Ezra Levant reports on Epping Forest protests against migrant hotels housing 90%+ male arrivals, including a 14-year-old girl allegedly raped eight days after arrival. Locals—mothers, grandmothers, and students—fear unvetted migrants from cultures with normalized sexual violence, while police prioritize protecting migrants over protesters. Levant links this to the UK’s secretive 2022 Afghan airlift (200,000+ arrivals) and compares it to Trump’s deportation policies, arguing for "remigration" to address both new and existing migrants. Suspicions arise that police may again deploy Antifa activists to provoke conflict, as seen in prior Epping rallies. [Automatically generated summary]
I'm back in Canada after spending a weekend in the United Kingdom filming different protests against migrant hotels.
It's a big thing over there.
The government takes over an entire hotel, shuts down the tourism part of it, and just turns it into an urban refugee camp.
And people have had enough because a lot of these refugee camps are just filled with young men.
And unfortunately, some of these young men have engaged in rape.
in the local community.
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mean sure you'll you'll be able to figure it out a bit if you don't have the video but i want you to see with your own eyes what was going on this weekend in the uk tonight the battle of epping forest It's July 29th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Hi, everybody.
I'm back in Canada.
I was in the United Kingdom over the weekend, and something big has changed over there.
You know, I've been covering the issues of censorship and free speech and mass immigration and Islamification and terrorism.
These are all bundled together over there.
I've been covering them pretty much for a decade.
Tommy Robinson was my window into this world, but something has changed.
Until very recently, it's been an issue for activists, for politically tuned-in people, for bloggers and pundits, but severely normal people have really not gotten involved.
They've been following it.
They've been very interested in it, but they've also been sort of afraid about taking a stance, a public stance, on something that could label them far right, as they say in the UK, something that could get them deplatformed.
Well, as you may have seen last night in those first shows, first visits I did, and tonight, I think the turning point is that normal moms, moms and grandmas are coming out to these protests.
People who tell me it's the first time in their life they've gone to a protest.
On the other hand, the antifa protesters, the counter-protesters, the professional protesters, well, they just don't seem to have the impact anymore.
Oh, they're deploying, but it's so obvious that they're just reading cue cards written for them by some NGO.
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So tonight, I give you this interesting story from a town of Epping where moms and dads have just had it, and they're saying no more to migrant hotels.
Here's that.
Hi, Ezra Levant here.
I'm standing in a little forest in a town of Epping in Essex, which is, I don't know, about an hour and a half from central London.
It really is a bedroom community.
A lot of people here go into London to work.
There's a train that gets you right to the heart of the city.
But Epping itself is so lovely.
Oh my goodness.
I mean, not just the green and verdant hills, but just the little shops and the restaurants and this forest here.
There's people walking back and forth.
They go for a stroll.
I saw a young woman on horseback.
You don't see that all the time.
And young men, young women, women by themselves walking on this path, because that's what happens in a high trust society.
Nearby, there's primary schools and middle schools.
And then the government decided they were going to put, they were going to book an entire hotel, which was, of course, part of the lifeblood of the community for people visiting Epping, for tourists, for people in Epping to go out for a nice Sunday roast or whatever they do.
The government said, no, we have better plans for that hotel.
We're going to buy out that entire hotel and make it an urban refugee camp for military-aged men who have come over in dinghies, shredding their documentation, making it impossible to do any sort of background check on these folks.
Their very first act in the United Kingdom to break the law.
And they're put up in this luxurious hotel.
And there's all these men.
And I was just talking to someone, and people here are shy, although some of them are overcoming their shyness in recent days, I can tell you.
And these men, they officially, they're not really allowed to do anything.
They're not allowed to work.
But he says a lot of them actually go into London and work Deliveroo, which is like Uber Eats here.
So they work under the table.
And I suppose that's the best case of what they're doing.
By the way, they get a payment, they get free hotel, free food, they get a weekly payment of cash.
And then they work illegally for these large tech companies like Deliveroo.
So they've just got the whole thing wired, don't they?
Obviously, no Indigenous Brit could possibly compete because everyone in the UK actually has to work for a living.
These migrants hop on a dinghy, they're escorted over the English Channel by the Royal Navy.
They're not stopped.
The second mightiest Navy in the world does not even try to stop these boats.
Then they're put in this little paradise called Epping, which frankly is a bit of a white flight community from other areas that have been taken over by mass immigration.
And this lovely little forest setting to me is the symbol of the whole thing.
To be able to walk with confidence and without shyness or danger through a little forest, as has been done in Epping for centuries, because they didn't need to have bars on their windows because there was a moat around the whole country to keep people out.
But when you allow anyone into the country without vetting them, without stopping them, and if you reward their illegal activity by giving them free room and board and then letting them work under the table for Deliveroo, you've allowed people in who take advantage of the high trust society.
And so it was that someone who was in that Epping hotel, eight days after he arrived by dinghy, allegedly, according to police, committed a sexual assault against a 14-year-old girl.
See, the thing is, if you're a girl and can walk through here, that's because for centuries, this country was kept safe.
And there's a sense of cohesion and community responsibility.
