Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Single, military-aged men are colonizing Ireland — concerned citizens speak out

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Over the weekend, I went to Ireland, not even for one full day.

00:00:04.800 I think we were on the ground for like eight hours, but we did some more stories on immigration,

00:00:10.380 and I got some very interesting little moments I'd like to share with you.

00:00:13.640 I went there with our head of video, Efron Monsanto.

00:00:17.500 I want to show you what that country is like.

00:00:19.560 I want to show you what people say on camera about mass immigration.

00:00:24.500 I don't think people in Canada are bold enough to talk that way yet.

00:00:27.440 Maybe it'll come later, but I really want you to see with your eyes what I'm about to show you,

00:00:31.040 especially some conversations I had on the street.

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00:00:48.140 All right, here's today's podcast.

00:00:54.100 Tonight, I've done a little bit of secret traveling over the weekend.

00:00:56.960 I'll give you a full update.

00:00:58.460 It's October 21st, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:02.560 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:16.120 Oh, hi, everybody.

00:01:16.980 It's great to be back in our world headquarters in Canada.

00:01:19.800 I love hearing what the staff is up to.

00:01:21.720 We've got so many stories across the country.

00:01:23.380 Very exciting news out of British Columbia, don't you think?

00:01:25.580 The B.C. Conservative Party coming within a hair of winning the election out there.

00:01:31.140 And frankly, things are just going to get worse for the incumbent NDP.

00:01:34.340 I'm also very excited about what this portends for the federal Conservative Party,

00:01:39.340 because I think some of the support for the B.C. Conservatives is that the name conservative

00:01:44.580 has been revived under Pierre Polyev.

00:01:47.740 Obviously, there are policy similarities between the dude David Eby, just an atrocious NDP, socialist,

00:01:56.720 environmental extremist, carbon tax booster, hard drug pusher, all these things backfiring on him.

00:02:05.860 I think it really is a test drive for the federal election that's coming up.

00:02:09.520 But if the Conservatives can do so well in an avowedly progressive province,

00:02:13.800 they'll be able to do even better in other more moderate places.

00:02:18.520 Drea, of course, is our woman on the ground in British Columbia. 1.00

00:02:21.980 There's also things going on in Saskatchewan.

00:02:24.560 And of course, our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed, covering a lot of hearings.

00:02:27.820 She was covering the Foreign Interference Judicial Inquiry, but also hearings of Catherine Tate,

00:02:34.060 the CBC poobah, her latest, just outrageous, charging taxpayers $1,000 a night to go see the Olympics in France

00:02:43.480 when she was there on a personal vacation anyways.

00:02:47.240 Take a look at this clip.

00:02:48.660 Merci, Madame Présane. Merci, Madame Tate.

00:02:51.020 Thank you, Madame Chair.

00:02:52.960 Ms. Tate, Mr. Goodman, Ms. Tate, I'm very pleased to see you here in person.

00:03:00.740 And in fact, you were there in person for the opening of the Olympic Games.

00:03:05.300 I just want to know whether this was during your personal vacation.

00:03:08.460 Yes.

00:03:10.320 Well, the media has indicated that you charged the Canadian taxpayers $1,000 per night for the hotel,

00:03:18.780 as well as other expenses in the order of approximately $6,000.

00:03:23.240 So why charge $6,000 to Canadians if you were there during your personal holiday?

00:03:30.400 I was in France for my personal holiday during the Olympic Games.

00:03:35.240 But during those days, I was working for CBC Radio Canada.

00:03:38.400 And if you were to look at all of the newspapers, it was very clear there was no hotel room in Paris

00:03:45.260 that was available at a lower price than that.

00:03:49.500 So this was the official hotel for the Games.

00:03:53.520 I was there with other delegates.

00:03:56.580 And I benefited from all of the services, for example, the shuttle that enabled us to go to the opening of the Games

00:04:02.880 because there were security issues at stake.

00:04:05.460 I understand.

00:04:06.540 But you just indicated that you were on a personal holiday, but then you were no longer on a personal holiday.

00:04:11.900 It's important to have the true version.

00:04:14.360 Well, I was on holiday.

00:04:16.180 That's why I did not ask CBC Radio Canada to pay for my airfare.

00:04:22.120 Nevertheless, when I went to the Games, I was working on behalf of Radio Canada, of course, CBC.

00:04:28.260 So you cut part of your personal holidays there because you were there two, three weeks a month.

00:04:34.460 It doesn't matter.

00:04:35.160 But you cut those in half and you charge those prices.

00:04:38.260 And, of course, our friend Avi Amini is crossing the United States.

00:04:42.480 He's from Australia, of course.

00:04:43.940 It's fun to see his take on the United States of America asking questions along the way.

00:04:48.820 He was in Vegas the other day and he had some fun man-on-the-street interviews.

00:04:53.540 I got a real chuckle out of it.

00:04:55.000 I won't play the whole clip.

00:04:56.020 It's about 14 minutes.

00:04:56.820 But here's just a moment of that.

00:04:59.080 If illegals vote, Harris, if it's an actual affair, I mean, it's Trump.

00:05:02.340 It's not even close. 1.00

00:05:03.200 He talks shit, but he keep it real. 1.00

00:05:06.240 Kamala a f***ing liar. 1.00

00:05:07.820 Are you together? 1.00

00:05:09.120 Not yet.

00:05:09.740 Not yet.

00:05:11.480 How do you ensure that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas?

00:05:15.080 We won't tell your wife.

00:05:16.180 Okay, thanks a lot.

00:05:17.100 Who's the prime minister?

00:05:18.320 Of Australia?

00:05:19.500 I'm embarrassed to tell you.

00:05:21.220 I know, I hear.

00:05:22.060 Where are you from, primo?

00:05:23.140 Where are you from?

00:05:23.980 Primo?

00:05:26.820 Election polls across this country say it's too close to call the election between Trump

00:05:33.100 and Harris.

00:05:34.940 While betting agencies have Trump way in the lead.

00:05:38.920 So the billion dollar question is, are the polls right or are the markets right?

00:05:42.880 We've come to Las Vegas to find out from the average punter what they think.

00:05:48.100 Because the mainstream media is working overtime right now to play down the markets.

00:05:53.140 This is on our tour at aviacrossamerica.com.

00:05:55.680 Remember, you can go there to see all our reports across the country.

00:05:58.660 I started in San Francisco and I will end up in Mar-a-Lago for Election Day.

00:06:03.680 Join us there and support our work if you like what you see.

00:06:08.220 So let's cut the hype and let's hear from the average person.

00:06:11.160 If you had to bet right now, who's going to win the election?

00:06:13.520 Trump or Harris?

00:06:14.520 Trump.

00:06:15.180 Trump all day.

00:06:16.060 Trump.

00:06:16.800 I hope it's Harris.

00:06:17.980 Me.

00:06:18.940 Harris.

00:06:19.720 I bet on Trump.

00:06:20.780 Trump.

00:06:21.640 My wife is pulling me. 0.51

00:06:23.460 We don't...

00:06:24.300 You're not going to bet?

00:06:25.160 No.

00:06:25.520 You're in Vegas.

00:06:26.520 That's okay.

00:06:27.160 Well, I haven't even covered all of our reporters, but we really are firing on all pistons.

00:06:32.060 I like to be in the studio.

00:06:34.220 I also like to be on the ground covering things.

00:06:37.080 And sometimes I travel to other countries, but I am aware of the importance of our own

00:06:41.420 home here in Canada.

