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- 0:00Speaker 1: Islamic extremist open fire on Jews celebrating Hanakah on a
- 0:04Speaker 1: very famous beach in Australia. My guest today heard the
- 0:07Speaker 1: gunshots from her balcony with her child less than a
- 0:10Speaker 1: kilometer away. She says this attack was not a surprise
- 0:13Speaker 1: and that government failures made it inevitable. This is Aaron Mullan.
- 0:19Speaker 2: It's been hard. It's been hard for the entire community.
- 0:22Speaker 2: I think it was already hard for the Jewish community
- 0:25Speaker 2: here in Australia, of which I'm not a part of.
- 0:28Speaker 2: I just am someone with a bit of common sense
- 0:31Speaker 2: and sensible enough to realize they deserve the same protection
- 0:34Speaker 2: that everyone in our society, and since October seven, this
- 0:37Speaker 2: country has really failed them in so many different ways.
- 0:40Speaker 2: But it's disconcerting. I think for a lot of people
- 0:44Speaker 2: there was a build up, so they weren't surprised, which
- 0:46Speaker 2: is an awful thing to say, particularly given we live
- 0:49Speaker 2: in a country with such tight gun laws. We haven't
- 0:51Speaker 2: had a mass shooting in decades. Because we had an
- 0:54Speaker 2: awful incident in Port Arthur and Tasmania and the Prime
- 0:57Speaker 2: Minister at the time, John Howard, came down really strongly
- 0:59Speaker 2: on so we just don't see this kind of thing here. So,
- 1:02Speaker 2: first of all, the mass shooting is it's something that's
- 1:04Speaker 2: not even on the radar for most Australians. Secondly, it
- 1:08Speaker 2: was targeted at a religious group, a bunch of Jews
- 1:12Speaker 2: celebrating you know, the festival of Light Harnka. And Thirdly,
- 1:15Speaker 2: it was Islamic extremists who you know, in the name
- 1:19Speaker 2: of Isis Islamic State are shooting people like animals on
- 1:23Speaker 2: our most famous beach in Australia. And you know, there's
- 1:26Speaker 2: a lot of anger. I think, you know, grief and
- 1:29Speaker 2: shock turns into anger. And again that word shock is
- 1:33Speaker 2: just is a constant, but not surprise. And I think
- 1:36Speaker 2: that's the really key part here. There are those of
- 1:38Speaker 2: us who have begged, begged the government to take this
- 1:42Speaker 2: threat seriously, who have watched it unfold, who have been
- 1:45Speaker 2: a part of the avalanche of domestic threats and harassment,
- 1:50Speaker 2: and you know, synagogue bombings, Joe the opera house, chanting
- 1:54Speaker 2: gas the Jews. Where are the Jews marching over the
- 1:57Speaker 2: Harbor Bridge, flying the Isis flag, the talib flag, the
- 2:00Speaker 2: Hesbula flag, harassing kids on their way to Jewish schools.
- 2:04Speaker 2: It's been this build up and we haven't had one
- 2:06Speaker 2: person in leadership do anything tangible that has said this
- 2:10Speaker 2: is not what goes on in our country, not on
- 2:12Speaker 2: my watch. And now we find ourselves here and we've
- 2:14Speaker 2: got innocent lives that have been taken fifteen ten year
- 2:18Speaker 2: old girl shot dead. Having to listen to her parents
- 2:21Speaker 2: talk about their pain has just been harrowing. And you know,
- 2:24Speaker 2: then I watch our Prime minister who's decided that gun
- 2:27Speaker 2: laws is the issue, like, come on, yes, this bloke
- 2:31Speaker 2: should not have been given a gun. His son was
- 2:33Speaker 2: investigated for isis he wasn't a resident, He should not
- 2:36Speaker 2: have been given a gun. He wasn't a citizen. But sorry,
- 2:39Speaker 2: gun laws ain't the issue we face here. And if
- 2:42Speaker 2: you're trying to frame this as now the new battleground
- 2:45Speaker 2: gun laws, we're going to lose thousands more people.
- 2:49Speaker 1: It's Aaron Mullan joining us. It's a Thursday morning in Australia.
- 2:53Speaker 1: I appreciate you getting up for us as it's Wednesday
- 2:55Speaker 1: afternoon here in the States. I want to go back
- 2:58Speaker 1: to a few things that you just covering. You just
- 2:59Speaker 1: covered an awful and I know that you're a little
- 3:01Speaker 1: bit under the weather, but you sound and you look great,
- 3:03Speaker 1: but you've been doing so much well, I doubt that
- 3:06Speaker 1: you've got much sleep. And I get that. Let's go
- 3:09Speaker 1: back to what I saw you say as soon as
- 3:11Speaker 1: it happened, that you literally heard the gunshots. I mean,
- 3:15Speaker 1: this isn't you saying, Oh, it happened down the road.
- 3:18Speaker 1: You walked out and you've got a young daughter and
- 3:20Speaker 1: you guys heard something going on. Did you think it
- 3:23Speaker 1: was fireworks? I mean, because again, growing up in Australia,
- 3:26Speaker 1: you probably don't get the guns and the guns sounds
- 3:29Speaker 1: like we get here in the States oftentimes. What did
- 3:32Speaker 1: you think it was?
- 3:34Speaker 2: It's a really good point. So my daughter and I
- 3:36Speaker 2: were on the balcony. We live less than a kilometer
- 3:38Speaker 2: away from the site, and we started to hear the bangs.
