Hello and welcome to the podcast of the load seaters episode one thousand two hundred and seventy-two for Monday the thirteenth of October twenty twenty five.
I'm your host Luco, joined today by Josh.
Hello there.
And Firas.
Hello.
And today we're going to be talking all about how one tweet blocked uh further hate speech in Ireland.
You could even frame it in I almost considered a sloppier title, how one tweet saved free speech in Ireland.
But then I realised I'd have to hate myself if I did that.
How one tweet saved the West.
Then we're going to be talking about the uh the emboldened uh Muslim Brotherhood and uh what they're up to in Britain mostly.
Uh and then we're going to talk about how we can restore our castles, uh take back our castles and restore them to being centres in our community.
Uh so before we start the segments as well, just some announcements.
Firas is going to be going live at three with your next episode of Realpolitik, aren't you?
Yes, so talking a little bit more detail about the Muslim Brotherhood, the Ramahdi Islami in Britain and why they are such a problem and what their plans are and how successful they've been on those plans so far.
So yeah.
Damn shame.
Damn shame.
Yeah, I I blame the government.
Yep, I blame them too.
I blame them too, when in doubt.
And uh also uh just also another announcement, Stellios' second uh webinar for his new course, Ancient Greek Virtue Ethics.
Uh he's going to be having that webinar at six PM on Thursday.
So if you'd like to sign up, go to the website.
UK time.
Yeah, UK time, obviously, where we dictate what time is and where we create the time zones anyway.
Yeah, always throws people off.
It's not uh back to GMT yet.
We will return.
Anyway, um getting a tripped up over myself, so Josh, sorry to you in your side.
I am sticking my foot out a bit there, helping you along.
So, good news everyone.
I'm gonna be talking about how one post on X caused a snowball of events that recently resulted in the Irish uh Parliament, I suppose, rejecting pressure from the EU to impose stricter hate speech laws.
And I'm gonna walk you through it, and this is some good moralisation because it shows one person on on social media can draw attention to an issue.
Lots of other commentators can then amplify that and say, listen, actually this is a really big problem.
And there's actually quite a good case uh for this being the origin point of the pushback, which snowballed into them saying actually maybe this is gonna be quite unpopular, let's not do that.
So um it's it's a nice bit of reassurance that you can sometimes have an impact.
The fact I've never done a segment like this before in all of my five years of doing this.
Ignore that.
But um maybe this is an exception and not the rule, but it does seem to uh sometimes happen, which should give you hope, and uh that's what I want to do.
So going all the way back to the twenty-sixth of April 2023 in the Dail Aaron, um which is uh the Irish Parliament, I suppose, or you know, their equivalent of Congress, uh they had this, um, the criminal justice incitement to violence or hatred and hate offences bill, which had uh been in the works since 2022, and it was coming towards its sort of final stages, and uh there's there's lots of discourse here that you can have a look at, but I'm not going to bore you with.
Um but um what initially drew attention to it, you can take your pick which um tweet is the origin point, but I think it's fair to say that one of these three is the origin point of the pushback, although they sort of helped each other a little bit.
So this account, Free Speech Ireland, came out with this amendment um from and this is the people before profit.
Um so if if we hover over that, that's what that is, which is uh Ireland's largest eco-socialist organization to include the UN Convention on Human Rights Protections on Free Speech within the hate speech bill has been defeated.
So that sounds misleading.
You think okay, they're they're socialists.
Well they're trying to restrict speech on the right, of course.
Well, actually, no, they were concerned about the effect of of freedom of speech.
Which is a pleasant surprise.
So it's too far even for them.
And uh we'll see why in a second.
And it says, as well as uh one to exercise the section allowing for the prosecution of individuals possessing offensive material without communicating it, and I think that this is one of the points of concern is that you could uh you could have offensive material on a device that is against the law, not distribute it to anyone.
No.
It could potentially even be sent to you, say on something like WhatsApp, and you know how WhatsApps can sometimes automatically download pictures.
Yes.
It could be sent to you, you'd not notice the message, it'll be on your device and you could be prosecuted for it.
So I'm I'm I'm constantly on sort of Islamist forums and looking around at what you guys are saying.
For research purposes.
Really for research purposes.
Uh my only defence is that I you know, I have quite an eclectic collection from the Shi Aji Hardy, sort of the Sunni Jihadis, or the Syrian guys, and everything in between.
So uh they all declare each other apostates, so I can't be a member of any one of them.
That's that's going to be my defence when they arrest me for this.
Uh I've got an extensive collection of communist literature, so I'm hoping that that's gonna help me out.
No, I think that's that saves you definitely.
That's sort of oh he's one of us.
Meanwhile, I'm definitely going down for memes.
Yeah, yeah.
Meme Lord Luca, pray for him when he's in prison.
But um, let's get to the post that I think started it off myself, although of course I don't mind if you pick that free speech one, which he is uh originally quoting here, but it was Keefe's one that really took off.
Ireland is about to pass one of the most radical hate speech bills yet, merely possessing hateful material on your device is enough to face prison time.
Not only that, but the burden of proof is shifted to the accused, who is expected to prove they didn't intend to use the material to spread hate, which of course uh is not innocent until proven guilty, is it?
Yes.
Um this clause is so radical that even the Trotskyist people before Profit opposed it as a flagrant violation of civil liberties, Dark Times.
And of course, this was a little while ago, this is while it was going on.
So this was on the twenty eighth of April, um, so two days after that original tweet there, and he also shares parts of the bill and highlights the pertinent sections, which I think is always very important.
And if people have objections to legislation, I think you should always do this, like outline that this is the evil part.
And sometimes the whole bill can be evil of it.
Right.
Um I'm gonna read the two sections he's highlighted here.
Prepares or possesses material that is likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or group of persons on account of their protected characteristics or any of those characteristics.
And then it carries on to say the person shall be presumed until the contrary is proved to have been in possession of the material in uh contravention of subsection one, which is I think part of the one I just read.
Obviously, there's more to it.
Yes.
But obviously this is awful.
Um of course, one of the main problems with hate speech legislation, other than the fact it it's obviously used to weaponize in one political direction most of the time.
Right.
Is that it's so subjective in terms of you know what is inciting violence.
I mean, unless you have a very strict definition of you're explicitly calling people to be violent.
Yes.
Which I think is how most people understand it, but is not always applied that way.
And also hatred.
I mean, I know.
Also, you know, I can do you know, I can donate money to people out of hatred if I really want to.
You know how sometimes there are fundraisers and you can add a little message.
You can donate money to them and do it out of hatred, so but technically you're d giving them a donation.
Isn't you know, it's silly.
Like this this notion of you can also share things that are against hate crime law dispassionately.
I imagine some of the uh the statistics I've posted on on X um probably would meet the quota, but I did it dispassionately.
In an analytical way.
No hatred in my heart, just passion for truth.
But of course this is ridiculous.
We've talked about this a lot.
This isn't necessarily the interesting thing.
Of course there's hate speech legislation, it shouldn't exist.
Um, but it does, and we know about it already.
So as is often the case, um, Elon Musk gave it a big boost by replying, saying this is a massive attack on freedom of speech.
Uh three million views, ninety-six thousand people liking it.
Um stuff?
Twelve million.
Yeah, twelve million, thirty-eight.
So it suggests that okay, this platform does actually seem to be um helping things.
Obviously, I've got uh a plethora of criticisms of X, particularly uh the accounts that it boosts um and how organic some of that is, and I think that it incentivizes low quality stuff and some state propaganda.
But that beside the point, there does seem to be an opportunity now without people actively being persecuted by uh the left controlled Twitter um for these sorts of posts to blow up.
This is shortly after he was unbanned, I believe.
And um before I get on to the reaction, I do want to mention another reassuring beacon of light in the world, and that is uh Stellios, of course, and his course.
Um he has a course called uh Introduction to Ancient Greek Virtue Ethics.
He is Greek, he's telling you about ancient Greece, you can't get better than that.
And the thing that I wanted to draw your attention to is on Thursday at 6 pm, uh our time, British time, the best time, um, is your opportunity to put questions about his course and ancient Greek virtue ethics, you know, Plato, Aristotle and the like to Stelios.
So if that interests you, um you can go along and talk to him about ancient Greek wisdom.
