in one way, which is that all Irish 1.00

00:02:49.840 have been closer to violence, I put it to you, than any Canadian has. Ireland rebelled against the United

00:02:56.820 Kingdom about 100 years ago. That was a full-fledged rebellion, and then there were, quote, troubles in the North

00:03:03.340 until very recently. Those troubles included bombings, shootings, kidnappings. I'm not here to comment on those,

00:03:09.980 but you can sense that rebel spirit living on, and whereas in Canada it would be unthinkable to call

00:03:18.360 for political violence. I've heard it a couple of times in my visits to Ireland itself, that violence

00:03:24.860 is not wanted, but it is a last resort. You don't hear it in a blatant way, but there is a whiff of it

00:03:31.140 from time to time, and you see that young people are familiar with throwing rocks and bottles. They wear

00:03:37.700 balaclavas or a face mask. It's not a COVID thing, I can assure you. I saw a bit of that when I was in

00:03:44.460 Dublin. There's this low-income area called Kulak, that the police were insistent they were going to

00:03:50.100 put 500 military-aged migrant men in an old paint factory, and the locals wouldn't have it. The most 1.00

00:03:58.460 interesting thing I saw is that there were teenage boys who were there covering their faces, hurling

00:04:03.820 projectiles at police, while their moms and dads were there with approval. Like, it's the kind of

00:04:11.380 place where fighting is part of the family tradition. I'm not painting with a broad brush, I'm just saying

00:04:17.660 that is something you don't typically see in a place like Canada, and the police are pretty muscular too.

00:04:24.180 Just yesterday, I think it was, the police in Northern Ireland were showing off their new water

00:04:29.340 cannon truck. I can't remember the last time such a riot-controlled truck was used in Canada. Maybe it would

00:04:36.460 have been during the trucker convoy, and that in itself was the first time in a generation.

00:04:41.360 I think in Ireland, especially in Northern Ireland, they planned to use it, and obviously, they planned to

00:04:49.880 use it against the ethnic Irish themselves. So back to what happened on Saturday night. There's been a series of

00:04:58.660 rapes in this small town, and like I say, there are two minors who were charged with sexual assault 0.98

00:05:05.900 who are Roma gypsies. And I've seen pictures of one of the men on social media, but I can't confirm it, 0.95

00:05:15.380 so I don't want to show the picture of one of the accused without knowing for sure that he is the guy

00:05:22.320 that it's claimed he is. But there's a taunting to it, as is sometimes the case with gypsy migrants. 1.00

00:05:31.560 And it was so shocking, the rape of a young girl in this small, close-knit town that was so

00:05:39.140 conspicuously done by migrants, that more than 2,500 local people in a city or in a town just 10 times

00:05:48.480 outside. So I took to the streets, absolutely overwhelming the streets of this small town.

00:05:55.780 Very solemn, very sober, very angry, but not a wild anger, a determined anger. Here, let me show you

00:06:02.620 some videos for a bit. I was riveted by this, and I could feel the emotion coming through the camera.

00:06:07.680 She was taken and taken into the house and sexually, brutally sexually assaulted on Saturday 1.00

00:06:14.200 evening. So she was taken into the house, sexually assaulted. There was a mattress in the garage. 0.95

00:06:18.460 There was a mattress. Do you know, was there more than one man? Three. Three men. Right, so

00:06:24.220 you're here for a play. I can't believe the crowd has come out to support these guys, you know what I mean?

00:06:30.860 It's absolutely immense. There's no flags, there's no shouting. It's totally respectful.

00:06:34.780 It's totally respectful. It's not what I buy. A child has been hurt.

00:06:39.600 It's three now. It's three incidents. Two weeks ago it was brushed under the carpet. I wasn't aware

00:06:44.700 of the one before that. Yeah. But the child two weeks ago was the same age, and it's absolutely

00:06:48.880 disgusting. It's absolutely disgusting. I don't want my kids going anywhere. I know. This happened 0.91

00:06:53.360 quite quickly, and local police were obviously quickly overwhelmed. It took some time for the

00:06:59.160 heavier riot police to come into town with their big trucks, but not before some of the youths,

00:07:05.960 with their faces covered, they know what they're doing in Northern Ireland, sacked the apartments

00:07:11.400 that they believed were the homes for these gypsies. Sacked them, burned them, overturned vehicles. 1.00

00:07:18.540 It was very interesting to watch what was going on, and I'm not talking about the violence itself.

00:07:23.260 I'm talking about the mass march on the street. Can you tell me the last time in Canada that there

00:07:32.880 was hundreds, let alone thousands of people, spontaneously marching in the street about

00:07:39.480 anything, let alone the rape of a young girl? There was a solidarity there that I don't think you find

00:07:47.060 in Canada. Maybe I'm not remembering something, and I think it goes to Ireland's nature. By far, most Irish

00:07:55.540 have been there for centuries. They're part of a family. They're part of a clan, you could say. They're

00:08:00.940 united, I suppose, by religion, too. There is that great divide between Catholics and Protestants, but

00:08:07.060 you belong there in Ireland. Now, maybe that's suffocating sometimes. Maybe you want to break 1.00

00:08:12.640 out of your rut and be someone who you could be but aren't. I suppose that's one of the things about a 0.55

00:08:20.200 very intense family, is that you have to play a role. But one of the benefits of being in such an

00:08:27.720 intense family as an ethnically homogenous country is that sense of belonging. 2,500 people marched in

00:08:36.740 grave solidarity with these violated girls against an outside threat. And it reminded me of the last

00:08:43.900 time I saw such a thing, and it was in this case in Sunderland near Newcastle in the United Kingdom,

00:08:49.080 when a young mother was raped, again by migrant men. And the whole community in Sunderland went out

00:08:57.460 for a march. And actually, we participated with Tommy Robinson. More than 100,000 people signed a

00:09:05.180 petition in support of Chelsea. Let me just show you a little bit about what that was like in this

00:09:10.980 very poor, ethnically homogenous town called Sunderland that had been invaded by foreign migrants 0.99

00:09:18.940 and it's foisted upon them.