- 3:41Speaker 2: And initially you do think fireworks, but there was something
- 3:45Speaker 2: different about this noise. And I guess I don't hear
- 3:48Speaker 2: guns in real life a lot, if ever. But my
- 3:53Speaker 2: daughter's father is a policeman. I've been in this field
- 3:56Speaker 2: for a fair while now I recognize gun sounds for
- 4:00Speaker 2: covering this kind of thing a lot. I grabbed her
- 4:02Speaker 2: and we went inside. I turned on the TV and
- 4:04Speaker 2: within minutes started to see these images come through in
- 4:07Speaker 2: particularly on social media. I actually rang her dad straight
- 4:10Speaker 2: away and my first words to him was, is it
- 4:13Speaker 2: aimed at Jews? We live in a very Jewish area.
- 4:16Speaker 2: That it's my biggest fear, just because I've been a
- 4:19Speaker 2: very public face in this battle, you know, against the
- 4:24Speaker 2: Islamic extremism, against anti Semitism on behalf of the Jewish community.
- 4:28Speaker 2: And the first thing I said to him, and he
- 4:29Speaker 2: said yes, and you know, you just yeah. I feel
- 4:34Speaker 2: like I travel a lot overseas, Joe. As you know,
- 4:36Speaker 2: I go to America a lot. I go to the
- 4:38Speaker 2: Middle East a lot. I go to Canada a lot,
- 4:40Speaker 2: and there's always a lot of security around me when
- 4:43Speaker 2: I travel to those places. But at home, even though
- 4:47Speaker 2: there were all these awful things, that still had this
- 4:49Speaker 2: this safe kind of feeling. I felt like I would
- 4:51Speaker 2: go and do my work and then come home. And
- 4:55Speaker 2: it was, you know, particularly my area, the eastern suburbs
- 4:57Speaker 2: of Sydney, that was somewhere I always felt safe. If
- 5:00Speaker 2: there are areas in Sydney I would not go anymore.
- 5:02Speaker 2: I might have once gone, I now would not go.
- 5:04Speaker 2: Given the stance that I've taken and the work that
- 5:06Speaker 2: I do, but to have it happen right here in
- 5:09Speaker 2: our own backyard, which is what terror does, right. It's
- 5:11Speaker 2: meant to make you just feel feel fear where you're
- 5:14Speaker 2: meant to feel safe. And that's the experience of the
- 5:16Speaker 2: entire Jewish community here. I've spoken to so many people
- 5:19Speaker 2: who were there, who were shielding children who weren't theirs,
- 5:23Speaker 2: parents who couldn't find their children, just that panic. And
- 5:26Speaker 2: you know, I used to use this reference point when
- 5:29Speaker 2: I talk to people about hostages and say, imagine being
- 5:31Speaker 2: in a supermarket. You lose your kid for a second,
- 5:34Speaker 2: and you die inside that level of fearing. There's nothing
- 5:38Speaker 2: else like it. It's just this, And so I would
- 5:40Speaker 2: say to people, imagine if your child was in a
- 5:41Speaker 2: tunnel with hostages, and now I'm imagine your child with
- 5:45Speaker 2: gunshots going out and you can't find your child. There
- 5:47Speaker 2: were parents just scrambling, screaming because kids were playing. It
- 5:51Speaker 2: was a big park, there was a festival, so you know,
- 5:53Speaker 2: parents stand off to the side, kids are playing in
- 5:54Speaker 2: the middle. All of a sudden, these two cowards from
- 5:58Speaker 2: a height so just pointing and shooting and aiming at children.
- 6:03Speaker 2: I mean, I can't even imagine that that level of
- 6:07Speaker 2: fear and panic and how you then recover from that
- 6:10Speaker 2: if you're one of the lucky ones to survive it.
- 6:12Speaker 2: A lot of people didn't well eron.
- 6:15Speaker 1: I gotta say the word coward is one I was
- 6:17Speaker 1: going to use. I'm glad that you went there. How
- 6:20Speaker 1: else can you explain people shooting up a music festival
- 6:23Speaker 1: on October seventh? How how else can you explain people
- 6:26Speaker 1: shooting up a Hankka celebration just the other day in Australia.
- 6:30Speaker 1: They are cowards. And by the way, I watched the
- 6:33Speaker 1: entire video, not of people dying, because I didn't I
- 6:36Speaker 1: don't have that in me. But I watched them on
- 6:38Speaker 1: the bridge with their bolt action rifles that they're obviously
- 6:42Speaker 1: allowed to have in Australia. I thought that Australia banned
- 6:45Speaker 1: all rifles, and I'm like, oh, how did these guys
- 6:47Speaker 1: get them? And just they looked like they were military
- 6:50Speaker 1: trained and they were just firing shot after shot after
- 6:53Speaker 1: shot at defenseless people. I don't know if you if
- 6:57Speaker 1: your daughter's father carries a gun or not. I don't
- 6:59Speaker 1: know the situation in Australia, but I do know this
- 7:02Speaker 1: here in Texas, where I live. They would not have
- 7:04Speaker 1: been able to do it for eleven minutes. They would
- 7:07Speaker 1: have been dead way before eleven minutes, and not by
- 7:10Speaker 1: the end of a gun of a cop necessarily. I've
- 7:13Speaker 1: got five guns are in fifteen feet from where I'm
- 7:15Speaker 1: talking to you. Their mine. I'm allowed to have them.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Somebody were to attack my studio, and trust me, they'd
- 7:21Speaker 1: like to, They're not going to get very far. Why
- 7:24Speaker 1: wasn't anybody able to stop the attack within eleven freaking minutes.
- 7:30Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great question, and it's one that a
- 7:32Speaker 2: lot of Australians are asking as well. So the police
- 7:34Speaker 2: have handguns. Hunting guns are allowed, so you can get licenses.
