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March 4, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Europe Under Siege
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, wherever you are, to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor, and with me, of course, is the irreplaceable Paul Kersey.
Mr. Kersey, delighted to have you with us for another exciting episode, and I'd like to say to all of our listeners, we are honored, pleased, and grateful that you are with us for this hour.
Yeah, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever people are listening.
Mr. Taylor, someone actually emailed us and they said, hey, why aren't you guys doing more than an hour?
This is my favorite part of my week, and you and I both came to an agreement a long time ago.
We think keeping it under an hour is important for people's interests so we can get everything in and that people know that it's uniform every episode, which, by the way, episode 173 you're listening to right now.
Well, it's true.
Nobody ever complains and says, it's too long.
But I think it's important to keep it right at about an hour so people know exactly what they can schedule on.
And that is the way we plan to proceed.
But I am very flattered that the listener wrote in to say, we wish that you could make it longer.
And perhaps someday we will.
But for now, I think we're going to sit with this format.
I suppose we should hear, we should ask other listeners what they think.
Should we go longer, shorter?
But chances are we're going to do pretty much what we've been doing so far, unless we get an overwhelming avalanche of people saying, make it longer, make it shorter.
But we've got a lot to cover, as we always do.
There are exciting things going on in the world, especially in Europe.
And so we're going to devote quite a lot of this episode to European developments.
I think the most important, in fact, is what's going on in Greece.
Turkey, as perhaps our listeners know, has decided that it's going to open its borders, let anybody who wants head on over to Greece or to any other part of Europe.
And since Turkey decided it wasn't going to stop refugees from crossing into Europe, more than 10,000, some people estimate 20,000, including a number of Syrians and Afghans, have showed up at its land borders with EU countries, mostly Greece, And about a thousand have ended up on Greece's eastern Aegean islands.
However, the Greeks are not taking this sitting down.
I am delighted the way they are resisting.
While some of the people are making it through to the Greek islands, most of them at the land crossings are being turned back with a great deal of vigor.
They have pretty much fanned out across the roughly 200 kilometer long land border with Greece, but wherever they show up, they are being stopped at border fences despite the fact that they've tried to cut their way through, they've been pelting the Greek border control with stones, setting things on fire, and the Greek border patrol has responded with tear gas.
And most of these people are, in fact, being turned back.
Now, there have been a couple of videos that have showed up of the Greek Coast Guard fending off dinghies full of migrants.
And in one case, you can see that the police have got a shoulder-held rifle and they fire a few shots into the water.
And in another, the guards are using what looks like a metal rod to sort of fend off the dinghy that is full of people who are trying to get into the country illegally.
Interesting to me, these videos are being distributed by the Turkey's authorities.
The Turkish authorities, in fact, are trying to blame the Greek Coast Guard for defending the country against this flotilla of illegal immigrants.
And according to the Turks, the Greek Coast Guard, quote, performed maneuvers aimed at sinking the rubber boat.
Well, that's not the case at all.
You can see exactly what's happening, and there's no danger of these boats tipping over.
Now, as I believe, some people in the West are astonished that the Greeks are actually defending their borders, are they not?
Yeah, Liz Sly, she's the Washington Post Beirut Bureau Chief.
Her bio says she covers Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and beyond.
She tweeted out at 8.16am on March 2nd the video that you just described of this flotilla of migrants and the Greek Coast Guard showing up and she wrote this, quote, This is sickening to watch.
Desperate people at risk of capsizing.
Being shot at by Greek forces.
What has happened to the world?
End quote.
Yeah, I'm sure she's gonna open up her house and give her, open up her spare bedroom to twelve of these people.
Well, what has happened to the world, Mr. Taylor, over the past five, six, ten years?
Liz knows exactly what's gone on.
We saw with Gaddafi, his overthrow, the, you know, Well, I am very pleased that the Greeks are, in fact, reacting as they have.
They have not fired weapons at any human beings yet, and I don't think they will have to.
Now what's happening with Turkey and Greece?
As you said, this is unreal to watch in real time.
Well, I am very pleased that the Greeks are in fact reacting as they have.
They have not fired weapons at any human beings yet, and I don't think they will have to.
If they show any firmness at all, then they will be able to control this without any kind
of unnecessary violence.
It's important, of course, that these people who are allegedly being kept out are supposed to be people fleeing distress and persecution of all kinds.
The Greek authorities, in the 24 hours between Monday and Tuesday mornings, they said they had prevented a total of 5,000 people from entering Greece, the border, and arrested 45, mostly From Afghanistan, Pakistan, Morocco, and Bangladesh.
Well, where are the Syrians?
You know, originally, it's supposed to be this mob of poor, persecuted, war-torn Syrians.
Not too many Syrians.
Although, there were three young Syrian men in a crowd on the other side of the border.
The Guardian, of course, was with... This is the British liberal newspaper.
The Guardian was with the people who were trying to break into the country, all very sympathetic.
But they quoted one of the Syrians as saying, I can't go back to Syria because I would be drafted into the army.
So, he's fleeing persecution, all right?
He's just a draft dodger, for heaven's sake.
Correct.
And then, it's been quite interesting.
These people who want to break into Greece, they're mostly in no man's land.