00:09:22.740 We want it to hand you here, there's over 50,000, over 50,000 signatures demanding justice and action against

00:09:42.900 who's the men who are raped and girls in the city. And again, that's the start.

00:09:48.700 Chelsea.

00:09:50.700 There's an ethnic homogeneity in Sunderland and in Ballymena. In the north of Ireland, split between Protestant and Catholic,

00:10:20.500 I suppose, but those differences between Protestant and Catholic, I would imagine they pale next to the common

00:10:27.960 revulsion at the rape culture that has been brought into Ireland and into the UK.

00:10:34.940 I think that that is the reason why Ireland is reacting to mass immigration and Canada is quite passive about it.

00:10:43.000 I felt it when I was in Dundrum. Remember that tiny town of, I don't know, 180 or 200 people

00:10:49.300 where the government suddenly said, surprise, you're taking 240 military-age migrant men.

00:10:54.520 I remember when I was in that town, I was only in that town for a few hours,

00:10:57.760 and we stopped into basically a gas station convenience store,

00:11:02.060 and we stopped and we took some what we call B-rolls, some background footage,

00:11:05.540 and anyone who came by stopped and said, who are you, what you doing?

00:11:08.840 Not in an attacky way, and not so much in, like, not as an attack, I mean, and not so much in a gossipy way,

00:11:15.740 but just we're all looking out for each other, and we want to make sure that the stranger in Dundrum

00:11:21.060 is not here for bad reasons because there were some coming.

00:11:24.740 And they were only appeased when we gave them the name of the matriarch of Dundrum who had welcomed us in.

00:11:31.460 And that's something about small towns, and I suppose you have that in small-town Canada.

00:11:38.240 I suppose you have that in some town in Saskatchewan and some town in Alberta,

00:11:42.920 some town in Ontario where people all know each other,

00:11:46.400 and where people have been there for decades, and someone who's only been there 10 years is still called a newcomer.

00:11:51.520 There's something wonderful about living in a community like that.

00:11:54.120 And so when that town is suddenly told they're going to be a minority in their own place,

00:12:00.920 they don't like it much. Here's what Dundrum said.

00:12:03.880 My name is Fiona Kennedy. I'm a very ordinary mother.

00:12:09.580 I live here locally in Dundrum, and I'm here with a group of people.

00:12:15.480 We're the most ordinary people that you could possibly meet.

00:12:18.140 We find ourselves in an extraordinary situation,

00:12:20.560 and really we're standing to protect our hotel, our beautiful hotel here,

00:12:26.620 Dundrum House Hotel, our golf club, and our community.

00:12:30.720 Now, I had never heard of Dundrum until yesterday.

00:12:33.400 I looked it up, and it only has about 200 people.

00:12:37.780 And I understand that this facility, this gorgeous, beautiful hotel and country club,

00:12:44.260 could theoretically sleep up to 500 people.

00:12:47.940 What do you know about the contract that the owner of this facility has

00:12:53.500 to house asylum seekers and refugees?

00:12:57.300 What information do you have?

00:12:59.160 Well, unfortunately, we have very little information.

00:13:02.200 Now, we have submitted a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.

00:13:06.860 I'm not sure if the time on that is up, but we've had no information back yet.

00:13:10.500 We would like to get sight of the contract, but nobody's forthcoming on that.

00:13:13.960 And has the owner of the hotel been communicative at all?

00:13:18.940 Not in the slightest, no.

00:13:21.040 He hasn't engaged with us at all.

00:13:23.680 And what is the government entity that's involved?

00:13:26.020 Is it just the national government, or are there any local governments involved?

00:13:29.760 Well, really, this has been driven by national government, the Department of Integration.

00:13:34.460 And we do have local government here in Tipperary, in Ireland as well.

00:13:38.060 We have some local councillors who are working on our behalf, working with us.

00:13:43.320 We have one local Tipperary TD member of our parliament, just to translate it to Canadian.

00:13:52.420 And here is actually, the owner is just about to pass.

00:13:56.780 The owner is just about to pass.

00:14:00.220 I'll have to go and talk to him.

00:14:01.800 What's his name?

00:14:03.260 His name is Jeff Leo.

00:14:04.960 And I understand he's from away, is that right?

00:14:07.720 Yeah, I understand he's American.

00:14:09.020 I've actually never met Jeff.

00:14:11.300 So that's my first time seeing him.

00:14:14.020 That hasn't been a photograph.

00:14:16.460 He's certainly sped by.

00:14:18.340 Yeah, that has been.

00:14:19.560 He hasn't had any community town halls.

00:14:23.140 Has he sat down with the media at all?

00:14:26.080 Not to my knowledge, he hasn't.

00:14:27.600 I'm guessing you would know.

00:14:28.820 We would know.

00:14:29.660 And he hasn't engaged with the community at all.

00:14:31.640 We've had two public meetings, both very heavily attended.

00:14:35.100 I saw that solidarity at the big march in Cork on Saturday.

00:14:41.300 And I think, how come we don't have those marches in Canada?