00:06:42.580 And so when I do travel, I try and do so in a very lean way, not just economically, but

00:06:47.800 not to take a lot of time.

00:06:49.180 And so I was in the studio, you might recall.

00:06:51.060 I did the show on Friday and it's Monday and I'm doing the show in the studio today.

00:06:54.520 But I have been to three countries since I saw you last.

00:06:58.740 It's sort of been a kamikaze run.

00:07:00.440 On Friday night, I flew with our videographer and head of video, Efron Monsanto.

00:07:06.480 I flew to Ireland because I got a very cheap ticket on the way to my final destination that

00:07:13.480 had an eight-hour layover in Dublin.

00:07:15.800 And most of the time when you travel and there's a layover, it's sort of a pain in the neck.

00:07:18.940 You just hang out at the airport, right?

00:07:20.280 No, we rented a car and did real journalism about the crazy immigration crisis in that 1.00

00:07:27.080 country.

00:07:27.700 And we got some very interesting clips.

00:07:30.260 I want to, there's two interviews on the street.

00:07:33.280 Normally when you interview someone on the street, it's a very light, quick interview.

00:07:36.980 But these two were very serious, very in-depth.

00:07:39.740 They were in the exact same location talking about the exact same thing, but they couldn't

00:07:43.980 be more different.

00:07:44.760 And it was about mass migration of single military-aged men to Ireland.

00:07:51.760 And is that a good or a bad thing?

00:07:53.800 I tell you to talk to these two people back to back as I did in Ireland was just incredible.

00:07:59.560 One of the reasons that I like covering the Irish immigration crisis is that the indigenous 0.97

00:08:04.420 Irish are pushing back. 1.00

00:08:06.440 Here in Canada, I haven't really seen that.

00:08:09.100 Oh, sure.

00:08:09.480 I've seen some Twitter warriors online opposed to it.

00:08:12.000 I suppose I would be one of those Twitter warriors, but I have not seen a massive, organized,

00:08:17.680 general, nonpartisan street campaign, political campaign against mass immigration in Canada.

00:08:23.580 I haven't.

00:08:24.220 I've seen protests about immigration, but they are those foreign visa holders, either temporary

00:08:29.720 workers or students who are complaining that they're being sent home.

00:08:33.760 There's about two million people that Justin Trudeau brought to Canada in the last year.

00:08:38.520 One million of them alone are students.

00:08:41.700 Of course, most of them aren't really students.

00:08:43.220 They're just calling themselves that.

00:08:44.640 There's a lot of asylum seekers, fake refugees, et cetera. 0.91

00:08:48.060 You've seen them protest, but I haven't seen any Canadians protest back.

00:08:51.360 Have you?

00:08:51.960 I have not.

00:08:53.020 But I see that in Ireland.

00:08:54.580 So that's my main show today.

00:08:56.680 But I spent about eight hours on the ground in Ireland.

00:08:59.780 And then I went on to a place I'd never been before called Alicante, Spain.

00:09:04.620 Now, I landed at night and I left the next morning to go and connect with Tommy Robinson.

00:09:12.940 You might know Tommy Robinson.

00:09:14.060 He worked for our company a few years ago.

00:09:16.400 He's the journalist in his own right with his outfit called Urban Scoop.

00:09:21.640 I call him a civil rights activist because he's fighting for freedom of speech.

00:09:24.640 Anyways, he was heading back to the United Kingdom.

00:09:28.320 He's got a big rally coming on next weekend.

00:09:30.980 And there was a real sense that he would be arrested by the British police when he touched

00:09:36.980 down.

00:09:37.340 So the reason I went to Alicante, Spain, was not to hang out there, but to meet up with

00:09:41.840 him, get on the same plane as him, and fly back to the UK so that when he was arrested,

00:09:48.120 when he landed, I would be right there in a position to film his arrest and help get him

00:09:54.920 out of jail.

00:09:55.480 Well, incredibly, we landed and there were police at the airport, but they just waved

00:10:00.480 him through, which is very interesting.

00:10:02.260 So I came right back here to Canada.

00:10:05.020 It was quite a long journey, three night flight flights in a row.

00:10:08.480 But the reason I covered those stories is partly because I'm very interested in them, partly

00:10:11.620 because I enjoy going to different places and seeing how people do things elsewise.

00:10:16.480 But I always feel like I can bring lessons back to Canada.

00:10:19.500 And I would say in these two cases in regards to Ireland, when, if ever, will Canadians stand

00:10:25.700 up and say, immigration is out of control enough? 0.69

00:10:29.220 Basta.

00:10:30.000 I mean, they're saying that in polls.

00:10:31.860 I don't know if you saw some of the polls recently, that a majority of Canadians are not

00:10:35.460 just against mass immigration.

00:10:37.200 They think it is a hard negative for our country.

00:10:39.860 But where are they on the streets?

00:10:41.240 I haven't seen that yet.

00:10:42.660 Maybe the Irish way is the way. 1.00

00:10:44.840 And in the case of Takami Robinson, the lesson is sort of the other side of that.

00:10:49.360 Things have gotten atrociously bad.

00:10:51.920 Just today, news comes of a 61-year-old man who was jailed for months.

00:10:59.440 Actually, I think it was two years.

00:11:00.580 Pardon me.

00:11:00.880 He was jailed for two years in the United Kingdom for tweeting certain things.

00:11:05.000 And I think he was shouting at a cop or something in one of the recent race riots.

00:11:09.600 So he didn't commit any violence himself.

00:11:12.260 He just sort of was very noisy and angry.

00:11:15.660 He was put to jail for two years.

00:11:17.340 And I understand he committed suicide amongst other.

00:11:21.540 I mean, when you're 61 years old and put in prison for two years in a prison that's

00:11:25.800 run by Islamic gangs, you're not going to have a very good time of it. 1.00

00:11:29.880 I would say that it was a tantamount to a death sentence. 0.70

00:11:32.880 And you can imagine what that would be like if Tommy Robinson himself were jailed.

00:11:36.700 So those are two stories I jammed in over the weekend.

00:11:40.120 But I'm back here in the office on Monday, and I didn't miss a beat.

00:11:43.660 And I feel really glad about that.

00:11:45.880 There are other stories that we'll be covering in the days and weeks ahead.

00:11:49.180 I'll be here.

00:11:50.600 I do have some dental surgery later this week that's going to take me out of the chair for

00:11:54.240 a day.

00:11:54.760 But it's great to be back.

00:11:55.960 And I want to show you some of the things I saw in Ireland.

00:11:58.280 And you tell me, are these trips to other places instructive?

00:12:02.300 Are they interesting?

00:12:04.260 Perhaps if you have a connection to Ireland or a connection to Brazil, where we were last

00:12:09.740 month, or a connection to the UK, you find them more interesting.

00:12:12.760 But even if you don't have a connection, I have no connection to Ireland.

00:12:15.820 But I respect that country as the only home for the Irish people.

00:12:20.360 And they never colonized anyone.

00:12:22.280 They never enslaved anyone.

00:12:23.300 And they were, in fact, the ones who were oppressed.

00:12:26.600 And I think you can say that objectively.

00:12:28.280 Even if you're a bit of an Anglophile like I am, you can acknowledge that Ireland is an

00:12:32.800 Irish place.

00:12:33.520 It's different.

00:12:34.660 And what's astonishing to me is to see the indigenous Irish who fought so hard to throw 1.00

00:12:40.080 off foreign powers now throw open the gates to new colonizers who come as refugees. 1.00

00:12:45.920 I find that one of the most astonishing things.

