Jailed for Telling the Truth
Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey are surprised to learn that in Sweden, the truth is no defense. They also discuss Severus Snape, CPB Home, British insanity, and the Montgomery bus station.
Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey are surprised to learn that in Sweden, the truth is no defense. They also discuss Severus Snape, CPB Home, British insanity, and the Montgomery bus station.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance. | |
I'm your host, Jared Taylor, and with me is my indispensable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey. | |
And today is March 14th, year of our Lord, 2025. And as usual, we're going to start with comments. | |
The first is, I'm glad Paul Kersey is back in his proper place as your indispensable co-host. | |
I also hope that regular episodes of View from the Right will soon resume with Paul and Greg. | |
Well, that's not in my court. | |
That's in your court, Mr. Kersey. | |
But we will see about that. | |
I don't know if you have any announcements or comments to make, but that is an oft-expressed desire that you and Greg Hood be back on the team together. | |
Well, I'll tell you what. | |
They say beware the Ides of March. | |
That's tomorrow. | |
Don't beware next week. | |
Be excited. | |
I have a feeling something big is coming back. | |
Okay, very good. | |
Well, that's a hint. | |
Now, this is a very interesting comment from Sweden. | |
Our listener writes to say, Greetings from Sweden. | |
On the podcast two episodes ago, Mr. Taylor said his impression was that the clampdown on freedom of speech is not as bad in Sweden as in Germany. | |
However, after World War II, Sweden added a hate speech law. | |
Technically, it is, in loose translation, a rallying against a people law. | |
But this is applicable only to protect non-Swedes. | |
Well, isn't that the usual thing? | |
Often they are written in universal terms, but only special pets are protected. | |
Recently, a local politician for the Sweden Democrats was charged under this law for what he said in a debate about whether the city should take in South Sudanese immigrants. | |
He said they have the lowest average IQ in the world and would be difficult to integrate. | |
And he was charged for this. | |
He was eventually cleared, but not because it was a relevant or factually correct statement, but because politicians are allowed to speak more freely than the common man. | |
Political debate has a wider Overton window. | |
There's now been another setback. | |
There are now three countries in Europe that have journalists imprisoned for articles that they have published. | |
One is Russia, one is Belarus, and now Sweden. | |
The story starts with Thomas Aberg. | |
He is the taxpayer-funded online hate hunter. | |
Who has for years been hunting posts on Facebook, typically by some local grandma, complaining about immigrants to friends without realizing her posts are publicly available. | |
He then reports it to the police as hate speech and grandma gets fined. | |
By 2018, he had already reported 750 people. | |
What a swinish little busybody. | |
The same man, interestingly enough, has been convinced for some harrowing cruelty to animals on his farm. | |
And our listener sent me some websites, including some photographs. | |
Wow, I wish I hadn't seen them. | |
In any case, this guy, Auberg, is now banned from keeping livestock. | |
Well, as it turns out, a fellow named Mats Dagerlind, the editor-in-chief of SomeYet, That's the oldest and main alternative news site in Sweden, and it's closely affiliated with the Sweden Democrats, who are the main patriotic party in Sweden. | |
He's now been sent to prison for slander, when he in an article showed a screenshot of some of these public available court documents revealing the history of Thomas Auberg's cruelty to animals. | |
That is the online busybody. | |
Now, he'll spend a month in prison and has to pay 40,000 Swedish kronor. | |
And the average monthly salary in Sweden is less than that. | |
So that's an average monthly salary. | |
And since Mr. Dagorland is on the losing end of the legal process, he has to pay lawyer fees. | |
That's another 200,000 Swedish kronor. | |
That is about eight months work. | |
And I'm sorry, more like about five months, five months salary. | |
The point is, in Sweden, you can be convicted of slander for sharing harmful, but factually correct information about someone if it is deemed you did so unnecessarily. | |
Isn't that interesting? | |
So the fact that they go after, he goes after this guy who has been pestering ordinary people, ordinary Swedes for posting things that are politically incorrect. | |
And this newspaper guy who works for a conservative publication made public some of these things that he's done to animals. | |
That is slander because it was unnecessary. | |
It's an upside-down world, the Swedes. | |
It is. | |
We see the same pattern in the United States where the Swedes colonized heavy areas of the country, i.e. | |
Minnesota, Minneapolis. | |
Unfortunately, the same patterns of strange behavior migrated with them. | |
It kind of birthed out this whole era we live in, the post-George Floyd American era, which, of course, we're going to talk about a lot today, what's happening with that. | |
Yes, indeed. | |
Well, as this listener writes, he says the entire court system in Sweden is very left-wing and politically correct. | |
And he suspects that if it had been a conservative newspaper, sort of a mainstream liberal newspaper, then the fact of publishing something that was factually correct about this online busybody would have resulted in nothing at all. | |
It's really clearly directed, but this is an astonishing thing. | |
If you make something public that is unpleasant for someone, and it wasn't necessary to do so, then you can be fine. | |
You can go to jail. | |
Whereas in the United States, truth is an absolute defense against slander, fortunately. | |
Boy, oh boy. | |
Well, here's a comment from Denmark. | |
I'm happy about the positive attention you bring to us, but I have to say it isn't all sunshine and rainbows in Denmark. | |
Yes, we are stopping mass low IQ immigration. | |
Boy, that's the best kind to stop. | |
But, now this is a really interesting point of view that I had never heard before, but we're replacing it with mass European and white and Asian and American immigration. | |
Yes, it's certainly preferable to Africans, Muslims, or That infinite number of Indians who wish to migrate, but it's far from ideal. | |