00:14:44.400 I'd say there was about 4,000 marchers in Cork, a city of a quarter million.

00:14:48.080 There'd been 50,000 in Dublin, a city with, I don't know, 1.5 million in the whole area.

00:14:52.700 I doubt you would get 20 people marching in Toronto.

00:14:55.160 We don't have the same community in our big cities.

00:14:57.040 We're becoming a country of strangers.

00:14:59.780 We brought in so many migrants so quickly that those bonds, they're not there yet. 1.00

00:15:05.240 Do you know who your neighbors are?

00:15:06.840 Maybe if you live in a small town or in the country you do.

00:15:09.640 But if you live in Toronto or Vancouver or Montreal or Ottawa or even parts of Calgary or Edmonton,

00:15:16.920 I bet you don't know who's in your neighborhood anymore.

00:15:19.700 We're a country of strangers.

00:15:21.980 We've been desensitized to people who are not only different from us and far away from us,

00:15:27.480 but they brought different cultures along with them.

00:15:31.960 Now, our country, before it was multicultural, had madness and had drunkenness and had crime. 1.00

00:15:40.320 But I think the difference is now that we've been atomized.

00:15:45.400 I think COVID helped cut the bonds of society amongst us as well.

00:15:50.860 We were cut off from people of every background.

00:15:54.020 We were told to live through our computer screens and our phones.

00:15:58.120 COVID was the dream for maybe many large corporations who benefited banks and cell phone companies

00:16:05.020 and landlords and DoorDash that works on migrant labor.

00:16:08.640 But I think in some parts of the world they still have community.

00:16:12.460 That's a high-trust society.

00:16:14.740 But look at the low-trust or something.

00:16:17.600 Look at this.

00:16:18.260 Yeah, that's newcomers partying in a graveyard in Ireland. 1.00

00:16:45.000 There are certain parts of cultural identity that are evident and some that are sort of like the sixth, seventh of an iceberg that's underwater.

00:16:54.780 You don't really see them all the time until suddenly they're there.

00:16:57.700 Look, I am against the violence that is happening in this small town in Northern Ireland.

00:17:03.220 But what happens when the state fails to protect its own people?

00:17:09.560 Let me phrase that in a different way.

00:17:11.700 I'm against violence in Northern Ireland.

00:17:13.920 But is the state against it?

00:17:16.240 And if so, why has it brought into Northern Ireland people who are so evidently not a fit? 0.96

00:17:22.500 There was racism in Ballymena, and it was allegedly these foreign migrants who chose to rape an Irish national. 0.95

00:17:32.300 They didn't rape someone else who was Roma. 0.98

00:17:35.900 The rape was racist, as most rapes in the UK are. 0.97

00:17:39.320 Ask Majid Nawaz about the preponderance of Pakistani Muslim men committing rapes in the United Kingdom. 0.99

00:17:46.840 It is an absolute disgrace. 0.99

00:17:49.460 People have cared for their reputations over the safety of children in this country being raped and drugged and passed around like meat. 0.99

00:17:56.760 Because of the bigotry and the prejudices of these Pakistani Muslim men who are looking down on these children as less than, as inferior, as some form of infidel that doesn't deserve honour or dignity. 0.96

00:18:06.860 And I address you now here. 0.97

00:18:08.440 Oh, woke left wing.

00:18:10.160 You talk about believing the victim.

00:18:12.340 Look it up.

00:18:12.760 Go to your smartphone and Google Ella Hill.

00:18:14.860 She writes a piece in The Independent in which she describes the religious extremist terminology her abusers were using as they were sexually exploiting her as a child.

00:18:23.400 In which she talks of how they called her an infidel, and how they abused her race and her lack of Islamic faith.

00:18:29.000 And justified treating her in this way because they viewed her as less than because they believed themselves to be Muslim supremacists.

00:18:35.840 Don't tell me that their Muslim identity had nothing to do with this. 1.00

00:18:39.820 I have lived and breathed this community all of my life.

00:18:42.920 I can guarantee you that it's not the cause, but a factor in the way in which these girls were treated was the culture of these men.

00:18:50.980 And as part of that culture is their religious attitude towards non-Muslims.

00:18:54.420 And that is the reason that you see almost exclusively that they are men like me.

00:18:59.380 Pakistani, British, Muslim.

00:19:01.760 Most of them.

00:19:02.640 All of them Muslims.

00:19:03.840 Almost all Pakistani Muslims.

00:19:05.280 And the victims.

00:19:06.840 Almost all underaged white girls. 0.98

00:19:09.340 So that's what started happening yesterday.

00:19:12.480 And I was riveted by it on social media.

00:19:15.840 But listen to what the police had to say today.

00:19:19.100 Last night saw significant sustained disorder in Ballymena.

00:19:24.500 This violence was clearly racially motivated and targeted at our minority ethnic community and the police.

00:19:30.600 It was racist, thuggery, pure and simply.

00:19:34.480 And any attempt to justify or explain it as something else is misplaced.

00:19:39.060 That's Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

00:19:44.420 He's doing the Southport playbook.

00:19:47.160 If you don't know what Southport is, it happened last year in the United Kingdom

00:19:52.620 when a convert to Islam named Axel Ruda Cabana went into a Taylor Swift-themed girls' party with a knife

00:20:04.220 and just stabbed and stabbed and stabbed, murdering several of the girls.

00:20:09.660 It set off riots.

00:20:11.420 It set off outrage against migrants.

00:20:15.460 Ruda Cabana was arrested.

00:20:17.340 He's since gone on to commit more violence in prison.