00:12:48.500 Anyways, that's just a long-winded update of where I've been since I've seen you last.

00:12:53.300 So without further ado, let me show you what I got up to in my eight hours in Ireland.

00:12:59.080 Take a look.

00:13:08.140 Kulak is a poor neighborhood in Dublin, but that doesn't mean it's not lovely.

00:13:12.560 And I'm standing in a mall just across the street from a residential area.

00:13:17.740 You can see there's a Burger King over there, an Odeon movie theater, and a leisure plex.

00:13:22.920 I poked my nose in there.

00:13:24.500 It's Saturday morning, and there's families in there.

00:13:27.720 There's a bowling alley.

00:13:29.260 There's an arcade.

00:13:30.400 There's a coffee shop.

00:13:31.680 It's actually a great little hangout.

00:13:33.700 And this whole area is made for families and for kids.

00:13:37.440 And I've been here three or four times now, and there's lots of teenagers hanging around.

00:13:41.740 It's where the community kids hang out.

00:13:44.100 But look over there.

00:13:45.100 Right across the street, you see a few things.

00:13:48.080 First of all, you can see the three colors of the Irish flag.

00:13:52.660 Not only do you see a few Irish flags at half-mast on the light standards, but you can see some

00:13:59.380 enormous concrete blockades.

00:14:01.300 They've been painted green, white, and orange.

00:14:04.140 And behind them is an abandoned paint factory, the Crown Paint Factory.

00:14:10.560 And that's the site of where the Irish government wants to put hundreds of military-age male

00:14:18.340 migrants right smack dab in the middle of this family-friendly, child-friendly plaza.

00:14:25.580 It's an incredible contradiction, a family plaza made for kids and 500 foreign men, many of whom

00:14:33.940 don't speak English, many of whom don't have papers.

00:14:36.880 In fact, some of them shred their papers when they arrive here.

00:14:39.940 And so it's been the scene of a great number of protests over the past month.

00:14:45.080 In fact, we came here in part because we saw footage of a fire.

00:14:50.240 And I thought, oh my God, they've finally done it.

00:14:52.260 They're going to torch the Crown Paints factory that is the proposed urban refugee camp. 1.00

00:14:59.200 We sent our drone over today, and it looks like the fire was just on some debris, not

00:15:04.660 the main building itself.

00:15:06.600 Why would people torch a would-be refugee camp?

00:15:11.040 I don't support violence of any sort, of course, but I think it's an expression of the frustration

00:15:15.700 of the community in Kulak, who really has no other way to speak out.

00:15:20.160 You'd think that putting a 500-person urban refugee camp in the middle of this area of

00:15:26.960 town, especially it's economically challenged.

00:15:29.560 I've spoken to the people of Kulak.

00:15:31.700 They have challenges already.

00:15:33.380 Getting a doctor, getting services, social services.

00:15:37.220 Putting 500 needy foreign men smack dab in the middle of that is only going to make things 1.00

00:15:41.880 worse for the neighborhood.

00:15:43.860 No consultations.

00:15:45.320 If you were going to build a high apartment building here, if you were going to build an

00:15:50.400 office building here or a shopping center here, there would be hearings.

00:15:54.920 There would be zoning discussions.

00:15:57.840 There would be parking questions.

00:15:59.380 There would be traffic questions.

00:16:00.760 There would be environmental questions.

00:16:02.680 And the thing would take years to get through all the red tape.

00:16:05.320 But this strange approach that Ireland has chosen to put what the locals call plantations of hundreds

00:16:13.340 or sometimes even thousands of foreign men right in the middle of residential neighborhoods

00:16:19.280 is so stunning to me and so frustrating because there is no democratic feedback mechanism.

00:16:25.780 All of the parties in the Irish parliament support this, bizarrely.

00:16:29.480 Even though polls say that immigration is the number one worry in Ireland, the numbers are staggering.

00:16:35.520 I mentioned in my video last night before we left from Toronto that the Irish government is boasting

00:16:40.040 that in 2024 alone they have handed out 775,000 new passports.

00:16:47.400 There's only 5 million people in Ireland.

00:16:49.200 How do you do that?

00:16:50.080 Now, a number of those are indigenous Irish people just getting their passport for the first time, I suppose.

00:16:54.880 But, you know, there's a saying, oh, don't get into the conspiracy theory of replacing the population,

00:17:05.100 even though the United Nations published a document called Replacement Migration.

00:17:09.020 But you can't help but think of that when, for example, the little village of Dundrum, Ireland, population 200,

00:17:17.580 has 280 migrants put in it.

00:17:20.100 Immediately, the indigenous Irish are a minority in their own village. 0.98

00:17:24.880 And 500 migrants for this proposed plantation here won't make Dubliners a minority. 0.64

00:17:30.720 But in this part of town, it certainly will.

00:17:33.860 And I keep thinking, why?

00:17:36.220 Why is this happening?

00:17:37.420 What's the motivation for this?

00:17:39.420 Why are they trying to de-Irish Ireland?

00:17:43.580 Shouldn't the Irish have a place? 1.00

00:17:46.320 The Greeks have Greece. 0.78

00:17:47.720 The Italians have Italy. 0.99

00:17:48.980 Why shouldn't the Irish have Ireland? 1.00

00:17:51.380 It's not like Ireland has any connection to the places where these migrants come from. 0.99

00:17:56.860 Ireland was never an empire, didn't colonize anyone.

00:18:00.160 In fact, it's fought for its own sovereignty itself to expel people it's regarded as overlords in the past.

00:18:07.140 The Irish Revolution just over a century ago.

00:18:09.980 What is motivating this country's political class to bring in one million foreigners, which has happened over the last few years?

00:18:21.140 I find it puzzling.

00:18:22.720 And I'm going to try and find out some answers to these questions in today's visit.

00:18:27.460 We're here at Kulak.

00:18:28.760 We've been several times.

00:18:30.100 We've been here before.

00:18:30.920 Often there's men outside the colorful blocks there having a bit of a protest and a vigil.

00:18:36.520 But I think we're here a little bit too early to see them today.

00:18:39.720 We're going to try and go to other places too.

00:18:42.880 The same problems we have in Canada.

00:18:45.000 Where do you put these people?

00:18:46.800 What do they do for a living?

00:18:49.100 Are very evident here in Ireland.

00:18:51.600 We're going to go to the canal area where I suspect we'll see a lot of these migrants just literally sleeping in tents.

00:18:59.620 I wanted to come here because I wanted to see what the fire was.

00:19:03.640 And it looks like it was just a fire of debris.

00:19:06.120 But this is a central battleground in Dublin.

00:19:11.200 The question is, whose Dublin is this?

00:19:14.600 Whose Kulak, that's the neighborhood, is this?

00:19:17.500 Does it belong to the Irish people? 0.85

00:19:19.000 Does it belong to the mums and the kids in the Leisureplex?

00:19:22.640 Or does it belong to the 500 strangers, many of whom came here under false premises?

00:19:28.700 Who owns Kulak?

00:19:30.780 That's one of the questions we're trying to find out.

00:19:33.400 But look over there.

00:19:34.240 A modest house.

00:19:35.800 A small house in a fairly low-income residential community.

00:19:41.020 It's houses all the way down.

00:19:43.260 Obviously, the paint factory didn't disturb anyone.

00:19:45.880 It was a place where workers came to make paint.