Apparently, they have broken down the fences on the Turkish side.
The Turks have pulled away their border control, and they broke down the fences on the Turkish side, and so they're now camped in no man's land.
They're building campfires, they're spending the night, and the journalists have been sending drones over to take pictures of all of this.
Well, you know, you mentioned Angela Merkel and her come one, come all attitude earlier back in 2015 when she welcomed all of these newcomers.
She's singing a different story.
She has criticized President Recep Erdogan for opening up his border and she calls the decision unacceptable.
Unacceptable.
Isn't that interesting?
Now, why would she be changing if it was acceptable in 2015?
Why not now, do you reckon?
Well, because of the rise of the alternative for Deutschland and the threat to her party's standing.
I think you're absolutely right.
Absolutely right.
And that just goes to show you the importance of alternative politics.
If you've got political parties saying, this is insanity, this is national suicide, then even people like Angela Merkel, who earned her place as Person of the Year on Time Magazine for opening up her country, she is now singing a completely different tune.
And I'm glad to hear that.
Now, you'll probably recall that back in 2016, the European Union did get desperate with all of this.
And they did decide that they were going to try to persuade the Turks to keep some of these people from pouring across the border.
And there was a deal.
The deal was that the European Union was going to provide $6.6 billion to help resettle the displaced people who had showed up in Turkey itself.
In return, the Ankara authorities promised not to let people into Europe.
Well, over the years, several times when the Turks have been feeling bulshy, they threatened to open up the gates, and now they have.
And I've been trying to look into why they might have done this.
The official explanation from Prime Minister Erdogan, he says, the period of single-sided sacrifice has come to an end.
The number of people who are headed toward Europe since the moment we opened our borders has reached hundreds of thousands.
This figure will soon reach millions.
He's saying this one-sided sacrifice, single-sided sacrifice, has to do with the fact that they are looking after millions of refugees and they say Europe's got to do its part.
Well, it seems to be a little bit more complicated than that.
I had only been vaguely aware of the fact that the Turks are supporting the Syrian uprising against the Assad government.
That's right.
In effect, what the Turks are doing, they are supporting a revolutionary movement aimed at overthrowing the government of one of their neighbors.
And it looks like Assad and the Syrian government are going to be able to take back all of Syria at this point.
And the Turks have got thousands of soldiers across the border in Syria trying to prop up one of the last rebel strongholds.
And more than 30 Turkish soldiers were killed by a Syrian airstrike last Thursday.
And apparently what Turkey is doing, it's trying to put pressure on the EU by unleashing this flood of folks who want to break into Europe in order to put pressure on them to support them in trying to bring down the Assad regime.
The whole thing is completely cynical and completely hostile to their Syrian neighbor.
But that is their big motivation.
They're trying to couch it in humanitarian terms, but really it has to do with their geopolitical adventurism in Syria where they're trying to overthrow the Assad government.
It's an absolutely crazy situation.
Apparently, European foreign ministers are meeting with the Turkish president, trying to get to the bottom of this thing.
But, as usual, the Austrian reaction, the Austrian reaction I thought was particularly good.
Sebastian Kurz, who is not even with the Lega or with the Austrian Freedom Party, but he's with just the Conservative Party, he said, if the external border protection of the European Union does not work, Fantastic!
Fantastic!
without internal borders is history, meaning that Austria is going to set up its own internal borders
and to heck with this Schengen agreement whereby once you get into Europe you can get into anywhere.
So, uh, fantastic. I beg your pardon? Fantastic. It's great to hear that from Kurt as you said.
You know, he, of course, broke up the agreement.
We've talked about this before with the party you mentioned and Strzok.
What was that?
About a year ago, all that fell apart?
That coalition?
That's right.
That's right.
He was the weak sister in that coalition.
But he's the one who's saying, if Europe isn't going to guard its borders, Austria sure as heck is.
And again, you have these mainstream politicians taking semi-sensible positions only because they are being pressured from real nationalists within their own countries.
I find this a very, very encouraging development in a moment which could be a real crisis.
We'll see how long this goes on.
But to me, the real question is this.
How is it that Erdogan in Turkey, he can wave a magic wand and keep everybody in, or wave the magic wand in the opposite direction and all of a sudden they cut loose?
How does he keep them in if Greece can't keep them out?
That strikes me as a very surprising situation.
He says, okay, we've opened the borders, now you can go.
What was keeping them in, really?
If they can break across a border into Greece, it seems to me it's a whole lot easier to break across a border out of Turkey and get out of there.
But apparently they're all very obedient.
They sit there in their camps or wherever they are.
And when Erdogan says, up, up, up you go, then off they go.
But let's hope that he changes his mind and says, okay, you got to stay.
And it looks like they'll stay.
Well, it's fascinating that he understands that mass migration movements are a form of warfare.
And it's fascinating, again, that a NATO member, again, this shows how obsolete NATO is in 2020, would be using third world immigrants, mass movements of third world immigrants, as a way to destabilize Europe.
That's right.
And in a way to basically blackmail the Europeans into helping him with his cross-border adventures in Syria.
Yes, it's an absolutely absurd situation.
And we're not going to talk about this at all.
With the coronavirus, you'd think that these countries would really begin to crack down on any illegal border crossings with this threat growing by the hour, it seems.