- 7:39Speaker 2: So these guys had hunting guns. And again I make
- 7:43Speaker 2: the point when someone's son is investigated five years ago
- 7:48Speaker 2: for links to Islamic state post that this bloke was
- 7:53Speaker 2: given six guns. I just can't. So that is an issue, absolutely,
- 7:59Speaker 2: But you're right. The other issue is nobody else had
- 8:01Speaker 2: a gun to try and protect these kids and to
- 8:03Speaker 2: try and protect people. And you know, this is an
- 8:05Speaker 2: age old debate. Police will wait for an investigation to
- 8:09Speaker 2: come through, but a lot of people have been very critical.
- 8:12Speaker 2: I also know a lot of people who are in
- 8:13Speaker 2: the police force who are saying, no, they did their
- 8:15Speaker 2: best with what they had and they were brave. So
- 8:17Speaker 2: it's a really it's a tough thing to kind of
- 8:20Speaker 2: come down hard on until we see the entire picture
- 8:23Speaker 2: the two cowards. As you mentioned, when I first saw
- 8:25Speaker 2: those images, Joe, and I'd put the TV on mute
- 8:28Speaker 2: when i'd come inside because I didn't want my little
- 8:30Speaker 2: girl to kind of hear the commentary. She's now at
- 8:32Speaker 2: an age where she can kind of understand and grasp it.
- 8:35Speaker 2: And I assumed, not even for a second did I
- 8:38Speaker 2: think they were the gunment. I thought they were police
- 8:41Speaker 2: who would come in or like undercut or something. Do
- 8:44Speaker 2: you know why, because as you said, they looked so calm,
- 8:48Speaker 2: and they looked so good, and they looked like they
- 8:50Speaker 2: were so in control and they knew what they were doing.
- 8:53Speaker 2: When I use the word good like good good gunment like,
- 8:57Speaker 2: as in they were experiencing they were how they look
- 9:01Speaker 2: to me, I just was seeing and I assumed they
- 9:04Speaker 2: were they were looking down to attack the gunman that
- 9:07Speaker 2: you know that the terrorists. And then it was only
- 9:09Speaker 2: after a while I went, oh, Lord, and realizing this
- 9:12Speaker 2: is in real time, as in the situation is not over.
- 9:15Speaker 2: This is in real time. They're still going. How are
- 9:17Speaker 2: they still going? How has no one taking them out?
- 9:19Speaker 2: They're still going? And then you know, afterwards you find
- 9:22Speaker 2: out they went to the Philippines just recently last month,
- 9:25Speaker 2: so you know, which is a terrorist hot spot. They
- 9:28Speaker 2: go there to train them. So and the other issue, Joe,
- 9:31Speaker 2: that you know you see in some situations when there's
- 9:35Speaker 2: a civilian or someone who's doing a shooting or committing
- 9:39Speaker 2: a crime, and they look nervous and they're fearful and
- 9:42Speaker 2: they're scared, and you know, this is a new thing
- 9:44Speaker 2: for them. With them, they don't and this is issue.
- 9:46Speaker 2: This is why you can't not call it out for
- 9:48Speaker 2: what it is, which is Islamic extremism. For them, you know,
- 9:52Speaker 2: they're cowards, absolutely. They were cowering behind a concrete wall.
- 9:56Speaker 2: As you know, kids were running and being shot. When
- 9:58Speaker 2: they felt under threat, they cower, but they weren't afraid
- 10:01Speaker 2: of dying. They only were protecting themselves to try and
- 10:04Speaker 2: keep going for as long as possible to kill as
- 10:06Speaker 2: many people. This is what this Islamic extremism terrorism does.
- 10:11Speaker 2: They don't fear consequences. So they're tenfold more terrifying and
- 10:15Speaker 2: more dangerous than any other type. And again I said
- 10:17Speaker 2: that they just looked calm, They didn't look panicked.
- 10:21Speaker 1: They didn't and they were highly trained, as you said,
- 10:23Speaker 1: they weren't panic because, as you said, they wanted to
- 10:25Speaker 1: kill as many as they could because they thought that
- 10:27Speaker 1: was the right thing to do. That's how much.
- 10:30Speaker 2: And they die.
- 10:31Speaker 1: This Islamic extreme is garbage. And they went and got
- 10:35Speaker 1: their seventy two virgins. By the way, they're running in
- 10:38Speaker 1: hell now or the one who died? Did they both died?
- 10:40Speaker 1: Did just the one day?
- 10:41Speaker 2: No? Only one. One's just okay, So.
- 10:43Speaker 1: He's in hell. They're no virgins waiting for him. So
- 10:46Speaker 1: and by the way, it's Erin Mullin, m l an
- 10:48Speaker 1: go follow her everywhere Erin Underscore Mollin over on YouTube
- 10:52Speaker 1: and unbelievable channel that she does. Let me ask about
- 10:55Speaker 1: the setup to the event that happened that day, obviously
- 10:58Speaker 1: a celebration the start of Hanukkah. Did everybody know this
- 11:01Speaker 1: was going to happen, because I understand thousand people or
- 11:03Speaker 1: more were there. Did the whole community know this was
- 11:06Speaker 1: going to happen? Was as widely advertised, and if so,
- 11:09Speaker 1: as a follow up, why the hell you know didn't
- 11:12Speaker 1: And again, I don't want to call your police out.
- 11:14Speaker 1: I'll just call the government out, who seems to be
- 11:16Speaker 1: backward to me in many ways in Australia. Did they
- 11:20Speaker 1: do even the smallest thing to bring some protection knowing
- 11:24Speaker 1: Jews are in the in the cross heirs right now.
- 11:28Speaker 2: It's a great question. And look at and again I say,
- 11:30Speaker 2: every single person who is in a role of authority,
- 11:34Speaker 2: or if it is your job, if your police, if
- 11:35Speaker 2: your government, if you're you know, in the department, there
- 11:39Speaker 2: will be an investigation and if you have not done
- 11:41Speaker 2: your job for whatever reason, then you absolutely must be
- 11:44Speaker 2: held to account. So you know, in fact, a lot
- 11:46Speaker 2: of people are getting in, you know, being shamed for
- 11:49Speaker 2: asking questions. That's our job. We're meant to ask questions.