00:19:49.580 And it's been empty for some years now.

00:19:52.160 But imagine you live there.

00:19:54.340 And you're told, not asked,

00:19:56.780 you're told that 500 military-aged migrant men are going to be your neighbors.

00:20:02.640 And if you don't like it, you're a racist. 0.99

00:20:07.220 And if you ask questions, shut up, they explained. 1.00

00:20:11.780 I'm across the street now. 0.97

00:20:12.880 These huge concrete barricades have been brought here.

00:20:16.420 Because this is where there was a protest encampment for months.

00:20:20.520 And they would walk right into the Crown Paints facility.

00:20:25.240 These were put to stop people from going over.

00:20:29.440 You can still see in between the concrete blocks,

00:20:33.060 you can see some construction equipment.

00:20:36.460 And it's sort of a messy area.

00:20:42.100 When we were here once before,

00:20:43.900 we saw one of those pieces of heavy equipment being torched.

00:20:47.640 You can see the graffiti.

00:20:49.360 Get them out.

00:20:50.820 Free Kulak.

00:20:51.940 Kulak says no.

00:20:56.860 I'm told by the security guard that there is sort of a permanent protest here.

00:21:03.080 We're just here a little bit early in the day, as you know.

00:21:05.900 We're just here for the day.

00:21:07.140 So I wanted to make this our first stop.

00:21:09.840 You can see some remnants of the camps and chairs.

00:21:14.140 At times, there's up to hundreds of people here.

00:21:17.640 And in fact, one day, there were literally thousands marching down the street.

00:21:22.680 We were here earlier, several months ago.

00:21:26.140 And the police, or the guardi, as they're called, the guardi,

00:21:29.700 they came with their SWAT equipment with batons and tear gas.

00:21:33.980 And they had a bit of a melee.

00:21:35.800 Some of the local lads were throwing bottles at cops.

00:21:39.120 Police responded with batons.

00:21:41.160 It was actually quite brutal.

00:21:42.380 There's going to be an election in Ireland, pundits say, in the next couple of months.

00:21:48.740 I think immigration will be an unspoken issue.

00:21:51.500 The reason I say unspoken is that all the dominant parties support mass immigration.

00:21:56.740 And that's such a puzzle to me, because I'm fairly new to the world of Ireland,

00:22:00.740 so I have a lot to learn.

00:22:03.780 But one of the things that I always thought is the Sinn Féin party was sort of the Irish nationalists.

00:22:12.260 They were the party that was sort of the peaceful political wing of the IRA.

00:22:17.920 I don't know my Irish history, but that I know.

00:22:20.200 So it's so bizarre to me that the Irish nationalists who helped give the boot to the British

00:22:26.860 are so open doors when it's migrants from other countries.

00:22:30.700 I don't understand how you can have centuries of resistance to foreign domination

00:22:36.800 when it's a Brit, but roll over and roll out the red carpet

00:22:41.560 when it's people from Pakistan or Syria or wherever else the migrants come from.

00:22:48.400 I find that astonishing.

00:22:51.020 Ireland is changing before our eyes.

00:22:54.180 It's very confusing to me.

00:22:56.240 But I think some of the ways the government is going about it here

00:22:59.940 are things we should be aware of back home.

00:23:03.200 And some of the ways the protest is happening here, we should be aware of back home.

00:23:08.120 I wonder if any political party in this upcoming Irish election will make immigration an issue

00:23:14.520 or if they'll all pretend it's just fine.

00:23:17.400 We'll keep you posted as we go our way around Ireland today.

00:23:20.440 To follow all of our reports and to chip into our crowdfunded journalism,

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00:23:39.640 Dublin, Ireland is so pretty.

00:23:41.600 It's amazing.

00:23:42.800 There's so much history.

00:23:43.660 Gorgeous brick and stone buildings, churches.

00:23:47.620 And one of the beautiful features of the downtown of the inner city is the Grand Canals.

00:23:55.160 There's so many people who are just out for a walk or a jog or a bike ride.

00:23:59.800 It's so peaceful here.

00:24:01.460 Really a gem of the city.

00:24:03.440 But you can see all around it is ugly fencing.

00:24:07.900 You can really take a look at it on this side here.

00:24:10.760 As soon as these cars cross, let's walk over.

00:24:13.000 I want to show you what's all this fencing, this kind of riot control kind of fencing.

00:24:20.660 It's to block off the green grass.

00:24:24.160 Why would they do that?

00:24:25.520 Isn't that the best part of these canals?

00:24:27.920 Well, it's because hundreds of migrants camp here.

00:24:34.220 They just set up tents.

00:24:35.840 And they live here and they eat and drink and do all sorts of other things that I won't describe.

00:24:44.900 And it was becoming such a, not just an eyesore, but a danger to the neighborhood.

00:24:50.200 Would you want to be a young woman going for a jog by yourself, passing by hundreds of foreign men who have a culturally different approach to a young woman out for a jog? 0.75

00:25:05.240 And so bowing to public pressure, the government finally removed the tents.

00:25:11.480 But it's just atrocious what they've done, erecting these hideous fences.

00:25:18.560 I mean, this is a lock.

00:25:20.620 And look at this ancient bridge here.

00:25:23.080 This is so beautiful.

00:25:24.920 And then you've got these crowd control fences.

00:25:28.480 But it's not really for a crowd.

00:25:29.860 It's for hundreds of foreigners that used to turn this into, well, really an urban refugee camp.

00:25:39.180 So they're gone, at least for now.

00:25:41.820 But where are they?

00:25:44.560 That answer is even more terrifying.

00:25:46.900 See, when you had hundreds of migrants camped out here, you could see the problem. 1.00

00:25:52.640 It wasn't hidden and it caused stress and conflict because it was so obviously something was out of joint.

00:26:00.740 But where are these same migrants? 0.68

00:26:02.420 They haven't been deported.

00:26:03.260 What's happening across Ireland is that hotels and community centers and nursing homes and institutional buildings have been commandeered by the government at very high prices in many cases to provide free housing to those migrants.

00:26:22.860 So they're swept off the streets and into hotels.

00:26:26.880 And, you know, we were in the little village of Dundrum, a gorgeous four-star hotel and country club going to house hundreds of foreign migrants.

00:26:36.980 In fact, so many that it'll be larger than the village population itself.

00:26:41.960 Dundrum has about 200 people living there and they're bringing in 280 military-aged migrant men.

00:26:47.720 So they're moving from this bizarre display, this shocking display of urban refugee tent camps into a less visible way of housing the migrants. 0.94

00:27:01.920 But it's still housing them.

00:27:04.680 It's still displacing, for example, Irish homeless people or Irish people who need help with accommodation.

00:27:12.380 It's driving up rent, of course.

00:27:14.600 And in the case of Dundrum, it's utterly changing the character of the village.

00:27:19.940 It's a lovely place.

00:27:21.220 You can see so many people coming out for a walk.

00:27:25.360 People by themselves, women, the elderly.

00:27:29.620 I'm not sure how long that'll be the case.

00:27:33.400 Right now, they only have this eyesores to look at, but it may revert to what we saw earlier.

00:27:41.000 Here's a reminder of what it was like when I visited a few months ago.

00:27:44.180 Well, where are you from? 0.99

00:27:45.280 It's not a fucking business. 0.99

00:27:47.380 Why is it, well, why is it not my business? 0.99

00:27:49.400 I'm from Dublin.

00:27:50.400 You're from Dublin?