00:20:19.920 But what was fascinating is it was the whole thing was blamed not on the UK's failure to vet migrants

00:20:27.920 and not on radical Islam, but it was blamed on the far right.

00:20:32.120 And Keir Starmer set up 24-hour-a-day courts that prosecuted not necessarily people who were violent,

00:20:39.220 but people who said mean things on social media.

00:20:43.760 And that's just what happened again in Northern Ireland.

00:20:45.960 They're running that same playbook.

00:20:47.300 They just called the grieving community racist.

00:20:52.780 And I'm sure they're going to lock up anyone who talks about it.

00:20:56.120 Now, earlier today we spoke with Richard Inman, who's a friend of mine who I met in the United Kingdom.

00:21:02.900 And we had a good talk about it, and he gave us a briefing on what happened last night,

00:21:06.460 and I'll play that for you in a moment.

00:21:07.480 But after that interview, it was clear that things were getting bigger and more intense.

00:21:13.100 And so we have more footage for you since we've spoken with Richard.

00:21:17.140 Will the United Kingdom and Ireland continue this mad experiment of bringing in people who are culturally not a fit, 1.00

00:21:23.960 legally not a fit, often who don't speak English, often in some cases hate the United Kingdom?

00:21:32.180 I doubted when the people of Kulak said they could stop the plantation in their neighborhood.

00:21:38.940 I was startled by the kids throwing things, but I think the fighting Irish spirit might well succeed, despite their government.

00:21:47.820 And for anyone who abhors violence, including riots and arson and the kind of things that have happened in this Northern Ireland town,

00:21:59.040 it is not ideal that violence is the way that this will be stopped.

00:22:04.660 But when the government is at war with its own people,

00:22:08.260 when the government refuses to stop the floodgates of foreigners, unvetted foreigners, 1.00

00:22:13.880 when the government literally escorts in boats across the English Channel,

00:22:20.200 coming to the UK with illegal immigrants, 1.00

00:22:22.460 when nothing seems to stop it and the government is deaf to the pleas of the people,

00:22:27.620 what would you expect is going to happen?

00:22:30.400 Stay with us. Richard Inman is next.

00:22:32.280 Well, as you know, I was in Cork, Ireland, on Saturday for a huge rally against mass immigration and fake refugees. 1.00

00:22:51.160 Well, that's in Ireland proper, the Republic of Ireland.

00:22:54.860 But Northern Ireland, which is on the same Emerald Isle, it's part of the United Kingdom, though,

00:23:00.720 that same night, a shocking thing happened.

00:23:06.480 Allegedly, there was rape by migrants of young age kids.

00:23:15.060 There weren't even women, they were girls. 1.00

00:23:18.040 And the news spread like wildfire.

00:23:20.760 And hundreds of locals in a town called Ballymena marched towards the downtown apartment where the migrants were

00:23:32.560 and ransacked the place.

00:23:34.740 That's what I could glean from social media.

00:23:38.440 But I'm fortunate enough to have a friend in Ballymena right now.

00:23:43.320 His name is Richard Inman.

00:23:44.840 I've got to know him through my friendship with Tommy Robinson.

00:23:49.060 And he is a reporter for Urban Scoop.

00:23:51.900 He is standing right in the heart of Ballymena.

00:23:55.120 And he joins us now.

00:23:56.520 Richard, thanks so much for taking the time to be there for us on the ground.

00:24:00.800 Well, thank you, Ezra, for showing an interest in this.

00:24:04.920 Because to put this in context, Ezra, Ballymena is a small market town.

00:24:10.240 I don't know if you thought something the size of Wainwright or Jasper in Canada.

00:24:13.800 That's the sort of size of it.

00:24:14.960 It's a very, very small town.

00:24:16.280 And for this level of disturbance to happen in a town like this is very, very rare.

00:24:23.600 But I just want to correct something that people are saying on social media.

00:24:26.720 What actually happened was it was a very dignified and peaceful protest about half of seven last night in the center of Ballymena.

00:24:37.140 There was about 2,500 people there.

00:24:39.600 That's from a population of these 20,000, 30,000.

00:24:41.920 So it's a massive turnout at the event.

00:24:43.860 And basically, it was a very strange sense of somberness and mourning for what had happened or what allegedly has happened to this young child.

00:25:00.700 And that event went off completely peacefully.

00:25:03.220 As I was leaving the event with my cameraman last night, because I filmed all the goings on at the demonstration, which, again, was magnificent and peaceful and respectful.

00:25:15.660 After that, the police blocked roads, actually stopped us being able to get out of Ballymena.

00:25:21.260 We ended up kind of trapped in the town.

00:25:22.860 So we parked up on the sidewalk and got out of the car and walked to where I'm standing now.

00:25:31.540 And when myself and my friend got here with the camera equipment, there was a group of probably 20 to 30 masked young men deliberately targeting two or three houses in this street.

00:25:48.480 And, again, this is just what I could gather from the crowd.

00:25:53.240 The houses were allegedly occupied by some of the suspects.

00:25:58.820 OK, so this wasn't like randomly just attacking migrants' houses, from what I can gather.

00:26:04.020 And, again, I'm only going with what I was told by the people on the ground.

00:26:06.660 But we ended up – and I'll send you the footage, actually, Ezra – we ended up sandwiched between the police and the lads that were completely beside themselves with rage over what had happened to one of the children of this town.

00:26:21.580 And we were kind of in the middle of it.

00:26:23.060 So we could really see exactly what was going on.

00:26:25.360 The interesting thing was the police didn't actually intervene.