You will come away feeling enlightened, and especially if you sign up for the course.
But anyway, back to uh current programming.
Um there was a segment that aired on RTE, which if you're not familiar with is sort of Ireland's equivalent of the BBC, right?
Yes, state broadcaster.
Yes, it is.
And the fact that Keith Woods, who, you know, is an online right um commentator can put something out on Twitter, Elon Musk replies to it, and then the state broadcaster basically reacts to it because prior to um this post, no one was really talking about it as as many legislation sort of goes under the radar unless you're paying attention to the the parliamentary schedule of your respective country.
Sometimes they can slip these things under the radar if if people are you know not keeping their eyes on it.
Well, the yeah, slipping things in is really their only tactic given they know they know they have no mandate or consent for any of it that they do.
It's all underhand all the time.
But Lear did that with the Gender Recognition Act uh so and with mass immigration, and with mass immigration, yes.
So let's have a little listen to what they said because it was surprisingly um even handed.
Ireland is introducing new incitement to hatred legislation.
That's because the existing law is seen as ineffective.
However, the new proposals have attracted criticism from at home and abroad.
The new legislation criminalizes communication or behaviour that's likely to incite violence or hatred against people because they're associated with a protected characteristic.
It says those characteristics are race, colour, penalty for an offence.
We get the idea here.
But there's a clause which says people in possession of hate speech material without yet distributing it can also fall foul of the legislation.
Billionaire Elon Musk tweeted the legislation is a massive attack on freedom of speech.
And Donald Trump Jr. said it's insane what's happening in the free world.
Funnily enough, I don't want to listen to him.
Um it's interesting to me that they're actively pulling up the posts now of prominent people.
Of course, Trump Jr. saw it probably because of how widely it circulated, and probably um because of Elon Musk interacting with it.
So it suggests that there is some sort of um amplifying mechanism in place that um puts pressure on media organizations to talk about the pushback as well as the politicians themselves.
Yeah, which is actually kind of reassuring because beforehand I was so cynical, it's just like, yes, whatever happens online is basically worthless, and all you're doing is really making people angry about things that you can't change.
But this seems to be an exception to that rule, which I'm pleasantly surprised to see.
And um it carried on to the point where um there was m more coverage of this.
Um this was uh this gentleman who uh shall not be named because he does not dignify it, um accusing And you can't pronounce it.
Yeah, that's too it says um where was it?
Ah, yes, here.
The outgoing uh you know leader.
I rest my case.
T shirt.
Um that's what it sounds like to my English ears.
I'm sorry, Ireland.
I I I I say it with love.
Um said the party had buckled in the face of an online campaign of misinformation.
But it's interesting that it's drawing it to the online sphere, isn't it?
Yes, it's acknowledging that misinformation being highlighting call.
Yeah.
Highlighting the bill.
Obviously, the rhetorical techniques are not the sharpest, because when you highlight the parts of the bill that you take exception to and their objections from the far left and the right.
Yes.
You're generally more correct about these things than the centre.
I know still time.
The centre so far is sort of my most hated part, just because of sheer contact with them.
It carries on to say Shin Fein's spokesperson for justice, uh Paardali said has called for the bill to be ditched entirely, saying it was badly fought through and is not fit for purpose, despite the party voting the bill through in the dial last April, which is interesting.
So it it it suggests that it's it's like a herd of sheep.
I mean, the they they are they're told to vote, so they vote.
They they don't have opinions of their own, they don't have thoughts of their own, they're too dull to have them because nobody interested wants to be in politics because of the price that you have to pay to be in politics, which is that you're constantly smeared all the time.
But I think part of the reason he felt comfortable um going out and saying, Yeah, actually I don't agree with this, despite my party doing it, is because there was this pushback crunch.
Yes.
You wouldn't sit head above the parapet without the pushback about that original post.
Yes.
And so it enables uh rebellion in in the sort of world of politics.
And there are other um outlets pushing this as well.
Here's the Irish examiner, um, and this was later on in September, rather than in April, saying um Minister for Justice, Helen McEntre, uh NT sorry, um, confirmed on Saturday that parts of the hate speech bill that would make incitement to violence and hatred and offence would be removed.
She said uh this was being done because the government could not get consensus on the proposed legislation, and then it it goes down and uh talks about um various people, but the first person it mentions is uh tech billionaire Elon Musk was among those who opposed the proposed laws, which aim to modernise Ireland's legislation interesting term then, modernised as opposed to sort of tightening the screws on dissent.
Uh around the hate related crimes that uphold traditional liberties.
Ah, God forbid.
Obviously, this is a bit loaded, but it is admitting that the online sphere did have some influence.
And uh Then there was this coming back to closer to the modern day, this was May of twenty twenty five, so moved moving on a year or two now.
Ireland given two months to begin implementing hate speech laws or face legal action from EU.
Of course, this is part of the reason Britain left the ease.
Yeah, I know.
This is this is wild, isn't it?
It's like censor your politicians or coming for you.
Wow.
The EU didn't learn a damn thing from Brexit, did they?
Oh no, it needs to be destroyed entirely.
I hate it with a passion.
It is one of the most evil institutions in all of Europe, and that's saying something.
Um where was I?
Um I've lost where I was.
But never mind.
Um the point being that the EU was basically trying to blackmail um let me read this for you, please.
Uh under existing EU rules on combating racism and xenophobia, the European Commission believes Ireland is allegedly failing to comply with laws first agreed to in two thousand and eight surrounding the criminalisation of race-based violence and hatred.
How can you criminalise hatred?
I don't understand.
I mean, I I accept that you could call it a sim.
Fair enough, because that's then between you and your conscience.
But how do I read your mind and understand if you're simply reporting data accurately or are full of hatred?
Also, how do you select which groups um this hatred applies to?
Because I hate people who talk on loudspeaker on public transport, but no one's gonna prosecute me for that.
But if I point out which kinds of people are doing it, then they might.
Yes.
Interesting, isn't it?
It's almost like that the application of the laws is selective on purpose to target specific people.
Exactly.
Exactly.
But um here he is, um recently, this is the the actual new news um from only a few days ago.
When I was restored on here in April 2023, one of the first issues I highlighted was Ireland's hate speech laws.
At that point it had already passed our first house unopposed and looked an absolute certainty become law after the post uh below blew up with support from Elon Musk.
It ignited a national debate on the bill in Ireland for the first time in its long legislative history.
Eventually the popular backlash became so great that the government dropped it just a year prior.
No one even thought there was a possibility of this happening.
Yesterday, the government pledged to ignore a demand from the EU to implement hate speech laws.
This is a massive win for Ireland and everyone who played their part pushing back against what would have been uh one of the most tyrannical speech bills in the West.
Um never let people tell you what we do here doesn't matter.
And that's really uh reassuring and remoralizing.
It is.
It is.
And um, of course, I would put some limits on this.
I think that uh if the government wants to do something very unpopular, they probably still will do it.
It depends on their political s situation, how desperate they are to do it.
Um and of course, Ireland, you know, sometimes uh does butt its head with the EU anyway, so they're not necessarily afraid to oppose it.
And so there are certain conditions where these sorts of things can exist.
I don't know whether either of you can come think of any others.
So I don't want to just say it was because of this single tweet, but I think it at least was a significant factor.
Didn't they make Ireland vote a couple of times until they got it right on the EU constitution?
Uh they made the Dutch, I think, and the Irish vote again and again until they got the result that they wanted on an EU constitution, then it failed anyway, then they passed it as a treaty in 2008, or or something like that.
And I think in that constitution they had a big uh fight with the Catholic Church, because the Catholic Church was saying, look, you have to include some reference to Europe's Christian heritage as part of any founding document for how the EU should be, and the EU was like, no, absolutely not.
We refuse to recognise the role of Christianity in building Europe.
Okay.
Uh spaces are for religion in a technocracy.
Exactly.
Exactly.
The technocracy is the religion, right?
Yes.
So uh th they they keep on doing these anti-democratic things, but you know, the online space does create uh some breathing room and some ability to strike back.
Well, you can tell uh like when Elon at uh New Year last year, you know, and started going hard on the group rape gangs and everything.
And obviously now you've got Labour dragging their heels and going through the motions, but that forced them into a position where actually they had to at least start answering questions about it.