00:27:51.000 Yeah.

00:27:51.920 All right.

00:27:52.540 All right.

00:27:52.800 Does that go for you?

00:27:54.080 Sure. 1.00

00:27:55.940 Fuck you. 1.00

00:27:56.400 Fuck off, yeah? 1.00

00:27:58.600 I wonder if there's just men here, if there are women too. 1.00

00:28:02.600 Can I talk to you on camera?

00:28:04.760 Can I talk to you for a minute?

00:28:06.180 Where are you from?

00:28:06.800 Um, he's shy, fair enough.

00:28:10.980 He, uh, oh, it looks like he is going into one of the tents.

00:28:13.980 I don't know where he's from.

00:28:16.720 Um, I have sympathy for the people in these tents, obviously.

00:28:22.040 I would not want to be in one of these tents.

00:28:24.200 One of the things I would ask them, if I encounter someone who's willing to talk and able to speak

00:28:28.520 English is, what were you promised?

00:28:31.800 And how do you feel with your current situation?

00:28:35.800 And how do you feel about hundreds of thousands more migrants being brought in?

00:28:41.860 Hi, how are you guys?

00:28:43.140 Do you guys live around here?

00:28:45.140 Are you in these tents?

00:28:45.960 I'll ask you, please.

00:28:46.540 Don't film me, please.

00:28:47.380 Okay.

00:28:48.180 Don't film me.

00:28:48.960 Okay.

00:28:49.360 Excuse me, please.

00:28:50.020 Are you going to help these guys or no?

00:28:52.020 Well, I want to...

00:28:52.860 What's the point of filming them, please?

00:28:54.800 I want to know who they are and what they're doing.

00:28:58.020 Yeah.

00:28:58.680 It's all your business, bro.

00:28:59.700 If you're going to give them some help, give them some help.

00:29:01.820 Don't film me, man.

00:29:02.600 I already told you that, yeah?

00:29:04.200 Don't film me, bro.

00:29:05.540 Don't film me.

00:29:06.460 Yeah, public place.

00:29:07.240 But don't film me, man.

00:29:08.260 I'm telling you, yeah?

00:29:09.740 I'm telling you, yeah?

00:29:10.720 You keep walking back here.

00:29:11.340 I'm telling you, yeah? 0.99

00:29:12.840 Don't fucking film me, yeah? 1.00

00:29:17.500 Fucking cunt. 1.00

00:29:19.160 What's your name? 1.00

00:29:20.940 I'm talking to this guy, yeah?

00:29:22.240 What's your name?

00:29:23.040 Where are you from? 1.00

00:29:23.960 It's all your fucking business, man. 1.00

00:29:25.620 Well, why did you come up and talk to us? 1.00

00:29:27.500 So, why are you filming people?

00:29:28.380 Are you going to give them help?

00:29:29.320 Are you going to help them, yeah?

00:29:30.480 Maybe.

00:29:31.020 No, maybe.

00:29:31.640 Yeah, no, maybe.

00:29:32.320 You're just making like...

00:29:33.280 What is it?

00:29:33.440 You just want to get your wages, man, you know?

00:29:35.800 Are you filming, yeah?

00:29:37.260 We want to know what's going on.

00:29:38.620 Go get a burger, yeah? 1.00

00:29:41.340 Fucking normal. 0.99

00:29:42.840 Well, there's a fellow who wasn't happy with us here. 0.99

00:29:46.880 I don't think I'm in a position to help these folks, and I don't think that's my job.

00:29:51.480 I think that's more the job of the Irish government.

00:29:54.960 There's an angry fellow who...

00:29:56.920 I don't know why he reacted that way.

00:30:01.420 Perhaps he doesn't want attention being put on these people, but surely he can't think that this is good.

00:30:07.560 In fact, I know he doesn't.

00:30:08.860 He said, are we going to help them?

00:30:09.900 I don't think that's for me to do.

00:30:12.620 I think that's for the Irish government to do, the Irish people to do.

00:30:17.320 Perhaps he thinks that we're going to be biased in some way.

00:30:20.540 I don't feel like I have a bias, other than I suppose my instincts are there's only so much absorption that a country can have.

00:30:32.700 Ireland is obviously being taxed, and I think Canada is too.

00:30:36.680 You know, there was one fellow who said he was from Palestine, could be.

00:30:40.740 I don't think Ireland has taken anyone from Gaza.

00:30:43.420 That may have just been a fashionable statement by the refugee. 0.54

00:30:46.960 He was looking for a fight.

00:30:49.980 Aggressive towards me, a man.

00:30:52.220 I can only imagine how he would be aggressive towards women on this street.

00:30:57.080 Hi there.

00:30:58.740 Can we talk to you a little bit about what's going on around here?

00:31:02.080 No?

00:31:02.700 Where are you from?

00:31:04.940 It's from Afghanistan.

00:31:05.740 Well, where are you from? 1.00

00:31:07.400 It's my fucking business. 1.00

00:31:09.500 Why is it not my business? 1.00

00:31:11.540 I'm from Dublin.

00:31:12.560 You're from Dublin?

00:31:13.140 Yeah.

00:31:14.060 All right.

00:31:14.680 Can I go for you?

00:31:16.180 Sure.

00:31:19.920 Okay. 1.00

00:31:20.640 Fuck off, man. 1.00

00:31:21.400 Hey, bro, you see the filming people go to jail, man. 1.00

00:31:24.780 You know, you filming people go to jail. 1.00

00:31:27.160 Fuck off, yeah? 1.00

00:31:29.180 Fuck off, you motherfuck, yeah? 1.00

00:31:30.740 I don't know why Ireland is doing this. 1.00

00:31:33.660 I don't have a good answer for that.

00:31:35.220 Whenever I ask people why, they say it's to please globalists at the UN or the World Economic Forum.

00:31:42.080 I find it strange that people would sell out their own country for the appeasement in favor of foreign oligarchs.

00:31:48.540 Another answer that I find more credible is that it's just money.

00:31:53.560 Follow the money.

00:31:54.920 There's an industry that's cropped up around these refugees.

00:31:58.320 So, for example, the people who own the hotels that are rented by the government, the people who are the social workers, the countless NGOs, they're all getting tens of thousands of dollars per migrant.

00:32:12.220 The lawyers, those who cater to them, people who like to see housing prices go up and like to see wages go down, which is what happens when you bring in massive numbers of low-skilled workers.

00:32:26.180 So, I think that the answer is partly ideological, partly the woke critical race theory of Irish self-hatred, which has infected most Western countries.

00:32:37.780 But I think at the end of the day, it's just plain old cash.

00:32:41.260 Enough people are willing to sell out Ireland for, you know, the cost of a hotel or an NGO program that that's how they're doing it.

00:32:51.480 It's very strange to me.

00:32:52.880 For all my reports from Ireland, go to migrantreports.com.

00:32:56.880 It's so lovely here.

00:32:58.280 I don't want to leave.

00:32:59.740 It's so rustic and hearing the sound of the little waterfalls on the locks and it's so peaceful.

00:33:07.380 This is one of the best places in Dublin.

00:33:10.160 And yet, along the sides, there were hundreds of tents with military-age migrant men.

00:33:17.240 So, you can see they put these fences to keep them out.

00:33:20.500 They've come back and then they shoot away, come back, shoot away about five times.

00:33:24.300 Anyway, I talked to a couple of people because there's so many people just going for a walk or a bike ride.

00:33:30.140 It's the kind of place where you might go for a date and then sit down on a little park bench.