The influx of young, educated Europeans escaping diversity may be great for the economy and overall safeness of our cities, but it is causing native young Danes to be forced to go into lower-paying manual labor jobs. | |
Even worse, nobody seems to talk about this in Denmark. | |
I'm worried that these non-diverse European countries like Denmark and in Eastern Europe will face a unique situation in which the native young people are pushed out of good jobs and into blue-collar labor by other Europeans. | |
This may be a real problem in the future, especially since... | |
Since infinity Indians are destroying America and infinity Somalis are ravaging Europe and whites will want to come here. | |
That is a disturbing future for my children. | |
I've never thought about this, but I know several people. | |
I know, oh, a good handful of people, and I'm just one person who knows them who've all moved to Hungary, for example, because they love the racial homogeneity of Hungary. | |
It's European, and apparently people are doing the same thing to Denmark, and now they've got all these high IQ foreigners. | |
They're white, and they're much better than Somalis and Africans of other kinds, but it's... | |
Pushing young Danes out of the labor market. | |
Had you ever heard of this particular problem? | |
You know, I don't think, again, it can't be that big of a problem. | |
Yes, I agree. | |
I agree. | |
That it could be something that down the line, but I just don't see the numbers being that big. | |
I know that a number of Americans were considering leaving the country if Trump had lost. | |
I had some friends who were talking about even El Salvador. | |
And I think that it's not a bad thing if you have an aspera of people trying to escape this. | |
But again, I just don't see it being in such a great number like we have in our country. | |
I mean, goodness gracious, have you looked at the Ivy League stats? | |
Well, of course, of course, I don't think. | |
But look, you're talking about Denmark. | |
I don't know what the population of Denmark is, but that's a small country. | |
Hungary is a relatively low population country, too. | |
And if, you know, maybe just 100,000 smart, hardworking, intelligent white people show up. | |
I mean, as this guy says, it's certainly better than the alternative. | |
But if you are Denmark, you want to stay Dane. | |
If you're Hungarian, you want to stay Hungarian. | |
But it's a very interesting perspective that I had, frankly. | |
In any case, here's another comment. | |
Mr. Kersey refuses to call it X. Please remind him that Twitter was the communist version that banned Mr. Taylor and American Renaissance. | |
And they are back under X. I don't know if you're going to change your ways, but that's a comment to you, sir. | |
No, that's a fascinating point because you have to realize so many great things happened under the Twitter banner in terms of creating a climate that birthed in a lot of ways the revolution that brought Trump to office and has brought us to this point. | |
It's been an enormous change. | |
I will give it a lot of thought because we are entering a really... | |
Crazy time. | |
I hope everyone's safe out there. | |
I've got some friends who were actually Mr. Taylor. | |
They were swatted, some people that I know. | |
So we won't know who they are unless the FBI investigates, but there's some very unseeming elements out there. | |
And it's not fun to see what's happening. | |
Well, and here's another comment. | |
Glad to have Mr. Kersey back. | |
And then let's see. | |
In your most recent episode, Mr. Kersey wondered if Britain has birthright citizenship like the United States. | |
That reminded me of a doctor from Kenya who every time his wife got pregnant, he traveled to Britain in time for the delivery, such that all his children got British citizenship. | |
His daughter, Olukimi, also known as Kemi, Olufunto Adegoke Badnock, born in Britain in 1980, is now the leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badnock. | |
So she was a birthright citizen, Brit. | |
So she leads the Tories in the United Kingdom. | |
You and I talked about this. | |
Somebody like Kimmy Badenock, somebody who's really a Kenyan, is now the leader of the Conservative Party, the oldest party in, perhaps, in the world, the oldest political party still functioning in the world. | |
Golly, what an amazing thing. | |
But our listener writes to say the rules for birthright citizenship have... | |
Tightened up over the years, and now a child born in Britain is British if at least one parent is a British citizen, or an Irish citizen living in the United Kingdom, or holds an indefinite leave to remain in Britain, that is to say, a non-citizen, but with what is called settled status. | |
So it's not just any random tourist or illegal immigrant having a child. | |
It's a different kind of birthright citizenship. | |
You can be a non-citizen father or mother, but if you have settled status, that is a permanent residency, then your child can be British. | |
So it's not at all like our form of birthright citizenship. | |
You know, if we go back to that comment about Denmark, I was thinking about what you just said. | |
A nation is supposed to protect its actual people at the same time inviting over innovation. | |
Obviously, you and I are both with the same mindset that H-1B visas are absolutely terrible. | |
Non-white immigration to white countries needs to cease immediately. | |
But the nation of Denmark, their leaders, their elected leaders, they can put in place restrictions and even higher taxes on non-native Denmarks who are coming there to take advantage of the economic conditions that Danes have uniquely created. | |
And so, again, it's… I just don't know if the numbers are that great. | |
That is something I'm going to look into, though, and we will address next week to see if that is... | |
Okay, well, you researched this. | |
You researched this. | |
Again, Denmark's a small country. | |
And I see, I think, you know, if the Danes, Denmark is for the Danes. | |
And if they say, you know, you may be white, you may be European, you may be our kind of folks, but you're not Danish. | |
Out! | |
They have every right to do that. | |
I agree. | |
Well, Mr. Kersey, you have got the first story. | |
Oh, no, no, no. | |
I've got a final comment here. | |
In all my years of reading and listening to Mr. Taylor, I do not think I've ever heard him once mention Harry Potter. | |
I'm curious what he thinks of these books, if he read them with his daughters, etc. | |
Well, it's not surprising that I've never talked about Harry Potter because there's no real reason to talk about Harry Potter on a podcast, and it's not much of a racial angle. | |