Yep, right.
It forced a dialogue.
It was like, no, you are going to address this.
And of course, this isn't the same as tangible results, but you know, in a desperate situation, anything is better than nothing, right?
Yes.
So let's have a little listen to what they're actually talking about.
Reintroduce the hate speech legislation that was uh a dramatic failure in the last uh government and proposed by the previous minister for justice.
Basically said we will not reintroduce it cut off a little bit of a few.
I'm fairly satisfied that Ireland has transposed the European Council framework decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia in a manner appropriate and tailored to the domestic system of law in Ireland.
I want to uh assure members of the House that Ireland's position has been communicated to the European Commission, and our position is that the framework decision is fully transposed in Irish legislation in a manner that is appropriate and tailored to Ireland's domestic system of criminal law and procedure.
So obviously this isn't ideal because of course um there is still some hate speech legislation.
It's the sort of uh vintage hate speech legislation, uh the sort of kind that we we have in in Britain really.
This is of course passed in nineteen.
Like a bad wine.
It has, like vinegar.
Um this is the prohibition of incitement to hatred act, which acts as a form of of hate speech legislation, but it's not nearly as extensive as what they wanted to amend based on the EU's pressure.
But it's interesting to me that they did push back against the EU and said, listen, you know, we've already got something, so you know, leave us alone, basically.
We're already really unpopular.
Do you do you want ours in charge who are still sympathetic to the EU or do you want something worse to come in?
And I and I think it it should be said that this is a very old problem that you had the race relations act in this country in 1965, and then I think it was updated in 74 and in the eighties and the nineties, and it culminated in the two equalities acts under under Blair and then under Brown, 2006 and 2010.
So they've been sort of banning noticing for uh uh two generations now, and they've been restricting people's ability to think for themselves and say what they think for two generations now.
Well, seemingly not restricting their ability to actually notice.
And not without legislation doesn't actually stop you recognizing these things.
Yes, yes.
It's uh an excellent example of the trisland effect as well, because you know, if if we did have a truly free society, pointing out these things perhaps wouldn't be as fun for a start.
Yes.
Um and and as sort of sensationalist and interesting to people if it wasn't forbidden.
And it's sort of like uh, you know, you sort of understand this that something being forbidden, you know, the forbidden fruit.
Makes it more tempting.
Exactly.
But but there is also the sort of common good argument, which is for the good of the communities that are engaged in disproportionate amounts of bad behaviour, rather than giving them the shield that says you are immune from criticism,
and anybody who criticizes you is guilty of hatred, saying honestly, look, there is a Pakistani rape gang problem, there's a black crime problem, there is a nepotism problem with with with other groups, uh and these need to be confronted, and that will allow peaceful coexistence more effectively.
Um I I think being honest about these things and being transparent about these things would would remove some of the sources of tension and conflict if your intent is genuinely to have a more peaceful society.
But if your intent is to subjugate one community and elevate others, then you need this kind of legislation.
So the the bad intent of the policy makers is baked in, or at least their short-sightedness.
Well, the the interesting thing is as well that with these sorts of pieces of legislation, the ship is sort of sailed for most people with the integration argument, certainly for me, in that yeah, I I don't want integration anymore.
I don't think it's actually possible.
Um looking at data, looking at the other.
Not on those numbers, not in those numbers.
One percent, two percent, we can talk about it.
And also it depends whether you're not right, no.
Yes.
I don't think someone from Somalia can can come here and become just as British as as you or I uh culturally at least, they'll never be genetically British.
In Lebanon, we talk about the Armenia example.
We had thousands and thousands and thousands of Armenians coming into the country, no problem at all, very nice areas.
It began as a slum, their area, now it's actually quite prosperous, quite nice for the most part, very decent, no conflict whatsoever.
And we had the Palestinians.
A bunch of civil wars, complete collapse in law and order, kidnapping, crime, da da da.
It's almost like not all people are uh are the same.
It's as if values matter.
Is as if uh different groups of people actually do are genuinely different.
And you can't legislate yourself out of that.
And you can't legislate differences away.
Not really.
But at the very least you can be honest about them.
I mean, that's the first step.
Ah, well, there's a rub.
Uh yes.
But uh I suppose I may as well call it here, but I think that this is an actual positive story that shows that you can have influence, and if you have a story um that is worth international attention, you can put it out there and it can be picked up and it can have real world consequences, albeit rarely, but the fact it's possible should reassure you all that change is possible in the end.
Yep.
Absolutely.
Okay, well we do have oh, sorry.
I was just gonna say, I I am encouraged by uh the arc that's Elon seems to be going on.
Um it's just the only concern, of course, is that um shouldn't need to rely on the most famous powerful man in the world to just by chance pick up an issue or miss an issue.
Right.
It it's difficult, but we're picking up scraps here.
To be fair, sometimes his interventions don't do anything.
Like you replied to one of my tweets over the weekend with just the word Easter.
And he hasn't even invited you for drinks yet.
No, I have not received any money.
I didn't even get any noticeable uh change in my Twitter analytics.
Nothing.
It was just like, oh, Elon's replied to me.
Okay.
That's changed nothing, okay.
On with my day.
No pleasing some people.
Some people you can't.
Just please.
That's random name says, Why are we surprised the EU would threaten Ireland when they directly interfered with Romania's election to prevent the right wing president?
Isn't democracy great?
I know.
The EU is an enemy of the people of Europe, and I'm amazed it's taking this long for people to realise, but at least it's going in that direction.
Umbody ever complains about Japanese, Korean or Scandinavian immigrants.
I wonder why.
Well, certain Swedes can be a bit um they have an explosive tempo.
Um Blood for the Blood God, a hundred dollars there, uh, sent us a video.
Um is first.
Yes.
Umide calls out Hassan Pika.
Should we play that?
We know it's safe.
Um we've seen it many times.
Yeah, we'll play.
We'll play it at the end.
But thank you very much for that.
That's very kind of you.
And uh I'll make sure that that's played because I like seeing it anyway.
Me too.
Alright.
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It's on courses.lotiseaters.com.
There is a webinar Thursday at six, where you will have a chance to have a conversation with Stelios, ask a few questions.
Uh it's a free webinar, and if you like it, you should definitely sign up to the course.
And I definitely think it's worth it.
Umlike Josh's positive story about having an impact.
I'm going to be on the slightly more depressing side of bring it back down to reality.
Yeah, I'm so sorry.
Um here there was over the weekend something called the um Muslim impact for Britain or something like along these lines, which is a new outfit that's being founded by uh Anna Sarwar.
In case you don't know him, he is a the leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, I believe.
Um, this looks like Scotland to me.
Yes, very much so.
That's the Scottish flag behind it.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
And he's talking about gaining real power.
Let's listen to him for a second.
We will only truly gain real power.
If not, if we just have more Pakistan sitting in council chambers and parliaments, but actually having more Pakistanis and Soviets sitting in the corner of the power making the decisions.
And that's the interview.
So the idea here is just pretty brazen.
You know, we want more power, therefore, more people of our ethnicity should be in the corridors of power, who also, you know, he obviously doesn't mean the the beleaguered Christian minority in Pakistan.
No, he obviously doesn't mean the beleaguered Ahmadiyy community in Pakistan.
He means Sunni Muslims.
I mean, I agree with the framework, it just should be for the native population and not him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um and then there is his father speaking a little bit, which is also interesting.
His father used to be an MP.
So if you have any ideas about integration, I think this will kind of dispel it.
Because if you make it into Britain and manage to succeed enough to become a member of Parliament, then your son turns out to be a full blown Islamist who was promoting his the interests of his race and religion.
I think it's safe to say that there wasn't any successful integration, and I think it's also safe to say that the problem wasn't really a lack of opportunities.
Well, the um one of the Manchester Arena bombers was a second generation immigrant from his North Africa.
I think they were North African, weren't they?
So his family was firstly connected to the security services, and secondly was Libyan.
And they'd managed to get refuge running away from Gaddafi, and the British state has a very messed up relationship with Islamist movements, extremely dodgy, extremely dirty.
Certainly.
They saw them as useful sometimes to the extent that the Saudis and Imiratis are constantly complaining to the British why are you allowing these lunatics to operate out of your territory?