00:33:34.380 And it's notable how many young women are along this path.

00:33:38.600 And I mention that because when you have hundreds of military-age migrant men camping out here, it changes the safety dynamic. 1.00

00:33:46.520 Anyway, here's two Irish people who stopped to talk to me as they were walking their dogs.

00:33:51.740 Hi.

00:33:52.180 It looks like you're collecting some leaves.

00:33:54.300 Yeah, because my six-year-old friend is coming for pizza later, so she's very artistic.

00:33:59.900 So, just to play with her, yeah.

00:34:02.140 But it also makes me notice the beauty, yeah.

00:34:04.760 It's absolutely beautiful here.

00:34:06.960 The sound of the rushing water.

00:34:09.000 You've got some doggies with you. 0.57

00:34:10.560 Jack Russells, yeah.

00:34:12.220 Can I ask you about these fences around here?

00:34:15.200 We were here a few months ago and there were lots of tents with migrants.

00:34:19.460 And I understand that they come and then they're kicked out and then they come back and they're kicked out.

00:34:24.420 What do you make of that whole thing?

00:34:25.720 Well, I guess it's complicated.

00:34:30.040 And my understanding is our government decided to stop providing housing for male refugees.

00:34:39.320 So the council gives them a tent.

00:34:42.040 But then the council blocks anywhere that they could put the tent.

00:34:45.320 Do you think they're real refugees or do you think some of them might be taking advantage of Irish hospitality?

00:34:51.540 I don't think anybody would do that for a laugh or to take advantage of.

00:34:57.220 I mean, we know they're coming from areas of the world that are either war-toned or have civil conflict or else they're, I guess, some of them now even, if they are economic migrants, it's because the global north has caused climate chaos and people can't make a living where they are. 0.97

00:35:18.260 So you think climate change is why they're here?

00:35:21.860 No, I think we're playing out because of the reality that we put up six, eight Hiroshima bombs worth of energy per second into our atmosphere.

00:35:34.400 It's big changes coming, like that will lead to civil unrest and about a third of humanity outside livable zones.

00:35:41.260 And so I think Fortress Europe is preparing itself to make sacrifice zones.

00:35:52.360 So we're just closing our doors, I guess.

00:35:59.720 But what's Ireland got to do with any of this?

00:36:01.940 Ireland's never had a colony.

00:36:04.000 Ireland's never oppressed anyone.

00:36:05.440 So why is Ireland, a tiny country, the only place for, there are no other Ireland's for the Irish. 1.00

00:36:12.300 If Ireland's not there, I don't know, like it's the only place for the Irish.

00:36:18.600 And why is Ireland the place where so many migrants can come and some of them burn their or throw out their documents when they arrive? 1.00

00:36:29.880 That doesn't seem like a good faith move.

00:36:31.940 I just wonder if you're being a little bit, I don't mean to criticize, but you sound credulous.

00:36:39.580 What credulous means believable.

00:36:41.820 Sounds like perhaps you're the kind of person that someone from a low trust society might take advantage of.

00:36:49.340 You look like a lovely high trust society, a wonderful woman who's collecting beautiful things.

00:36:56.180 I don't mean to be mean, but I think someone might take advantage of you.

00:37:00.040 Well, I'm not, I guess I consider myself to have a lot of privilege.

00:37:03.680 I'm not worried about being taken advantage of.

00:37:05.980 I'd happily pay more tax if the tax went to not funding fossil fuels and arms, but to creating a safe haven from people fleeing justice and justice.

00:37:15.640 But there's 8 billion people in the world.

00:37:17.520 And my guess is that half of them would love to come to this beautiful place if they could.

00:37:21.580 But you can't fit 4 billion people in Ireland.

00:37:24.940 You can't fit 4 million more.

00:37:27.040 You can.

00:37:27.640 Ireland had 8 million before the great hunger of famine.

00:37:30.480 So do you think maybe we could take, so maybe a few million more people from Pakistan and Somalia.

00:37:36.760 I mean, I think this, I think the narrative around migration is incorrect.

00:37:43.200 People aren't made aware that there's always been movement of migration.

00:37:46.840 We migrated out of Africa to fill the planet. 0.98

00:37:49.100 I thought Ireland.

00:37:50.180 Yes.

00:37:50.660 And then only since the nation state has there been some notion of, which is only like a 19th century phenomenon, has there been some notion of like us and them.

00:38:00.740 Well, the Irish have had us and them. 1.00

00:38:02.400 And the Irish have been throwing off occupiers and oppressors for centuries.

00:38:06.640 Exactly.

00:38:07.000 So the Irish have had to take refuge.

00:38:10.340 There are about 40 million people around the globe who claim to have Irish origin.

00:38:15.200 And they were people to leave because of oppression.

00:38:18.160 So I think that's why you find many people identify so well with the Palestinians.

00:38:24.280 And we're the only white nation in Europe who haven't been a colonial power.

00:38:29.480 And yet we are.

00:38:30.340 But you have a tremendous feeling of guilt about you.

00:38:33.840 You've, you're self abnegating.

00:38:36.360 You're, you're, you, maybe things are too good for you.

00:38:40.360 So you're looking for sort of luxury worries.

00:38:43.580 I mean, you look like a lovely woman in a lovely place.

00:38:46.520 And maybe your life is so stress-free that you're importing it as a sign of good taste.

00:38:51.800 I run a crisis community mental health team.

00:38:54.380 My life is not stress-free.

00:38:55.660 Why are you bringing in, why would you support bringing in millions of problems when you have Irish problems to solve? 0.99

00:39:03.060 There are no problems.

00:39:04.100 Most people who come here as refugees are highly skilled.

00:39:07.880 Are they really?

00:39:08.880 Yeah.

00:39:09.240 There are lots of doctors, nurses, engineers.

00:39:10.960 Are they really?

00:39:11.740 Yeah.

00:39:12.660 Yeah.

00:39:13.280 A lot of them.

00:39:14.380 Really?

00:39:14.960 Yes.

00:39:15.340 In this park here.

00:39:16.320 I met some of them.

00:39:16.960 I didn't see any doctors or engineers.

00:39:18.760 I saw a lot of people.

00:39:20.260 I was in Newtown, Mount Kennedy.

00:39:21.920 I saw a lot of people who walked across the border from Northern Ireland destroying their paperwork.

00:39:27.420 Their very first act on Irish soil was to break the law.

00:39:32.100 It doesn't sound like a doctor or a lawyer.

00:39:34.180 Some doctors and lawyers.

00:39:37.800 Do you know a single doctor or lawyer who's been encamped here?

00:39:42.020 I know friends who come from Romania who were doctors and engineers, and they weren't allowed to practice because their qualifications weren't.

00:39:52.260 And in Ireland, because of direct provision, people aren't allowed to work.

00:39:55.320 So they're not allowed to contribute to the community.

00:39:57.520 But any place in the world where you have allowed that, refugees and people from poorer countries than us do all of the jobs that Irish people are unprepared to do, such as care of the elderly. 1.00

00:40:09.520 They work a lot in social care and nursing.

00:40:11.800 Are there a lot of single, military-age migrant men who are nurses or in care?

00:40:18.460 Yeah, but that isn't the narrative.

00:40:21.080 Let's not call them victims.

00:40:22.680 Let's not call them people with PTSD.

00:40:25.840 Let's not call them people who've had to leave their families if they don't want to go killing in a war.

00:40:34.020 They're called like cowards if they leave the war area.