00:26:27.540 The police were standing about 50 yards away from the disturbances, and they did nothing until some heavy-handed riot cops came in from a city a few – you know, about 20 miles away.

00:26:40.960 So there was a long time in this town last night where it was ungoverned space.

00:26:45.680 And I think what I got from that was that this is what happens when government completely collapses in terms of immigration, in terms of who they're allowing into the country. 0.52

00:26:57.260 And you have a situation where people are feeling threatened, people are feeling frightened.

00:27:01.960 And, again, I'm not condoning lawlessness.

00:27:04.280 I'm not condoning anybody doing any criminality.

00:27:07.260 But when people are angry and people are feeling ignored and people are feeling like they're being marginalized, things explode.

00:27:14.880 And that's really what happened on the streets of Ballymena last night.

00:27:17.820 That's incredible.

00:27:19.000 Now let me just pause for a second and make sure I have my facts straight.

00:27:22.500 I read that there was one girl on Saturday night.

00:27:26.080 Then I read there were two.

00:27:28.040 And then I read there was actually a third case of rape several weeks ago.

00:27:32.620 Can you clarify for me how many women were raped?

00:27:36.740 And were they children?

00:27:38.580 Were they teenagers?

00:27:39.940 Help me out.

00:27:40.640 I just want to be as accurate as possible.

00:27:43.120 And, again, Ezra, obviously with your legal mind and me being in the UK, I've got to be extremely careful about what I say.

00:27:49.520 Because what we don't want to do is collapse any of the cases that are ongoing.

00:27:53.000 And there have been, as far as I know, two people charged.

00:27:55.880 So we can't speak specifically about the details of the specific cases.

00:28:00.040 But the allegation is that in the last fortnight, there have been two serious sexual assaults on children.

00:28:08.900 Now that's the allegation.

00:28:09.820 Again, we've got to say it's an allegation because of the British legal system.

00:28:13.380 Because we know from Tom, you can get yourself into all sorts of hot water.

00:28:18.020 But what we don't want to do is collapse any case that may be upcoming.

00:28:20.500 So what we're saying is these are allegations.

00:28:22.220 We've got to be very clear on that.

00:28:23.180 But, yes, two allegations of very, very serious sexual assault, allegedly by Roma gypsies, in Ballymena in the past fortnight.

00:28:34.720 And, Ezra, I have never seen rage.

00:28:38.420 Well, I have.

00:28:39.260 But I haven't seen rage like that for a long time.

00:28:41.620 I've lived in Northern Ireland since the 1980s.

00:28:43.400 I came here with the military.

00:28:44.800 And the rage I saw last night was like something we would have seen in the 1980s.

00:28:49.500 It's as simple as that.

00:28:50.880 I haven't seen that for a very, very long time.

00:28:53.300 And I think a lot of people are talking about civil unrest and civil disturbances.

00:28:58.480 What people don't realize about Northern Ireland and Northern Irish people, it's not about race.

00:29:03.440 In fact, the actual one of the alleged victims.

00:29:07.920 And, again, we're saying alleged not because for any other reason than legal reasons.

00:29:12.100 One of the alleged victims.

00:29:13.660 Her father is a black man who actually stood very, with amazing dignity at that protest last night.

00:29:19.720 And spoke at the protest literally hours after this alleged incident took place.

00:29:26.580 OK, so it's not this is not a racially motivated attack on innocent people.

00:29:33.220 That's not what's been going on here.

00:29:35.060 This has been an explosion of rage.

00:29:37.480 And it would have been exactly the same if it had been a gang of white guys had been allegedly doing what they were doing.

00:29:44.760 The rage would be that same because that's what Northern Ireland people like.

00:29:47.540 They stand up for their women.

00:29:49.220 They take a stand for their women, whether they're children or whether it's the wives.

00:29:52.940 They will always stand up for their women.

00:29:54.880 And I think, you know, that's what people have got to take from this.

00:29:58.600 Not the fact that there was any racial element, because I don't believe it was.

00:30:02.060 I believe it was purely rage at what happened to those two girls yesterday.

00:30:06.800 Wow.

00:30:07.460 That's very interesting that you say that. 0.99

00:30:09.400 And thank you for that on the ground reporting that it was a black father whose daughter was allegedly raped. 0.87

00:30:16.240 And I'll say allegedly, obviously, because a senior police officer today had a briefing and painted the protest as racist.

00:30:26.500 I don't know if you saw that, Richard.

00:30:28.020 It was the most outrageous defamation of grieving moms and dads and neighbors and brothers and cousins.

00:30:36.840 I saw a lot of snippets on social media.

00:30:39.880 And you're right.

00:30:40.360 The tone was rage, hurt, a feeling of being violated, a feeling of being abandoned by the government.

00:30:49.140 This is what I sensed through the video.

00:30:51.760 And if you're saying that a father himself, who happens to be black, was grieving there,

00:30:57.540 and then today this cop smeared those protesters as racist, that is like throwing kerosene on the fire.

00:31:06.800 That's outrageous.

00:31:07.940 Are you aware of that statement by the senior policeman?

00:31:11.640 Last night saw a significant sustained disorder in Ballymena.

00:31:16.840 This violence was clearly racially motivated and targeted at our minority ethnic community and the police.

00:31:23.860 It was racist, thuggery, pure and simply.

00:31:26.660 And any attempt to justify or explain it as something else is misplaced.

00:31:31.220 I was aware of that, Ezra, and I totally agree with you.

00:31:33.680 It's absolutely outrageous.

00:31:34.900 And Ezra, you know as well as I do, we have dealt with this.

