"Ireland Is A Powder Keg": Tucker Carlson And Steve Bannon On Ireland Stabbing I

[Ptarmigan]

"Ireland Is A Powder Keg": Tucker Carlson And Steve Bannon On Ireland Stabbing Insanity And Immigration
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ireland-powder-keg-tucker-carlson-and-steve-bannon-ireland-stabbing-insanity-and

Tucker Carlson sat down with Steve Bannon to discuss last week's terrorist incident in Ireland - where an Algerian immigrant went on a stabbing spree in downtown Dublin, attacking five people - including three children. Following the stabbing, anti-immigrant riots broke out across the country over the government's general pro-immigrant policies.

"Several days ago, a man in his 50s for reasons that are still not clear stabbed five people outside a school in Dublin, Ireland, including three children, and then almost immediately after, parts of that City erupted into rioting," said Carlson, adding "The Washington Post stepped in helpfully to explain, here's the Tweet The Washington Post sent out quote 'online rumors claimed the perpetrator of a stabbing attack was an immigrant'."

"Actually, the man was an immigrant," Carlson continued. "He was from Algeria and as it turns out he's been living in Ireland for 23 years at public expense, he has never had a job."

Ireland's Transformation and the Role of Immigration

The conversation quickly pivoted to the broader implications of immigration in Ireland, with Carlson criticizing the country's significant transformation due to immigration, suggesting a deliberate plan. "That country has been completely transformed by immigration," he argued.

There are many migrants in Ireland. It is getting volatile after there was a mass stabbing at a school.

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Those Who Cry “Far Right” Have No Idea What’s Happening in Dublin
https://brownstone.org/articles/those-who-cry-far-right-have-no-idea-whats-happening-in-dublin/

You might think that a government faced with a barbaric public stabbing of schoolchildren and an unprecedented night of rioting in its capital city would extend condolences to the victims, take a deep breath, and try to figure out how a city managed to spiral out of control on its watch. But instead, Thursday’s riots in Dublin were met by a shallow, one-dimensional analysis by all of the key authorities involved: to blame the “far right.”

For example, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris blamed the violence on the streets on a “hooligan faction driven by far right ideology.” Taoiseach Leo Varadkar pledged at a news conference to “modernise our laws against incitement to hatred and hatred in general.” And Minister for Justice Helen McEntee said that a “thuggish and manipulative element” was using the earlier incident to “wreak havoc.”

The Irish government would have us believe that the most destructive riot in Dublin in living memory was not a symptom of failed governance, but the result of an ideological fringe group going on a looting spree. That is a suspiciously convenient narrative for the powers that be, for it absolves them of all responsibility for losing control of the city. By fingering a Far-Right fringe, public officials can wash their hands of any role they themselves may have played in bringing the city to the brink of anarchy.

But blaming these riots on the “far-right” only serves as an excuse for not engaging in serious reflection about the deeper causes of this incendiary atmosphere, and the ensuing events. These events did not come out of nowhere and cannot be simplistically reduced to the work of a fringe “far-right” mob. “Far-right” talk is an excuse for not thinking hard about what led up to this and how public authorities lost control of Dublin’s city centre.

Far right this. Far right that. It is simplistic. It is more complicated.

Nonetheless, to suggest that Thursday’s chaotic scenes can be blamed exclusively on the “Far-Right” would be profoundly disingenuous. To begin with, many of the “hooligans” that joined the riots seemed at least as interested in looting shops and finding an excuse to set something on fire as in joining a political movement. Secondly, even if there were important xenophobic elements among the rioters, this does not explain how a city can be so fragile as to succumb to chaos and looting in a few hours.

The attempt to scapegoat the “Far-Right” for the breakdown in public order that we saw on Thursday conveniently ignores the fact that successive Irish governments have allowed criminals to wander the streets of Dublin with relative ease. Budding criminals know they will face lenient sentences, partly because there is simply no room in Irish jails to hold them for long, leading to a “revolving door” scenario in our prisons, as pointed out five months ago by the Irish Prison Services.

People feel less safe in Dublin city than ever before, and there is a widespread belief that criminals in Dublin can act with impunity, or else will not suffer a prison sentence proportionate to their crimes. The government most certainly must answer for failing to address this problem over the years. This failure most certainly cannot be blamed on “far-right” ideology.

Thirdly, while there is no excuse for attacking police officers or setting vehicles alight, the Irish government has undoubtedly paved the way for these riots by refusing to listen to its citizens for years. Ireland’s political establishment has consistently been dismissive toward reasonable concerns about its immigration and refugee policies, reducing them to the rantings of a “Far-Right” fringe. This has created an atmosphere of pent-up resentment and frustration, and it was only a matter of time before this frustration erupted onto the streets.

Many aspects of Ireland’s immigration policies strike people as profoundly unfair and destructive, including allowing very large numbers of asylum-seekers to avail of free or cheap housing on the taxpayer’s dime while Irish citizens are frozen out of the housing market; and flooding local communities with large numbers of refugees with no prior consultation whatsoever. In response to complaints, the Irish government has just doubled down, and given us more of the same “open-door” immigration policies.

[Old n Grumpy]

Politicians are the same around the world. They never admit their wrong, and they view their constituents with disdain.

[DefiantSix]

Politicians are the same around the world. They never admit their wrong, and they view their constituents with disdain.

The former Senn Fein politicians who're running Ireland these days seem to be a special kind of stupid, if they've already forgotten after a mere 20 years since the end of The Troubles that the Irish commoners are exceptionally competent at resisting foreign conquests and rulers.

I suspect they're about to be reminded...