Yes, yes.
I suspect that that may be part of it.
Even bleeding heart Angela, I suspect she doesn't want people marching into her country, sneezing and coughing and spreading the coronavirus.
But as I recall, let's see, you have a couple of stories, other encouraging stories.
The Hungarians are standing firm on their borders as well.
The Hungarians have no time for the insanity of Erdogan's ability to do this.
Hungary will begin to protect its borders under all circumstances
and will not let in any illegal migrants. That's from their foreign minister, Peter Zizjato,
said after talks with the Serbian interior minister, Nebojsa Stefanovic, in Belgrade on Monday.
And of course, as you mentioned, Austria has sent police units to the Hungarian-Serbian border, and Hungary has sent police units to North Macedonia and Serbia.
Quote, for us the security of the country and the Hungarian people comes first, Cesarto said.
He would go on to say that the developments at the Turkey-Greece border were worrying and suggested that hundreds of thousands of migrants could soon arrive in the Western Balkans.
He would say to his Greek counterpart, and he had phoned his Greek counterpart
and assured Greece of Hungary's support, saying this, Mr. Taylor, quote,
"'Hungary knows what it's like when the country's borders are under an organized attack
while the international liberal media is churning out fake news,' end quote.
You gotta love that.
Yes, I do love that.
And I can't help but feeling envious of the Hungarian government.
Not only does it wish to secure its borders, wish to make sure that the Hungarian people, their protection is number one, and at the same time, they are really trying very hard to encourage Hungarians to have more children.
We've discussed this on previous podcasts, the very substantial efforts they're trying to make to encourage people, especially people with the college educations, people with good jobs, to have as many Hungarians as possible.
This is a leadership in a country that is really for Hungary, for the Hungarian people, and realizes that Hungary cannot continue unless there are more Hungarians, and it cannot continue unless Hungarians are in fact Hungarian.
It's really quite a remarkable thing, and I wish them every success in all of their efforts in that respect.
And there have been other developments in Europe that you've been following, right?
There have been other developments, but I want to finish off by quoting Zizarto that will I think make you even smile even bigger than you have been during this podcast.
If I could see you, I bet you've got a big Cheshire grin.
But he said this regarding the importance of European integration of the Western Balkans, saying, quote, the further south Europe's defense lines are, the better.
And he's urged the EU to speed up its accession talks with Serbia, saying that the country was ready to open up five new chapters in those.
He also had talks with Serbia's European Affairs Minister.
Jadronka Joakimovic at a joint press conference both ministers spoke highly of bilateral ties and called Hungary and Serbia strategic partners and They both thanked Hungary for its continued support for their country's endeavor to join the EU Hungary continues to lead the way for the EU Re-emergence of, or I should say this, for the post-liberal order Western man.
The post-neoliberal order.
And in terms of extending Europe's border as far south as possible, they should extend it right to the Mediterranean.
That is where they need to draw the line and make sure that none of those boats get across.
All they really need to do is have a credible system of simply towing them back, towing them back to where they came from.
When they were coming from Libya, that would have been the solution.
Just instead of, well, they would come in these leaky boats, of course, and it seemed like they were almost deliberately scuttling them so they'd be rescued by NGOs and by European navies.
No, even if you did have to rescue them, just take them back.
Just take them back right where they came from.
That would stop it in no time at all.
It's the same with these rubber dinghies.
They've got these big Coast Guard boats.
Just tow them back, tow them back to the Turkish side, and that'd be the end of it.
And it's my impression that the Greeks are really beginning to move in that direction.
The border should be smack right there at the waterline.
I agree, but you know, there's even a better way to ensure that these individuals aren't able to cross, and that's what the Norwegians are doing in regard to the Progress Party, whose leader, Christian Tybring Gied, said that, quote, we must put a complete halt to non-Western immigration, end quote.
So following the recent resolution passed by the Progress Party's Oslo chapter, aimed at making Norway, quote, a bacon A beacon of patriotism in the world, its heavyweight leader called for the people to actually have a referendum and to vote on immigration.
According to Christian, who was one of the party's most important politicians, he has called immigration the single most important issue facing Norway and that the party needs a new policy.
Liberalism is a dead ideology.
Let's put the utopian ideology in the drawer and try to make everyday life better for most people.
We need a new policy.
We need to talk the way most people understand.
We must create a policy for the new era."
End quote.
You know, that's the way Bernie Sanders almost used to talk.
Remember when he wanted to make life better for ordinary Americans and realized that if people keep streaming in from third world, all it does is depress wages?
Bernie Sanders made a lot of great points when he was last running for office against Hillary in 2015-2016 when he talked about open borders being a policy of the Koch brothers and their many foundations they fund, which of course he's completely repudiated.
Of course, one thing this Norway Progress Party guy is saying, there should be a referendum.
The people should decide if they wish to be replaced or diluted.
What a revolutionary idea!
This is something that you and I have spoken about many times.
Americans were never asked, back when the country was 90% white, Americans were never asked, would you like to become a minority?
Yes.
How long would you like it to take?
20 years?
50 years?
Shall we stretch it out and make it last 100 years?
No.
If there had been a question, would you like to become a minority?
