The Lotus Eaters discuss the anti-immigration protests in the United States, and what the government should do about them. Stephen and Luca also discuss the situation in Mexico, and the role of the far-left in the protests.
00:05:39.480People have gone over to there, don't forget, crossed the border, claiming their right for asylum to be able to become American citizens.
00:05:46.620But she demands that they're still Mexicans, still Guatemalans, still whatever they are.
00:05:51.420And therefore, they could be able to send money back.
00:05:53.140I mean, I always had an issue with the remittances culture because we obviously have a huge amount here.
00:05:58.700And actually, when you're trying to do the research, even through the UN details, it's incredibly difficult to get accurate numbers from the World Bank.
00:06:07.460But no one seems to really know what the true numbers are.
00:06:10.620And I think as your Republican commentator in there or the senator, he was actually also indicating the connection to drug cartels.
00:06:20.400Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, she's going to have to have some deal with the cartels or else, you know, like something like 35 Mexican politicians were shot in the run-up to the latest elections.
00:06:33.000Well, there are allegations she and the previous president were both connected.
00:06:36.940I mean, I don't know the full stories of those allegations.
00:06:38.920No, but when you have 35 people shot running for office, I think it's safe to say anyone who makes it through that hailstorm has got some sort of deal with them.
00:06:47.180But the point being, for her, there is an ethnic particularity and connection here.
00:06:53.040She says, no, they are our fellow countrymen.
00:06:55.500They are colonists in America, and they are making money in America, and they're sending it home to Mexico.
00:07:00.660And the Mexican economy, 65 billion, that's not a small amount of money.
00:07:04.460So they don't want that to be reduced.
00:07:09.280This is in response to the president of the Mexican Senate.
00:07:12.500But Eric Schmidt, because, of course, the president of the Mexican Senate, there doesn't seem to be any opposition I've seen coming out of Mexico to the idea of remittances.
00:17:18.720What's happening here is on a much more human level of the way that politics works.
00:17:24.840It is the collective ego of the two sides of people.
00:17:30.780And Trump is the kind of politician who can sense the collective ego of America.
00:17:34.980Many politicians can't do that for some reason these days, but the Mexican president can, the president of the Mexican Senate can, and Donald Trump can.
00:17:43.120So he's like, no, we're not having this foreign invasion.
00:18:11.420So what this ABC News article said is that there are 4,800 activated Guard and Marine personnel in LA compared to the 2,500 troops in Iraq and 1,500 in Syria.
00:18:25.880If you've got an insurrection by people who are claiming that they're Mexicans and that this is Mexico's land, which is exactly the same as somebody going into a different country and coming over here like Germany and saying, you know, Britain is German because the Angles came from us first and we want it back, Mr. Hiller.
00:18:42.680We're quite happy to put our own military on our own borders and repel them.
00:18:47.120So the idea that just because they happen to have come over, claimed asylum doesn't change the fact if they're saying that they're Mexican and it's a Mexican country.
00:18:58.200I mean, if they're literally acting at the behest of their own governments as well, like, sorry, this is not just a series of individuals who are given, you know, for some reason given asylum or let legally to allow in the country.
00:19:10.260These are people who collectively understand themselves to be operating on behalf of a foreign state and they're demanding the Americans cede territory to this foreign state.
00:19:18.280And their government accepts, yeah, no, they should be ceding foreign territory to our state.
00:19:47.760I mean, at the moment, California is filing lawsuits against Trump of his unlawful deployment.
00:19:54.860But really, this is not about, you know, something that can be settled by the law.
00:19:59.980This is about something that has to be settled by sentiment, right?
00:20:03.220It is not acceptable to have presumably millions of Mexicans in the United States, particularly in California, who are like, no, this we're going to flip this territory for Mexico.
00:20:13.780Are we seeing any of the kind of influencers like, you know, Charlie Kirk or others that are behind the kind of Trump philosophy being able to promulgate this idea that Trump should be saying that if you are actually Mexican, claiming that you're Mexican, this is Mexican land.
00:20:56.120There are millions of Mexicans in Los Angeles and various other places who aren't Americans, don't think they're Americans, and actually, viva la Mexico, right?
00:21:04.580And you've got the sort of like brain look conservative take of, oh, why are they protesting about being deported to a place they love?
00:21:34.060And so when I asked, do people agree with Trump deploying the National Guard so a bunch of Mexicans and communists don't burn down Los Angeles?
00:21:41.760And one of them used to be one of America's jewel cities, like, you know, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
00:21:47.940When I was growing up, these were places that were sort of almost a myth and legend.
00:23:20.460How quickly would all those companies that are there shift from there?
