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June 19, 2024 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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'Fake Refugees' In Ireland...And The US?

Ireland's Ryanair CEO has blasted as "fake" the refugees pouring into Ireland on his airline. They're coming from the UK and France - they are not economic refugees. Do we have a similar scam going in the US? Also today: Germany moves to ban the second most popular political party...for "democracy." Finally, Maryland's Governor seeks to pardon past marijuana offenders.

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Germany's Refugee Ban Debate 00:14:55
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today, we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
It's raining.
Yeah, it is.
My garden is flooded.
My grass is growing.
But it's raining bad politics around the world still.
It's raining bad ideas, and we're going to talk about a few bad ideas still exist.
We're going to start off with somebody that has had some personal experience with our immigration problems.
And it comes from the CEO of Ryan Ayer, Michael O'Leary.
He had a big interview, and it was reported on Zero Hedge.
And he claims the whole thing on immigration, it's a complete scam.
These people are not refugees.
But I don't think that'll totally surprise everybody.
I think most people are saying, well, there's something fishy about this whole thing.
And of course, he is saying that they're coming in.
There's no regulation at all.
And if they have papers to identify themselves, that they're not a destitute refugee, they tear up their good things as they go into Ireland.
And they just hide from it, and they become a poor refugee.
And, you know, there's so many things that go on.
And you say, well, this is going on here, but how many people are coming in this country right now in a deliberate, legalistic way, calmly and going through the rope?
I don't imagine anybody's doing that.
If it is, it's very, very few.
But they take it.
They saw the advantage and they took care of that.
They just joined in.
And I've wondered at times about, you know, when I watch the TV, I'd study this, and they don't look like refugees that have just walked a thousand miles.
And also, and others have asked this question so often, where are they getting the money?
It's very suspicious.
And I believe that there's a conspiracy out there.
Somebody had to give them some money.
This is a political activity.
And it's just not, oh, well, we got tired of living here.
And I guess we'll get a couple hundred people and we'll go and see if we can sneak in on the borders.
It's a much bigger deal than that.
And I think O'Leary, the CEO, is pointing this out because he had this experience.
But I think it's just, this item that he talks about is just part of the big picture of how we have just totally opened our borders.
And not only that, put the penalty on American citizens.
You know, yes, people are impressed, influenced by humanitarianism.
And hardly anybody can say, well, they're all scoundrels and they all cheat and they're all criminals.
But it certainly opened up the door for some riffraft.
And they're getting the attention and they're the ones who are causing the problems right now.
It is the rules that existed that have been demolished.
And he's just demonstrating the experience he had experienced with his airline and what was happening in Ireland.
Yeah, it's interesting.
I'll put it out.
Now, this is Paul Joseph Watson wrote about it, and Zerhedge picked it up.
If you go to that first clip, here he is.
Here is the CEO of Ryanair.
As you say, he says it's a complete scam.
They're not refugees.
And go to the next one.
So he's in a unique position, as you point out, Dr. Paul, because he runs the airline.
Basically, they're getting on the plane.
They have to show the documents to get on the plane.
And when they get there, they flush down the toilet of the airplane.
And then they arrive with no papers, and they become refugees in Ireland.
But he says they're not coming from Afghanistan and Africa and these places.
They are coming from Canada.
I mean, they're coming from France.
They're coming from the UK.
So they've already stopped off there.
Maybe they came there from Afghanistan.
But maybe the grass is a little bit greener in Ireland.
So they jump on a plane and go to Ireland.
And he says it's a complete, complete scam.
He was on a talk show when he said that.
If you could put that next one up.
And yeah, they show up here.
It's a complete scam.
They're not refugees.
One thing that drives me nuts in Ireland is we treat people as refugees who are coming from the UK or France.
Nobody got to Ireland from Afghanistan or from Kenya or Nigeria or from Syria or on a direct flight because there aren't any.
So you're not fleeing persecution in the UK or Germany, O'Leary said.
So they're not being politically persecuted in these countries.
They're coming over there for some more freebies.
It's amazing how this is working.
Instead of being in a position that they could do something in the open and legal if their goal was to move here, and you could understand that.
But their goal is downsize their position.
We don't want to look like we're capable of anything.
We're going to convince people we're poor refugees that will be destroyed or killed or imprisoned in our home country.
And I think that's what he's pointing this out.
So this, he's well informed about this situation.
But I bet there's a lot of creative activity on getting these hundreds of thousands of people coming into this country.