And now that there's Qatar in the mix, they can be sent to Qatar, they don't have to be in Britain, but they have a pretty strong base here.
They have a really strong base here.
So here you have this guy saying that the Muslim friends of labor will be at the heart of the government and pledging his loyalty to Pakistan.
Look just what the working class coal miners and workers who form the Labour Party wanted.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly, exactly.
Um he married his cousin to get to Britain.
So you can't at the most UK with a why story ever.
This is very much a UK story, isn't it?
This is very much a UK story.
And here he is saying the following.
And inshallah come that there will be a law in place all over the board.
There can be no disrespect to our beloved Holni Brahman Muhammad Mustafa.
And he's adopted the accent so well, hasn't he?
Yeah.
I was gonna say that like you've lived in Britain for how long, and you've not even your accents zero effort.
Yeah.
Zero.
Nothing.
That's how isolated you are.
In case you didn't hear him, he was saying that there's going to be a global law banning any insults against the beloved Prophet of Islam.
Here's an insult against the Prophet Prophet of Islam.
He married a nine year old when he was fifty-three.
That's repulsive.
He consummated the marriage with a nine year old, according to Sunni Muslim sources.
That's disgusting.
Simply disgusting.
So the integration plan really isn't going very well.
And now you have the Muslim impact forum, uniting 200 plus global Muslim leaders who are ready to shape the future, not be shaped by it.
And so, in addition to the Muslim Council of Britain, the Muslim Forum of Britain, the sort of uh Muslim network of in the civil service, etc.
etcetera, these guys are coming up with a rather novel idea of building an independent political movement in Britain.
And it should be noted here that you know, in reform you have Zia Yusuf, in the conservatives, you have a Muslim network, you have the Muslim friends of Labour, who are quite influential, quite po popular, you have the Greens, uh the homosexual Zach Polansky having Muadin Ali as his deputy, and now you have Jazbollah, um basically Jeremy Corbin's party in association with a bunch of Muslim MPs.
And they've also infiltrated the apparatus of government as well in the home office, which of course is responsible for things like deportation.
There's a network of over 700 different Muslims that are lobbying to recruit more Muslims into the home office.
Absolutely.
And also they they have played a significant part in reducing attention to the Muslim threat of terror.
Yes.
Which of course uh since 2005 is over 98% of all uh terror-related fatalities were from Islamically motivated terror attacks.
Exactly.
And the establishment is only answer is just you just have to live with these people.
It's part of living in a diverse multicultural city.
It's just the way things are now.
Look, um, and I want you I want to warn against the impression that this is disorganized.
And to explain that there's this wonderful document here, it's from 1991.
It's a document by the Muslim Brotherhood in North America, explaining their strategy for North America, and you can bet that the same strategy is being pursued in Europe and in Britain, obviously, and in the anywhere else where the minor the Muslims are a minority.
I imagine that because they're writing in Arabic as well, they presume that it's selected for a specific audience.
Yes, yes, aesthetics and they're going to be more candid with what they're doing.
So there's a translated version at the bottom.
Okay, but I'm not clear if they are the ones who translated it.
Okay.
Because I've I went through the Arabic part, I didn't go through the English part.
The Strategic objective adopted by the Shura Council and the Organizational Council of 1987 is to empower Islam in North America by founding an active, effective Islamist movement that is settled and led by the Muslim Brotherhood,
which adopts the causes of the Muslims locally and globally, works on expanding the base of committed Muslims, and aims to unify Muslims and proposes Islam as a civilizational alternative to support the Islamic global state wherever it is.
So they start off from the beginning saying that this is a totalitarian project to build a global Islamic state with their presence in North America as sort of a small part of it.
It's like a vanguard, really.
It's a vanguard, exactly, which is how the Muslim Brotherhood always is has seen itself.
Everybody agrees, according to this document, that our aim is to indigenize and empower slash gain control for Islam.
So they use this word called Tamkin, which means a combination of enablement, uh empowerment, establishment, gaining control over the levers of power.
That's the meaning of the word, and it it's the translation is a bit vague, but it's a really good word.
Um the objective is to do this in this part of the world, and presumably also in Europe, because other leading clerics have pretty much been saying as much.
And there is a multi-step process.
First, to make Islam a part of whatever country that it resides in, second, to establish firm institutions, which is what you're seeing now, third to stabilize Islam and to make sure that it can't be challenged, essentially.
Fourth, out of a five-stage plan, to make Islam to give Islam control over the spirits and minds and lives of the peoples of the countries in which it operates.
So it is sort of following a playbook of say a Lenin, in that they want to become a vanguard, and they say obviously, you know, we're not we don't won't have mass support, but over time through strict governance, we can change people's minds.
Exactly.
And then it goes on to give other details about how they will build alliances with different groups, etc.
etc., hence their flirtation with Zach Polansky.
Different groups who are dumb enough to take them.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
And you have to remember that whenever there was a whenever the leftists and the Islamists were allies, they ended up trying to murder each other.
And in Egypt, it was the sort of leftists that murdered them first, and then the Islamists murdered the Egyptian president, blah blah blah.
And in Iran, the Islamists sort of wiped out every single leftist.
So, Zach, if you're listening, and and I don't think you are, the consequences are going to be severe for you, mate.
And this is not a threat.
This is just what happened in history to leftists who allied with Muslims.
And then they go on to say how confident they are in their position here.
And I think this is worth listening to.
In this country, there are four million Muslims, and that number is growing fast.
But of those four million, fifty percent are under the age of twenty five.
One third are actually under the age of 15.
So the implication here is that the youth bulge amongst the Muslims gives them an advantage in any kind of military confrontation.
Because the British native population is aging rapidly, whereas the Muslim population is extremely young.
So the what he's suggesting here is that the future is theirs one way or another.
And it doesn't really matter whether or not they're in uh high-paying jobs or their own benefits or whatever the case may be, because ultimately they the will of the state will already be sympathetic to them because the previous generations of Muslims have spent plenty of time infiltrating it and characterizing it for their own system.
And and it the important part is that this is part of a generational effort.
Yes.
This isn't accidental.
And this preceded the era of mass migration.
Like the planning for this isn't sort of, oh, they found an opportunity when Tony Blair came to power.
No, no, no.
The security services probably knew that these guys have been writing this kind of document.
Because these documents date back to the early 90s.
And because the Muslim Brotherhood has never been shy about any of this stuff.
And I'll in the Real Politic episode at three, I'll give a little more examples and a few more quotes from leading thinkers of Jamaati, Islami and the Muslim Brotherhood about their plans for the future.
So they've known all of this.
Some of this stuff has been out there since the 1920s.
Some of this some of the stuff has been out there since the 1930s.
They've known all of this.
And yet Tony Blair decided that it's more important to rub the noses of the right and diversity than to actually have some compassion for his own people.
That's treason.
That's treason.
Well, it's not because they abolish the treason laws.
Oh, yes, well.
Yeah.
So it can't be treason.
So let's let's listen to a little bit more of this.
I would say hand on heart now that uh we are at a uh tipping point in this country, and it's reflected in other countries as well.
Where we we either try and do something different, to try and self-organize Muslims to represent ourselves better, to use our resources better, and to influence the countries that we live in better than we have done already.
Brother Hamza is a uh relatively rare and unique political talent.
Actually, we need many more people like him at the top of government in every government in this country across the four nations and in other governments that can influence, sit at the top table and make a difference on behalf of the Muslims.
You see, this is the thing as well, right?
Because Hamza Yusuf is a guy who, you know, like many of them, just never shut up about Palestine.
No, right.
Because he wants your symptom, your concern for his ethno-religious grievances.
Yes.
But my God, if you dare suggest that he should have any for yours.
Nope.
Not an inch.
Not an inch.
And it's very important the language here in the countries that they live in.
Yes.
In the countries that they live in.
So there are several admissions here.
The most important one is that it's not their country.
No matter how much Hamza Yusuf will say that he's actually an indigenous Scot, he doesn't even think of himself that way, and the people who support him don't think of himself.
I agree with that point, to be fair.
But he wouldn't ad if if you were to say it to him, he'd deny it.
If his friends were to say it to him, he wouldn't object.
So it's only racist when you say it.
Well, that's all right.
It doesn't bother me anymore.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Like that the word racist has come the most devalued.