The fact is, I did read almost all of those books, and I read most of them out loud to my... | |
Oldest daughter. | |
She sort of grew up on Harry Potter. | |
So I know the Harry Potter stories pretty well. | |
And I enjoyed them. | |
There's a kind of adventure to them. | |
I think the language in them is not as challenging and interesting as the books I read for children when I was growing up. | |
Something like... | |
Penrod. | |
Penrod by Booth Tarkington, for example. | |
Or Captain Blood. | |
Captain Blood is sort of a real swashbuckling boy story with a rather more complicated, interesting language. | |
But I thought they were pretty good. | |
And the racial message is not awful. | |
I think Harry has an Asian girlfriend at some point. | |
But there's no heavy-handed, anti-racist, white people are bad kind of message. | |
So I thought they were okay. | |
So that's about all I have to say about Harry Potter. | |
But, Mr. Kersey, you have a lot more to say about Harry Potter. | |
I'm going to say one thing before I bring this in. | |
I think the books are fantastic. | |
I think also the movies... | |
That were made starting in the late 1990s with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone leading to the two-part ending. | |
I think that they were perfectly cast. | |
I think they're actually great movies that stand in the test of time. | |
I think that is something that, as a family, I've done this. | |
I encourage all of our listeners, if you have young children, you should watch those movies. | |
I must say, I did watch them with my children, and I enjoyed them as much for the special effects as for anything else. | |
But it seemed... | |
To me, if you had not read the books, it would be confusing to watch them. | |
I would 100% agree, because there's so much story. | |
You could have made two movies out of every book. | |
And you're depicting a world with so many strange, unusual rules. | |
You've got wizards and you have non-wizards, and the way those two worlds act in parallel and interact, all of this is, I think, would be very confusing for someone who just walked into a movie theater and sat down and watched one of those movies, especially one of the second or third movies. | |
But in any case, yes, it's a whole world, and apparently it got a lot of young people excited about reading who had not been excited about reading before. | |
Again, I wish that they had been excited about reading some of the other books that I mentioned, but getting them reading is a great first start. | |
And I'll tell you, casting someone to play a beloved character that does not accurately portray what J.K. Rowling did in the book, I think that's actually upset a lot of people. | |
And there's so much going on. | |
This is one of those stories that kind of flew under the radar, Mr. Taylor. | |
It's Harry Potter's new Professor Severus Snape. | |
Is black. | |
And fans are losing their minds. | |
I'm one of them. | |
Just for reference, Snape is one of the main characters in the book and the movie. | |
And he is depicted as being pale with gangly, long black hair. | |
Unkempt, greasy black hair. | |
And he was perfectly cast by the late Alan Rickman in the initial series. | |
Well, as teased by Deadline over the weekend, Pape Esadu is reportedly finalizing the details to take on the character of Professor Sephiroth Snape in the upcoming HBO Harry Potter series slated for release in 2026. And though that seems fine on dandy on the surface, fans of the franchise are in a tizzy over the announcement for a myriad of reasons. | |
Chief among them? | |
His race! | |
In the books and film, Snape, a professor at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Well, Well, you can actually find other passages from Rowling where she talks about how pale his skin was. | |
Based off optics alone, it's hard to imagine how Hollywood could turn someone as unattractive. | |
I'm sorry, could turn someone as attractive as a do. | |
That's the words of the article writer in this piece. | |
I did not say that. | |
I don't think you actually mentioned, but he is a, sure enough, straight out of Africa African. | |
He is. | |
He's straight off the boat, as they would say. | |
They used to say out of the jungle, but you can't say that anymore. | |
You can't say that, but you just did, so we can say that. | |
As ado into the morbidly described character when he has aesthetically so far removed. | |
So again, this article is trying to make you think that this black actor is God's gift to Earth. | |
Snape was also infamously bullied and an antihero who held thoughts and beliefs and performed behaviors equivalent to that of a wizard KKK member, which further makes this casting such a confusing choice. | |
Just a quick backstory for our listeners who might not know much about the Harry Potter story, and I guess I'm spoiling it if you haven't. | |
Snape actually plays a character that in the initial books and movies you think is a bad character who aligns with the Dark Lord himself, Voldemort, but he's actually a double agent for Dumbledore, the head wizard of Hogwarts, because Snape had long loved because Snape had long loved Harry Potter's mother, Lily Potter. | |
In fact, Mr. Taylor, I guess I could use this word, he was somewhat of a simp for Lily Potter. | |
A simp? | |
He loved her even though she was with James Potter and there was no chance that Snape had with Lily. | |
So the whole movie is look into my eyes at the end of the book when he's dying. | |
He asked Harry to do that because he loved Lily so much that he would protect Harry. | |
See, I don't understand. | |
You just read something about somebody playing the role who's the equivalent of a KKK guy. | |
What could that possibly mean? | |
they're referring to the uh voldemort and his followers the death eaters as the wizard equivalent of the kkk because i guess they want to keep the the world of of of magic uh pure bloods i think that's actually one of the terms that used to describe versus muggle versus the muggles who are born from non-magical parents like hermione granger again we are being out here i'm sure our listeners who have no idea the harry potter world are asking themselves how do these guys know so much. | |
Well, um, But yeah, hardcore fans of the franchise, Mr. Taylor, are going crazy over this. | |
Because this really is bad casting. | |
Because the whole reason Snape works, Mr. Taylor, and I'm sure as you read this book to your daughters, you had a picture in your mind of what Snape looked like. | |
And he was written so terribly. | |
J.K. Rowling said, sir, that she depicted Snape after the worst teacher she had growing up. | |
And she used that image in her mind to write this grotesque. - Well, tell me something. | |
