Aug. 5, 2021 - David Icke
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| You all know who Richie Allen is, I'm sure. | |
| He's the Irishman with that sultry voice on the mic. | |
| The Richie Allen Show has been pushing back against the narrative and interviewing anyone and everyone from all sides of the debate for years now. | |
| But suddenly he's too much for Twitter. | |
| Richie, first of all, mate, thank you very much for pointing Neil McAvoy in our direction. | |
| He's a really nice bloke and a great interview. | |
| You're very welcome, mate. Who else would I send him to other than you and Jamie and the gang there? | |
| Lovely fella and a lovely story. | |
| And of course, you being a hockey enthusiast yourself, I thought no better guy. | |
| Wouldn't it be lovely, Gaz, if there was more Niall McAvoy's to say, no, I'm going to resign. | |
| This is terrible. Last week, Niall McAvoy appeared on the Richie Allen Show, having just emailed his teammates to step down as a member of the Irish national ice hockey team. | |
| Last weekend, he gave a very powerful speech on the streets of Dublin. | |
| Niall, thanks so much for coming on. | |
| Can you tell us about the letter for people that don't know about it? | |
| Yeah, sure. So thanks for having me. | |
| So my email was to my teammates and my coaches, basically letting them know that I can no longer, like morally, I can no longer represent a country that segregates and discriminates legally against people. | |
| It doesn't matter what the reason is for me, it's discrimination is wrong no matter what it's about. | |
| It was on Wednesday night of last week when the government had announced that they were going to introduce this segregation. | |
| On the Thursday night then, I couldn't sleep very well. | |
| I woke up at like half four in the morning and I spent three hours writing that email, just pouring my heart into it. | |
| As much as I didn't want to do it, I had to. | |
| I know I'm by no means a superstar of the team. | |
| I'm the average guy on the team. | |
| Ice hockey is not a big sport here. | |
| But it meant the world to me. | |
| I've represented Ireland for 13 years. | |
| I've given my all. | |
| I've given every bit of free time I have to it. | |
| I still get emotional when I hear my national anthem play at a game. | |
| For me, it is a big part of my life. | |
| But now the government's gone too far and I just had to do it. | |
| I can't represent this nation anymore. | |
| It takes absolute courage to do something like that, because you're sacrificing yourself completely, and that's something that most people, A, don't do, and B, like in this instance, all I hear a lot is people saying, well, I don't want to go along with it, but if they make my life difficult, or if they make it hard to do the things I love, then I'll do it. | |
| And it's like you've literally, at the beginning, you've just gone, no, I'm going to sacrifice what I love because this is more important. | |
| How did your teammates take it? | |
| What was their comeback? | |
| From the guys that I did hear back from, they were supportive of my decision and they respected my opinion and my beliefs. | |
| My intention was never to try and convert people or wake people up, each to their own. | |
| But I think, for me personally, it was a lot to do with my children and not Putting my own hobbies and sports ahead of them. | |
| It's gone too far now and my children's futures are at stake. | |
| So the guys in the team I've been good to the ones I've spoken to and that's all I can say about that. | |
| I'm the same as you when it comes to the kids because at the end of the day if we comply then there's no resistance when it comes to them and I think that's so important. | |
| How do you feel personally about it? | |
| There's obviously not regrets because the situation is bigger than you and me but Do you still get emotional thinking about it now? | |
| Or will it be maybe when the Irish team play, that's when it will hit home? | |
| Yeah, I think that probably will be the moment where I'll feel the worst about it. | |
| We're supposed to go to Germany in October of this year for a tournament called the Development Cup. | |
| It's basically a tournament for countries who are not eligible to play in the World Championships. | |
| So it was actually our association that put it together and they've done an amazing job and I can't fault anyone from the Irish Ice Hockey Association for their work. | |
| It's been amazing. They've given us a chance to travel around the world and I'll never | |
| be able to repeat that. But yeah, not getting to play is a big disappointment but it's not | |
| It's the governments and it's the EU and it's all these people in control that are trying to implement these measures and convincing the public that they're good. | |
| I just can't understand it. | |
| It boggles my mind. | |
| I'm the same in trying to understand how people are going along with it and how people seem so blinded by By the notion that your government would actively break the Nuremberg Code and that's not a bad thing. | |
| It seems bizarre to me. | |
| Especially given we've spent probably the last 10 years with everyone calling everyone else a Nazi. | |
| For having a different opinion or whatever, it's kind of crazy. | |
| So what next for you? | |
| Because the speech you gave in Dublin was fantastic. | |
| It was excellent. And I'd urge anyone listening to actually go and listen to that speech because it was fantastic. | |
| Is that something that you think you'll find yourself doing? | |
| I'm not too sure. | |
| I don't intend to be any sort of figurehead or talking head in this movement. | |
| But what I had hoped, because, again, ice hockey isn't big here. | |
| I'm not a professional ice hockey player. | |
| I just do it for the passion and for the sport itself. | |
| But I hope that other international athletes that saw myself as an international athlete step down from the national team because of the government's actions. | |
| I was hoping that that would get the ball rolling and we'd see some bigger names and we'd see the real men and the real women at the top of our game actually stand for humanity. | |