And I think when this history is written, and who knows how it's going to result, this might be the beginning of a really, really big shift in what the United States is a decade or so.
And this is something I think that people will be wringing their hands.
Why are they doing this?
And I always think that's an important question.
Why do they do this?
And I keep thinking that there's ulterior motives in there.
I think that people who have motives to undermine what we have and they don't want borders.
They want a little Soros philosophy thrown in there.
And there's money there, but nobody really much talks about that, especially on most of the television.
They're not going to talk about that.
Well, there is a legitimate refugee problem, but a lot of them are refugees from U.S. foreign policy.
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, you can hardly blame the guy in Libya.
He's got a business.
The U.S. comes over there and bombs the country to smithereens.
Nobody's doing business anymore.
And so, I mean, in some ways, there is some justification.
But I think it also explains the rise of the so-called far-right parties in Europe and also Donald Trump.
Because both of these groups, the so-called far-right in Europe, from the Netherlands to France, to Germany, etc., and Donald Trump, all of them are saying, enough is enough.
These open borders are changing our coaches.
In fact, you mentioned there's only one country that hasn't done that in Europe, and that's Hungary.
And the European court just ruled against Hungary, saying, you better start letting refugees in.
And Orban, the prime minister, said, no, we're not going to change the character of our country, letting these people in.
They're not Hungarians.
You know, one thing, when we hear that one of our useless wars ends, we've had 20 years in Afghanistan.
The war is going to end.
You know, whether it's there or Vietnam or wherever we have been stirring up trouble.
But people, if they have a second thought about it, they say, well, what will that do to our immigration problem?
Well, this will be out in the open.
Anybody who said they were supporting, for ever what reason they were supporting, maybe just survive or help the American military in these countries, they're all, oh, come, we'll pay your way.
We're going to make you a citizen.
You know, the doors open for them.
So the end of the war just means there's a big burst.
And then if there's more problems, there's a lot of incentives for it.
But there's a lot of help provided for people.
I can't imagine.
I always thought there would be a journalist that would join a group of people somewhere, somewhere in Africa, Asia, or Europe or whatever.
This gives you a little hint of what I'm talking about, knowing how this scam was run.
But I would like somebody to, you know, a journalist, get involved at the start.
If they were in this particular country, and some of them it looks like if they would tell you, oh, this is what I did, and this is what I've done for three months now and all that.
I'd like to see somebody, you know, it's done so often in so many different things that sometimes you get a person in there.
You'd have to get somebody that would blend in there and answer some of these questions.
See where the help comes from and see where the money comes from and see who here in this country is breaking our laws for the benefit of them at the expense of the American citizen.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, let's move on if you're ready.
This is something that's just shocking, which is, you know, they just had European parliamentary elections.
I mean, it was a real shocker for the elites, but probably not for the rest of us who could see it coming, which is that the mainstream parties that have us on the brink of war, they allow their pipelines to be blown up.
They allow their economies to be destroyed by Biden and his people.
They did very, very badly.
And the so-called far-right and far left did well in the far right.
Far right and far left, it's a ridiculous term, are generally for peace.
They're sick of this war with Ukraine.
Well, what happens then?
The losers want to start banning the winners.
Put this next one up.
Now, this is the Alliance, the Alternative for Germany party.
Germany moves closer to an AFD ban.
The Greens, who've been in charge in a partnership, claim that the party is a security risk for the people and for democracy.
So they want to ban a party for democracy.
Go to the second clip then.
So the Alliance for Germany party, which is now the second most popular party in the country, is moving closer to being banned.
Christian Democrat MP Marco Wanderwitz says he's had enough MPs in his corner to table a motion for an AFD ban in the Bundestag.
He gathered 37 MPs.
He'll support the ban while speaking with the far-left newspaper Taz.
So he wants to ban a party.
The second party wants to ban the one who's gaining in power.
You know, this is getting bad.
I mean, it's spreading because everybody knew third world nations are guilty of this all the time.
They lock up their opponent.
And it's been brought up, you know, people who are defending Trump.
Say, you know, just like in third world, they want to put him in jail.
You know, put him in jail.
And and now uh, you know it's, it's Europeans.
Now they say well, we don't like him, we're going to get rid of that party.
And uh so, so the whole group the the, the whole world, has turned into this thing that uh you just, you just have to use the arm of the government to ban the opposition.
And uh, so I think they have to change the term.
It's, oh yeah he, they're acting like a third world nation, they want to lock up Trump.
It's uh, it's a worldwide goal of of, of treating enemies.