Do you know if J.K. Rowling has had anything to do with this casting decision? | |
Because I know that she was very closely involved in making the movies originally. - I do not believe she has had any hand in the casting of this. | |
Or I don't know if she's spoken out about it yet. | |
You know, Rowling, she's so dedicated her life now to the transgender issue. | |
And she's actually run afoul of our intellectual gatekeepers because of her stance on some of these issues. | |
Oh, no question about that. | |
To me, it's absolutely outrageous that people say, oh, their children should not read her books because she thinks men cannot turn into women. | |
For heaven's sake, if the book is good, the book is good. | |
It's like saying, well, I'm not going to listen to Mozart's music because he used potty humor or something like that. | |
This is just so absurd. | |
But, well, I guess we should probably get off of this territory, which is unfamiliar to probably a lot of our listeners, and move on to your other story about this. | |
Now, is this a series that's being put together by Disney? | |
Is Disney making the series or the Disney DEI story something separate from this? | |
No, this is DEI. It's a separate story. | |
HBO, which is a separate company. | |
They bought the rights to do this Harry Potter series, kind of like what Amazon did with Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings, where they just completely DEI'd. | |
I love the fact that that word is now synonymous with just destroying something, racially destroying something. | |
And in this case, yes, they're trying to muck up the wonderful wizard world of Hogwarts. | |
The beautiful world that Rowling created. | |
Well, this story comes to us from the Daily Mail, and it says that America's wokest company, Disney, makes major changes to classic films as it banishes DEI. Now, I want to thank Henry Wolf for sending me this article, and it basically shows that Disney is doing a massive U-turn on its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and restoring some of its classic films to their former glory on its streaming platform. | |
Disney+. | |
I regret to correct Mr. Wolf that, unfortunately, Song of the South is still unavailable on that platform. | |
In my opinion, on the day, sir, that Disney pulls that from the vault and dusts it off and puts out a special 4K version of Blu-ray and puts it on the streaming service, that's the day that I believe we've effectively won. | |
So, we're not here yet. | |
Can we go into retirement on that day? | |
We can actually go and start a Harry Potter fan club on that day and not worry about it. | |
But on a serious note, Axios obtained a note sent to Disney employees from the Chief Human Resource Officer, Sonya Coleman, detailing the company's policy changes, removing previous alerts about scenes involving racial or outdated stereotypes. | |
Mr. Taylor, I once had Disney +, and my young children and I were watching some of these movies, including... | |
One of my favorite Disney movies is The Swiss Family Robinson, and they actually had a warning that talked about racial and outdated stereotypes before you started watching that movie on the Disney Plus platform, and that's been removed. | |
Well, they removed the warning. | |
They did. | |
What is it about Swiss Family Robinson? | |
Are there Caribbean savages who show up in the movie? | |
I don't even remember. | |
I recall it being mostly about this white family. | |
It is about the white family because I remember there's the scene where the two brothers come upon the members of the British Navy who are being held captive by a multiracial band of pirates. | |
Multiracial band of pirates? | |
The pirates are all oriental or swarthy, black. | |
Well, then they're not multiracial. | |
I'm sorry? | |
Well, they're not white in any case. | |
They're not white at all. | |
No, no, no. | |
They depict them as non-white savages. | |
And that was what the message warned you about, these stereotypes. | |
It was not Pirates of the Caribbean. | |
It was not Johnny Depp, who's fun-loving and swashbuckling and debonair. | |
It was non-white pirates who were out to kill the family Robinson. | |
So that disclaimer's gone, along with disclaimers that were on older titles like Dumbo and Peter Pan, which previously had warned viewers of negative depictions and or mistreatment of people or cultures. | |
You know, I remember Peter Pan has this little band of weird Indians, an Injuns Wugga Wugg. | |
I think one of the songs that they sing, something like that. | |
But what on earth is wrong with Dumbo? | |
Do you know of any scene in which they mistreat mice or something? | |
What's wrong with Dumbo? | |
They also refer to, in Peter Pan, the Native American tribe, the American Indian tribe, as Redskins, which, oh gosh, you can't do right now. | |
And Dumbo... | |
Of course, the 1941 cartoon was accused of ridiculing enslaved African Americans on southern plantations. | |
At one point during a musical interlude, faceless black workers toil away to offensive lyrics such as, when we get our pay, we throw our money all away. | |
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. | |
Can't have that. | |
I think I've actually heard this. | |
But wait, they can't be slaves if they're being paid. | |
They're, you know, they're toiling away. | |
I know a lot of, hey, in my 20s, I did the exact same thing. | |
When I got paid, I threw my money all away in Buckhead. | |
So going back real quick to Dumbo, there's also, I've heard that the crows are problematic, that the crows have some sort of racial connotation in that as well. | |
Maybe they speak in Ebonics or something. | |
It's not jive, but it is sort of, they do speak in a very black elocution, I will say that. | |
I haven't seen Dumbo in a while, because Dumbo's got some very weird scenes. | |
Some of those early Disney films have some very unpleasant imagery, like Pinocchio, when Pinocchio goes to the island, and there's just some weird stuff in those movies. | |
So, again, Disney is removing the advisory. | |
Go ahead. | |
It's about time. | |
No, no. | |
That's all very good. | |
I'm delighted to see all of this insanity or some of this insanity withering away. | |
It's by no means all gone. | |
It's not all gone. | |
And again, it can come back with a vengeance. | |
They can just remove all these movies at some point. | |
And that's the thing. | |
I think we're celebrating far too early on DEI, although I did see that... | |
There are going to be efforts by the new transportation head to actually go after the FAA for their hiring practices, all because of the story that came out during the Biden administration, Mr. Taylor, of the push for non-white, black representation among the air traffic controllers. | |