- 11:52Speaker 2: So you're absolutely right. And when the investigation occurs and
- 11:56Speaker 2: we look at everything, I have no doubt there will
- 11:59Speaker 2: be failings. Of course failings. There's fifteen people dead. And
- 12:02Speaker 2: regarding this event, you know, I was invited to it,
- 12:06Speaker 2: so I knew that it was on. But like a
- 12:08Speaker 2: lot of things in this community, you have to keep
- 12:10Speaker 2: it quiet. You have to keep it private. I'm speaking,
- 12:12Speaker 2: I was speaking at the equivalent event and I still am.
- 12:15Speaker 2: It's still on on Sunday for the end of Hunniker.
- 12:17Speaker 2: I'm the guest speaker, and it was a bit meant
- 12:19Speaker 2: to be a big event outside in the city. They're
- 12:21Speaker 2: now doing a lot of things to change that and
- 12:23Speaker 2: to kind of but again, you know, you can't say
- 12:26Speaker 2: where it is, you can't say what time it is,
- 12:28Speaker 2: you can't do this. You know, it's all like that
- 12:30Speaker 2: is insanity in Australia that we even have to live
- 12:33Speaker 2: that way. So look, a lot of people in the
- 12:35Speaker 2: community would have known that it is on, and there's
- 12:37Speaker 2: a lot of It's so interesting in this kind of
- 12:40Speaker 2: WhatsApp group space where I'm part of a lot of
- 12:42Speaker 2: different groups or vast majority of them in the Jewish space,
- 12:48Speaker 2: and often things are shared from groups that are people
- 12:51Speaker 2: who wish to harm yous and they get this information
- 12:54Speaker 2: and they share it in their WhatsApp groups, so it
- 12:57Speaker 2: always leaks out. So people would have known absolutely, And look,
- 13:00Speaker 2: they always do things at Bondai. I've been to three
- 13:02Speaker 2: Jewish events at that exact spot over the last say
- 13:06Speaker 2: ten months. I've been to a friend's sons bar Mitzvah
- 13:09Speaker 2: at the building next door. I take my child to
- 13:10Speaker 2: that park often. It's renowned for you know, it's an
- 13:15Speaker 2: area where a lot of Jewish people live and a
- 13:17Speaker 2: lot of Jewish people would go to celebrate things like
- 13:19Speaker 2: Hahneka for those of.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Us who don't know. And Aaron, thanks for spelling all
- 13:23Speaker 1: that out. It's Aaron molland by the way, m or
- 13:26Speaker 1: La n for those who don't know. And I don't know.
- 13:28Speaker 1: I've never been to Australia. Explain Bondai Beach. It sounds beautiful.
- 13:32Speaker 1: Of course, a horrific event happened there, but it sounds
- 13:35Speaker 1: like one of those places you'd like to visit, you know,
- 13:37Speaker 1: in your lifetime. Just tell me the geography of it,
- 13:40Speaker 1: the tobography of it. Just what is Bondai Beach If
- 13:43Speaker 1: I didn't know.
- 13:44Speaker 2: So it's I mean, it's bucket list, it's you know,
- 13:47Speaker 2: you look at the different places in Australia that are
- 13:50Speaker 2: renowned that they use in tourism ads, et cetera, et cetera.
- 13:52Speaker 2: The harbor Bridge Opera House, Bondai Beach is always the
- 13:55Speaker 2: beach and it's it's iconic and it's full of tourists.
- 13:59Speaker 2: It's full of people from all over the world. It's
- 14:01Speaker 2: full of locals, it's full of Jews, it's full of Muslims,
- 14:04Speaker 2: it's full of Hindus, it's full of Christians. It's a
- 14:06Speaker 2: melting pot because it is such a tourist hot spot.
- 14:10Speaker 2: It's in the east of Sydney, and the space specifically
- 14:15Speaker 2: for people to understand. So most of your listeners and
- 14:18Speaker 2: viewers would have seen the two men up on that bridge,
- 14:20Speaker 2: and I'll explain the kind of area around there. So
- 14:23Speaker 2: there's a car park behind that bridge connects the kind
- 14:26Speaker 2: of the walkway behind the car park and it takes
- 14:30Speaker 2: you over a car park to get to this kind
- 14:32Speaker 2: of grassy knoll that is just before the beach. So
- 14:35Speaker 2: directly straight across from that bridge where they were standing,
- 14:37Speaker 2: there's a big children's park. On the right, there's a
- 14:40Speaker 2: building that's used for a lot of Jewish events. On
- 14:42Speaker 2: the left is a big flat grass space. There's about
- 14:45Speaker 2: a meter drop and you're basically on the sand of
- 14:47Speaker 2: Bondai and that's the beach there. So these cowards, when
- 14:51Speaker 2: you think about the position they were in, I mean,
- 14:53Speaker 2: no one had a chance, you know, no one had
- 14:56Speaker 2: a chance where they were positioned. It was almost like
- 14:59Speaker 2: you in a cage. You No, it's just just horrific.
- 15:02Speaker 2: But it's it's renowned for joy and happiness, an Australia Day.
- 15:06Speaker 2: It's a massive, big day that you often see Australian
- 15:09Speaker 2: flags there upon thy beach. People are proud of it.
- 15:12Speaker 2: It's something that the people travel all over the world
- 15:14Speaker 2: to come and see. It's there's bars, there's restaurants, there's shops.
- 15:19Speaker 2: It's and again a melting pot. It's a it's a
- 15:21Speaker 2: highly popular tourist destination that now has been stained and
- 15:25Speaker 2: will be stained for I don't know for how long.