And no one rapes each other's young girls.
I'm not saying no one, but it was one of the safest, happiest places in the world.
But when you bring in men, and it's overwhelmingly men, it's more than 90% men.
In fact, we heard that this, we were in Norwich yesterday, which is completely men, 170 men, and they're right next to schools.
And in Norwich, we heard that these men would linger near playgrounds and take photographs of young girls.
And the police were called, and the police said, Well, they're not technically doing anything illegal by taking pervy photos of young girls and boys.
You can see why the people here are finally getting tired of it.
And more and more are showing up to the protests.
That's why I've come to London.
I would visit London a lot, but I've been focused on Ireland lately because something I thought was unique was happening in Ireland, which is ordinary people, especially moms and dads, like not just young scrappy folks, but middle-class people of all backgrounds were saying enough is enough.
We can't believe what's being done to our country.
And I thought, well, maybe that's just an Irish thing.
Maybe it's because it's a smaller community, more cohesive, and it's happening at such a shocking pace.
And there really is such a strong Irish culture that when you bring people from completely alien cultures, it's maybe it's so jarring.
Whereas in the UK, it's been happening over a longer course of time.
You have the massive city of London where people are sort of atomized.
They don't have that same sense of cohesion.
And maybe they don't in London.
Although we were at Canary Wharf yesterday, too, and I heard that one of the local apartments there is going to have a rally.
But when you come to Epping, this lovely place that has that other than the cars, I suppose it would be no different 100 years ago, 200 years ago.
And of course, 14-year-old girls could walk through the forest because, of course, it was like a village common.
But now people don't dare.
We're going to go to the protest today.
We hear there's going to be a big counter-protest by professional NGOs.
I think there's one called Stand Up to Racism.
We encountered them when they were bussed in from Manchester to, I don't know if you remember when I was in the UK to cover the by-election in a district called Runcorn and Hellsby, which was a district that was so strongly for the Labour Party.
I think it was regarded as the 16th strongest labor district in all of the UK.
It flipped to the Reform UK.
It flipped all the way from the left to the right.
And I remember the literature that the Reform UK had.
It was very simple.
Freeze immigration, stop the boats.
And I think that's what is motivating protests like what we're going to see today, we expect.
But I think it's moved much beyond that because freeze immigration means just stop the boats.
A word I'm hearing more and more here in the UK and definitely in the United States under Donald Trump is remigration.
You've got 170 men there in Norwich.
I'm not sure how many are here in Epping.
People here don't want to just stop the boats.
They want to kick out these fake refugee claimants from the migrant hotels.
They want to deport them.
Other countries in Europe are doing this.
Some of them, for example, some of the Nordic countries are paying migrants to go home.
And although that sounds like you're being taken advantage of again, and yes, I think they should be just kicked out.
If you have to pay someone $5,000 or $10,000 or $20,000 to leave and never come back, brother, it's worth it.
I mean, how much money are these folks getting every year just in free stuff?
Let alone you can't put a price on the loss of security and safety.
I mean, how much would the family whose 14-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted, how much would they have paid to get these folks out?
It's not enough just to stop the inflow.
The first rule of holes is stop digging.
But once you've done that, you've got to get out of the hole.
It'll be interesting to see what happens in the UK as more and more people are starting to talk about it, including the regime media.
You know, I've been friends with Tommy Robinson for about a decade.
And in 2017, he worked for Rebel News for a bit.
And we've stayed friends and I've watched his case.
He was one of the first people to talk about these issues and he was hated for it.
You know, a prophet is hated in his own time, isn't he?
And he's done time in jail, all of it for his politics and his journalism.
He just did seven months in prison, solitary confinement, because he published a video to Twitter that a judge told him not to do.
He was the vanguard, the pointy edge of the spear.
But now more and more other journalists, citizen journalists, but even mainstream journalists are starting to talk about this.
I mentioned earlier that both the Labour and Conservative parties here in the UK worked together in secrecy to bring in something called a superinjunction, keeping it illegal for any British reporter to mention that they were bringing over up to 200,000 Afghans in a secret special airlift.
They said, oh, it's to bring over our former translators from the Afghan war who are endangered from the Taliban.
But there were only about 1,000 translators in the entire war for the Brits.
First, the Conservatives, then the Labor plan to bring over 200,000, including, it turns out, some members of the Taliban.
It's just such a total joke.
But because they knew it would cause such a public shock, this was taken to court and the court granted what's called a super injunction, which means an injunction, you can't talk about the Afghan airlift, and then an injunction on the injunction, so you can't even mention that the first injunction exists.
There's nothing like it in the United States, land of the First Amendment.
There's no such thing as a super injunction.
And the fact that it was done tells you so clearly that the government knows what they are doing is hated by the people.
And the fact that both the Conservative and Labor Party did that super injunction shows they're just, as some would say, two cheeks of the same arse.
And I hope that Nigel Farage finds his courage to follow through on this because he's the only politician who I think could do this.
I think he's nervous.
He doesn't want to be the pointy edge of the spear.
Just speaking of Tommy Robinson, he likes to keep a fair distance between himself and Tommy.