It's a it's worth about as much as Zimbabwean dollar.
The word racist is worth about as much as Zimbabwe and dollar.
That's what it is.
Calling you racist is not going to get rid of your concern about this.
No, no, no.
Not in your form.
Not in any shape, way or form.
No.
But the statement here is that there's a tipping point, and our identity is as Muslims, according to the uh Muslim Impact Forum.
Their primary identity isn't as Brits, Scots, Germans, French.
They might carry these passports, and I and I carry one of them too, but they sort of admit in internal discussion that their primary identity is Islam.
And the only reason that the Muslim movement in Britain is sort of split is that it's because of split between the South Asians and the Arabs.
So they they have the same ideology, but the South Asians have Ramahati Islami associated movements and a few others, and the Arabs have Muslim Brotherhood mainly.
Right.
So it it's sort of, you know, it's because the Arabs are ridiculously racist towards the South Asians.
It's that's the only reason for it.
It just baffles me, right?
Because as well, when you say like they obviously just put their religion before the country, and you just face with, yeah, but why would it be otherwise, right?
When the home secretary, Shaba Mahmood says, Oh, Islam is just like my absolute guiding principle and informs everything I do.
It's like, yeah, I would expect it to be.
Yes.
Right.
But what why are we dumb enough to allow it?
Right.
Because you've lost faith in Christianity and become liberals instead.
Because under the rules of liberalism, uh religion is a matter of opinion rather than the defining aspect of your identity.
So Shabana Mahmoud is much more honest than a liberal because she will say that my values, my beliefs, my political objectives come from my religion.
Which, you know, I agree.
That's that's true for me as well.
Right.
You know, that's true for me as well.
It's the liberal assumption that no no no no, it doesn't really matter what religion you are, we can all work together for GDP.
That's the real God for Latin.
That's the real God, exactly.
And you cannot worship two gods, God and Mammon.
You cannot worship God and Mammon.
That's that's the that's the point of it.
And these people simply worship Mammon.
There are two interesting things about this that I noticed.
The first of which is that they said highlight Hamza Yusuf as some sort of success story, which is sort of reassuring, because if he's their best, then they're not doing particularly well.
And it's also interesting that they're talking about cleaning up their act, because of course um this ties nicely to what you previously mentioned about them bringing in more Pakistanis, and I I don't think there's any group that has done more to radicalize people towards the notion of re migration, mass deportation, whatever you want to call it, than Pakistanis in Britain.
Yes.
Because they've been so corrosive to our society in in terms of following the law, in terms of draining resources in terms of being cultural narcissists and just propagating shamelessly their own uh way of life.
They're like the the opposite of a model immigrant.
Exactly.
But it speaks to when the way that they frame it here as well, speaks to the fact that they recognize that this is a race against time.
Yes, right.
Yes, that there is a clock, and every single day it ticks.
Demographics.
Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.
Um you have to remember that again, emphasizing the point that this is not organic.
So two of the supporters of this are obviously Hamza Yousuf and I think Nashah, and here they are meeting with a bunch of Muslim donors for Gaza in Turkey.
Now, Turkey is the sort of vanguard state of the Muslim Brotherhood.
It's the one major power where the Muslim Brotherhood actually reigns and comfortably so Erdogan's whole world view is sort of informed by this need to Islamize society and to lead the Muslim world and to bring Islam into a position where it can challenge the West.
So this is neo-Ottoman Empire.
Very much so, very much so.
So his first national security advisor and uh then a foreign secretary and then prime minister, before they had a massive falling out, wrote a book explaining how Turkey was going to lead the entire Muslim world against the West and against everybody else, essentially.
And that's what qualified him to become national security advisor.
Right.
So this is a sort of, you know, if they're hobnobbing with Erdogan, you can bet that they are acting on what they are saying, which is that their primary identity is Muslim and therefore not British.
Um you have to remember that this is happening in a terrible context.
You have guys from the Afghan military who are running around Britain, calling people who ask them what are you up to, racist.
This is a guy walking around with um literally an Afghan military uniform.
That's not true.
And he's in one of those in Luton.
It's not worth much judging from their performance in the actual conflicts itself.
Well, basically, jumping jacks.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you can bet that the Taliban guys, so the special forces guys were good.
Yes, of course.
And you can bet the Taliban guys are much better.
And the same Afghans were also working as people smugglers, as GB News reveals.
So they've the people that were trained by the British in Afghanistan are now working as people smugglers, sending more Afghans into Britain.
And I think we had a story this weekend where basically the Taliban would issue you with a letter threatening your life if you paid them 40 pounds, and then you could take that letter to the home office and say, Can I please have asylum?
I was thinking about uh getting one just for bragging rights, just like here the Taliban have threatened me, I'm gonna frame it.
I'm joking, of course.
I wouldn't give money.
These guys are um the fact that you have in addition to that the tens of thousands of Afghan soldiers who were settled under uh Ben Wallace and Robert Jenrick in Britain really shows what a disaster all of this is.
That basically not only are they building a political organization, but they've also had an army transplanted into Britain.
And we saw the same with the Muslim Defence League who were willing to organise very quickly, and themed rather thuggish and rather prone to violence.
And you have these people bragging about how they're going to be taking power, but noticing any of this is racist.
And we probably committed a bunch of hate speech offences in this brief segment.
I'm going to be covering this in more detail and committing a few more hate crimes at three.
Uh but in the meantime, maybe we can uh just sort of watch something entertaining, or sort of think of something entertaining.
Ah, the video on this is gone.
You had a bunch of trans activists attacking J.K. Rowling.
Um strange definition of entertainment.
Yes, yes.
They were attacking an event at which she was speaking.
The one bit of good news is that if the Islamists win, that kind of stuff will be over.
That's true.
But the funny part will be is that these kinds of people would have also voted for it.
That's a very dark bit of sugar for the pill there, isn't it?
I do what I can.
Well, this is why, you know, in many cases the mass deportation is the kindest option, isn't it?
It is indeed for everyone because humane.
It just is.
Yep.
Let me leave read a couple of comments.
Uh Gimli O'Gloyne, they call you racist bigot at every other buzzword, but they never call you a liar or wrong.
Says it all pretty much.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I see it as encouragement these days.
It's like more or less.
It's very kind of you.
More or less.
You practice in the mirror.
That's a random name says Tommy Robinson is currently in court.
I know he was supposed to have a jury trial, but apparently that is no longer the case.
Not looking good, but at least we're not speaking German.
Yeah.
Um Sigil Stone 17 says, speaking of Elon and replies, you see that guy that complained about low payouts, and a Twitter employee gave him an additional ten grand.
Wow.
Immediately made me think it's a big club and you ain't in it.
No, I haven't seen that.
I don't know.
Your payouts are low, peace please give me ten grand.
Thank you.
He's a big fan of Elon.
He really is.
I am.
Uh also from Sigil Stone, so when's the UK's obligatory Islam civil war over who was the first caliph of Britannistan?
Sadir Khan or Charles Mohammed Winsor.
But the beautiful part about it is that he's referring to the Shun Sunni Shia split very cleverly.
Uh the Hapsification says, I saw Carl got caught with Sura 2 AI, Sora 2 AI.
I did warn everyone last week.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's really convincing.
It's really convincing.
I I thought it at first.
I just by chance didn't quote tweet it, but um it's crazy how believable it's all starting to look, really.
I've not seen how quickly.
Yeah, it was definitely like uh what was it, Jake Paul or something uh walking around Leicester and being like, My god, there are a lot of Indians here, but it was all fake, it was all AI.
Why would Jake Paul go to Leicester?
Some of his biggest fans are there, he's he's quite a swarvy fan base, does Jake Paul.
Fair enough.
Well, uh I'll tell you what, shall we shall we bookend this podcast with going back to the good news?
Let's go back to with a positive, shall we?
So uh castles.
Now obviously, besides just being um all over Europe, of course, castles um from my point of view are just a fundamental part of the beauty of um the British landscape, right?
You're never actually that far away from a castle, especially if you live along the Welsh or Scottish border for historically.
I wonder why that might be.
Right.
And every one of these castles is a work of wonder.
And whether they're made of chewed a brick or gothic stone, right, they all speak to something about where we've come from.
And actually, you know, the fundamental link of the fact that these islands are ours, right?