| I mean, if it wasn't for humanity, they wouldn't be where they are. | |
| So I think it's on everyone with a voice, every influencer, every sports star, every professional who realises that money isn't the most important thing in the world, it's actually life. | |
| I think that if they can have the courage to step down and to put away, or sorry, to not care about the money, then we might be able to turn a lot more people onto the side of good. | |
| That was my intention anyway. | |
| There was a guy in England there called Hugo Talks, I think, and he made a video. | |
| According to his research, I was the first athlete in the world to publicly announce that I was going to step down from their national squad. | |
| That was a pretty big thing to hear from me. | |
| I thought that maybe there was other people I had heard of, a few NFL players in America that said that they won't play if they have to get an injection. | |
| To this day, I think I'm still the first and only international athlete. | |
| Hopefully you'll be one of many though, because I think it will actually wake people up a little bit to just how real this is. | |
| For people around the world, in Ireland, it's a situation now passed by the government. | |
| So if I go to a bar, say you've had the jab and I go to the bar with you for a pint, you can go into the pub and you can sit at the bar and you can order the drinks and I have to sit outside like a second-class citizen in the rain, not allowed in. | |
| I'll say this to people at home, but they won't do it. | |
| So I was on the Isle of Wight. | |
| I was at the protest on Saturday. | |
| I went to the Isle of Wight to spend a couple of days with my family. | |
| And there was a boy, a boy, a man, who's in the year above me at school who owns a bar. | |
| And at that bar on the Isle of Wight, there's a sign on it saying that you're not allowed to sit at the bar or order at the bar if you're not vaccinated. | |
| And that's in England, and that's happening now. | |
| And it's happening with people that I know personally, went to school with, and thought were all right people. | |
| So it's real, and people need to stand up against it. | |
| Do you know, we had a funny thing. | |
| I'm not too sure what it was like in England. | |
| But here in Ireland, when they brought it in, The weather was amazing. | |
| This is just me playing the conspiracy guy here because the weather was amazing. | |
| We had the best weather we've seen in years in Ireland. | |
| It was 30 degrees, glorious sunshine, and everybody was happy, full of energy. | |
| They brought in the bill and nobody seemed to care. | |
| You know, a couple of days passed and people started to hear more and more about the bill and of course our protests went ahead and made a speech. | |
| And then the weather in the last two days has got a little bit duller and so people are looking to go indoors now and they're starting to realise that they can't or they can only go with some of their friends, not all of their friends. | |
| So even I've noticed a lot myself that the vaccinated people who before this were completely You know, happy to get the vaccine and hope that everybody got the vaccine, that now they're starting to realise, oh well, that's half my friends can't come with me or some of my family members. | |
| Like I said this to my mother and father, I said, you know, we should go for a meal next week. | |
| And my mom said, oh, that's lovely. | |
| And I said, well, I'm sorry, Ashley, we can't because the government said that I'm not allowed to join you. | |
| And she didn't know what to feel. | |
| I don't think she realised that it's actually real. | |
| It's here. We are a two-tier society and it's absolutely disgusting. | |
| Yeah, and this is why people need to stand up. | |
| And, you know, this is why I don't agree with the sort of segregation either way. | |
| You know, sometimes you get it from people that aren't vaccinated saying, well, I don't want to be around vaccinated people, then I don't want them in my life and whatever. | |
| And it's like, that's not helpful either. | |
| You know, I think the people that have already... | |
| Had the jab, but are kind of, you know, morally on our wavelength. | |
| They just had it because they believed it was right or they had it because they were coerced by a job or a family member or whatever. | |
| You know, they're human too. | |
| And I think, you know, they can do a lot to help us and join our side for sure. | |
| Yeah. In Ireland, I think the attitude has always been, you know, do what you want to do. | |
| It's your choice. | |
| And... You know, most people wanted to get it themselves, that's fine, but they didn't care if anybody else got it. | |
| It was none of their business and that's generally the attitude in Ireland. | |
| But now it's gone, you know, it's crossed the line and our government have announced that they're coming for the children within the next month. | |
| I think it's already opened up to 16 year olds and with no parental consent needed. | |
| So that's starting to wake a few more people up. | |
| But the anger is building. People are starting to reach their limits, especially people who are already awake. | |
| And, you know, I hope it doesn't go any further. | |
| But at this stage, as soon as those children are starting to get injected and we hear of children going to hospital or children hopefully not, but dying, the tide will turn in Ireland. | |
| And I don't think it's going to be pretty. | |
| No, I agree. | |
| And sadly, you know, people need to have things right in front of them. | |
| And things have to become horrendous before they will wake up to them. | |
| And it's sad as someone that, you know, like yourself, you can see it coming. | |
| But you can't save everyone, you know, those with eyes will see. | |
| But thanks for talking to me, mate. | |
| And honestly, from me, because I love ice hockey. | |
| I played when I was young, obviously nowhere near the ability that you've got. | |
| If I'd been representing Britain at ice hockey, that would be an unbelievable thing for me. | |
| To turn your back on it for what's right takes real courage, mate. | |
| It's amazing. Lovely. |
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