00:23:25.820Because they know that the cartels are coming.
00:23:27.960The gangsters are going to control them.
00:23:29.760And all the nice holiday resorts and houses that they might have picked up over the years will disappear to when Mr. Pueblo turns around and says, it is my house.
00:29:01.560And Neo says, of the roughly 200 men who fought defending the Alamo, 20 were Mexicans under the command of Juan Sequin and Gregorio Espaza.
00:29:10.360It's why Mexicans in Texas are a different character, calling them Tejanos.
00:30:02.200And the reason it's become so radical, as you no doubt highlight in your new documentary, The Death of Man, is the enlightenment story of the rationalisation of the world and the way that it's equalised.
00:30:16.980And erodes any particularisms that mean that certain places belong to certain people and to eradicate the categories that basically make genuine human diversity in the world actually worth it.
00:31:02.220Maybe we just float around and just bounce off one another.
00:31:04.480But that's certainly what the liberalist idea is, that individuality of singleness.
00:31:09.640And I also look, it's easy to control.
00:31:12.480If you don't have any bonds to society, if you don't have bonds to a country, if you don't have bonds to your family, then the biggest atom with the way of sledgehammering over you is able to control you.
00:31:23.940I mean, Rousseau expressly said that people should be maximally dependent on the state.
00:31:27.240But the point is, in this documentary, I'm pointing out that there are actually some logical consequences of that that are pretty negative, actually.
00:31:34.960And we end up in a completely materialistic world in which nothing is special and nothing is sacred, and that's not good.
00:31:43.640You know, the Enlightenment was the knife we drew across God's throat.
00:31:47.400So, if you're interested in seeing how we got there, how the Enlightenment has brought us to this point, go and check out Carl's wonderful documentary.
00:31:59.460I'm making quite a strong claim there, I appreciate it.
00:32:01.340I think I back it up in the documentary.
00:32:04.580So, let's assess how we got where we got with the recent riots that we saw across Northern Ireland these past few days.
00:35:27.620But it's also interesting, isn't it, to, you know, just assess the past few years of Irish history and how, you know, we saw recently, didn't we, the fact that Irish Catholics and Protestants banding together in the face of mass immigration.
00:35:42.980Well, perhaps we're more alike than we previously thought.
00:35:51.800And one thing that I also just wanted to bring up as regards to the census was the fact that of those who are foreign-born, 52% of them arrived in the past 15 years.
00:36:04.840So, even though Northern Ireland, generally speaking, has, until now, been relatively more protected from mass immigration than other parts of the United Kingdom, it's coming.
00:36:21.520So, yeah, so just, I just want to pause on that, because there are a lot of people who, I bet, are watching this, who are in some nice little village somewhere in Devon, or somewhere in the Northeast, maybe Northern Ireland, who are just thinking, well, these are problems that are a long way away from me.
00:36:35.820You know, we haven't got a diversified thing yet.
00:36:37.880We've only got, you know, two Indian restaurants and a Turkish barber's.
00:36:53.440So, as regards, so, off the back of this attempted rape that these two boys have been charged with, obviously, the locals of the town wanted to obviously come out in defiance against this, what is slowly becoming an enclave, right, against the rest of the community.
00:37:12.720And you can see here, as David points out, these locals organising on Facebook and trying to hold the, so, pardon me, have seven.
00:37:22.840And from there, this is where, again, it starts out and you can tell that tensions are very, very high.
00:37:31.400And, ultimately, some rash, warm-blooded actors are obviously going to demand personal vigilante justice for this.
00:37:41.780And, obviously, the reason for this is because, you know, even though the demographics of this particular town might be relatively homogenous, they're not blind to what goes on in other places.
00:37:56.020They've seen Southport, they've seen Dublin, they know what happens, they know, as you were saying earlier, they know where this leads, right?
00:38:04.920And so, even though I'm obviously not condoning mass violence and all these sorts of things, you can understand why people, when you take, when the state takes justice away from them, and you can no longer go to a state for justice, why people will inevitably take matters into their own house.
00:38:23.480The liberals are going to argue, aren't they, very clearly, oh, no, we are doing justice, we've took them in, we've given them, we're questioning them, you've not gone through the court system yet, just as they did with Southport.
00:38:34.060And, by the way, this is just a bunch of far-rightists who are trying to cause trouble on immigration.
00:38:39.120And I've always said, though, be very, very careful about who's actually starting these riots.
00:38:44.820It goes back to when I was in the Moss Side riots, and I saw them as a boy, that it was actually very posh students dealing with the Molotov cocktails, trying to hand it to us, to throw.