The answer would not be no.
The answer would have been, hell no.
Congress would never have voted something like that.
But, so, it's about time that people are saying, look, People should have the right to decide what kind of country they're going to be.
Are they going to be the country of their ancestors or a country of invaders?
And this is exactly the right position that Norway should be taking.
Let the people decide.
At the end of the day, that's the most important question.
Is this something they want or is this something that's being foisted upon them top down?
And as you said, Of course, if you wait too long, if you wait too long, then you let the people decide and the people is composed of folks from all around the world.
No telling what they would decide.
You know, the Wall Street Journal just had a story we're not going to talk about.
I should have sent it over to you.
They were talking and they noted that 10% of the electorate in this upcoming election is going to be foreign-born immigrants.
That's astonishing.
The highest that it's ever been in United States history.
And that is going to have profound impact on a lot of states.
I'm thinking of places like Georgia, Texas, Arizona, and Florida.
All states that Donald Trump won in 2016.
There have been mass immigration from countries like India.
There was a great article at VDare.com about how Indians vote and it is Astonishing how left-leaning both Indian immigrants are and Asian immigrants are.
You know, I don't think there is a single immigrant group that I know of, unless it's perhaps Europeans, of which that's just a tiny, tiny number, that do tend to vote Republican.
They all wrote Democrat.
They're all left-leaning.
Every single one from every non-white part of the world wants to vote Democrat.
They don't want to be Republicans, and they're not conservative.
It's just so consistent.
You'd think the Republicans would wake up to this, but no.
And it is sometimes rather defying of reason to realize that Indians, as you know, the household income of Indians is even higher than that of Asians.
I think Jewish Americans are the only people that make more money than Indians.
Indians make more than ordinary white people.
Then you have Asians.
They've got high incomes, but they still vote lefty for all the more or less self-centered, foreign-oriented reasons.
Yes, and the other thing that I wanted to say, when you talk about the 10% of the voters that are naturalized citizens, when you take your oath of citizenship, you're supposed to renounce any kind of loyalty to a foreign power.
It's all in rather antique language.
Any prince or principality or any foreign power.
In other words, you're supposed to be 100% American.
Interestingly enough, there was a Supreme Court decision on this, I don't recall what year it was, in which somebody pointed out that a naturalized citizen had, in fact, a greater loyalty to his home country than he did to the United States.
But the Supreme Court decided that didn't matter.
This oath, really, it's just a ritual.
You don't really have to be supremely loyal or exclusively loyal to the United States or even make the United States your top loyalty.
You can be loyal to your former country.
It doesn't matter.
That oath is just eyewash.
A perfunctory oath.
I beg your pardon?
A perfunctory oath.
Yes, it's an utterly perfunctory oath, which should be a contradiction in terms, but when you're talking about the contemporary United States, that sort of thing happens all the time.
Any more European stories for us in your mailbag?
I do have one more, and I think it's fascinating that it's taking place in Sweden.
You know, Sweden, there are so many similarities between what's happening in Sweden and where a lot of Swedes Came to in the United States, of course, in Minneapolis and what's going on there with Ilhan Omar and what we're seeing happening with the Somali population there.
In late 2019, the Skrip municipality in Sweden's southernmost province of Skagen adopted a ban on religious headwear.
Now this triggered a nationwide discussion on the role of Islam in Swedish society.
I would love to know when the first Muslim actually came to Sweden.
I'm sure that would be pretty easy to find out.
I can't imagine it wasn't that long ago.
Maybe in the late 1960s, early 1970s, maybe even later than that.
But tensions have heated up in the recent episode of a Swedish national broadcaster's program called The Meeting, where the local ban on religious headdress was discussed.
The ban has been met with fierce, hostile resistance from the local Muslim colony and
their sympathizers, which applies to pupils and staff in the municipality's preschools
and primary schools.
In this debate that was on national television, the local Sinairite moderate party politician
Defemel, who supports the ban, was pitted against a local teacher, a Muslim, Ne'ul Asioua,
who has chosen to defy the ban.
Despite both women being Muslims and immigrants, they turned out to have completely opposite
positions regarding the job.
So what ends up happening is one of the women says that...
.
You need to move away if this annoys you.
If you don't like the fact that we're wearing the hijab, move away from Scurup or from Sweden.
That is my country, too.
And she accused her opponent of pure racism.
Of course, the other person countered by saying that we should be trying to adopt the prevailing culture.
You cannot, quote, you cannot come to a country that is secular and equal and live with medieval values.
End quote.
And of course, this whole thing has just sparked this massive controversy within Sweden.
Well, so the hijab wearer is saying, if you don't like me running around with a blanket over my head, then you can leave Sweden.
Precisely, precisely.
Well, you know, it's not the first time that newcomers have taken that attitude.
Wasn't it AOC, who is of Puerto Rican origin?
What's she saying?
That the people who are trying to hop the border and hop the fence to get into the country are better Americans already, before they even set foot in the United States.
They're better Americans than people who want to keep them out.
So this is... What?
Yes?
Well, not just AOC, Mr. Taylor.
Joe Biden, as well, has said illegal immigrants are more American than American, who now is, you know, today we're recording this on Super Tuesday, and so our listeners might have a better picture of what's going to shape in the Democratic primary.