- 15:29Speaker 1: It's so it's so horrible what happened. I appreciate you
- 15:31Speaker 1: telling me about the beach. I didn't know much about it.
- 15:32Speaker 1: I think a lot of people here saying Bondi Beach.
- 15:34Speaker 1: To be honest with you, because a Pam Bond here
- 15:36Speaker 1: Attorney General. It's Aaron Molin Go to erin Underscore molin
- 15:39Speaker 1: over on YouTube. Go follow her on Excess World. Do
- 15:43Speaker 1: all of that. She's a little into the weather right now.
- 15:44Speaker 1: I've been talking for the for the past four days straight. No,
- 15:47Speaker 1: no need to apologize. Let me ask you about how
- 15:49Speaker 1: how pervasive things like this are in Australian. Here's what
- 15:52Speaker 1: I mean. Here in the States, as you know, for
- 15:54Speaker 1: four straight years the Biden administration. It wasn't Biden because
- 15:57Speaker 1: he was he was eating ice cream and using autopen,
- 16:01Speaker 1: but the people who were running that administration for four
- 16:03Speaker 1: years opened our borders. We've got tens, potentially tens of
- 16:06Speaker 1: thousands of terrorists within our borders right now. They just
- 16:09Speaker 1: stop some event that was playing for New Year's even
- 16:12Speaker 1: Los Angeles Pro Palestine group allegedly behind that we had
- 16:16Speaker 1: a guy who was sort of an Afghani ally of
- 16:19Speaker 1: ours shot two National Guards members in the face. One
- 16:22Speaker 1: died in Washington, d C. The day before Thanksgiving. It's
- 16:25Speaker 1: pervasive here. There are enclaves of people who are Islamists
- 16:30Speaker 1: in this country that would like to see Western civilization
- 16:33Speaker 1: go away. What is it like in Australia.
- 16:38Speaker 2: I want to ask you whether or not you think Canada,
- 16:42Speaker 2: the UK and France have been particularly sympathetic to the
- 16:46Speaker 2: plight of the Jews, Western civilization Israel And the answer
- 16:50Speaker 2: is no, absolutely not been. They have taken less than
- 16:55Speaker 2: a handful, if that, of people from Gaza and they
- 16:58Speaker 2: are the worst when it comes to this issue, the
- 17:01Speaker 2: weakest leaders and the worst Australia. Joe has taken over
- 17:06Speaker 2: three thousand. This is just a recent example from Gaza
- 17:11Speaker 2: since October seven, a terrorist state where they voted in hamas.
- 17:16Speaker 2: They are raised to hate and to kill. Make that
- 17:21Speaker 2: make sense. France under Macron, No, the UK under Starmer, No,
- 17:29Speaker 2: Canada under Kearney. Even those leaders who are as weak
- 17:34Speaker 2: as Spinach, I kn't even think they are, just they
- 17:37Speaker 2: are horrific, didn't take in three thousand from Gaza. So
- 17:43Speaker 2: that's just one example. We have been the beneficiaries in
- 17:46Speaker 2: Australia of incredible immigration over the years. We've got, you know,
- 17:51Speaker 2: Greek Australians, Italian Australians, Chinese Australians, Indian Australian who have
- 17:55Speaker 2: come into this country and contributed immensely. They've embraced our
- 17:59Speaker 2: way of life. Yes, they've kept parts of their culture
- 18:01Speaker 2: that are special and their own religions which we love
- 18:04Speaker 2: freedom to do all of that. But they haven't come
- 18:07Speaker 2: here trying to destroy us. They haven't come here trying
- 18:09Speaker 2: to force their beliefs upon us. And they haven't come
- 18:11Speaker 2: here Joe trying to kill us. That to me, is
- 18:14Speaker 2: a good person to bring into your country. Some of
- 18:17Speaker 2: the people we now have in this country that have
- 18:19Speaker 2: been allowed to just absorb this hateful propaganda, who have
- 18:24Speaker 2: watched other people in this nation attack Jews for two years,
- 18:27Speaker 2: who have not been punished and not been held to account.
- 18:29Speaker 2: This ideology is spreading. We've got groups here, We've got more,
- 18:32Speaker 2: some preachers who celebrated October seven. We had people celebrating
- 18:36Speaker 2: it on the steps of the Opera House. Did one
- 18:38Speaker 2: of them pay a price? No, So we have pockets
- 18:42Speaker 2: of people in this country who want to kill us,
- 18:45Speaker 2: who haven't come here and said, this is a great
- 18:47Speaker 2: opportunity for me to raise my kids in the most
- 18:49Speaker 2: incredible country in the world. They've come here and thought,
- 18:52Speaker 2: I want to destroy what this is. And we've had
- 18:56Speaker 2: leadership who has allowed people to come into this country
- 18:59Speaker 2: who wanted to destroy us. Now the number one job
- 19:02Speaker 2: of any government, and I say the same thing about Israel.
- 19:04Speaker 2: It's not even it's not your duty to defend your people.
- 19:06Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. It is. It is your job. It is
- 19:10Speaker 2: your entire point of existence. It's not your right like
- 19:13Speaker 2: you have to This is the thing This is why
- 19:16Speaker 2: we put people in power, like, yes, all the other
- 19:19Speaker 2: stuff can come secondary, sort the economy, blah blah. Keep
- 19:22Speaker 2: us safe, that's it. Don't let people in who are
- 19:25Speaker 2: gonna kill us. Erin.