And I understand that.
Nigel Farage wants to be prime minister, and you have to reach out beyond just the right wing for that.
But I put it to you that if Runcorn and Hellsby, one of the most pro-labor districts in the whole country, can flip all the way to reform on the motto, freeze immigration, stop the boats, I think it's time that someone talk about remigration.
You know, in the United States, Donald Trump is remigrating or deporting is really the word, hundreds of thousands of illegals.
Some of them are being sent, some of the hardened criminals are being sent to a special supermax prison in El Salvador.
They've set up a version in Florida called the Alligator Alcatraz.
Of course, that's not only going to empty the United States, but it's going to deter more illegals from coming.
You would be a fool to try and sneak into the U.S. across that southern border right now.
And in fact, the number of people trying has fallen very close to zero.
But if you were someone in Pakistan or Afghanistan or a country, and I'm just going to swear here, a country that Donald Trump has described as a shithole country.
If you were in Somalia and you heard that the British government will escort you across the English Channel, put you in a luxury hotel, give you room and board, give you a cash payment, and then you can take the train into London and work for Deliveroo and not pay taxes, frankly, you would be insane not to do it.
But if you came from a country like Somalia or Afghanistan or Syria or Pakistan, and a country where women are hidden from public view, they're either covered head to toe in a burqa or they're not allowed outside at all, and you suddenly saw British women walking, you know, dressed normally for the UK, which would be lascivious back home, unescorted by a man,
it's not shocking that there are rapes from people who are being brought over from rape culture.
You know, Western society has talked about rape culture and the Me Too movement and believe all victims and all that.
And there's some value to that.
We don't want to physically, sexually, emotionally abuse or harass women.
Of course, we don't want to do that.
And that's one of the reasons the West is a high trust society is that we treat women and people who are physically weaker than men.
We treat them with respect and with care.
But if you come from a place where violence rules and sexual appetites are unlimited, so it's the women who have to pay the price.
If you bring hundreds of thousands of young men from those countries here, is it surprising at all that within eight days, one of the migrants here allegedly raped or sexually assaulted a young girl?
These are some of the thoughts on my mind as we head into today's protest at the hotel in Epping.
I understand that the professional protesters will be here.
We've seen them before.
They were bussed into Manchester.
These people are paid protesters.
They really just know that they're here to call everyone racist.
They'll do that here.
But it is my observation that calling Indigenous Brits, Indigenous Irish, Indigenous French, Indigenous Europeans, calling them racist because they don't want to bring in illegal foreigners who tend to rape women.
I don't think that racist word is working as much.
We'll see how it goes today.
On our way in, we saw a lot of police vans.
I think police aren't taking any chances.
There may be a tussle.
One thing I should note before I go and we're going to walk over there is that the police last time sneaked in some of these professional protesters that were caught on film, really bizarre, using police vans to bring into the heart of the protest these NGO stand-up to racism pro-migrant protesters.
Obviously, they wanted some sort of tussle so they could blame it on the far right.
That tussle really never came and their moves were exposed.
I'll keep my eye peeled to see if any of these professional protesters are being escorted by police.
All right, let's head on over to the hotel.
So this is the forest on the other side.
It was really a two-minute walk.
It's the kind of place that would inspire a British book like Winnie the Pooh, The Enchanted Forest or something.
Just a lovely place to walk through with nothing but fond memories and imagination of a child.
But that only happens in a high trust society.
So this is this side of an entrance to the forest.
And there's the migrant hotel.
That's the hotel.
Like it's just, it literally abuts it.
It's across the street.
So you have all these migrant men, including the one alleged rapist who assaulted a woman eight days after arriving here, allegedly with nothing to do.
I say again, some of them work illegally in London, so they get cash in London plus free cash for here and a free place to stay.
Not a bad gig if you can find it.
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But the rest of them, what do you do?
You're not productive.
You're not integrated in the community.
You don't have a family.
You wander.
And if you see, like, look at those, I mean, just that's what it's like in Epping.
Women go into the forest because they're not afraid yet.
But now that a 14-year-old girl has been sexually assaulted, according to police, they're afraid and they don't want it anymore.
They want it gone.
So you can see all the protection.
A layer of steel, a steel fence near the hotel, several riot police vehicles.
And you know they're for riots because they have that grill that folds down in front of the windscreen to block the windshields from being smashed.
I don't know, maybe I see one, two, three police vans right there, maybe about 15 or 20 cops there, more down there.
A second layer of fencing, and then I don't know what that fencing's for.
Maybe they're going to try and have more protesters.
But here's the obvious point.
Why are police putting fences and barricades to protect the migrants?
Why aren't they having fences and barricades to protect the town?
And if you don't have a fence or barricade around your entire country to protect your entire country, if you let the invaders into the country itself, don't be surprised if you're going to have to have locks on your doors and tell young women not to walk through the forest anymore.
There will be walls.
There will be locked doors.
The only question is where?
Are they only around the elite gated communities that the wealthiest people live in?
Or will Epping itself once again become a safe town because the country puts up a wall?