00:40:40.180 And they're called terrorists if they stay. 0.98

00:40:41.640 So there's no wind for them.

00:40:43.340 But this has been a far-right shift.

00:40:45.960 We're dehumanizing men.

00:40:49.100 If it was your brother or son who was in a war, a war, conflict area, you know, wouldn't you want them in a place of safety?

00:40:58.440 You have such a big heart.

00:41:01.600 Yeah.

00:41:02.020 Right?

00:41:02.620 Yeah.

00:41:03.000 Like, we all are one.

00:41:04.900 Like, if we...

00:41:05.600 But are we, though?

00:41:06.840 We are.

00:41:07.380 That's the only thing that's going to get us out of the kind of global interconnected crisis is to see our common humanity.

00:41:12.040 So I welcome them, but I think we don't treat them well when they come.

00:41:18.840 Do you really welcome them?

00:41:20.160 I mean, do you welcome them in any personal way or, like, have you taken a migrant into your house? 0.86

00:41:26.080 No, but I do go along.

00:41:27.120 So you welcome them in the streets or someone else's house?

00:41:29.720 Well, I don't have a situation right now because of family health where I can take people into my house.

00:41:36.520 I've never heard...

00:41:37.020 But I do go out with food with friends to provide.

00:41:41.940 When they were up near Charlamont, I have two friends who are Malaysians who live in Ireland.

00:41:48.060 And they were doing food distribution.

00:41:50.760 So, in a way, I think we're wealthy and we have a very short memory when we realized only in the 80s we made movies and celebrated Irish economic refugees with fake green cards going to America because there were no opportunities in Ireland.

00:42:09.920 And we thought it was a good idea for them to cheat and get to America.

00:42:12.700 So we forget that even if...

00:42:14.900 So I would rather that view of, like, rather than block everybody out in case one guy is a cheater.

00:42:22.460 I was raised as a Christian.

00:42:25.080 My understanding is that God would say, bring them all in rather than risk... 0.76

00:42:29.480 But just not into your own home?

00:42:31.340 I would take one into my own home.

00:42:32.700 And my first cousin took a lovely guy called Hadjar out when he came out of direct provision into our house.

00:42:40.060 And his new girlfriend is now minding her house for a month because he got engaged and he had been stuck on a ship for three years until the Irish police boarded the ship and got him off to safety.

00:42:53.680 And he's from Syria.

00:42:55.360 So I would be totally up for that.

00:42:58.800 You know, I would love to have you as a neighbor.

00:43:01.260 You have such a warm heart.

00:43:02.880 But I would be terrified of who you would let into the neighborhood.

00:43:06.120 I think that you are a very trusting person and you would leave your door unlocked and that would work until it didn't.

00:43:15.460 Yeah, but I'd rather stay open and vulnerable and then shut down.

00:43:21.820 I pray that the consequences of your big heart never are wrought.

00:43:27.480 I don't mind being hurt.

00:43:29.440 I can deal with that.

00:43:30.400 I don't want to, like, become bitter and weird and twisted.

00:43:32.640 So I stay open to suffering.

00:43:36.280 It's a pleasure talking with you, although you make me sad and worried.

00:43:39.500 Okay.

00:43:40.380 Take good care, guys.

00:43:41.380 Thank you.

00:43:41.760 Bye-bye.

00:43:43.380 So what do you think?

00:43:44.540 I mean, last time I was here, there were all sorts of migrants camped out on the green spaces, but that's sort of being walled off with these fences.

00:43:52.340 Where have they gone?

00:43:53.740 Do you know?

00:43:54.940 They just moved on.

00:43:56.300 Some of them have been rehoused and moved up to Tala.

00:44:01.180 So they just keep coming back here, you see, because the IPW is around the corner in Mount Street.

00:44:10.200 So that's why they come here.

00:44:11.420 So they come and then they're cleared out and then they come back again?

00:44:14.540 They're cleared out and come back again.

00:44:16.860 Are you in the neighborhood here?

00:44:18.640 Yeah, I live in the neighborhood, yeah.

00:44:20.260 So how often have they been cleared out and come back?

00:44:22.960 How many times has that happened now?

00:44:24.680 About five times.

00:44:27.380 And, I mean, this is such a beautiful canal.

00:44:32.080 We're trying to get the fences taken down now.

00:44:35.280 But, of course, if the fences are taken down, maybe the tents come back.

00:44:39.060 They have security on it now.

00:44:41.400 So they have security?

00:44:42.340 They have security here now to stop them coming back.

00:44:45.800 That goes up and down every day.

00:44:47.600 So hopefully this will be an end to it, you know?

00:44:52.240 Well, I saw in the papers that the Irish government is boasting that they handed out 775,000 passports so far this year.

00:45:01.600 Now, some of those are Irish, but it sounds like immigration is still going full tilt.

00:45:06.380 Oh, it is.

00:45:07.020 It's going full tilt.

00:45:08.640 Why?

00:45:10.320 Like, well, I don't understand that part. 1.00

00:45:12.300 Because the government are useless.

00:45:14.860 Well, but surely if a party wanted to get votes, I mean, they would be opposed to this because I think most Irish think things are a little out of control. 1.00

00:45:22.880 Why are all the parties the same on this issue?

00:45:26.260 They're all the same.

00:45:27.720 They're all linked in with Europe.

00:45:30.720 So that's what it is?

00:45:32.100 Yeah, they're just bleeding puppies on a string, being told what to do.

00:45:37.020 By whom?

00:45:37.760 By the UN?

00:45:38.420 By the World Economic Forum?

00:45:39.600 Who's the boss?

00:45:40.900 The European Union.

00:45:42.000 So my theory is that money is involved too.

00:45:45.360 For example, hotels get a lot of money to put up the migrants. 1.00

00:45:48.600 Is that part of it?

00:45:49.480 Oh, yeah.

00:45:49.960 That's a big part of it.

00:45:50.960 Hotels make more money than they would normally.

00:45:55.300 Are you worried that if you criticize immigration, someone's going to call you racist?

00:45:59.420 Because that's what happens in Canada sometimes.

00:46:02.400 No.

00:46:03.220 I'm not racist.

00:46:04.020 I know that people need somewhere to live, and I won't say the majority, but a lot of

00:46:10.540 them that are here, like they need it.

00:46:16.060 You know, like the likes of Ukrainians and things like that.

00:46:18.800 But all these young people coming over.

00:46:20.820 Well, that's the thing, eh?

00:46:22.560 I mean, Ukraine, everyone knows there's a war there.

00:46:26.080 And when you have women and children, you can understand it.

00:46:29.560 But that's different than these military-aged migrant men, single men from places like Pakistan 0.84

00:46:37.000 and Somalia, isn't it?

00:46:38.140 Oh, it's totally different because we don't know where they're from.

00:46:41.280 They're not vetted.

00:46:42.140 There was a stage at one time, like two of them were wanted in another country for crimes.

00:46:49.760 And they were living on this canal, you know what I mean?

00:46:52.340 There's a lot of young women jogging by and biking by. 1.00

00:46:56.360 I mean, obviously, it's very, very safe right now.

00:46:59.640 But I've got to think it wasn't particularly safe when it was hundreds of migrant men. 1.00

00:47:05.320 No, it wasn't safe with them all there.

00:47:07.620 As I say, it was all men. 0.98

00:47:10.100 And it was all young men.