Of course, some of that's been around.
Uh, politicians have been killed quite a few times over over history but uh, this just seems like it's getting getting worse.
You just uh, use the arm of the government and the Justice Department of the various countries and we'll pass a law, we'll ban this group.
And uh it's unfortunately, it seems like it's less libertarian, and that should concern us.
I think what irritates these people is the act of voting.
Democracy means the people they like wins.
What annoys them is when people vote the wrong way.
So they want to try to prevent that.
I mean, it used to be voting created a specific fact on the ground.
You go a specific day, you cast your vote, and if a new government is elected, then that is the end of it.
A new governing, they have the legitimacy of the people.
But now they want to preempt that and ban parties, ban politicians they don't like, the elites do.
The World Uniparty does, and they do it in the name of democracy.
Our democracy means you can't run for office, is essentially what they're saying.
Well, here's another quote from the article.
If the Bundestag votes on a ban, the Constitutional Court, Germany's highest court, if we can put that up, would have the final decision on whether the ban is legal.
Go back, go forward, one.
Yeah, right there.
Okay, anyway, so yeah, here we are.
Sorry.
In any case, an actual ban could throw the German political system in turmoil, and I like this part, and raise questions about democratic legitimacy in Germany.
Of course it would.
Can you imagine if in one of the parties where the U.S. has a target on their back, if they ban the opposition, you know?
But here's a graphic reminder of how strong the Alliance for Germany was in the recent elections.
If you go back to that map, here you see the blue is where the AFD won.
The black is where the CDU-CSU won.
Tiny little specks of green in there.
That's the Green Party that's now in the ruling coalition.
They were trounced.
And then you can see in southern Germany, there's a mix between the AFD and the CDU-CSU.
So you see, this is a major political party.
This is not a fringe couple of people meeting in a basement somewhere.
A major political party that they are trying to ban and prohibit from contributing to the political life in Germany.
And what are their positions?
One of them is we don't want World War III.
There needs to be a negotiated situation out of Ukraine.
That's number one.
And number two, we've got to get a handle on this migration problem.
We've got to get a handle on this refugee problem.
And some people are probably going to have to be sent home.
That is their two points, and that's resonating with the German people.
Yeah.
Marijuana Legalization Backfired 00:05:20
Well, maybe with that map, the thought that came to my mind, and people have advocated this, legalized secession.
Yeah, exactly.
Like a little voluntary secession in Ukraine might have worked a lot better.
And maybe who knows?
Nobody leaves it up to the people that are most affected, you know, that particular country, maybe the immediate borders, you know, and let a true referendum occur.
And, you know, there's a few people here in this country that still talk about secession.
And in a way, you know, it certainly ought to be permitted because the cities are too big, the counties are too big, government is too big, and the states, California is toyed with the idea, maybe we ought to have two states out here.
So, you know, everything voluntary.
And if it can be worked, that's the direction we ought to go.
Yeah.
Well, let's finish with the good news story today.
Maryland governor.
We're going to skip that and go to the next one.
Maryland Governor Wesmore.
Sounds like he's got a little bit of a libertarian streak in him.
Here we go.
He's poised to issue pardons for 175 people who had marijuana convictions.
Now, Adam Dickett at the Ron Paul Institute writes about this a lot.
And it's one thing to legalize the use of marijuana, but then you have decades of people that have on their records criminal convictions who had used it in the past.
So it's really a big deal because if you think about it, you're trying to apply for a job.
In some cases, maybe a gun, all of these different things, and it comes up on your record.
It's going to really mess up your life.
So he's going to go ahead and try to issue pardons, which is, I think, the first step in the process of having them expunged from your record.
So it's a good news story.
Yes, absolutely.
And it makes you want to check.
I wonder if he has some other libertarian instincts, you know.
So that is just great.
And this is the movement.
I'm surprised there are that many in there.
I thought they, you know, and some of the some of the legalization of marijuana have sort of backfired.
Not backfired so much as reality set in.
But it would fit our argument that if it were legal, the prices probably wouldn't be so high and it wouldn't be criminalized and people killing each other to get it.
So they legalized it.
I think it might have been Colorado or someplace.
It was legal.
And there was a lot of competition.
And they were annoyed because they can't make it.
Yeah, they can't make the laws.
All of a sudden, there were these billions and billions of dollars in the drug trade.
And I'm sure our borders are still filled with it.
So people would say, well, you couldn't possibly treat all the drugs that are on our borders, fentanyl and everything else.