We'll find out.
It's 12.32 local time.
The protest isn't set to get underway for at least another half hour.
You can see some of the protesters arriving here.
Stop the boats.
Let's go a little bit closer to what they have to see.
know what the police have told them in terms of managing what they're allowed to do.
And I say again, irony is not a strong enough word to describe the fact that the police here are not deployed against the foreign nationals.
They're deployed against the Brits.
If there are any arrests today, it will be of British people.
If anyone is threatened, it'll be British people.
And it wouldn't surprise me if mere journalists are arrested for mere words.
And I say that because yesterday in Norwich, at 8 a.m. before their protest, police swooped in on the house of one of the organizers and said he had used the word filthy foreigner in a speech.
Now, that's a rough word to use.
And I wouldn't recommend saying that.
I think that's a very rough word.
I think he was referring to sexual offenders, though, so it might be justified.
They arrested him the morning of the protest he was organizing to try and take the energy out of it.
It didn't work.
There were 1,500 who attended.
But you see my point?
They're extremely quick to arrest Indigenous British people who are upset with the migrants.
They're extremely slow to deal with migrant crime itself.
Let's walk down and see if some of the early arriving protesters will talk to us.
So why are you here in Epping today?
Because I don't agree with what's going on.
It's an absolute joke and it's just getting worse and worse.
What do you think is going on?
People coming into our country that we don't know who they are, no passports, what background they've got, if they've got criminal records, people getting attacked and we're paying for it, paying our taxes and our children can't get no places of their own.
And NHS, National Health as well.
We suffer for everything for people that are coming in that we haven't got a clue who they are.
That's not right at all.
No other country would do that.
It'd be as stupid as us.
There was a migrant in this hotel who eight days after arriving in the UK was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
Is there that rape culture that feels like a part of this as well?
These are almost all men of military age coming from countries where women have very few rights and rape culture is the norm.
Is that on your mind?
Of course it is.
Of course it is as well.
Yeah.
For me, my children, my nieces, and men.
Men aren't safe either.
Young men, young boys.
It is about women, but yeah, it's also young boys as well.
Nobody feels safe.
Until we know who these people are, who's going to feel safe?
So you're from down the road in Harlow.
What brings you to Epping today?
I'm just here to support all these ladies and gentlemen to protect the kids.
This is a Christian country.
At the very core of this, whether people want to accept it or not, is the evil Islamic ideology.
I can prove all this from the Quran, the Hadiths, and Tafsirs.
I probably know more about Islam than most Imams do.
I'm a Christian.
I'm a real Bible-believing Christian, my friend.
And I'm here to stay with my brothers and sisters to protect our children and Christendom.
This is a Christian country.
it will always be a Christian country.
Constitutionally, the monarch, the King Charles, is the head of the church.
The Church of England does not speak for the Christians of England.
But my point is, even if you may have a denominational disagreement, my point is that England actually is a Christian country, hardwired into its history, its constitution, and its monarchy.
So when you say England's a Christian country, you're not just speaking from a matter of opinion.
That is the ancient law that continues to this day.
It is, you're correct, sir.
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I'm worried, though, if you say the things that you're saying, you're going to be nicked.
You're going to be hit with a non-crime hate incident.
Have you ever been talked to by police?
No, I haven't.
and I'm very, very vocal on social media.
I'm surprised then, because they have a...
I read in the paper today, there's a new elite squad going after folks just like you.
I eagerly await them.
I can prove everything I say.
That doesn't stop it from being hateful.
It's not hateful.
The facts can be hateful.
The facts are the facts.
They'll remain the facts.
Well, I have to say, talking like you talk, in a country like this that has just brought in new censorship laws, I am surprised you have not been talked to by police.
I'm really not worried.
I don't fear who you can destroy flesh and blood.
I fear he who can destroy flesh, blood, and the spirit.
I'm scared.
I fear the Lord.
I don't fear these in uniform.
I don't fear the Islamists.
I fear the Lord.
Well, look at you from head to toe in the union flag.
Yeah, normally I wear more stuff than that.
When I was at a protest in Dover, where I come from, because I've come all the way up from Dover to support the protest.
I mean, I was wearing like Union Jack.
I was going to say you're too subtle.
You're far too subtle today.
I know.
Normally I wear more, but I just put this on.
Just do this whole thing on.
I like your very sparkly necklaces, too.
Yeah, I love sparkly things.
Well, we're just having a bit of banter here, but it's actually a very serious issue, isn't it?
And if you're from Dover, that's really the English channel where a lot of the dinghies come over, right?
Exactly, yeah, it is.
Yeah, a lot of people.
Have you ever seen any with your own eyes?
I haven't actually seen them, but...
They're escorted in by the Royal Navy.
No, they're escorted in by Border Force.
R-N-L-I, which if he finds them in the channel, they have to...
So it's sort of like your Coast Guard.
Yeah, a bit like a Coast Guard.
So it's not the Navy itself, it's more like Border Police.
Yeah, yeah.
They're bringing them in.
It's really weird.
I thought their job was to keep them out.
Well, exactly, you would think so, but they're just bringing them in and that.