00:47:13.140 And to me, and it's not been racist or anything, but young men,

00:47:18.600 if they're saying they're coming from a war-troned country,

00:47:21.340 they should be fighting for their country, not coming here. 1.00

00:47:25.260 And they know that if they come here, that they'll get social welfare, that they'll get paid.

00:47:30.540 They were getting paid every time they had to be moved on.

00:47:33.360 They were getting €35, €40.

00:47:35.560 They're getting more money than the homeless in Ireland,

00:47:39.800 which is, again, the government again.

00:47:42.520 It's all Fianna Fáil and Fianna Gael. 0.88

00:47:46.900 They're just, you know, like, as I say, they're puppets.

00:47:50.560 And they'll do anything to keep any of the government out.

00:47:54.780 And that's the way it's going.

00:47:56.140 Like, they're stewarding up trouble now against Sinn Féin because people thought Sinn Féin might get the vote,

00:48:03.900 but now there seems to be trouble in Sinn Féin.

00:48:06.020 So it's, you know, like, it's a big catch-22 situation, you know.

00:48:12.060 So, you know, what do you do or what don't you do?

00:48:14.960 As I say, Ireland and the majority of people in Ireland have no problem helping out refugees.

00:48:21.380 But asylum seekers are the different thing, you know. 1.00

00:48:26.140 So last question, in a couple of weeks, there's going to be an election in the United States.

00:48:31.480 And Donald Trump has said he's considering mass deportations of migrants.

00:48:36.920 If he wins, do you think that might normalise mass deportations?

00:48:42.000 And do you think maybe the idea might catch on in other places?

00:48:45.580 Well, I don't know.

00:48:47.700 Not a lot of people.

00:48:49.700 Like, personally, I don't know the man.

00:48:52.500 I think he's all right, actually, you know.

00:48:55.780 The fact that everyone is against him makes me feel he's probably doing right.

00:49:01.940 Because when you're doing right, they all turn on you.

00:49:05.420 And, you know, like, I couldn't see anything wrong that he's done.

00:49:09.340 So, you know, you wouldn't know of them, you know.

00:49:13.540 Like, it's the same with all of them, you know.

00:49:16.840 All the great leaders, you know.

00:49:19.300 So, if they don't get their way, well, then they get assassinated or whatever.

00:49:27.420 Well, they've tried that.

00:49:28.560 Yeah, they've tried that.

00:49:29.480 So, you know what I mean?

00:49:30.620 Like, America's a funny country.

00:49:33.200 It is a funny country, you know.

00:49:34.520 So, I've never visited, but it's a funny place.

00:49:38.840 Great talking with you today.

00:49:39.940 Thanks for your time.

00:49:40.620 All right.

00:49:41.040 Talk.

00:49:41.400 Here you go.

00:49:41.840 Bye.

00:49:42.060 Sure.

00:49:42.100 I'm standing outside the Black Forge.

00:49:52.360 That's Conor McGregor's bar in Dublin.

00:49:55.220 Walked inside, super friendly.

00:49:56.960 Met some political allies who knew Rebel News.

00:50:01.060 And a cabbie saw us, and he had a few things to say.

00:50:05.120 So, I chatted with him for a minute.

00:50:07.220 See, you're doing a great job.

00:50:10.420 Hey, I got a quick question for you.

00:50:12.000 Do you think we should draft Conor McGregor to run for political office?

00:50:15.360 Oh, yeah.

00:50:15.880 Oh, 100%.

00:50:16.820 We'll have to do something because we're not getting any recognition of them.

00:50:21.120 They're not recognizing anybody, no matter what you're saying.

00:50:24.420 You know what I mean?

00:50:25.120 Take care, mate.

00:50:25.940 Just holding a blind eye.

00:50:27.260 Like all globalists, you know.

00:50:28.480 It doesn't look like it, but it's packed inside.

00:50:31.880 They actually need reservations days in advance.

00:50:35.800 So, when we come back on a future trip to Ireland, we'll make sure we've got reservations for the Black Forge.

00:50:41.700 We're not just into food and drink.

00:50:43.900 We like Conor McGregor.

00:50:45.340 And while some people write him off and say, oh, he's not serious.

00:50:48.520 He's a political dabbler.

00:50:50.260 What does he know?

00:50:51.760 Well, that's precisely the point.

00:50:53.180 He's a populist.

00:50:54.160 He's a man of the people.

00:50:55.520 And I think Ireland's politicians need an enema.

00:50:58.520 Sort of like the way Donald Trump came in from outside the system and smashed the status quo.

00:51:04.100 I think that Ireland needs that.

00:51:06.780 A man of the people, not a man of the World Economic Forum or the United Nations.

00:51:11.540 A guy who doesn't care what the naysayers think about him.

00:51:15.280 Donald Trump was the same way.

00:51:16.520 You know, the media loved Donald Trump until he threw his hat in the ring and then they turned against him because he had the wrong views.

00:51:21.580 It could be that way with Conor McGregor, but I sure hope he throws his hat in the ring.

00:51:25.680 We've got a petition, believe it or not, at draftconor.com.

00:51:29.820 That's with one N, draftconor.com.

00:51:32.640 And I think we should dust that off and see if we can't get some momentum going for the lad.

00:51:37.280 For Rebel News in Dublin, I'm Ezra Levance.

00:51:40.260 What do you think of the idea of drafting Conor McGregor to help save Ireland? 0.98

00:51:44.240 Fucking go for that. 0.98

00:51:45.180 He's a man. 1.00

00:51:46.140 He's done well for himself.

00:51:47.300 He could do better than any politician, I'd say.

00:51:51.720 We're doing interviews with people on the street about Conor McGregor and should he run for political office.

00:51:56.920 What do you think of that?

00:51:57.880 Yeah, why not?

00:51:58.860 Why not?

00:51:59.920 Do you think he would shake up the political system a bit?

00:52:02.940 Yeah, because I think he's happy to say what the people want to say.

00:52:06.560 He's not scared of what the elite would think of it.

00:52:09.780 So why not?

00:52:10.360 Yeah.

00:52:10.820 Do you think he would sort of upset the apple cart and smash what needs to be smashed like he does in the ring?

00:52:15.440 Probably, I'd say so, aye.

00:52:18.000 No, it's smashed as me, but I think it could do well.

00:52:20.740 Now, do you think the media would turn on him if he did that?

00:52:23.620 Of course they would.

00:52:24.440 You know what the mainstream media are like.

00:52:26.260 They're there for the elite.

00:52:27.120 They're not there for the people.

00:52:29.120 Do you think he would be, I mean, in America, there was a famous wrestler, Jesse the Body Ventura,

00:52:35.000 who went on to be a governor.

00:52:36.620 And Arnold Schwarzenegger went on to be a governor too.

00:52:39.000 Do you think Ireland would take the leap and vote for a non-traditional candidate like McGregor?

00:52:44.820 Yeah, 100%.

00:52:46.000 If Conor didn't think that, I don't think he would say that.

00:52:51.320 And obviously you can tell from my accent, I'm not actually from Ireland.

00:52:54.540 Family are from Ireland, none of my granddads.

00:52:56.740 But yeah, if you actually speak to Irish people, Dubliners,

00:52:59.580 they will tell you the exact same things that I'm telling you.

00:53:02.020 It's there for the people.

00:53:03.460 Why not?

00:53:03.940 Well, that's our show for today.

00:53:14.540 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:53:17.540 to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

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Rebel News Podcast - October 21, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Single, military-aged men are colonizing Ireland — concerned citizens speak out

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