00:31:38.040 We have dealt with these slurs.

00:31:39.660 You've dealt with it.

00:31:40.420 I've dealt with it.

00:31:41.160 Tommy's dealt with it.

00:31:42.320 For the past 10 to 15 years, every time we highlight a problem, whether it's with radical Islam, whether it's with grooming guys,

00:31:50.420 whether it's with criminality or people smuggling or money laundering, whatever it is,

00:31:54.440 every time we raise these problems, I say, well, actually, there might be a common denominator here.

00:32:00.700 Straight away, we're smeared as racist and xenophobic.

00:32:04.380 And do you know what?

00:32:05.440 I think we're all bored with it now.

00:32:06.700 They can call us what we want.

00:32:08.000 We know what we are.

00:32:09.220 We know what we believe.

00:32:10.240 We're very open, genuine people in Northern Ireland.

00:32:13.700 And those smears are not worth anything to do.

00:32:16.840 We know what we're going to do.

00:32:46.820 So people are talking about it more and more.

00:32:49.900 And the nation, and this is just my view as an outsider, Richard, it looks like Brits are slowly moving away from their fear of speaking plainly.

00:33:00.940 If you look at the Rotherham report into the mass rapes there, again and again, social workers, nurses, police, we're all saying we didn't want to be called racist.

00:33:11.360 So we didn't blow the whistle on it.

00:33:13.140 So for this cop to reach back in for that weapon and say, you're just racist, I feel he is out of sync with the times.

00:33:23.540 I don't think he'll be able to shut people up anymore.

00:33:26.240 I don't think it's working as much anymore.

00:33:29.140 At least I hope not.

00:33:30.580 What's it like there right now?

00:33:31.920 I see a couple of people behind you.

00:33:34.180 What's it like on the streets?

00:33:35.340 Perhaps your cameraman can sort of pan around a little bit.

00:33:38.700 Is there anything going on there now?

00:33:40.220 There's a few people, very, very few.

00:33:45.140 There's not a lot of people, there's a police presence.

00:33:48.720 We think there's a number of police people, but we could be wrong about that.

00:33:52.900 But yeah, there's a police presence around us.

00:33:57.060 There's nobody, there's nobody coordinated, so it's very relaxed.

00:34:00.260 And the thing is, last night, Ezra, this was pretty, I'll send you the footage once we get off this.

00:34:07.020 This was pretty much a war zone.

00:34:09.380 It was extremely, extremely kinetic.

00:34:14.100 Let's just put it that way.

00:34:15.820 Yeah.

00:34:16.700 I want to ask you one last thing.

00:34:18.380 And I really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us in North America.

00:34:22.680 We're very interested in what happens in Ireland and the UK, because I think you're further down the road than we are.

00:34:29.940 So I want to learn from you.

00:34:31.580 But I want to clarify something you said a little bit earlier, if you could clarify it for me.

00:34:36.260 I think you said that the local police sort of stood back for a bit while these local lads, maybe 20 of them, you said there were thousands who marched peacefully, soberly, solemnly.

00:34:49.580 But you said that there was about 20 youths, I think you said they were covering their faces, that were getting kinetic.

00:34:57.520 And I think you said that the local cops stood back.

00:35:01.120 Can you explain for me, did they stand back to let the vigilante justice go?

00:35:06.480 Did they stand back because they were afraid of a physical altercation?

00:35:10.340 What is your theory about why the police stood back until the other riot police came?

00:35:16.740 I think, I think, I mean, when I say there's 20 or 30 lads involved in kinetic activity, there was a crowd of probably, I'm guessing, three, four hundred on the street.

00:35:29.800 And there was 10 police officers.

00:35:32.220 So they really couldn't do anything but stand by.

00:35:34.780 If they'd have got involved, typically, there would have been, I think it was a right, a proper policing decision to not intervene.

00:35:41.960 Because I think they would have caused themselves a massive problem.

00:35:43.980 When the riot squad came in, they did what they did.

00:35:46.760 To be honest with you, they weren't actually that aggressive for a riot squad.

00:35:50.080 I've seen cops in London be a lot more aggressive than these guys were in Bellamino last night.

00:35:54.060 So it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't a very violent response from the police.

00:36:01.480 But they did clear the streets.

00:36:02.580 They did do what they could to bring back order.

00:36:05.460 And again, once they'd done that, we left the area.

00:36:09.340 But I think there is something I want to say, Ezra, before you go.

00:36:12.860 Because I think it's really important in relation to what you were doing last week in Cork and what's been happening in Northern Ireland.

00:36:19.160 And again, nobody will know this outside of Northern Ireland because, again, it doesn't fit the narrative.

00:36:25.300 But what we've had for, actually, since Tommy was in prison in 2018, we've had Unionists and Republicans standing together.

00:36:35.460 It doesn't happen all the time.

00:36:36.560 It's happened probably half a dozen times since 2018, since Tommy was in prison.

00:36:41.060 The first time we did it was at Three Tomingham or in Belfast.

00:36:43.260 And we had people with Irish tricklers, Red Hand of Oldsfoot, which is the Easter flag, and the Union Jacks standing together.

00:36:51.060 So you've got nationalists who are proud Irishmen, as the people that you were standing with on Saturday were in Cork.

00:36:57.980 And Unionists and loyalists standing shoulder to shoulder because they realised there's a far bigger game to be played here.

00:37:03.960 And there's a far bigger fight to be fought.

00:37:06.880 And that has been an amazing thing.

00:37:08.200 I believe you me, the powers that be don't like it.