And then from there, they get given, put in hotels and stuff like that.
That must be nice.
I mean, normally I have to pay for my own hotel.
Exactly.
This is what it's about.
We don't agree with it.
It's the taxpayers' money.
And I always think charity begins at home.
We've got a lot of our own people that are poor.
And they're wasting money on people coming through.
And they need to stop this once and for all, you know.
So why are you here?
To protect our women and kids from these people, undocumented males who we don't know who they are.
And it's just, I just feel like women and kids just don't feel safe walking the streets anymore, which England used to be a safe country.
It was one of the hardest countries to invade in World War II.
Now look, we're getting invaded by people who haven't got guns, haven't got nothing, they're on a dinghy, coming and they're just walking straight into our country and getting placed in these hotels.
We've got veterans on the streets, homeless, can't afford to feed themselves, and they're getting luxury buffets, free food, free beds, free phones, free trainers, free clothes.
It's just terrible.
Are you worried that talking that way you're going to get in trouble?
To be honest, I don't care what they say.
I thought your mum and dad were here so they know what you're doing.
As long as I speak the truth and speak what I think in a good manner, in a good way, then I don't care.
Because if the people in uniform want to say to me, you're racist, people on social media want to say you're racist, so be it.
Because at the end of the day, I know I'm not a racist.
I know.
A genuine person, an English man who wants to protect our women and our kids.
Have you ever run up against authority before, whether it's a cop or a teacher?
No.
A teacher, I was given a detention for wearing a Reform UK badge.
Really?
I was suspended from school for saying kids under the age of 18 who changed their gender are mentally ill are suspended from school for saying that.
Wow.
Have you changed ACE?
So are you in school now?
Yeah, I'm still in school.
I'm going into year 11, but now doing my GCSEs, yeah.
So are you in a different school?
No, same school.
So they, did they relent or did you relent?
Pardon?
Did they back down or did you back down?
I didn't really back down.
I just stuck to my word, stuck to what I say.
I assume you're here for the protests, is that right?
Yes.
And are you from the local area?
Just Harlow, just half a mile down the road, yeah.
And so what brings you out today?
I'm just here to oppose the hotel and what's going on in general, basically.
I don't agree with it.
So I'm just here to support what I agree, basically.
I heard that one of the migrants here, eight days after he arrived, he was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
And that is really weighing heavily on my mind because it's such a high trust society.
And I feel like that's being taken away from it.
Do you think that ordinary people who are not that political that this has crossed the line and they're starting to wake up?
Definitely.
I think people have just had enough now.
We need to bring change and this has just got to stop because it's just not fair on people that live in this country.
These people come over here, they get everything for free.
I've been here all my life and I had the benefits that they get.
They get house, phones, money.
They're illegal for us.
They're already like people are saying like, oh, they're like, some people are in support of it, but they're criminals.
They're over illegally before they even get here.
So get rid of them.
100%.
They shouldn't be here.
It's disgusting.
Last question, then I'll let you go.
There's an enormous number of police here.
And not just visible, like just over the bushes here, there's probably 20 vans.
And further away, we saw a staging area.
There's police from all over the UK.
Like, if I had to guess, I'd say there's probably 200 officers all told.
I think those are to stop the locals.
I don't think that's to protect the locals.
It's to protect the migrants from the local.
I don't know.
I've just never seen such a policing response to a peaceful gathering of mums and dads.
Well, it was.
These cages, this wasn't like it before.
I've come down here to a few of them.
This is just another way just to oppress people, I think.
Okay, here comes a caravan of one, two, three police vans.
The reason I mention that is because there is a chance that these vans are actually bringing, because they got smoked glass, so you can't see.
We're told that the professional protesters, the antifa types, some of whom are photographing me right now.
Edster Levan, how you doing?
Nice to see you.
What's your name?
Sam.
Hi, Sam.
There's all sorts here.
There's Al Jazeeras here, the Guardians here, a lot of journalists here, and then some folks that are quasi-journalists and citizen journalists and antifoot journalists.
Antifa and Hope Not Hate and the Stand Up to Racism.
These are various government-funded NGOs who have one mission, which is to demonize and denormalize ordinary Brits who are skeptical or critical of mass immigration.
Now, we heard that the Essex police sneaked in some of these government protesters in police vehicles.
And it would be too outlandish to credit as true were it not caught on tape by citizen journalists.
So I want to keep my eyes peeled.
Trouble is, as you saw, these police vans, they have darkened windows, so it's hard to see who's in them.
But I'm also told by someone who passed by that they may be walking up here.
I understand there may be 150 of these professional protesters.
Here's what I know before they even arrive.
Number one, they are not from Epping.
They are coming in from the big city.
These are the professional renta mob.
One day they're protesting climate.
One day they're protesting fossil fuels.
One day they're protesting Gaza.
Today, they're designed to smear these people as racists or alt-right or far-right or whatever the phrase du jour is.
It's going to be interesting how they're treated and how they treat us.
Because obviously we have a point of view.
We're sympathetic to the people and we're critical of mass immigration.