But it is fascinating to think that this now is the common denominator of the far left position, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and your moderate Democrat, like Joe Biden.
Well, Joe Biden has not yet, so far as I know, said that illegal immigrants are more American than you and me, but he'll probably get there.
He'll probably get there and say that if he thinks that's what it takes to win the election, or at least win the nomination.
That wouldn't help him much in the election, but it might help him win the nomination.
But moving back to the United States, at least temporarily, there was a story about the wall being built that Donald Trump promised us.
And as you probably know, only about 109 miles of wall have been constructed.
And just about half of that, 55 miles, has just been replacement fencing.
So there's only been about 50 miles of brand new wall.
However, The Border Patrol says this brand new wall has been extremely effective, and in the area in which it's built, there has been an 80% drop in illegal border crossings.
Now, whenever you see these statistics, you wonder, okay, maybe it's gone down there, but it's this whack-a-mole kind of a thing, and when you stop people by building a wall, then they go places where there are not yet walls made.
Of course, you and I have already discussed this in previous episodes of this podcast, but it's the Remain in Mexico program.
The fact that if you think you're going to apply for asylum in the United States, you can't do it in the United States.
You've got to wait in Mexico to do that.
And also the fact that the Mexicans themselves are helping very, very effectively to keep people from crossing the border into the United States.
And also, they've been pretty good at keeping them from crossing into Mexico from Mexico's southern border itself.
So, apparently this wall has been doing a lot of good, according to the people who are building and maintaining the wall.
But we shall see, and we sure need a whole lot more wall.
Now, I saw a reference to a study that you and I have mentioned previously.
There was a 2018 study from Yale and MIT, according to which there are at least 22 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
This is far beyond the 11 to 12 million figure that most people tout.
And all of this depends, of course, on methodology.
How do you count illegal immigrants?
It's almost, by definition, an impossible thing to do because they're always hiding and pretending unless they happen to be applying for in-state tuition or if they are bragging that they just got their bar card in California.
Most people who are illegal are not very happy to tell you right away that they are.
There are a few of these exhibitionistic illegals who are kind of the poster children for the illegal movement, but this question of 11 to 12 million, well, as I say, a Yale and MIT study, and I would not expect these people to be hard-nosed border control types.
They said that if you realistically look at the evidence, they're probably twice that number, 22 million illegals.
Now on that subject, on that subject, There was a New York Times article just last week, and it was entitled, A Mexican Exodus is Helping Shrink the Undocumented Population.
The New York Times never talks about illegal immigrants, of course, because no human being is illegal in their view.
And their data, their data, is based on something called the Center for Migration Studies.
They're always running around.
They think they're counting illegals.
But their methodology is to use something called the American Community Survey.
That's something that the U.S.
Census Bureau does on an annual or semi-annual basis.
And in effect, they are asking people, are you here legally or not?
And apparently those who apply yes, then they're here illegally.
Well, how many do you think are going to reply yes when they are actually here illegally?
What number do you think that's likely to be?
I don't think it's going to be very great.
Close to zero.
Yes, yes, close to zero.
But so you have to take all these numbers with a very, very considerable grain of salt, more like a boulder of salt, I think.
But according to the Center for Migration Studies, and it may be true that the fluxes are in fact accurate, that there are increasing numbers of some groups, decreasing numbers of others, but the actual numbers really I'm very suspicious of.
But they say That the undocumented population, as they call it, from South Korea has dropped by 22% over the last couple of years, and from Poland by 50%.
And the reason for this, they say, is that these countries are enjoying economic prosperity.
And in the case of Mexico, the number of Mexicans is declining.
That partly has to do with the fact that Mexico's birth rate has dropped, meaning families have fewer mouths to feed, And getting across the increasingly fortified border has become more difficult, more dangerous, and more expensive.
Now, according to this article in the New York Times, which is quoting the Center for
Migration Studies, California's illegal population has dropped since 2010, that's in the last
10 years, has dropped 2.3 million, a 21% decline.
I wonder if that's something that we should believe.
and that New York saw a 25% decline to 684,000, and that Texas, it's had about an 80,000
decline in illegal immigrants.
I wonder if this is all true.
The New York Times has reported this with great solemnity, and again, my suspicion is that the direction of the numbers may be accurate, but if there is a decline, it's a decline from a much higher number than they themselves are really reporting.
Yeah, I'm somewhat incredulous when I see this story.
And I do want to bring back what I said about Joe Biden, Mr. Taylor.
Oh, yes.
He actually has said twice.
So he said that DACA recipients are more American than most U.S.
citizens.
And on February 16th, he came out and said that illegal immigrants are a gift, a gift to America.
Yes, well at least the DACA people have spent some time here.
I think we have yet to top Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who says that illegals trying to hop the border, they are more American than the people that are already here.
But yes, Joe is slipping in the wrong direction, no question about that.
They are a gift to America, and a gift, let's not forget, to themselves.
But just briefly to finish up with this New York Times article.
There have been an increase in the number of illegals in certain groups, many of them from Asian countries such as China and India.
There was a 69% jump in the last 10 years of Indians in the country illegally.
And according to the Migration Institute, there are now 619,000 illegal immigrants.