- 19:27Speaker 1: It's the first job. I'm sure you've heard about what's
- 19:29Speaker 1: happening in Chicago, what's happening in Minneapolis. In the States,
- 19:32Speaker 1: I mean, those people don't think they have to protect
- 19:35Speaker 1: the people in their cities, those governors that don't think
- 19:37Speaker 1: they have to protect the people in their states. It
- 19:39Speaker 1: doesn't Again, Biden for four years didn't think you had
- 19:43Speaker 1: to protect the American people. But here's the question. France
- 19:47Speaker 1: is backward on immigration, but they were smart enough. Same
- 19:50Speaker 1: thing with Canada, same thing with Italy is dumb on immigration.
- 19:55Speaker 1: I think they've done a better job with not taking
- 19:57Speaker 1: as many gosins as you guys have. So so let
- 19:59Speaker 1: me ask you this, what was the sales job? What
- 20:02Speaker 1: was the sales pitched by your leadership? We need three
- 20:05Speaker 1: thousand people in our country that have nothing but hate
- 20:09Speaker 1: for Judeo Christian values and for Western civilization. What did
- 20:13Speaker 1: they say?
- 20:15Speaker 2: Joe, Joe, Joe, Now you've made a rookie era, as
- 20:18Speaker 2: if they asked as if as if they sought our approval.
- 20:24Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yeah, I'm on so.
- 20:27Speaker 2: They did it.
- 20:29Speaker 1: Well, let me stop here because you make me go
- 20:32Speaker 1: to the next point. Because you're right, it was a
- 20:34Speaker 1: rookie question, maybe rhetorical, give me a little credit.
- 20:37Speaker 2: But having said that, because it's such a legitimate question to.
- 20:43Speaker 1: What's going on in the UK. No, you're right. By
- 20:45Speaker 1: the way those watching listening, there's a bit of a delay.
- 20:47Speaker 1: We're not really talking over each other. It takes a
- 20:49Speaker 1: second to get to get to Australia. In the UK,
- 20:53Speaker 1: they pretty much said to the to the residents of
- 20:55Speaker 1: the UK also, But now they've taken it to the
- 20:57Speaker 1: step that if you complain about those shutting down London
- 21:01Speaker 1: Bridge by doing the prayer, you get arrested if you
- 21:03Speaker 1: posted on Facebook or x Are we there in Australia too?
- 21:07Speaker 2: Can Eric?
- 21:08Speaker 1: Can you do what you do without fear of persecution
- 21:11Speaker 1: or not?
- 21:13Speaker 2: Look, I can from that perspective absolutely, I get you know, persecution,
- 21:18Speaker 2: not from government in regards to being arrested. We're not
- 21:21Speaker 2: in the UK yet, but I mean, give us time, Joe,
- 21:24Speaker 2: give us time. I look at what's happening over there
- 21:27Speaker 2: and it's it is insanity and the absolute hypocrisy of
- 21:33Speaker 2: it too. You know, you can come into the UK
- 21:37Speaker 2: if you like, despite the fact that you have celebrated
- 21:40Speaker 2: October seven online and you have said you want to
- 21:42Speaker 2: kill Jews, but god forbid, you're someone who was born
- 21:45Speaker 2: there and you say, I don't want that person who
- 21:48Speaker 2: wants to kill us to come into the country. Go penitentiary,
- 21:51Speaker 2: ten years, you're gone. I mean, it's not even exaggerating. Yeah, yeah, like,
- 21:57Speaker 2: but this is the issue, and this is this is
- 21:59Speaker 2: why people are terrified to fight back and people you know,
- 22:02Speaker 2: you've got on one side, You've got the Islamic extremists
- 22:05Speaker 2: and Joe as you know, because you're in this space too,
- 22:08Speaker 2: and you fight against this as well. That's a somewhat
- 22:11Speaker 2: terrifying prospect being on their radar. Then you've got to
- 22:14Speaker 2: also worry about the people who are charged with keeping
- 22:17Speaker 2: you safe, saying, oh no, you might have hurt someone's
- 22:20Speaker 2: feelings who wants to kill us when you said, when
- 22:24Speaker 2: you say that you don't want Islamic extremists in Australia,
- 22:26Speaker 2: that might have hurt their feelings. And we just can't
- 22:29Speaker 2: afford that because we are an open welcoming nation. I mean,
- 22:32Speaker 2: come on, like it would be parody if someone came
- 22:36Speaker 2: to you, Joe and said, I want to do this
- 22:38Speaker 2: short story or this movie or this series. And this
- 22:41Speaker 2: is what's going to happen. There's going to be a
- 22:43Speaker 2: country and they're going to say we're going to let
- 22:45Speaker 2: all these people who have terrorist ideology into the country.
- 22:47Speaker 2: The people already in the country are going to say, no, no,
- 22:49Speaker 2: we don't want them here because we want to live
- 22:51Speaker 2: and we want to protect our kids. And then the
- 22:52Speaker 2: government says, how dare you you racist bigots? Go to jail.
- 22:56Speaker 2: You'd say, oh, it's just not believable enough. It's a
- 22:58Speaker 2: bit silly.
- 22:59Speaker 1: It could it couldn't be proved. Well, you're you're right.
- 23:04Speaker 2: Wait, they'd say, no, one believe it.
- 23:06Speaker 1: It is. It is Aaron Mullin. Go and follow her
- 23:08Speaker 1: m l A and is her last name, first name Erin.
- 23:10Speaker 1: It's Aaron underscore Molin on socials. Go follow her on YouTube.
- 23:13Speaker 1: She's doing very very well on YouTube. Let me let
- 23:16Speaker 1: let me throw this out there people in this country
- 23:18Speaker 1: because of what happened in Washington, d C. Because of
- 23:21Speaker 1: what's going on in in l A. And thwarting that
- 23:24Speaker 1: that that want to be attacked. People here are saying
- 23:28Speaker 1: out loud, get them out. We didn't vet anybody from Afghanistan.
- 23:32Speaker 1: We didn't vet anybody. God forbid that somebody's here from Gaza.