My track record with stand up to racism and people like that is as soon as they Google who we are, the wall goes up and they don't say a word about us to us.
But it'll be interesting to see who they do talk to.
I suspect that left-wing journalists will just be stenographers writing down everything they say.
It'll be interesting to see where they're from.
If they're bust in, probably from London itself.
And it'll be very interesting to see if there's any fisty cuffs.
Now, with the number of cops that are here, I don't know if that's going to happen.
But let me bring you back to what happened a couple of weeks ago here in Epping when those NGO antifa types were sneaked in by the police.
Use your imagination.
Think outside the box.
Why on earth would the police bring into a rally of local citizens, why would they sneak in as stowaways, Antifa activists?
Why would they do that?
Like this is a completely peaceful day so far.
The cops are just standing around bored, frankly.
I've been chatting with some of them.
Why would they bring here Antifa, which uses violence as a tactic, Hope, Not Hate, which is a provocateur's organization?
Why would they do that?
My theory is they wanted to provoke a conflagration.
They wanted violence.
They wanted a fight so they could have their regime media say, uh-huh, we showed you it's not grandmas and grandpas.
It is English Defense League, football hooligans, it's far-right troublemakers, it's violent reform UK people.
They wanted an incident to hang around the neck of the local activists.
That's my theory.
It'll be very interesting to see if they do that again today.
But here they are right here.
Where are you from?
Iran.
Iran?
And where are you from, sir?
Where are you from?
Well, that one guy told me he was from Iran.
That's interesting.
they're showing their id looks like well my question is what's he doing here from iran um Who is he?
Is he with the regime?
Why is he here?
There could be any number of answers to that question.
You would think that given that he's a guest here in the United Kingdom, he might identify himself.
Alas, he didn't.
Kim, like me, I'm Angela Levant.
That's Ed, and we're with Rebel News.
And Kim, you sound like me.
You sound like you're not from the UK.
I've been here for 25 years, believe it or not.
And why?
You know, it's hard to get rid of your accent.
So have you come here to protest in support of the Migrant Center?
Yes.
And where are you coming in from?
I live in Tottenham.
So you've come up here.
Now, I just saw hundreds of locals who were worried about sexual assaults on their children.
And I wonder, because they tell me, they tell me where they live.
Now, you've come in from the big city to tell them they're wrong.
Why are they wrong?
I don't live very far from here, just for the record.
We have a system, we have a legal system in this country.
Are you a citizen here?
I am.
I am.
I'm a UK citizen.
I'm actually a dual national.
So I'm a UK and American citizen.
So I interrupted you.
You said you had a system.
Yeah, so in the UK, right, we have a legal system.
These people have come in illegally, though.
They haven't followed that legal system.
No, that's not true.
The people in that hotel are here legally.
They're under protection of the asylum system.
They came in a dinghy from France.
France is not a dangerous place.
We don't have mob rule in this country, right?
Apparently, so.
Well, then why are you allowing.
Most of the sexual predators and rapists in this country are white men.
Not proportionally.
Afghans are 20 times likely as Afghans are 20 times more likely as in.
Why this group isn't going after all the white guys who are harassing women?
I have an answer.
Because someone from this particular hotel allegedly raped a girl.
Don't you care about her?
Of course I do.
Well, what are you going to do about?
We have a legal system in place in this country.
But they're here illegally.
That's the whole point.
They're not here.
Why did they, they came from France and they shredded their documents.
They're in this country, okay?
They're in that hotel legally, and this country is protecting them as they should.
How about protecting the Brits?
The Brits are already protecting.
Not the 14-year-old girl who was raped.
What we should protect against are these white guys.
You look like a feminist.
Why don't you care about the women of Britain?
There's a mass rape going on.
You don't seem to care.
You haven't talked about it once.
Are you kidding me?
All you've talked about is the rights of foreign men.
Military-age migrant men have filled that and countless others.
They're not women and children.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Did you want to say something really nasty and mean to me?
You know, he's actually a very articulate fella.
Hi, how are you doing?
Okay, I'm going to keep moving because I find this fruitless, but I appreciate you stopping, kid.
Let's go meet more of the foreign activists.
I guess you could call me a foreign activist, too.
That woman looked like a feminist, and I'm not.
I'm saying that based on what she said and also how she looks.
And I think that's a fair thing to do.
I'll tell you what motivates me.
I'm a foreigner, so I don't have skin in the game, although I care about the United Kingdom.
And I also see the United Kingdom, as you've heard me say before, it's a dystopian time machine.
What happens in the UK today will happen in Canada in five years.
And so I'm worried about this mass immigration from rape culture countries.
And of course, I'm not saying that every Afghan is a rapist.
I wouldn't say that.
That's ridiculous.
But it's 20 times more likely that an Afghan is accused of rape than an indigenous Brit.
Wild animals likely to be in the road ahead.
I think that's about to prove true.
Ah, you can see that we're trying to find where these Antifa people are coming from because it would be terrible policing in my amateur judgment to bring the Antifa in physical proximity of the local community because there would be fisticuffs and possibly worse.