Furthermore, the number of Venezuelans, illegal Venezuelans, has doubled.
So there are, I suspect those increases probably are correct.
And it may very well be that the number of Polish illegal immigrants and the number of Korean illegal immigrants.
I'm really not too worried about the Polish illegal immigrants.
I wonder just how many of them there are.
But apparently there are fewer of them than there were in the past.
The New York Times also concedes that deportation has something to do with decreasing the number of illegals.
They pointed out that in the last year of the Obama administration, there had been 65,300 deportations from the interior.
This is not counting The people being stopped right at the border.
Whereas in the most recent fiscal year for the Obama administration, there's another 20,000.
It's gone from 65,300 to 85,900.
So Donald Trump is doing his part, at least to some degree.
to 85,900. So Donald Trump is doing his part, at least to some degree. Not to the extent
that we might have hoped, but at least to some degree. So while we're still in the United
States, I believe there was one of those picant little episodes in Virginia that sometimes
make the news.
Well, this one's in Mississippi, I believe.
There's a crazy story about Virginia we'll talk about in regards to the legislature in a few moments.
But the story that you were referencing is one of those hate hoaxes.
Or, well, I should say this.
Initially, the local news in Jackson, Mississippi, what a great little place that is, they talked about, they were so glad, they were gleeful to report that a black couple had woken up to find that their cars had been vandalized and spray painted with racist and pro-Trump graffiti on their two vehicles.
The purported vandals had spray-painted, quote, leave N-words Trump on their automobile.
The couple's pickup truck had two massive N-words spray-painted on it.
Now, of course, it wasn't spray-painted N-word.
You know the pejorative I'm talking about.
I don't need to insult anyone's intelligence.
The local WREG affiliate reported on the racist attack saying that police were investigating the reported vandalism and that the FBI, Mr. Taylor, was also looking into the matter.
Like I said, the couple's pickup truck had two N-word spray painted and of course, leave N-word and Trump.
The pastor, Vincent McCaskill, the pastor of the black family, said this, quote, This had to be unnerving for a quiet family to come out to their cause and see what they saw there.
It's time for us as believers to truly speak up and speak out against it.
We cannot remain silent against this.
Pastor McCaskill said.
And we must call in the FBI to look into this unnerving episode, of course.
The feds have to be involved.
The FBI is usually called in to investigate.
It's okay to be white flyers at a place on college campuses, but in this case they were more than happy, I'm sure, to lend a hand in investigating.
But it became quite clear they weren't going to find one of that highly in-demand White supremacists who participated in this graffitiing.
Turns out that the individual arrested was Trumaine Foster who lived in the house and who owned the cars.
He's been arrested for insurance fraud.
Yep, it was another hate hoax.
That same outlet WREG reported a Mississippi man was charged with insurance fraud after he reported Racist graffiti had been spray-painted on two of his vehicles.
Trumaine Foster was taken into custody and charged with insurance fraud and tampering with evidence, but the police stopped short of explicitly saying that he was responsible for the graffiti.
I guess they're just being very punctilious about this.
He is innocent until proven guilty.
One thing I don't understand.
I saw a photograph of the automobile.
It looked like pretty much a brand new car.
And even if you have graffiti painted on your car, is your insurance company supposed to give you a new car?
Do you just get a new paint job?
What's going on here?
I don't understand just how the insurance company, what's in it for the guy who sprays the graffiti other than, of course, the massive amount of sympathy he got from his church and the entire community for having been a victim of this loathsome white supremacist behavior.
It just seems like a curious way to do business to me.
You would think so, but by and by, By putting a, you know, trying to tie it into a MAGA graffiti assault, perhaps he thought that.
If he had AFLAC or the General Insurance, who knows?
Who knows what they were thinking, but they'll be thinking that in jail, won't they, Mr. Taylor?
We'll see about that.
We'll see about that.
You don't very often go to jail because of a hate crime hoax.
But of course, I guess if you really are found guilty of insurance fraud, then there's a chance of going to the big house.
But there was a Virginia story, was there not, that you had in store for us?
Regale us with tales from the Old Dominion.
Well, first we need to talk about the Proportion of black students who are suspended versus their representation as the overall student body.
We need to tell that story because it's going to make what I tell you next that the Virginia legislature just got done passing.
It's going to put it into perspective.
Black students constitute about 23% of Virginia's student population K-12, but saw a disproportional amount of suspensions at 59% of short-term suspensions 57% of long-term suspensions and 43% of expulsions.
34% of modified expulsions.
So what's happened?
Well... What's a modified expulsion?
Only one or two legs?
I don't know.
Anyway.
Okay.
I don't know the nomenclature myself, but our astute listeners know that the Democrats took control of both the House and Senate and the Virginia legislature, and they've been busy passing all sorts of far-left ideas, and one of those is this idea that Public school students who are committing crimes, the schools will have the discretion over reporting misdemeanor crimes when they are committed by students and occur on school grounds.
This is largely to keep students, primarily people of color, primarily black students, out of the so-called school-to-prison pipeline.
The Virginia Senate passed its version of the bill with almost, regrettably, half of Republicans backing it.