And that our ancestors built these, and obviously they all have a great story.
But beyond obviously uh architectural beauty as well, there is also the case for moral beauty and a return to classical values, and that's why I'd just like to draw your attention to Stelios' new course here, the introduction to ancient Greek virtue ethics.
So there's a free webinar, the second one, are 6 pm on Thursday.
If you'd like to go and sign up for that, then Stelios will be here to take all of your questions about the course, and if you're interested in the course itself, it's on the website.
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So definitely do check that out if it's something you feel can help improve your life.
So we have here uh there was a great um epoch with uh bow and shad versity uh a while back where they were just talking about some of their absolute favourite castles, right?
And how could you not?
Because I feel like the thing about castles as well is that they're kind of remarkable and leave you um in awe, whatever age you are, right?
Even as you know, an old man, which I'm not yet, you know, they uh they leave you, you know, with that feeling of of wonder, but also as a young kid as well, right?
I mean, you know, when you think of like how excited the kids got about like the castle in Harry Potter or something.
It almost feels otherworldly.
It feels like something that couldn't have been created today.
I I only went to a castle recently, I went to Warwick Castle for the first time.
I really liked it.
Right.
And I mean I enjoyed it probably more as an adult than I did as a kid.
And even as a kid, you know, I'd be going in there looking at the suits of armour and the swords, just like this is great.
Exactly.
They're they are gorgeous, aren't they?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So I'd like to um, as you say with Warwick, I'd just like to talk very, very as brief as I can.
I won't do a Putin and go on for 30 minutes.
Um but I'd like to talk to you a bit about one of my favourite castles, which is Scarborough.
Now, on the face of it, it's not the most impressive.
You can see it's got a bit missing.
But um uh the the roof has definitely fallen off and half of a wall.
But uh I'll explain why that was.
So the point is that uh this castle was built with the money from the treasury during the reign of Henry II, right?
John then went on to spend an inordinate amount of money on it, given that he did like to spend people's taxes uh quite frivolously, and he spent more on Scarborough Castle than any other castle during his reign, right?
And an e an extra the King's Hall was built beside it, and the castle continued to go through different stages of repair and garrisoning, you know, as the medieval era went on, and then eventually you got to the English civil war where the Royalists held up inside the castle, and the reason that there is only half a castle there is because the parliamentarians brought the cannons along and shot the castle in half.
That's the story of a lot of um castles it around here.
Like uh few where I grew up were used and damaged in the civil war.
I know um Donington Castle near Newbury um has a large chunk missing because it was besieged for a long time in in the civil war.
Yeah.
So many such cases.
So there's multiple layers of history here, and the fact that it played a significant part in our our civil war and our medieval history is amazing that there's this continuity and you know you can still see it today, you can still see how it was and walk the battlements.
It tells a story.
You can talk about the also the stability of this country afterwards because uh I don't think Britain has any of the castles with the uh geometric points.
So in the continent, to solve the artillery problem, they would change the walls of the castle from being circular to having a bunch of diagonal points, meaning that they could hit you with artillery just as well and even more effectively, whereas they would push you back preventing you from hitting the main castle.
So the fact that this development wasn't imported into Britain, as far as I know, meant that you had a much longer period of stability where adjusting your own castles to the new mode of warfare with artillery wasn't actually necessary.
And I would also like to make a sort of uh blood feud point of the enormous to be the good news section.
These these foreign Norman castles coming over here, building them with stone.
Back in back in my day, it used to be a hill fort, used to be earthworks and spikes made of wood.
Yes.
Well, so you can see here, even as Fab on this hill where Scarborough Castle stands, there used to be an old uh Roman signal tower, obviously artistic impression of it.
This is all that stands left today, there was also a chapel built on that hill in the year 1000, uh, which has since disappeared, and then so ever since the uh the civil war, the rest of Scarborough Castle just stood there until 1914, when the Germans uh came over with their warships and bombarded Scarborough and Whitby and rest of that coastline uh towards the end of um 1914, and again the castle sustained more and more damage.
And now, of course, as we find the castle today, it is uh you pay uh X amount of money, fifteen pounds, I think it was, when last time I went in there, and of course you're free to go and look around it.
So, what is the point with all of this?
Why am I talking about it?
Well, the fact of the matter is that as I give an account of my personal experience and the history with Scarborough Castle, so it is that every single castle in the British Isles has its own story.
It reveals something about our history, about the wars, about the revelry, about the feasts, about the people that lived in them, and the ideas and way of life that gave birth to them in the first place.
And Scarborough isn't for some reason even on that, so that is an incomplete list as you see it there.
Would you be able to scroll down to Devon and Cornwall?
I'll see if my favourite is a little bit more than a little bit.
You're talking about the one in the middle of the uh Garnon Samson wrestling it from me.
It does have Tintageal Castle, that's my favourite castle.
Yeah, I really want to go visit it.
Oh, it's it's lovely.
But the coastline is absolutely gorgeous around there, and it's on this big island, it has you can see why people see it as the base of the Arthurian legend, because it's on this island, it feels magical.
Um very much recommend people go there, although the entry fee to see the castle is very expensive.
But what you can do is stand opposite it and see all of the castle and not have to pay any money.
So which is more your style.
It is, yes.
Far more your style.
So as I point out, you have many extraordinary castles in the British Isles, and of course, all over Europe.
But the point that I want to get to, and this is something that I've um sort of had subconsciously in the back of my mind for a long time now, is that though these castles are remarkable, they are existing kind of in an end of history state now, where they are actually just walk around museums, right?
Everything that I said about Scarborough Castle, and don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting we should start shelling them again or anything like that, right?
Put a bit of life back in the history or anything like that.
But what I am saying is that um they kind of exist in the abstract, right?
They're they're not they're just something that you might go and have a weekend looking around, right, when you go away for a bit, and that so they're not part of a living history, right?
There's no reason to think in the current state of a castle, it will ever now be anything more than just ruins to walk around.
And so actually a castle that historically speaking would have been very, very close to the centre of a community in a medieval period, is now detached from it, and it leaves us with this place where the castles are a remarkable expression of Christian architecture,
and they're also falling into decay, and as people are slowly, you know, attendance to these sorts of things withers a little bit.
Um there is actually some good news here, which is that uh Nathan Hood, a very, very good man, and uh his works all around on YouTube where he talks about uh Arthurian legends, Tolkien and just what is fantastic work.
He has set up the Pendragon Foundation, which is going to be a voluntary organization dedicated to basically restoring Britain's strongholds, right?
It's about and by restoring, I should clarify what I mean by that.
I don't mean, you know, hiring the stonemasons and like rebuilding Scarborough Castle brick by brick, but what it does mean is where castles can be preserved, and you know, where a decaying castle might be in the centre of a town, there is a wonderful opportunity there to re-centre the castle within the community itself, and actually through this way, it works on many, many levels.
It roots people back in their actual history, right?
And it takes the castle away from being something abstract that you just merely visit to something that actually is again at the heart of the community.
And also what's more uh there's um YouTube channel with uh the Pendragon Foundation where Nathan explains a lot of this very very well, and we also have a magazine that will be coming out at five o'clock today.
And I believe so featuring contributions from wait Josh Firm.
That's me.
I'm in this.
What are you doing in there?
Well, I like a good castle, does me.
Um, I I wrote about the importance of preserving your history, and I spent a long time refining uh a very um concise paragraph on and I tried to put it in a nice poetic and and um moving way.
I was very happy with it.
Um just the importance of doing these sorts of things, and I I think that having an appreciation for one's country and one's history is basically foundational to preserving it into the future, and that we should all have a stake in trying to preserve our history because there's a certain beauty there, it's not just interesting, but we have an obligation to basically steward these things into the future for future generations.
If we neglect it, if we go out of our way to ignore it, perhaps, then we're doing a disservice to people who come after us, and we are part of that continuity, and I think that castles in particular bring this into mind because they're things that symbolize the life and death of our ancestors, basically.
And I think that um having a reverence for one's ancestors is is a good thing.
Yes.
I couldn't agree more.
Couldn't agree more.
Revering ancestors good.
Yes.
Yes.