And I did even see Mr. Taylor, to talk about DEI, there is an effort to go after Griggs versus Duke Energy. | |
That's something that apparently the Trump administration is taking under advisement. | |
Griggs versus Duke Power. | |
That's the whole story of disparate impact. | |
That deserves a certain amount of serious commentary when the time comes. | |
Now, this is a bit of a sidetrack, but believe it or not, even in Japan, when you see older Japanese movies, for example, the original Seven Samurais, that was... | |
I think that came out in the 1960s. | |
I don't recall exactly. | |
But I was on an airplane and this came up. | |
And to my astonishment, it came up with a little warning ahead of time. | |
It said, watch out, folks. | |
The characters are going to use some offensive language. | |
This is all in Japanese, of course. | |
But it's because in Japanese, they used words for deaf and dumb and cripple and that kind of thing. | |
And now, in Japan, you're supposed to talk about people who are physically challenged. | |
They've gone through some of the same stuff, but it's not racially oriented. | |
I was very surprised by that. | |
Those are the kinds of words we used when I was a child growing up in Japan. | |
Nobody thought twice about it. | |
And here in the Seventh Samurai, they talk about people who are, oh, he's deaf and dumb, and ah, that cripple over there. | |
Oh, my gosh, you've got to be warned against that. | |
Now, even in Japan, you think of the Japanese as free of some of this foolishness. | |
I wonder if they're going to stop putting those on. | |
I don't know. | |
But the currents of political correctness moving back and forth in Japan are a little bit different from Japan. | |
But let's move on. | |
We have good news. | |
More good stuff from the Trump administration because it's working to cancel the Biden-era humanitarian parole that allowed more than a half a million Venezuelans, Haitians and others into the United States. | |
This would close loophole that allowed them to fly into the country and stay. | |
Now, you and I raved about this program before. | |
The policy change would revoke the legal status of the people who came and make them targets of ICE deportation. | |
Hooray, hooray, hooray! | |
This was for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. | |
Just the kind of people we need more of. | |
And we have over a half a million of them came in under this program. | |
DHS spokesman Tricia McLaughlin told the media that the Biden administration abused the parole system, her words, turning it into an unrecognizable shell of itself used for fraud and to exploit the immigration system. | |
If these people fail to leave, they will face the inevitable consequences, she said. | |
Now, a lot of them don't have any protections at all, other than this phony parole status, and that is canceled, and they have to leave. | |
This was such an offensive program. | |
It was set up so that... | |
People did not have to show up at the border. | |
They could fly in, often paid for by flights paid by the taxpayer from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela because they were all piling up at the southern border and it looked bad. | |
And so all of these statistics looked awful for the Trump administration. | |
So they said, okay, we're going to just bypass that. | |
We'll just fly them in and grant them automatic parole. | |
It was actually as bad as that, because this would make the numbers at the southern border look a little bit better. | |
Wow. | |
Yes. | |
Out, out, out. | |
And at the same time, the administration is weighing, including Cuba and Haiti, on the list of countries whose nationals will face restrictions to enter the country. | |
Which is on the State Department list of countries that sponsor terrorism, might end up on the red list of countries facing total travel bans. | |
Based on the idea that they have a weak security apparatus to do background checks. | |
In other words, we don't know who these people are. | |
There's no way we can know whether or not they're bomb throwers or hatchet murderers. | |
There was a January 30th executive order Trump signed ordering agencies to identify countries throughout the world. | |
for which vetting and screening information is so deficient as to warrant a partial or full suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries and the new travel ban could bar Afghan people from Afghanistan and Pakistan other countries could make the list The U.S. Embassy at Port-au-Prince hasn't had a regular visa service. | |
That's in Haiti. | |
And in 2023, its first available opening for a visa appointment wasn't until 2026. So how on earth can we know any of these people from Haiti on what their backgrounds are? | |
So the idea is don't let any of them in. | |
And here is yet more good news. | |
The Trump administration is repurposing the mobile application. | |
And this is going to be turned into a way for undocumented migrants, that is to say, illegals, already in the U.S. to self-deport. | |
The app is to be known as CPB Home. | |
In other words, you are homeward bound, fellas. | |
And it lets illegals submit an intent to depart. | |
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol says offers them a chance to leave the country without any kind of harsh consequences. | |
U.S. officials have suggested that illegals should go on their own rather than be arrested and subject to deportation. | |
Now, this originally launched as the CPB1 app in 2020. It was supposed to let illegals book appointments to appear at a port of entry. | |
I always thought this was the most absurd thing. | |
You're an illegal immigrant. | |
You've got an app. | |
It says, OK, your appointment is 315 Wednesday afternoon. | |
Show up and just cross the border illegally. | |
You're in like Flint. | |
So now, on the newly rebanded application, they identify themselves and declare the intention to bugger off. | |
And in a statement, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that by self-deporting, they, quote, may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream. | |
If they don't, we'll find them, deport them, and they will never return. | |
Now, The interesting aspect of this is, why would an illegal immigrant do that? | |
Why would someone say, okay, I'm going to register, because when you register, you have to explain to the Department of Homeland Security who you are, where you live. | |
And if you do that, then you have 60 to 120 days to get out of the country. | |
