Ireland and America were both countries that rose up against foreign tyranny and gained independence. Now, unfortunately, leftist politicians from both countries are working overtime to accomplish what the foreign tyrants could not.
April 24-29 marks the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, an Irish rebellion against tyrannical British rule. It began when a group of Irish Republicans captured the Dublin General Post Office (pictured above) and Padraig Pearse announced the start of an Irish Republic. The British response was so bloody and devastating that the rebels surrendered to halt the slaughter. Then, the British executed more than a dozen of the Easter Rising's leaders, including Pearse.
While the Easter Rising did not succeed in its main object, and its leaders perished, it inspired a wave of nationalist fervor that would eventually result in Irish independence within a few decades. Yet only a little over a century after the Easter Rising, the Irish people are suffering under a domestic tyranny almost as destructive and oppressive as the foreign one which the Irish Republicans so abhorred. And though many thousands of Irishmen have taken to the streets in recent years to protest their government, and even clashed with government enforcers, their case seems even more desperate now.
Woke Irish and American politicians have similar policies that result in chaos, crime, and murder. One of the chief is mass illegal migration. Catherine Connolly, the president of Ireland, is so dedicated to mass migration despite the increasing unpopularity and rising crime due to it that she turned her St. Patrick's Day 2026 message into nonsense propaganda about being "Irish by birth or indeed by choice." Around the same time, Ireland's Prime Minister Micheál Martin claimed that the slogan "Irish for the Irish" was "incitement" to "violence." He did not seem quite as concerned that George Birmingham, the independent examiner of security legislation, warned there is "significant cause for concern" about the threat of Islamic terror in Ireland now.
20 migrants involved in a mass stabbing.
— Real News Éire (@real_eire) February 17, 2024
That right there is a link between migration and crime. That one incident increased the crime rates in Ireland.
This is just one of many examples. pic.twitter.com/hPbDR6w0HW
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America has seen similarly alarming results from illegal immigration, and since the U.S. is a larger country, it's on a bigger scale. For instance, in 2018, 64% of federal arrests were of non-citizens, even though non-citizens supposedly represented a mere 7% of the population. In Fiscal Year 2024, federal immigration officers arrested over 17,000 aliens with previous criminal convictions, and in FY 2025, officers arrested nearly 9,000. That does not include all arrests of illegal aliens who committed crimes, not to mention every such alien is a criminal by virtue of being here illegally.
Similarly, politicians in both Ireland and America have aggressively targeted dissidents. Hate speech laws in Ireland are extremely restrictive of free speech. Perhaps the most infamous recent example of crushing free speech and religious liberty is the unending Irish government persecution of Enoch Burke, the teacher who refused to affirm transgender ideology, and his family.
Today my brother teacher @EnochBurke went before a disciplinary appeal panel.
— Josiah Burke (@realJosiahBurke) April 24, 2026
He was suspended from his job and jailed after refusing to accept transgenderism.
What took place today was shocking.
➡️ By law the panel is to be an “informal hearing”.
➡️ When he arrived he was… https://t.co/aGxlexH9TO pic.twitter.com/UiiqW3XEVZ
Under the Biden administration, the Democrats built up a massive censorship industrial complex and weaponized the justice system. Since the Trump administration came into office, leftists have used mass riots and targeted assassination attempts as political tools, including the D.C. correspondents' dinner shooting Saturday. The tyranny is stronger than ever. Are we dedicated to thwarting it?