The House of Delegates passed their bill as well 46 to 44 and now Republicans are doing everything they can to try and keep the governor from from signing this bill because this bill is insane.
Well, here it is.
is if past school principals and superintendents would determine on their own whether misdemeanors
committed on school grounds were reported to law enforcement. As it is now, all crimes
committed by students must be reported. Here are some of the crimes included in the discretion.
They are as follows. Assault and battery that results in bodily injury, sexual assault,
death, shooting, stabbing, cutting or wounding of any person, stalking, threats, firearm,
Drug and alcohol violations are also included.
You mean if I stab you and I connect, that's not a felony?
That's a misdemeanor?
I guess under certain circumstances.
It would be a misdemeanor that Yeah, and it would be up to the discretion, if this bill passes, of the administrators of the school where it transpired, where this assault took place, if they even reported it to the police.
So, discretion would also be offered on school buses, on school property, and at school-sponsored events such as football games and basketball games.
The students, the bill says, will still be disciplined at the school for their crimes.
Parents will be notified, and abuse will still be reported to social services.
They just would not have the police be notified at the discretion of the administrators.
And I'm sure you have a pretty good reason as to why this might be.
I can guess.
The whole idea is that when crimes are reported and these poor dears get involved in the criminal justice system, there is a disparate impact, and more African Americans end up in the clutches of the police than European Americans, and that just cannot be tolerated.
That must be their reasoning.
You just spoiled The ending.
President Jim Livingston of the Virginia Education Association said this in support of the legislation,
quote, this legislation is about removing the zero tolerance policies that push too
many students into the criminal justice system, particularly our own minority students.
It's time we move away from a one-size-fits-all approach to reporting and tap into the experience and expertise of our frontline school principals.
End quote.
So there, in black and white, is the actual motivation for the legislation.
Minority students being protected from the school-to-prison pipeline.
Well, you know, if you don't report crimes committed by students, then that will certainly end the school-to-prison pipeline.
However, I don't think it's going to stop the to-prison pipeline.
Because these people, if they are not punished in some way, it seems to me they're going to think, well, I can get away with this whenever I like.
I stabbed somebody in school and nobody gets upset about it.
I sure won't talk to a policeman.
Why not stab somebody when I'm out of school?
This, of course, seems insane to you and me, but this is the pattern that we've seen all across the country.
If you can't pay your library fines, if you don't want to pay to board the trolley, All of these things, if these barriers affect non-whites more than whites, well then we'll just forgive everybody.
This is the trend we see from coast to coast in the United States, and it's one that I hope will eventually get people fed up.
But this is the thinking, of course, behind the non-prosecution of what they call crimes of poverty.
In California, if you shoplift something that costs less than I believe it's $900, then the police are not going to get involved.
A little public indecency, camping out on the sidewalk, all of these things, because these are crimes that affect non-whites more than they affect whites, then we're just going to stop prosecution.
So, I'm glad to see that they're being consistent about this and taking the benefits of non-prosecution to earlier and earlier ages.
That's all we're seeing.
I mean, again, I think we're heading to a point where, as you mentioned, California, we're seeing the same type of legislation being considered in Illinois.
That's right.
If certain groups cannot abide by the rules, we simply change the rules for everyone.
And speaking about groups who do not abide by the rules, there was an interesting story out of Minnesota just last Sunday, I believe it was.
Amy Klobuchar, Senator Amy Klobuchar, She had to cancel a rally, a political rally, right there in her home state.
And the reason for that is that a number of blacks piled into the auditorium and stormed the stage and started chanting, Black Lives Matter.
Klobuchar must go.
They were also yelling, Free Myron!
This is about the conviction of a black man by the name of Myron Burrell for the death of a black girl killed by a stray bullet in 2002.
And apparently, Ms.
Klobuchar was a prosecutor at that time, and the black people think that this was a miscarriage of justice, this guy shouldn't have been convicted, and so it is her fault, and that's why Klobuchar has got to go.
Now what I find interesting here, the rally was to be in a place called St.
Louis Park at a local high school and I've seen videos of this now.
What happened is that there must have been hundreds of white people in the audience when perhaps a dozen blacks come up on stage, just a dozen of them, one guy has got a megaphone and they start chanting and they start carrying on And the whole thing ended up being cancelled.
This is the way a Klobuchar spokesman explained the events.
And I quote, The campaign offered a meeting with the senator if the demonstrators would leave the stage after being on stage for more than an hour.
After the group initially agreed, they backed out of the agreement, and we are canceling the event.
So, let's think about this.
You've got hundreds of people in the audience waiting to hear their favorite daughter speak.
You get these people, as I say, it looks like only about a dozen, with a megaphone, and they are on stage for more than an hour.
The senator agrees to meet with them privately.
They say get lost, they stay on stage, and so they have to cancel the whole pep rally.
What could be a better example of the passivity of whites in the face of blacks who don't wish to abide by the rules?
This strikes me as really an astonishing commentary on the way The United States is becoming, according to a phrase that I never took seriously before, but that I'm beginning to think you were right about.
Black run America.
Well, remember when Bernie Sanders was... I remember.
Yes, I remember.
I know what you're gonna say.
You know, there's a video.
This is an outdoor rally.