The ICE will not molest you. | |
If you stay longer than that period, you are subject to deportation. | |
And if you are found not having registered and saying that you're going to deport, you are deported and then you get a black mark on your record and you may never be allowed back into the country. | |
So that's the deal here. | |
You're here illegally. | |
And so they said, okay, should I wait for ICE to round me up, me and my family, and out we go? | |
Or do I register and tell them I'm self-deporting and in that way I don't suffer the consequences? | |
I could come back again maybe as a tourist or maybe try to apply for residency status. | |
But if you don't, if ICE boots you and you are deported, then theoretically you don't have the right to come back at all. | |
You and I, Mr. Kersey, we have heard so many stories about the same illegal immigrant who has hopped the border, who knows, three, four, five, sometimes even six times because we have had terrible, lax administrations in the past, and it wouldn't make any difference. | |
So it wouldn't make any difference to them. | |
They get booted back, they come over, they get booted back, they come over. | |
But now, as we talked about the other day, the number of actual border hoppers is down to record lows. | |
So once you're out, And once you've got that black mark and you can't ever come back again, maybe some people think twice about trying to stick around. | |
So it'll be very interesting to see how many people take up the Department of Homeland Security on this CPB Home app. | |
It'll be very interesting. | |
Anyway, one last item. | |
Immediately after taking office, Donald Trump signed an executive order indefinitely suspending the refugee resettlement program. | |
Hooray, hooray, hooray. | |
Victory. | |
Yes. | |
This ensured that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that flow like a taunt into the non-governmental organizations that are contracted to refugees came to a halt. | |
Bam! | |
No more money. | |
Connecticut-based integrated refugee and immigrant services. | |
Lost out on $4 million in taxpayer money to resettle refugees, and it is shutting its doors and firing its staff. | |
That's just terrible news. | |
Get real jobs, fellas. | |
Get real jobs. | |
It's just so infuriating. | |
You're and my hard-earned. | |
Hard-paid tax dollars being funneled into these busybody organizations that have a great old time taking Haitians to Springfield, for example, or taking people you don't want and making them your neighbors. | |
In any case, another one, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Jesuit Refugee Service have both had to drastically cut refugee services, losing millions of dollars. | |
Putting staff on the breadline. | |
This is just great. | |
These NGOs are now suing the Trump administration. | |
I don't see what their grounds are. | |
He's got the right to end refugees. | |
Too bad, fellas. | |
Too bad. | |
We don't have to pay you money. | |
So, there you go. | |
Now, Mr. Kerr, you have a quite fascinating story on Jewish protesters. | |
Yeah, real quick, just a quick thought on that. | |
I'm sure there's a federal judge somewhere who's going to try and force President Trump to reinstitute all of that money, that flow of money in the programs. | |
Well, you know, that's become an interesting issue. | |
If you find the right federal judge, you can probably get any kind of outcome you like. | |
And then the question becomes... | |
Does that decision apply to the whole country or just the part of the country where this judge is? | |
And the Supreme Court is going to be asked to actually deal with that question. | |
But in any case, yep, this whole legal thing is going to be a tangle, but it seems to me this is a pretty clear-cut case because the president has the right to set the number of refugees. | |
And if he says, hey, fellas. | |
That number is now goose egg. | |
I don't think that anybody can sue him and say, OK, no, it's got to be 15,000. | |
It's got to be 100,000. | |
Or what was it under Biden? | |
Was it 150,000 a year? | |
I can't remember. | |
But I think Trump's got the right as the example. | |
It always seemed to increase, didn't it? | |
So whatever the floor was, maybe 200,000. | |
Yeah. | |
Well, this story is interesting because this is one that's not going to go away. | |
And I think it's going to get even more of a Of a storm as we progress into 2025. Jewish protesters fled Trump Tower lobby to demand Mahmoud Khalil's release. | |
Now, demonstrators from a Jewish group filled the lobby of Trump Tower yesterday to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead protests against Israel at Columbia University. | |
The demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace wore red shirts, reading, Jews say stop arming Israel and held up banners as they chanted, Bring Mahmoud home now on the lower level of the Fifth Avenue building's public atrium. | |
Have you ever been to Trump Tower? | |
No, I've never set foot in the place. | |
You're missing out. | |
If you go to New York City next, make a pilgrimage to head over to Trump Tower. | |
It is quite the impressive building, especially when you walk in for the first time. | |
I have been to Trump Tower in Chicago. | |
Even more impressive in some ways. | |
Yes. | |
But no, please continue. | |
Yeah. | |
So after warning the protesters to leave, police said they arrested 98 people who stayed on various charges, including trespassing, obstruction, and resisting arrest. | |
Now, Khalil, he's a 30-year-old permanent U.S. resident who is married to an American citizen and who hasn't been charged with breaking any laws, was arrested outside his New York City apartment Saturday and faces deportation. | |
He's being held at an immigration detention center in Louisiana. | |
Trump has said that his arrest was the first of many to come and vowed on social media to deport students who he said engage in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity. | |
The White House did immediately respond to a message seeking comment about the Trump Tower demonstration. | |
Among those who took part in Thursday's protest was actress Deborah Winger, who wasn't arrested. | |
She accused the Trump administration of having no interest in Jewish safety and co-opting anti-Semitism. | |
I'm just standing up for my rights and standing up for Khalil, who has been abducted illegally and taken to an undisclosed location, the actress told the AP, referring to Khalil's attorney who didn't know his whereabouts immediately following his arrest. | |
Interestingly enough, I'm not sure if you saw the story, but Khalil has 19 attorneys representing him. | |