So they've set up sort of a kettling zone, a fenced-off area that they're going to try and keep the two tribes apart.
And even directing the Antifa side from the train station, they don't want them to cross paths.
So we're trying to find their point of entrance.
I think it's important that the vast majority of people we spoke to today are locals here in Epping or just one community over.
Whereas the people coming in from Antifa and Stand Up to Racism and whoever that woman was affiliated with have come in from the big city of London.
That's why they're coming in from the train station.
You can see there's a few cops here.
I think that's a sign that this is where they're going to come in from.
There were a couple local lads.
I said, hey, can you come and have my back?
Because I feel that being far away from the crowd, we theoretically could be in some jeopardy.
I'm not too worried.
I don't think it's going to be particularly violent, although these are the kind of people who have no compunction using violence if they think they can get away with it.
In Canada, we sometimes send our journalists out with bodyguards.
Typically, I do that when it's Alexa or when it's Sheila because Antifa has a particular predilection towards hitting women.
You know, I don't want to get punched or anything like that, and I don't want our cameraman either.
But it wouldn't be bad to have a couple of lads just watching our back.
Listening to you and what you've been saying.
Why They're Coming In00:07:08
And you said you despise the fact that I'm in this country.
That is very intolerant to foreigners.
I despise the fact you're here because I think you're whipping up hatred.
What hatred am I whipping up?
You're whipping up hatred against the legally people you keep using the word legally.
Because you keep using the term illegal.
They've broken the law.
The first thing they did was break the law.
They've broken the law.
It's not illegal to be an asylum seeker.
From France it is.
When you shred your documents, it is.
You're breaking the law on your first act on British soil.
It's not illegal to be an asylum seeker in this country.
If you're a fake and fraudulent one, it is, and they are fake and fraudulent.
They are not freak and fraudulent.
Then why are they shredding their documents and throwing them in an English channel?
I don't think they are.
You don't think they are?
You don't need to have an opinion.
They film themselves doing it.
That anybody in that hotel is doing anything but legally seeking asylum.
One of them was charged with sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.
Do you need more evidence than that?
So has the American president.
And is he behind bars?
Are you protesting the hotel in Scotland right now?
He's been allowed here.
He is convicted criminal being allowed in this country.
I'm appalled.
What crime is he being convicted of?
He's been convicted of sexual assault.
When did this happen?
Don't you follow the news?
He's never been prosecuted for sexual assault.
He has been prosecuted for sexual assault.
In which jurisdiction?
Oh, it's civil.
I thought you said he was convicted of a crime.
I think that is a crime.
He's not being prosecuted for a crime.
You're making things up again.
Again?
What was the first thing you said that they're not shredding their documents?
I said there's no evidence that the people shredding their documents.
These people?
You know all of these people?
No one knows.
No one knows them because they're kept secret, Kim.
Kim, I know more about you than I know about them.
You're whipping up hatred here, and that is such a shame.
And you are coming as a colonist to tell these people what to accept in their communities.
James Williams, what are you doing?
Where are you from?
Where are you from?
You took a train in.
Where did you take the train in from today?
I didn't.
I drove up.
I lived in the country.
From where?
Where do you live?
I live locally.
I don't believe you.
Where do you live?
I just live in North London.
I live locally.
And you're coming.
East London.
I work in Stratford.
I work.
Where do you work in Stratford?
I'm not going to tell you where I work in Stratford.
You're sort of fancy pants looking down your nose at the local peasants here and they should have to.
Would you take a migrant hotel outside your place of work?
It's a beautiful place to live.
Used to be.
Used to be.
And now you've got rapists here.
Rapists.
He was charged with rape eight days after he landed.
You don't give a damn about women being raped.
Say it.
You are whipping up.
A woman was raped.
A 14-year-old girl was raped, and you haven't said a word about it because you don't give a damn.
There is a sexual predators register in this country, right?
Not for foreign migrants who shred their documents.
Do you see any of these people protesting the fact that...
So you're trying to what about your way?
You're trying to what about your way out of this?
A girl was raped and you won't say a word in her defense.
So you're doubting her.
Five charges.
She was found sexually assaulted and you're doubting them.
There's the legal system in this country, okay?
All right, I am now on a street.
This is sort of where we started our journey right before the forest.
As you can see, the police are sweeping the street clear of everyone, including journalists, to make way for the Antifa activists who have come in from London on the subway.
So again, Epping is sort of an exurb, exerb community in outer London.
We've just seen hundreds of locals from Epping and region here.
Here come the big city professional protesters.
You can hear their megaphones.
You can hear the chanting.
The cops are sweeping the streets.
I don't want to get nicked, as they say.
Oh, there's got to be 50 cops or 100.
They're going to act as a physical buffer, physical buffer between the locals in Epping and the Antifa activists.
I feel very safe, but in one second, that could turn into where's your journalism license, mate.
You know, you never know in the UK whose side the cops are on these days.
There's a mountain of a man back there.
He asked me to move.
I don't think he gets told the word no too often.
There are some residents here who have popped out to see all the excitement.
And I've had a bit of a chat with some of them.