00:37:11.040 And the sinister groups that want to foster sectarian hatred and bitterness don't like it.

00:37:17.940 But that's what's really happening on the ground in Northern Ireland.

00:37:20.200 We've got groups of Protestant and Catholicists coming together and saying, we can't have our country and our culture, even though our culture is quite diverse,

00:37:26.560 we can't have our country and our culture destroyed by mass, unchecked, illegal migration.

00:37:33.140 And the problem that we've got with a lot of these people, the migrants that come here to be doctors and lawyers, very small number, 1.00

00:37:39.180 there's never any problem out of those people.

00:37:41.040 The problem that we've got is a legal migration and people coming to this country, we don't know who they are, we don't know what their past is. 1.00

00:37:46.660 And of course, they naturally gravitate to criminality because they can't work in the proper economy.

00:37:51.740 So that's what the problem is that we're facing.

00:37:54.880 And it's certainly in Northern Ireland, I think very much in the Republic of Ireland as well.

00:37:58.520 And again, just the numbers, the numbers are staggering.

00:38:00.740 And the whole nation, the whole nation is, I believe, like a tinderbox.

00:38:08.340 When I talk about the nation, I'm talking about Ireland and the UK.

00:38:11.460 It's like a tinderbox at the moment.

00:38:13.280 And hopefully, with what we're doing with Unite the Kingdom and the other stuff like this,

00:38:18.080 where we're talking about it and we're talking about it openly that people can get on YouTube,

00:38:20.920 will do something to damp down any rage and damp down any anger.

00:38:25.180 But, you know, my fear is it only takes one more Ariana Grande or one more Southport massacre.

00:38:32.480 And we're in for a world of pain.

00:38:34.940 And that's my biggest fear, isn't it?

00:38:36.280 Wow.

00:38:37.280 I do want to ask you one last question because I think of politics and I'm frustrated that the people are ready for change,

00:38:46.780 but the politicians are not.

00:38:48.500 I feel that way in Ireland very acutely.

00:38:51.720 But let me draw your attention to the by-election in the Northern English riding of Runcorn,

00:38:59.900 where the Labour Party had won that district with 53% just a year ago.

00:39:07.340 And reform took it.

00:39:09.280 It was quite narrow, but reform took it.

00:39:11.460 And I was there and I saw their campaign.

00:39:13.980 Their slogan, Richard, was freeze immigration, stop the boats. 1.00

00:39:19.540 Like it couldn't have been more blunt.

00:39:21.700 And that was enough to completely flip Runcorn, which was this rock.

00:39:27.420 They said it was the 16th safest labour riding in the whole country.

00:39:32.860 It flipped on this issue.

00:39:35.880 What's the politics like in Northern Ireland?

00:39:39.120 I don't know that part of the country.

00:39:42.200 Are there any politicians?

00:39:44.200 Go ahead.

00:39:44.800 Sorry.

00:39:45.300 Yeah.

00:39:46.000 That's no absolute.

00:39:47.040 Sorry.

00:39:47.260 I caught the question.

00:39:47.620 Yeah.

00:39:48.060 Yeah, there are politicians that are taking a stand on this.

00:39:51.780 The TUV, which has its real heartland, funnily enough, in Ballymena, the local MP,

00:39:57.620 I've spoken to Jim Allister about these issues.

00:40:00.400 He gets it.

00:40:01.540 He understands and he knows what needs to be done.

00:40:05.080 The problem we've got in Northern Ireland, we're a very small voice in a big chamber.

00:40:09.300 So Jim's the only TUV MP in Parliament, and it's apart, what, 600 or so MPs.

00:40:16.100 But Jim is doing what he can.

00:40:18.080 My local MP, Alex Easton, sings from the same hymn sheet as Jim Allister.

00:40:22.960 So we do have a small number of MPs that get it.

00:40:26.020 Obviously, the reform guys, some of them get it, some of them don't.

00:40:29.160 That's all I'm going to say about reform.

00:40:30.820 But there really is a massive opening there for an insurgent party.

00:40:35.960 But I think, again, with the politics, Ezra, I think what has to happen with the politics,

00:40:40.700 and this is really important, and it's really important people, I guess, in North America

00:40:44.840 understand this as well, the politics in the United Kingdom has to welcome in Tommy Robinson

00:40:50.420 and the United Kingdom movement and the people that are associated with that, which include

00:40:53.720 you, obviously, Ezra.

00:40:54.460 Because if we're excluded, which reform has excluded us, they've said they called us that

00:41:01.000 lot, they want to have Tommy to join the party and so on and so forth.

00:41:03.380 So I think there has to be a sea change there.

00:41:06.040 Because I believe if we all came together on the right, Ben Habib, Rupert Lowe, Nigel,

00:41:11.760 some of the right-wing Tories, UKIP, Nick Tenconi's doing a great job at UKIP, Tommy Robinson,

00:41:16.540 all of us lot, we would absolutely romp the next election.

00:41:21.440 And I think Nigel doesn't get that yet.

00:41:23.060 And my prayer and hope is that Nigel will get that and that he'll bring this together

00:41:27.560 and he'll be a great leader instead of doing what I could have been a great leader.

00:41:31.840 I hope that makes sense.

00:41:33.400 Well, what I saw from social media clips of the mothers walking last night is mothers 0.71

00:41:40.300 who don't care about any other issue in the world other than the safety of their girls.

00:41:47.580 Nothing else is as important, not even traditional fault lines of Catholic or Protestant. 0.86

00:41:53.180 When a child is raped, everything changes.