- 23:35Speaker 1: I don't think they are. Maybe they are, I don't
- 23:36Speaker 1: think so. Uh, but we we aren't vetting anybody for
- 23:39Speaker 1: four years. Now suddenly we're seeing people dying in the
- 23:42Speaker 1: streets because of a strange belief to our land. We
- 23:46Speaker 1: are saying, get them out. Are the people rising up
- 23:49Speaker 1: in Australia saying find these people and get them out,
- 23:52Speaker 1: please say that they.
- 23:52Speaker 2: Are absolutely look not in the kind of numbers that
- 23:56Speaker 2: I would I would prefer, but I think it's I mean,
- 24:00Speaker 2: what risk are you willing to take? And I made
- 24:03Speaker 2: this point off the back of Trump's action, you know,
- 24:06Speaker 2: after one of your latest shootings and involving the Afghanistani.
- 24:09Speaker 2: And I made the point. You know, my dad was
- 24:11Speaker 2: over there fighting. There were incredible people in that country
- 24:15Speaker 2: who helped the Allied forces, who were translators, who were fixers,
- 24:19Speaker 2: who risked their lives to help. And my heart breaks
- 24:21Speaker 2: that we can't help all of them. But that's just
- 24:25Speaker 2: a reality. This suicidal empathy will kill us and Australians,
- 24:29Speaker 2: I think, are the same. Again. We are a welcoming nation.
- 24:33Speaker 2: We love people from all over the world coming to
- 24:36Speaker 2: our country. We need people to come. We're a small country.
- 24:39Speaker 2: But I think Australians are now starting to realize that
- 24:42Speaker 2: actually there's a price you pay if your desire for
- 24:47Speaker 2: empathy and your desire from a government perspective to get
- 24:50Speaker 2: lots of taxes in, and your desire to look like
- 24:52Speaker 2: you're good, decent people somehow becomes a greater pull and
- 24:57Speaker 2: a greater force than your desire to keep people safe.
- 25:01Speaker 2: And that's where we've suddenly landed. I think here in
- 25:03Speaker 2: Australia again, it's not about being racist. Not wanting people
- 25:07Speaker 2: to come in and kill you is not racist. It's
- 25:09Speaker 2: not figurted, it's not Islamophobic, it's none of those things.
- 25:13Speaker 2: It's just sensible. It's common sense. It's survival instinct. Were
- 25:17Speaker 2: human beings. We are wired. The terrorists aren't, clearly, but
- 25:20Speaker 2: we are wired to survive and to fight for survival.
- 25:24Speaker 2: And I just wish that that, you know, urging people
- 25:28Speaker 2: was stronger, and I feel like it will be now.
- 25:30Speaker 2: So yes, we're already saying to people, we've got to
- 25:32Speaker 2: get these people out. You know, in the UAE, in
- 25:35Speaker 2: parts of the Middle East, in Arab nations, you can't
- 25:38Speaker 2: even say a terrorist organization's name. You can't. You can't
- 25:43Speaker 2: hold up a banner or a flag, or you are arrested,
- 25:46Speaker 2: if not worse, they have zero tolerance because they know
- 25:49Speaker 2: who these people are and they know what they're capable of.
- 25:51Speaker 2: Yet here in Australia, why do we think we know better?
- 25:54Speaker 2: In Western nations, we're like, oh, no, freedom of speech. No,
- 25:58Speaker 2: you're waving a terrorist flag, chanting death to Jews. Well,
- 26:02Speaker 2: look you got what you wanted now and you're still
- 26:04Speaker 2: in this country.
- 26:06Speaker 1: What's interesting Eron is is the freedom of speech argument
- 26:10Speaker 1: is a bad one. And here's why it's a bad one.
- 26:12Speaker 1: And we believe in free speech more here in the
- 26:13Speaker 1: United States, I think than anywhere else on earth. It's
- 26:16Speaker 1: a bad argument because my retort is always this, in
- 26:19Speaker 1: nineteen forty three, if a bunch of Germans showed up
- 26:22Speaker 1: on our shore and decided to put on the SS
- 26:25Speaker 1: uniforms and march down Main Street, USA, would we have
- 26:28Speaker 1: allowed it. That's free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom to
- 26:32Speaker 1: bring redress, of course not. It's an enemy force. It's
- 26:36Speaker 1: an enemy force that is literally saying we want to
- 26:38Speaker 1: kill you and your way of life. That's what these
- 26:41Speaker 1: people are doing. When they're flying Palestinian flags or or
- 26:45Speaker 1: Hamas flags, or ISIS flags or is the Islamic State flaw,
- 26:50Speaker 1: whatever the hell it happens to be, the Muslim Brotherhood flags,
- 26:53Speaker 1: they are saying we are here to kill you. That
- 26:56Speaker 1: isn't free speech. That is an attack, is what it.
- 27:00Speaker 2: Is, exactly. And you look at the mandate of any
- 27:04Speaker 2: of these organizations, at their I mean, it's not even
- 27:07Speaker 2: like they're subtle. If they were really clever and hiding
- 27:10Speaker 2: their intentions, we could all wake up the other day
- 27:13Speaker 2: and say, you know what, there's nothing we could have
- 27:15Speaker 2: done because we had no idea they felt this way.
- 27:17Speaker 2: We have no idea that someone inspired by Islamic State
- 27:20Speaker 2: would want to kill us, or somebody funded by the
- 27:21Speaker 2: Muslim Brotherhood would want to kill us. Well, you know what, Joe,
- 27:25Speaker 2: they write it down, they preach it, They told us
- 27:30Speaker 2: a million times over. They have told us what they want.