People even who don't show up at the protest today have expressed their opposition to a migrant hotel right in the heart of their community, right near their schools.
As I mentioned, in addition to actual sexual crimes like the rape of the 14-year-old girl, there have just been creepiness, like migrant men hanging out at playgrounds taking photographs of young children.
And in that case, the police said, well, what is there that we can do?
Police not letting anyone, including journalists, get anywhere close to the Antifa.
I'm not quite sure why that is, but I think the police actually are doing their best to keep the Antifa protesters and the Epping people separated.
Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve.
There's 25 cops just immediately behind me, and there's got to be another 30 back there.
This is a massive operation.
Hi, everybody.
I'm in the kettling area for the group that has come in from London.
And there's hundreds of them.
I don't know how many, but it's several hundred.
If you told me there were 500 people here, I'd believe you.
It rivals in numbers the people we've seen outside.
But quite soon after I arrived here, the Antifa marshals came to block our camera.
You can see this bloke in front of me here.
And even right now, he's trying to block the camera shot.
I think it's an anti-Semitic thing, which is sort of weird and disappointing.
But there are a number of pro-Hamas activists here.
And I think the fact that I'm Jewish, I was on a, this gentleman consulted a list, and I think it's a list of journalists that they didn't want.
It's our demonstration.
It may be easier if you stepped out there to do your thing, because I think.
That's what I was trying, yeah, that's what I was trying to do, but then.
That's all the news.
Yeah.
So that's all it's entirely up to you, but I don't think he's going to stop doing what he's doing unless you get it.
That's part of the story in a way, isn't it?
Thanks for coming over.
I appreciate that.
So what's interesting is that the Antifa side, the pro-Hamas side, the anti-Semitic side, they have what they call marshals.
Paul's Jewish Perspective00:03:28
And it just goes to the professional activism of the other side.
What we saw earlier today on the Epping side was grassroots.
It was ordinary people from Epping.
And there was no particular organizer.
There was nothing being funded.
It was all authentic.
Here you have real Antifa activists.
There he is.
What's his name?
Paul Sillett.
And who's Paul Sillick?
He knows who he is.
Well, who is he for those?
It's fine.
For my safety.
For my safety.
This is for my safety.
We're going to start implementing rules.
This is for my safety.
This is not your business.
This is for my safety.
Yeah, they can't be secure.
This is for my safety.
It's not your business.
That guy seems to know you.
Who are you?
Are you famous?
It's not your business.
This is my business.
Everybody, what people think.
And officially, this one is wanted by the Met Police for assault on NIAC.
This one here with a ginger beard.
Remember Paul?
I made you famous last time.
Remember that, guys?
Tell me more about Paul.
I don't want to interrupt.
You start to be aggressive.
You see?
You start to be aggressive.
You are aggressive.
He starts to be aggressive.
Give to him that one.
If you remove him, it stops.
That's it.
Remove him.
He's done doing nothing.
Leave it now.
What language are you speaking?
Any language.
Any language?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
You sound like you know what you're doing.
What's your name?
When you stole the diesel phone the other day, and this one was distracting at the front.
You're a nice person.
You see, your nice, smiley person.
Well, that's nice of you to say.
I'm Anzra.
What's your name?
My name is Mark.
Best not to engage.
Was he telling you not to talk to me?
That's a shame.
We had a moment there.
Are you guys the bosses?
All right.
Well, one fella, a patriot, was arrested for calling the anti-bait side scum.
He was taken away.
Now we've been told to move aside because apparently the antifa activists are leaving the kettle and the police are opening a path for them to exit.
Now, I hope they've set up a wall of steel, that is, trucks, to act as a barrier between the antifa side and the local community.
Someone called them the patriot community.
It's going to be very interesting to funnel 500 extremists through a very narrow exit.
I'm not sure if this is planned by police, but it's happening.
All right, they're walking out now with their handlers.
Grooming Gangs Exit Strategy00:02:08
Yeah, there's a fellow who's got accoutrements you wouldn't see normally in Epping.
The nose ring is very non-epping.
Well, he's looking daggers at me now.
I want to be a bull.
That fella there, it could be Jeremy Corbyn cast away on an island for 20 years with no haircut or dentistry.
I didn't understand a word you said, mate.
It's just the same as Jeremy Corbyn.
I don't understand a word he says either.
Who paid your train fare today, do you know?
Do you know who paid your train fare?
It wasn't mom and dad, was it?
Romo?
I'm guessing you're a 40-year-old student.
Is that right?
Are you a student still?
A student?
Why are you so shy?
You go to a protest and you're chewing on gum like a horse chewing its cow chewing its cud.
How about you?
What's your name?
What do you think about the grooming gangs in the UK?
What do you think about the grooming gangs in the UK?
Boss, boss man, what do you think about the grooming gangs?
Well, they were here for a solid 30 minutes.
I'm guessing a lot of them are government workers, and that's a little bit exhausting for them to be at work that long.
They took the train in from London.
They take the train back.
Plus, it's about a half-hour walk from the station easy.
That's a full day's work for these guys.
They'll probably get 250 quid from the various NGOs who've been paying for them.