But the truth is, if you look at it, the alcohol prohibition is a good indication.
And there's been good studies on that.
And just think of where it was at one time.
But the only thing I was always impressed with is back in those days, it was so old-fashioned that when they decided we're going to tell people they can't drink alcohol, not like you can't smoke a cigarette or something.
What we'll have to do is we'll have to change the Constitution.
That's remarkable.
And then they had to change it back when the people decided that they don't want to, well, that was too cumbersome.
So we still just, we just don't ask for a correct constitutional process.
Certainly, they don't do it in war.
I mean, we call most of these things war, you know, the Afghan war, the Vietnam War, the Korean War.
I think Truman set the stage for that.
Yep.
It's a war, but we'll just call it a police action.
And we'll have a war on drugs.
It can't be war.
Yeah, that's where it is.
Yeah, so I mean, I think the governor makes a point, and I don't know the statistics.
He could be right.
He's probably not lying.
I don't know.
But he says that marijuana use among whites, African Americans, and Hispanics is about the same, but that the latter two are imprisoned a lot more percentage-wise than whites who use it.
And so he's hoping for some racial justice as well in this.
There's probably something to that.
I think Rand has worked with a Liberal Democrat on some of this to try to, well, I think his bill was helping people, you know, get a clean record because they had a crime which wasn't a very serious crime, but then they had a horrendous penalty.
And then what he's talking about here, they can't get jobs and things, and they were working on something, but evidently the problem, this is a major move.
Maybe if it'll turn out to be something very popular, maybe some other states will take advantage of this and go in that direction.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I think we've exhausted ourselves today, and I'm going to close out.
I have in the links, or in the description, I have links to the RPI conference.
And if you want to apply to be a Ron Paul Scholar this year, it's a great program.
People Losing Homes 00:03:11
Upper division undergrads and grad students are eligible to apply.
There's scholarships available.
It's a terrific program.
This will be our fourth year of doing it.
So let's get that filled up and let's get those tickets to come see us in D.C. on August 31st.
Very good.
Thank you very much, Dr. Paul.
You know, we talked a little bit today about the immigration problem that exists and continues to exist.
And it's something that I've thought a lot about.
And I really come down, my bottom line is that it's a property issue.
And when the gates are open and everybody can come in and they disobey the law and they get treated better than American citizens, there's something very, very strange going on.
But even if under these contestants, what it does, it has to take away some rights of people to own their property because if they come into these cities and the federal government says, take them in and do this, and they're allowed to come in, you know, everything there in a town, if you have 10,000 people come into a town of a million people, I mean, they're going to be, it's going to be costly.
And I want people to think about, well, you're just against it.
You're, you know, it's bigotry and prejudice and all this.
But if you look at it as private property, to me, when illegals come in and, you know, become a financial burden and then push aside American citizen and they have these demands and they get what they want, then it's like, can anybody knock on your door?
It'd say, well, I'm destitute and you have a big house and I understand you have a couple extra bedrooms.
We're coming in.
What do you mean you're coming in?
I mean, most people would say you can't do that.
But for the country, opening up the doors and using the facilities, whether they're hospitals or schools or putting people out of their homes and apartments, it is.
It's a property issue.
But since so much property is owned and controlled by the collective, the government, it's more difficult to emphasize how personal it is because we would never allow what's happening through the immigration process in a bigger way and in a collective way, what it would be like if they could, in a way, knock on your door and say, this is what I want.
And that's essentially what happens with communism and the radical socialist state is they do.
It is literally taking your home away.
And that's what's happening now.
People are losing their homes and they're losing their businesses.
And just look at what's happening in the inner cities where defending your property, you could get into more trouble than the people who get caught destroying property and robbing and killing.
So we're upside down.
And I think if people would more concentrate on the principle of ownership and defending the people who do own the property rather than endorsing the issue that, well, you're a bigot and you're not a humanitarian, and you just don't want to help people.
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Well, that isn't the problem.
The problem is the misunderstanding deliberately so and to take a function and decide that maybe there's some benefits to having 10 million illegals in this country.
And there are some philosophies and some people who actually think the best way for they to have their way to have a much more authoritarian society is to bring chaos to the streets and it doesn't make any sense and the chaos leads to a point where the current system totally disintegrates and then they can come in and rebuild it with an authoritarian state.
And I keep thinking about that and it could be possible and we ought to be cautious about what's happening in our country.
Working for the cause of peace and prosperity is a worthwhile goal and that's what we're going to continue to do.
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