00:41:56.040 And that's just so shocking.

00:41:57.540 Richard, thank you for answering my call today to give us an on-the-ground report.

00:42:03.060 I will gratefully take your footage and will credit you for it.

00:42:07.100 Thank you.

00:42:07.600 I want to show people what's going on and hopefully this will lead to more justice

00:42:14.700 and more political attention rather than people just name-calling like that senior police officer.

00:42:21.260 Thanks for your time, Richard.

00:42:23.340 Thanks, Cesar.

00:42:24.080 Thanks very much.

00:42:24.620 Thank you.

00:42:25.200 All right.

00:42:25.520 There he is, Richard Inman, friend of mine I've gotten to know through Tommy Robinson

00:42:29.360 and a reporter for Urban Scoop.

00:42:32.660 Stay with us.

00:42:33.480 Your letters to me next.

00:42:37.600 Well, that's Richard Inman.

00:42:41.200 And after I spoke with him, new footage came out of Northern Ireland showing that the troubles

00:42:46.900 are spreading all across the six counties.

00:42:50.500 And I think it's really captured the imagination of people in Northern Ireland in a terrible way.

00:42:57.140 What happened, this targeting of Northern Irish girls for rape by migrants, I think, has shocked the community.

00:43:04.940 And the response by the police to call everyone racist, I think that's going to bring even more riots tonight.

00:43:10.940 Here's some footage of that.

00:43:12.460 Stay with us.

00:43:13.340 Your letters to me are next.

00:43:14.620 Hey, welcome back.

00:43:20.600 Your letters to me.

00:43:22.520 Mark Lawley says,

00:43:24.000 As an Englishman, I adore the Irish culture.

00:43:26.160 Please don't become an Islamic culture. 1.00

00:43:28.640 Yeah, listen, I'm not an expert in Ireland or the UK, although I am a lover of both countries.

00:43:35.300 And I'm sort of an amateur admirer of both countries.

00:43:38.260 So I know I'm getting some things wrong.

00:43:39.760 I'm certain of it.

00:43:40.700 It's a complex history.

00:43:41.820 It's a history of Christianity in the West as well.

00:43:45.120 Catholicism, Protestantism, civil wars, plantations, rebellions.

00:43:50.000 I don't know all that history, and I confess it to you.

00:43:52.580 I'm learning it as I go.

00:43:54.380 But I think the Irish fighting spirit is what makes them so interesting and makes it so different. 1.00

00:44:01.760 They're being hit harder with mass immigration proportionately than we are. 0.98

00:44:05.760 But they're fighting back proportionately more than anyone else I've ever seen.

00:44:11.820 Bruce Acheson commented,

00:44:13.740 Leftists decry the invasion of the Americas, yet they support the replacement of Ireland's indigenous people by foreigners.

00:44:21.380 Worse yet, these people being brought in won't assimilate and adopt Irish values. 1.00

00:44:25.700 They have no loyalty to their host country, and they look down on those who kindly let them in and give them welfare.

00:44:30.780 Ingrates should be sent packing.

00:44:32.100 One of the interesting things I'm seeing in Los Angeles and other parts of the U.S. as they riot against mass deportations is something that Stephen Miller, who's the senior advisor to Donald Trump, says, is do you have an obligation to accept hostile migration?

00:44:50.600 So not just the illegal migration or violent or criminal migration, but how about people who just hate you?

00:44:58.920 Do you have an obligation as a country to take someone who hates you?

00:45:01.880 They haven't committed a crime.

00:45:03.440 They've applied and got in.

00:45:05.840 I'm not even saying they've sneaked in.

00:45:08.120 Do you have to take someone who's hostile?

00:45:10.440 Stephen Miller says, obviously not.

00:45:12.060 I think that's a shocking thing to put it so bluntly, but I think he's right.

00:45:18.400 And so how many people have we let into Canada who actually hate the place?

00:45:22.460 Just ask them.

00:45:25.040 Last letter from Alex Greer, who says, I am from a Northern Ireland Protestant Unionist background.

00:45:30.620 I have thought that I would support a demonstration with the Republican tricolor.

00:45:35.740 Well, that's what Richard Inman said tonight.

00:45:37.560 I don't know if you understood what he was saying is in Northern Ireland, where they have sectarian divisions, where they used to have the troubles that were quite violent until just a generation ago.

00:45:45.960 He said Protestants and Catholics were standing together against this greater foreign threat.

00:45:51.440 And I think he's right.

00:45:53.180 I don't know.

00:45:53.740 Ireland is quite an interesting place.

00:45:56.080 I have never gone in my life until just last year.

00:45:58.800 But that tiny country is a crucible of so many things and maybe some sort of a role model for citizens standing up and showing their pride in their country.

00:46:11.920 I don't know if we can do that anymore in Canada because, as I mentioned in my monologue, Irish, it's an ethnicity.

00:46:19.140 It's a historic people.

00:46:21.700 Canada has some of that, yes.

00:46:23.760 But I don't know if we think of ourselves that way.

00:46:26.320 The Irish are the indigenous people of Ireland.

00:46:30.140 And Canada definitely does have a culture and an identity and a route into the land.

00:46:34.860 And we have a shared history and language.

00:46:37.320 But that's been watered down over the last 10 or 20 years.

00:46:40.300 Is there enough Canadian-ness left? 0.97

00:46:43.060 Well, I guess we'll find out.

00:46:45.040 That's our show for today.

00:46:46.740 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:46:50.680 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:46:52.620 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - June 10, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Migrants allegedly assault Irish girl, sparking backlash from locals

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