Uh and so we have this um fantastic organization, and if I just go back to the website, actually, you can see here uh Britain's castles once protected us, and now they can inspire us, help us turn these ancient strongholds into centres of culture, commerce, and community.
So um before you write off their military relevance, the one of the greatest crusader cast castles in South Lebanon ended up getting used by the Palestinians and by the Israelis um and was a pretty much active military site up until the year 2000.
And then the Crusader castles in Syria also ended up being used by the insurgents and by the government.
So the kind of stonemasonry that is involved in those is ridiculous.
Um it takes more than an old cannonball to get one to sort of go through one, and they are still they were still militarily useful in modern warfare.
Right.
At least against insurgents and and fighting insurgencies.
So um like it's not over for castles.
These things are still valuable.
And so if you would uh like to volunteer or just you merely interested in what it has to offer, there's uh, as you can see here, list of opportunities, rebuilding, uh, with the supervision of industry experts, volunteers participate in the restoration process by taking part in construction work,
supercharging our efforts to re-establish these magnificent and historical buildings, and they can develop their own craftsmanship on these unique projects is also a matter of research, finance, media, which I guess I'm kind of doing today.
Uh you also have events and engagement.
And so if you want to subscribe or make a one time donation, that's also an option up there because as you say, Josh, there are inheritance, and if we don't look after them, uh the new arrivals certainly won't be interested in doing anything of the kind.
I would also like to point out that I contributed to the magazine voluntarily, and they're not paying me to say this, I just think they're a bunch of good people doing a good thing, and I wanted to help them out, and I think that it is great that you're drawing attention to this because I think it's a very important thing, and I think that um no matter what your politics are, you know, obviously we talk about politics most of the time.
I think most people can recognise that preserving your history is important.
We might disagree on what it might mean, we might disagree, you know, we might some might call it racist.
I don't know if anyone's calling a castle racist.
I think it's like uh shouting at brick.
I hope so.
But um it these things I think have undeniable value in them, and I think that what they're doing is very necessary as well, because many of the institutions like uh English Heritage and the National Trust aren't necessarily doing well and they're also subverting uh things with politics, and so having a safe pair of hands to deal with uh handoff to the next generation is very, very important.
Right.
And and I think please sorry, just briefly castles also reflect a certain kind of order in society that um just because you're rich and have a castle doesn't mean that you are free from responsibility to those around you.
As a matter of fact, if you want your castle to survive and not be torn to bits, you need to take care of the farmers and you need to take care of the town, and you need to take care of the people that in the surrounding area, so that when hard times are upon you, you have a reliable social base that you can depend on.
Whereas it's completely different under financial capital.
Under financial capital, today, if you're a millionaire, today you're in Britain, tomorrow you're in Monaco, the next day you're in Milan.
You have no attachment to place.
You have to do that.
Anti-globalist monuments, basically.
They are anti-globalist monuments because they remind you that politics is hyper-local and that you must take care of the people in your immediate vicinity, and they remind you of the correct order of Christian love.
You owe more to the people who are closest to you than you do to strangers, which is something that the home office would do well to remember.
Although, to be fair to them, the Muslims in the home office do understand that perfectly.
So th there is this moral dimension to the way society was organized in the past, which reflected first hierarchy, and in fact, hierarchy is good, because it must be based on competence and the ultimate taste of test of competence is battle.
And secondly, there is an element of there's this web of obligations that everybody exists in, and they remind you that your obligations to those nearest and dearest supersede other obligations.
So they have this additional social element to them, which when you go around and see the architecture and you see, well, this castle is made for this family, but it's also ready to hold to host another two thousand people from the nearby villages and towns.
Well, why would this evil aristocrat care about them?
Because actually he wasn't an evil aristocrat, he had a genuine interest in the well-being of the society around him, and they had a genuine interest in his own power because that was how the piece was kept.
Right.
So there is this other element that you have to think about when you look at these places.
I was I was speaking to Rory um before I came on to do this segment, and he was saying about the idea that actually maybe it'd be a good thing to to give a lot of these castles back to uh the aristocracy, right?
The actual nobles who used to own them in the first place, and obviously have them just try reconnect some of that that neo-feudal uh sense of kingship um and duty and responsibility of the minus making their citizens work in the fields, I hope.
Well, well they lion out the the niggles in the plan uh at a later date.
But um also as well, I just want to clarify this isn't about LARPing as 12th century right uh Christian knights, right?
This isn't what this is about.
Because what I'm really saying, and part of the reason I told the story with Scarborough, is that actually it's not about it being static.
Right.
It's not about returning a castle to exactly as it was at the beginning of the 1200s.
Right.
But it's about finding a way to take it from the abstract and reintroduce it into something within society that speaks to all of the things that you very ably uh mention Firas.
So, yes, at least do go and give the Pendragon Foundation a follow on Twitter, go give it a subscribe on YouTube, and if you're interested in getting involved, well, I've given you all unnecessary links so that you can do that.
And like Josh, I didn't receive a penny for this.
It's just something that I think is a really, really good initiative.
And amongst all of the decline and ruin uh that we see within our culture, a very, very valuable way that we can make practical difference and do something together to actually preserve it.
So uh I hope you've all found this informative.
Okay.
Uh Sigil Stone 17 says, I want castles in the United States.
Sure, we have military bases, but they're the lame and gay version of castles.
Castle uh tower, nuclear missile silos, let's go.
That's the other thing as well, isn't it?
Like uh all our castles are just older than than the new world.
Yes.
By a significant margin, as well.
Right.
Yes, yes.
Uh Ochigdor says for moving Lotus Eaters H HQ into a castle, whether built or refurbished.
Yeah.
I I wouldn't mind going to work in a castle.
That would be that would be good fun.
See?
Firas is already on board.
I'm I'm definitely on board.
Uh uh DTEX says uh Firas got that Kanye West laugh.
He goes from smiling to serious face in nanoseconds.
Well, that's because we're uh constantly uh joking and then moving into serious themes, isn't it?
You just roll with the punches.
Trying.
Uh uh Arcadia says Ferras's country is so effed uh stuffed, isn't it?
Not yet.
Not yet.
Always hope.
Good answer.
There's always hope.
Uh and then I believe you read uh Gimli's quote, so let's go to the video comments.
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Yes.
Oh, is that one for today?
Alright, we'll go into a commentary.
Um Russian garbage human, hello there.
Um being honest regarding crime data and issues would mean the establishment would have to accept that the blank slate theory is a lie, and we do have innate traits.
Well, the world of academia, ironically enough, largely accepts this in psychology, and it's just like, yeah.
They use the tabula rasa, it's just like obviously we don't believe this.
Yeah.
What you stupid.
Um what are you, a blank slate?
No, they didn't say that.
Um but no, they they said that this was a hit is more covered in the history of ideas, like, yeah, this is an old discredited idea, but is is not true.
So the political world sort of needs to catch up a little bit.
I don't know whether that's changed a little bit, but I would be surprised because people talk um down many of our academic institutions, and lots of them, you know, as long as their work doesn't intersect with any woke stuff or political stuff, are doing great stuff to this day.
Like I don't think the people that work on the psychology of visual perception are gonna be able to crowbar in anything you know, untoward in there because it's such a try.
Well, most of the people that I met, um not to sound too, you know, on the fence here.
Most of the people I met were so passionate about the work they did that they wouldn't want to sully the truth.
There's this there's to be able to rise to the top in many of these disciplines.
You've got to have a passion for viewing reality.
And you're really enthusiastic because you've got to work incredibly hard to get there.
And so to ruin it with politics almost feels like sacrilege to many of them.
And that's something that should reassure people.
It's not actually as bad.
Although we should still try and retake the universities, because you know and also I think some disciplines should be banned, like you know, colonial studies and and gender studies, just like what's the point?
Queer theory.
Or at least you should think they can be easily completely defunded by any parliament that wants to do so.
You don't get any university funding if you have critical theory, gender theory, blah blah blah.
And uh he carries on to say they'd rather destroy everything than admit they're wrong.
Let's hope that's not the case.
George Happ says it's not like Ireland and Scotland have been bastions of free speech before considered uh the banning songs um the banning of songs I presume.
In general most normies don't care about free speech until it personally affects them.
I think if you get arrested for your most dank memes that's going to affect you.
Um nearly having the memes and not sharing them.
I know you are s you're hiding memes under your floorboards are you not?