00:38:54.640How do we know that this is not state-backed organisation, or lefties, Antifa, trying to do this, so that they can give a bad name, just as they did in Southport?
00:39:15.420They will absolutely manipulate events in order to create the outcome that they want, which will justify more crackdown, more power, and more disenfranchisement of the working people.
00:39:28.780The individual case, as bad as it obviously is, is not the justice that is being denied.
00:39:33.800The justice that is being denied is the ability to have a safe and harmonious community in which you don't have to worry about your daughters being raped by foreigners.
00:39:42.920That's the justice that's being denied.
00:39:45.360People don't articulate it that way, but that's what's really driving this.
00:39:51.200And I've just got a video here because it goes through the day quite succinctly.
00:39:57.800So we'll just watch this for a second.
00:39:59.540So one thing I just want to emphasize, you can't talk over it.
00:40:04.640If the noise is on, you just can't hear it.
00:41:22.880What I do see straight away is the heavy-handedness of the police going in on this particular issue
00:41:28.880when it's the reverse of what we're seeing in California.
00:41:32.040I mean, the appropriate response would be then say, yep, we appreciate this is something that a foreign community has done to your community.
00:41:39.880And so what we're going to do is we're going to make mandatory everyone in that foreign community, one, learn English,
00:41:44.360and two, sit down and explain to them how they have to behave.
00:41:48.360We're going to make sure that they have to do, like, a three-week course or something.
00:41:51.940You know, everyone in this community has to sit down, learn English, do this three-week course, and then we'll see.
00:41:56.100Because what that shows is it is the majority community dictating to the minority community how they have to live to live alongside them
00:42:04.880so that people can feel, oh, no, we are the people in control of this.
00:42:08.740We are going to get this overall underpinning justice of, you know, we will be the ones taken care of by our own country, right?
00:42:17.420And instead, like you're saying, in Britain it goes the other way.
00:46:30.100Some in the House may not want to hear it, but you cannot say that you have not been warned.
00:46:35.020There is a deep concern in parts of Ballymina about the significant demographic change in recent years, particularly due to the resettlement of Roma families, with their often having arrived in large numbers from the Republic of Ireland.
00:46:49.600And so, yes, it's a tale that we just see happening in more and more remote places now.
00:46:58.020And ultimately, as I say, even though Northern Ireland has been relatively protected from this for quite a long time, it is coming.
00:47:06.580There will be more Ballyminas, and there seems no sign on the horizon, really, that the British state is going to pivot and do address any of the concerns that led to this in the first place.
00:47:19.540Yeah, and I think there's also another attack line that the people of Ballymina and people of towns across the country, and here they're fairly relatively contained in a certain area.
00:47:30.220So what needs to happen is to be able to find out who owns the houses.
00:47:33.840It's quite easy to find that out in the land registry.
00:47:37.440And if it's a company that owns the houses, like Serco or whoever the Irish equivalent is that's dealing with it, find out who owns that house and target them.
00:47:45.720Target them with peaceful demonstrations.
00:48:13.840I would just draw also a thread between your last segment as well, Carl, and say about when you look at these people from California, right,
00:48:21.660the Mexicans who are basically in open rebellion, even there you'd think, wow, just screaming rebellion from California, from inside America itself.
00:48:30.200That sounds like a, that's a danger, that's a ballsy move, right?
00:48:43.340Trump represents, finally, a modern liberal, or not liberal, but a modern state that is actually working in the interests of the majority people for the first time in decades.
00:48:55.720Whereas in this case, it's the total inversion of that paradigm.
00:48:59.640This is the people who do actually have a right to the land, bravely standing up to their own government.
00:49:06.840Well, I was about to raise that point.
00:49:08.180Here we have a two-tier approach by the states, both in terms of the way that we defend or oppose the opposition here.
00:49:16.940In California, they're defending those who are taking over the land and saying it's their own or indeed belonging to Mexico.
00:49:24.820But in Ballymina, they're attacking the people who belong to land, who live there, for those who are coming in to take it over.
00:49:32.760And so what we've got here is, the question is, what is in the sense, what's in the brains of these individuals?
00:49:38.080What is in their minds that they think that there's no difference between this, that we can't see it, that we can't see the two-tier justice?
00:49:45.800Unfortunately, it's a much longer conversation than we just don't have to.
00:50:32.120Sigil Stone 17 says, if you're going to keep quoting Lord of Rings, I did it once, okay, then you need to start showing the Daily Gondor on the show.
00:50:40.160Daily Gondor is a great, great account.
00:50:42.360I love the Daily Gondor. What are you talking about?
00:50:42.720I shall bring more in Daily Gondor, yes.