That's quite the retainer fee. | |
Oh, I'm sure they're doing it for free. | |
I'm sure they're doing it for free in the publicity. | |
Exactly. | |
A Barnard graduate who studies Yiddish as part of a PhD program in Canada, said the building, with its golden escalator that Trump rode before announcing his 2016 presidential run back in June of 2015, was a symbolic target. | |
So President Trump does have a residence there as the headquarters of the Trump Organization. | |
Again, it is this really beautiful building, and I can only imagine the type of security that that building and the... | |
I think it has about 250 residents who live there, reside there. | |
It's like owning a Tesla right now. | |
Anything Trump-related is an open target. | |
Well, this is such a peculiar thing. | |
Here is a legal resident. | |
He's an Iranian, and he has been Arrested and hauled off to an immigrant detention center in Louisiana because he was protesting against Israeli policies in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. | |
I'm not happy to have Iranians here, but if he's here legally, this strikes me as very, very strange. | |
And the Trump administration is really on what seems to me to be quite an outrageous kick fighting what it calls anti-Semitism. | |
I believe the number is 40 or 60. It's one or the other. | |
They have launched investigations against universities that apparently have been passive in the face of some kind of eruption of anti-Semitism. | |
Now, is this really the case? | |
Columbia University is one of them. | |
The whole idea that all of these top flight universities in America have become unsafe places for Jews. | |
Well, when did the federal government ever care about eruptions of anti-white hatred that have been common on U.S. campuses for decades? | |
But all of a sudden, never, never. | |
This strikes me as a real clampdown on freedom of speech. | |
Whatever your politics about the Middle East are, if you want to say that Israel is behaving in a disgraceful way in this war on Hamas, the way it treated Hezbollah, that's your right, so long as you're not actually calling for outright violence against Jews. | |
So this strikes me as very suspicious in the way they're treating this Khalid guy. | |
It's intriguing to me that you have Jews who are standing up for this Iranian who is criticizing Israel. | |
These are confusing times in the United States. | |
I must say, but it does seem to me that this is all very, very one-sided in protecting people who are opposing, opposed to Israeli policy. | |
As far as I'm concerned, this Khalid, is that his name? | |
He's not accused of breaking any U.S. laws, right? | |
I haven't really looked into the story enough. | |
It's interesting the way that they describe him as a permanent U.S. resident. | |
I thought he was over on a green card. | |
Well, that's the same thing. | |
A green card means you've got permanent residency. | |
Wow. | |
Yeah, and he's married to a U.S. citizen. | |
And to me, he's exercising his First Amendment rights. | |
And he's been arrested and just... | |
Hauled off to Louisiana someplace? | |
That seems outrageous to me, too. | |
And apparently all these Jews are lining up behind him. | |
These are confusing times. | |
They're very confusing times. | |
Again, I think it comes down to we have a right to decide who can be citizens of our great nation. | |
And that's the debate that I want to have because under... | |
The debate that we would have then, someone named Khalil Mahmoud would never even be considered for a green card or for the chance. | |
Well, of course, that's a different matter. | |
It is. | |
But be it as it may, strange doings here. | |
Now, here's a bit of utter insanity from Great Britain. | |
We have too much of that these days. | |
Lawmakers in Britain have argued that being in possession of A photograph of a Muslim woman without her hijab headscarf could be a crime, akin to having child pornography. | |
This is a Muslim woman without her headscarf. | |
Impending legislation originally intended to crack down on revenge porn would include the prohibition of having images of Muslim women's faces without their scarves or their coverings if the photos were taken without their express permission. | |
If a Muslim lady says, yes, I will smile to the camera and I will take off this hood over my face, then that's okay. | |
Now, I suppose you have to have that in writing if she comes back and says, oh, I never said you could do that. | |
But such photographs, that is to say, Muslim women without their headscarves are considered non-consensual intimate images, just like revenge porn. | |
And they come within the similar It's like having child porn. | |
And you could have a lengthy prison sentence for this. | |
If government ministers sign off on this, it could become a crime in Britain very shortly. | |
At present, the law defines intimate images as those in which a person is seen fully or partially nude. | |
What's meant by partially nude? | |
You know, if you walk around in shorts, you're partially nude, Mr. Kersey. | |
That's a very ambiguous way of saying yes. | |
It depends on the part of the body you're showing off or whatever individual you're trying to feed. | |
Or if you're engaged in a sexual act or seen using the bathroom. | |
Well, okay. | |
The proposed rule is already in a state of de facto enforcement in Britain, as illustrated by the recent case of an English police force withdrawing the mugshot of an Islamic State terrorist and reissuing it with her wearing a full face covering after a court challenge. | |
They wanted to find this terrorist, and they got a mugshot. | |
How are you going to identify a terrorist with a mugshot if she's got a face covering over? | |
But the court said, uh-oh, uh-oh. | |
I guess they decided this was a non-consensual intimate image. | |
This is so utterly, utterly cuckoo. | |
I'm just astonished that Britain that really used to rule the waves, Britain used to be one of the great countries of the world, and it has become so denatured, so whipped. | |
That they're treating the possession of a photograph of a Muslim woman as if it were child pornography. | |
Wow! | |
This is not a law yet. | |
Let's hope it does not become a law. | |
Now, here's another little bit of British pusillanimity. | |
The BBC pays senior managers who are from diverse backgrounds more than those who are not. | |
The various sexual oddities. | |
Ethnic minorities, disabled, and female senior managers get bigger salaries. | |
The BBC's Diversity and Inclusion Plan, also for 21-23, is committed to investing in diverse leadership and meeting its 50-20-12 targets. | |