Lancelot tyranny begins with the redefinition of language if thought corrupts language language can also corrupt thought yes and I think that unless you're committing actual violence or theft I don't think the state should intervene in your life and uh there might be a few exceptions that I haven't thought of.
But generally I'm a big fan of blasphemy laws.
And and one day I'll explain to you why but generally there's always been a link between heresy and civil war and political instability and so the Inquisition did nothing wrong I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition beat me to rate Mons alike.
Colin P says uh why are there even such things as protected characteristics protected from what?
Why those particular characteristics?
Well I it's basically the um the the project of mass immigration has imported people that may not be as good at things as the native population and you have to protect them from the consequences of ultimately their own failures which is about as brutal a way as I can put it but it is true.
Kevin Fox says makes a change for the Irish being accused of race-based hatred instead of religion-based hatred it's just cycling it around, it'll come back again I'm sure, and then finally Roman Observer, Josh, the EU is an enemy of the people of Europe and I bet you still haven't read the Manifesto de Venturtoni no idea well, I'm going to look it up now so you've got your wish on
the Muslim Brotherhood And Fuzzy Toaster says...
this point I'd rather suffer the fallout of losing genuinely good Muslims and just kick all the Muslims out all of them.
The downsides cannot outweigh the benefits at this point.
Look the reason I agree with you is because these movements are very organic.
The most successful political movements in the world today are probably the Rabati Islami and the Muslim Brotherhood.
And they aren't sort of imposed or anything they're genuinely organic expressions of the intellectual and commercial and political elite of the Muslim world and that's what they think.
And and in in the in the next um real politic in half an hour I'll be going over some of what the founders of these organizations have said and if I said it I would be accused of being an extremist but that's what they say their agenda is so please stay tuned for another half hour.
So Bleach Demon, would you please do a breakdown of the Muslim Brotherhood?
Assuming, well, okay, it's not a full breakdown of it, but it's a breakdown of how they think.
But yeah, we can do more deep dives if you're interested.
And then, as an observation, the left see Islamists as fellow travelers to the global revolution.
Yes.
Pali Group, like Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PLO, the Popular Front.
Front uh they're openly Marxist revolutionary yeah and the PLO was I think taking money from the KGB as were a bunch of those um is this a fatal flaw for the likes of Jeremy Corbyn in the immortal words of Richard Tice I'll be long gone by then Corbin will be long gone by the time he has to face the consequences of his um evil alliances.
But we won't.
So you won't.
Your children won't.
No.
So yeah.
Dreadnought Logan when we win and control our countries again, there will be consequences.
I pray for no bloodshed, except for those who have been to trials and legally are allowed to face these consequences.
I think it's right.
For me, and I I genuinely try to hold to this every day.
It's not about hatred, right?
No.
I it's not about hating other people, but we have one home.
And if it's gone, it's gone, right?
And I don't want this to be the last century.
Yes.
That England exists in all of human history, right?
It's been one of the greatest nations in the world.
An unbiased source might say the greatest.
And so I feel that it deserves to continue.
It has the most wonderful people, and I love it unconditionally, right?
And they can't take that away from you.
They've got fifty-two nations to pick from, so if they want to fight for what is behind you, not out of enmity for what is in front of you.
You fight because you love what's behind you, not because you hate what's in front of you.
Yes.
Yes.
Samson's pulled up the video now.
Oh, go on then, Samson, and then we'll get to my comments.
You got anyone you want to call out in the heavyweight division?
Oh, you know it, lad!
You know that has Tan Piker!
I'm coming to kill you in Los Angeles!
Heck your house!
Or in the ring.
No, in real life!
And we're just stopped him and become obsessed with him and wear his makeup and his dresses and use his skin as a coach, like the ancient Irish did.
Well, that's your winner, Sam!
Hey!
I will never get tired of that.
I can tell he slightly breaks character.
Yeah, he...
He's just all like, wavers off in speech.
No, in in real life, like a shot colour on him.
Um right, from my segment, we've got Zesti King says, I've been visiting British castles all my life, especially so in the last few years.
I'm currently on seventy-eight, and I always find them interesting and beautiful.
No two are the same.
I may or may not have also an article in the Pendragon magazine releasing this Wednesday.
Oh, I thought it was today.
Uh said it on the tw anyway.
Uh I hope you all enjoy.
Well, you'll be able to buy the magazine nonetheless.
He also says, I volunteered in Tintagjil Castle last year.
It was honestly stunning, and I was shown all the bits not available to normal tourists.
I did this for five days and I enjoyed every day of it.
Well, that sounds like a remarkable experience.
I'm quite envious.
Uh Reese Sims says we must restore our castles.
Uh one machiculation at a time.
I'm sorry, I'll have to Google what that means.
Uh I can't remember how it's pronounced.
I wanted to say in my head that it's maticulation, but I I'm not entirely sure, and people are gonna be like, Josh, you're an idiot.
Well, the T's at the end of the words, so uh I don't think that could be the case.
Uh anyway, Jordi I'll have a look.
Forgive my ignorance.
Uh Geordie Swordsman says, Hmm, which castle should I put a quick drive over to tomorrow?
Newcastle, uh uh Proto, what uh Walkworth, uh Dunstanbar, Anwick, or Bambra.
I mean, Bamborough's.
It's the most famous one.
Yeah.
And I've not been to Bamber yet, but I really must.
It's too far north for me.
I get dizzy if I go that far north.
Yeah, it's like the uh the oxygen levels up there.
Your head goes a bit a bit woozy, does it?
Oh, that explains a few things.
Yes.
Yes, uh, you see, this is the thing.
I I've not quite acclimatised yet, so these southern airs there don't quite agree with me to be honest with you.
Don't smell like coal, does it?
No.
No.
It's just just don't like it, lad.
Uh Michael Brooke says, My wife is from a dearly large town in Slovakia, uh Kesamar uh Kesmarok.
Uh they have a castle in the town that is still used officially by the council and as offices for local businesses.
Schools also use it as evening uh evening spaces, I assume that's meant to say.
So nice to see spaces, perhaps.
Still laugh.
yeah, event space.
Could be either.
Uh well there was one actually uh that I saw on the uh uh Pendragon Twitter account where they talk about um I think it was one in Scotland perhaps, but where it is a university campus.
Right.
So actually, yeah, that's great.
That's an example of living history.
Sure, it's not a fortification, but at least it's still serving as some centre for public life, right?
Big limit universities or or schools or even council offices.
There's government offices.
There are nothing wrong with that.
Well, I don't think I feel like we should perhaps sull them with the hands of councillors and politicians, but maybe if you reminded them of their noble origins and duties, it might improve them.
And maybe if they constantly had to think that one day they might be under siege and facing cannon fire, it would provide them with further incentive.
When we have Cromwell two point oh comes along.
It could also be a place for uh budding witchcrafts and and wizards, you know.
Harry Potter, of course.
Not being blasphemous.
Yes, yes, yes.
Sorry when the Inquisition comes back.
All right, the w the witch burnings were based, and I'll make them happen again.
And thank you.
And I love the outfits.
Um uh Derek Powers says all I ask is one castle to use as Chippy HQ.
Doesn't have to be a big one, though that'll help.
Uh I'm I'm not sure what do we mean that headquarters for fishing chip shops.
Like what what was like Chippy?
The the grand uh central authority of fish and chip shops.
Yeah.
Well that should be obviously in Scarborough by the North Sea.
Uh Mr. Fimble, uh uh Flibble, rather.
Uh we can use the castles as our last line of defence when Hamza Yes.
Hamza the Hun is excellent as well as a phrase.
Yeah.
Uh yeah, the country.
Well, uh an honourable mentions uh Zester King informs us happy no bra day, everyone.
Well I came prepared.
Josh, get your tits out.
It's much easier now with no bra.
And uh Roman Observer says Luca should visit the town of Luca.
Yeah, I it looks glorious, I have to say.
Um yeah, uh well I'll have to tour Italy uh much more when uh when Europe is more at peace and we have time.
Yeah, you jump some out in Luca.
Sorry, uh have to lower the tone.
Oh no, is it two twenty-nine?
Well, I think we'll call it there, ladies and gentlemen.
Alright, well, thank you for uh joining us, as we say.
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