He's got this campaign thing going and a few blacks come up on stage and they take the microphone from him and he stands there at the corner of the stage like a whipped puppy while these black people denounce him and denounce America and denounce the criminal justice system.
You'd think that there'd at least be security guards.
For heaven's sake, Amy Klobuchar, she is a senator of the United States of America.
If I go to a town hall meeting with my local state rep, they've got police there to make sure nothing unfortunate happens.
Here this woman is running for president, or nomination for the president of the United States, and they can't get a dozen people off the stage?
It's really, it's just an astonishing...
And I really do think that, as I say, I used to disagree complete with your idea of black-run America, but this is certainly an example of it.
Of course, she dropped out on Monday, so she will not be tested in her own home state of Minnesota.
She's going to back Biden.
But what an ignominious end to an ignominious campaign.
No, she's just pusillanimous.
I think we're using all these four or five monosyllabic words to describe her, and it is astonishing to watch it all play out.
Again, I don't think we've seen Republicans who would do anything differently, though.
I think Republicans are just as cowardly when it comes to racial issues.
Donald Trump, notwithstanding.
You know, I was thinking about that.
I think Donald Trump probably would call some kind of security and get them thrown off.
Remember when Jorge Ramos was pestering him in a press conference?
Jorge Ramos is the Mexican anchorman for Univision.
And Donald Trump called to the people running security and said, get him out.
Get him out of here.
I think Trump wouldn't stand for this.
Trump has got enough of a sense of propriety.
He doesn't want to be pushed around.
If a bunch of black, well, as I say, just a dozen, just a dozen in this room of hundreds and hundreds of white people, if a dozen black people came up on stage and started bellowing through a megaphone, I think he'd have them hauled off.
But maybe I'm wrong.
I agree.
No, he's probably the only one.
Yes, probably the only one.
But, you know, we got another Minnesota story here, and this is a proposed law that is before the Minnesota State Legislature, and it's called the Minnesota African-American Family Preservation Act.
Well, I'm all in favor of preserving African-American families, aren't you?
Yes, who wouldn't be?
Well, it turns out that black and mixed race children are substantially more likely than white children to be reported to the Child Protective Services.
And so, what happens is they go to Child Protective Services, they go into foster homes, they get put up for adoption in an official way, but now the sentiment is that this has to be changed.
They have to be treated in a special way if they are black.
This bill would apply only to blacks.
And it would require state agencies to make active efforts to place black children with relatives, and if not with relatives, then with other blacks.
And this would establish a new office of African American Child Well-Being.
I'm sorry, it's a department.
It's the African American Child Well-Being Department, staffed by full-time state employees who, And I quote directly from the bill, shall be of African American heritage.
So what you've got here is a department in a government bureaucracy staffed by blacks.
And I don't know if he'd let in a single white person, but it's going to be staffed by blacks.
And it will deal with black children who show up in the child protection services.
I find this really quite fascinating.
Whenever any of us propose any form of voluntary separation or just freedom of association, we get hooted down as wicked people.
But it's a possibility here that the Minnesota State Legislature is going to establish this entirely segregated unit strictly to handle black people.
Now, one interesting aspect of this is the definition of an African-American child.
And it's not clear from the wording whether this is really kind of a, well, it's got to be at least 50% match by genetic testing or it's a one-drop rule or something in between.
But I find this highly significant that they're actually considering setting up a black-managed bureaucracy to handle the black people who show up in the Child Protective Services.
But that's Minnesota for you.
And I wonder what Amy Klobuchar's position on that is likely to be.
Any case, we're running short on time here.
Any other stories at your end that we need to cover?
No, we have no more stories on my end, but I do want to implore all of our fantastic listeners to make sure that you like this video and that you subscribe to our channel so that you get notified when the latest Renaissance Radio broadcast drops.
Yep.
I guess we do have just a minute or two left here.
And there was a story about Asians in California and how they're likely to vote.
You know, they are leaning increasingly Democrat.
And I find this interesting because they are making so much money, you'd think they'd be natural Republicans, but they were Democrats.
In 1994, 53% were Democrat.
In 1994, 53% were Democrat.
In 2017, 65% of Asian-Americans in California are Democrat.
And in California, they make up 16% of the voting population.
That's the largest numbers for anywhere except Hawaii.
And it looks as though, interestingly enough, They are going to be voting for Bernie.
And by the time our loyal listeners listen to this podcast, the results may very well be out of Super Tuesday, and we will see how Bernie does.
Interestingly enough, though, there seems to be a kind of age divide among the Asians in California.
The older Asians, they are often people who came from communist regimes in Vietnam, North Korea, or China, and they're very suspicious of socialists like Bernie.
It's the younger Asian Americans who go for Bernie.
The older ones, apparently, are more likely to favor somebody like Elizabeth Warren or Michael Bloomberg.
Michael Bloomberg, apparently, is something of a big hit among California Asians, believe it or not.
So, all of this is making for a very interesting melting pot coming up very shortly.
But I believe that is all the time we have and we do wish to fit it into our hour as usual.
And so I join, I join Paul Kersey in thanking all of you listeners for the attention that you've given us for this period.
We are grateful and we are honored and we hope to see you next week.
So for Jared Taylor, this has been Paul Kersey.
Tune in next week.
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