50-20-12 means that they want it to be 50% women, that's the 50, 20% black, Asian, or minority ethnic, They call these people BAME, B-A-M-E, what I believe the Canadians and Australians called visible minorities. | |
You can tell at a glance. | |
And then the 12% is disabled employees. | |
I've never heard of a quota for disabled employees. | |
I have. | |
They tried that for air traffic controllers. | |
Did they? | |
Disabled employees? | |
A quota for them? | |
Under Biden, they wanted to find a way to enhance and grow the number of disabled employees. | |
That was a very, again, another ambiguous term. | |
What does that mean? | |
Blind air traffic controllers. | |
Yeah, got to have them. | |
That's taking DEI to its logical conclusion. | |
So, of course, you have to have that. | |
Well, how about mentally disabled? | |
In any case. | |
Yes. | |
Right. | |
So senior managers, let's see, the BAMs, the black, Asian, and other ethnic minorities, the BAMEs, they earn 13% more than white people. | |
Disabled managers, they get 8.4% more. | |
And women, they get only 6% more. | |
I think the women should screech, golly. | |
And for example, here's a guy named Eddie Datubo. | |
We don't know just what part of sub-Safarian Africa he's from, but he became the BBC's Director of Ops and Transformation in June of 2022. I quake to think what the Director of Ops and Transformation's job is, but he gets somewhere between 230,000 and 235,000 pounds. | |
That's quite a hefty salary. | |
Yes. | |
He says, to ensure we portray the many diverse communities across the UK, our workforce needs to reflect our audiences. | |
We remain committed to improving representation across the organization. | |
So, the BBC, of course, is funded by the British government. | |
If you live in Britain, you have to pay a television tax. | |
And whether you like it or not. | |
And this goes to fund this organization that discriminates against Normal, straight, white men. | |
And its official mission is to act in the public interest by providing impartial, high-quality content. | |
And it does that by doing the things that I have described. | |
Optics and transformation. | |
What a title. | |
Yes. | |
No, ops. | |
I don't know what the ops are, whether it's operations or optics. | |
It'd be interesting to look into this guy. | |
Ops and director of transformation. | |
Now, wow. | |
I would love to be the director of transformation of Detroit or Atlanta. | |
I'd love to be the director of transformation of the federal government. | |
But I guess Elon Musk thinks he has that job. | |
Well, Mr. Kersey, we don't have much time left, but tell me about the Montgomery bus station. | |
I'm going to try, and yeah, I'll get this as quickly as I can, because there's a historic Montgomery bus station Freedom Riders Museum, which might... | |
Be part of the Department of Government Efficiency's ordered sell-off. | |
Sell-off? | |
Yeah, yeah. | |
We've been reading all about how the government's trying to cut waste, and apparently the Montgomery bus station, the site of where the Freedom Riders were attacked by white supremacists back in 1961, is owned by the federal government's General Services Administration. | |
It's part of a nationwide cost-cutting initiative undertaken by Musk and the newly formed Doge. | |
A number of federally owned buildings have been listed for sale, including the bus terminal building. | |
An employee at the museum told an Alabama News affiliate that it wasn't clear yet whether the building would be sold, and if so, what that meant for the museum, since no one from GSA had contacted the employees either before or after listing the property, and the museum leases the building from the GSA. So UF Rep. | |
Shomari Figures, whose district includes the historic station, said his office was actively working to get answers from GSA or other government officials on the status of the state. | |
I'm sure that little white kids who live in the suburbs of Montgomery, they're forced every year to make a pilgrimage to this Mecca, to the civil rights movement, and pay homage and fealty to the Freedom Riders, those great Americans who are more American than you or me. | |
I know it is a building that absolutely should not be sold, he said. | |
The historical significance of that building is a big reason I'm able to sit in this seat in Congress. | |
The civil rights movement was the greatest, most consequential social movement in the history of this country. | |
These landmarks should be protected. | |
That they're not is very troubling. | |
Well, you know, this Montgomery bus station attack, as I recall, that is one of the operations that was led by Gary Thomas Rowe. | |
He was an agent provocateur paid by the FBI. Do you remember his story? | |
I do remember his story, but please go ahead. | |
Well, he... | |
He has this very strange background, but the FBI paid him to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, and he was the one who instigated some of the most violent operations that they were involved in. | |
And I think he was the ringleader of this attack at the Montgomery, Alabama bus station. | |
He also is entirely possibly the guy who killed Viola Luzzo. | |
She was a white volunteer who went and worked with the blacks. | |
That was in Alabama also. | |
And she was shot, and this is all a great big deal, and it is entirely possible he's the guy who pulled the trigger. | |
So that's just one of the aspects of the whole situation that I suspect you don't learn about. | |
No, you don't. | |
And I think that's one of the great reasons why American Renaissance is so vital and important. | |
It's to really tell the true story of what this rep called the most consequential, significant movement in the history of the country. | |
Because I would agree it was, but for all the but for the inverse reasons that this guy would say. | |
And, you know, it's going to be interesting, Mr. Taylor, to see what other buildings and historic sites get sold off. | |
I don't remember if it was the state of Alabama or if it was the federal government that funded the lynching museum and monument that is in Alabama. | |
We've written about that. | |
Oh, yes. | |
I don't remember who paid for that either. | |
That might have been private funds. | |
Yes, in Montgomery, Alabama, I wanted to visit this Civil Rights Museum at the old bus station, but I was there on a Sunday and it was closed. | |
I guess they were all in church, so could not visit it. | |
It's a rather unassuming looking little place, but I think all of these things need to be preserved. | |
And we need to know just how cuckoo our country has been. | |
But let's see. | |
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