- 27:33Speaker 2: It is to destroy us, to kill us, to replace us,
- 27:36Speaker 2: and ignorance, Yes, exactly. And then we go, oh, my gosh,
- 27:42Speaker 2: what the hell. No, they're telling us. They're telling and
- 27:45Speaker 2: they're telling us how go in, go in, do it peacefully,
- 27:50Speaker 2: immerse yourself, schools, universities, social media. You know, it's not
- 27:55Speaker 2: it's not that we've suddenly just gone, oh my gosh,
- 27:57Speaker 2: what's going on? We know, but for some reason we're
- 28:01Speaker 2: arrogant enough to think it won't happen to us, or
- 28:03Speaker 2: they're not really serious.
- 28:04Speaker 1: Well, they are serious, They are well, and they keep
- 28:07Speaker 1: on proving it to us, and we keep on saying, oh,
- 28:08Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, you mentioned something earlier that
- 28:10Speaker 1: Australian government said, Hey, maybe it'll help the tax base,
- 28:13Speaker 1: and hey, it'll show that we're really good people. I
- 28:15Speaker 1: don't think the first part is even is even in there.
- 28:17Speaker 1: I think it's all trying to prove to somebody that
- 28:20Speaker 1: we don't have to prove anything to that we're nice people.
- 28:22Speaker 1: Of course we're nice people. We live in civilized societies.
- 28:25Speaker 1: Western civilization is the best that has ever existed, and
- 28:29Speaker 1: they hate it because they don't have the power and
- 28:31Speaker 1: control to force whatever weird belief they have upon us.
- 28:34Speaker 1: So I think it's probably the second. We see a
- 28:36Speaker 1: lot of that in the United States. It's Aaron Mullen. Aaron,
- 28:38Speaker 1: You've given me so much time. I want to finish
- 28:40Speaker 1: with this. If you don't mind, you've got to come
- 28:42Speaker 1: back more often and stop stopped talking me.
- 28:45Speaker 2: Never I know.
- 28:47Speaker 1: Let me, let me, let me ask you this. You're
- 28:49Speaker 1: not Jewish. I'm not Jewish. I'm a Christian person.
- 28:52Speaker 2: I think you're a Christian I am, Katherine.
- 28:55Speaker 1: Why do you fight so hard for Israel? Why are
- 28:59Speaker 1: you okay but being called as I mean? Why is
- 29:01Speaker 1: it that you put yourself in the front and center
- 29:04Speaker 1: to defend these people who's religion you are not a
- 29:07Speaker 1: part of?
- 29:10Speaker 2: Joe, do you know what the best example of why is? No,
- 29:15Speaker 2: tell me what happened on Sunday. Yes, what happened on
- 29:19Speaker 2: Sunday is the best example of my why. And not
- 29:23Speaker 2: just because I'm a human being who cares deeply about
- 29:26Speaker 2: human beings from all different backgrounds, culture's religions. That could
- 29:30Speaker 2: have been me there with my daughter. That they don't
- 29:33Speaker 2: care who they kill, and I knew from day dot
- 29:36Speaker 2: that this kind of evil was not just trying to
- 29:38Speaker 2: destroy the Jews. So yes, I would stand with any
- 29:41Speaker 2: minority group of people who are being attacked by terrorists.
- 29:44Speaker 2: But my stance is also a selfish one, because I
- 29:47Speaker 2: am smart enough to understand that when they drive a
- 29:50Speaker 2: car into a Christmas market in Brussels, they ain't checking
- 29:53Speaker 2: if you're wearing a cross or a star, whether you're Hindu,
- 29:57Speaker 2: whether you're Muslim. They don't care. They want to destroy
- 30:00Speaker 2: us all. So I could see straight away that this
- 30:03Speaker 2: kind of evil ideology was coming for us all. They
- 30:05Speaker 2: might start with the Jews, they might derive more joy
- 30:08Speaker 2: from killing the Jews, but they are happy to wipe
- 30:11Speaker 2: us all out, and that's part of their plan. So
- 30:14Speaker 2: you've got to stand with the side of good versus evil,
- 30:16Speaker 2: and Joe if my country can't look at what happened
- 30:19Speaker 2: on Sunday, because I looked at October seven, and I
- 30:21Speaker 2: knew straight away which side I was on. It was
- 30:24Speaker 2: not complex, and it's not the side of guards and
- 30:27Speaker 2: children versus Israel. They're on the side of Israel. The
- 30:30Speaker 2: guards and children. In my mind, they're innocent children born.
- 30:33Speaker 2: The enemy to them and to Israel is the same.
- 30:36Speaker 2: It is Islamic extremism. I knew straight away the side
- 30:39Speaker 2: of good versus evil. If Australians can't look at what
- 30:42Speaker 2: happened on Sunday, and if the Western world can't look
- 30:44Speaker 2: at that and say which group do I align with more?
- 30:47Speaker 2: A group of innocent people celebrating their faith, peacefully trying
- 30:51Speaker 2: to protect each other, people jumping on top of other people,
- 30:55Speaker 2: giving their lives for others. Or two cowards on a bridge,
- 30:59Speaker 2: male adults with shotguns with rifles shooting people off like animals.
- 31:04Speaker 2: If you can't determine which side more alignce with your values,
- 31:07Speaker 2: then screw you. You don't belong in any Western country.
- 31:12Speaker 1: It's my why as well eron. I think that's why
- 31:13Speaker 1: we hit it off so well and why we get
- 31:15Speaker 1: along so well. I'll finish with this something you know,
- 31:18Speaker 1: but I'll say for the audience's sake as well. On
- 31:20Speaker 1: nine to eleven A lot of Muslims died that day
- 31:23Speaker 1: in those buildings. It didn't matter that there were Jews, Muslims, Christians, atheists,
- 31:26Speaker 1: none of that mattered. Hindu Buddhists, it didn't matter. What
- 31:29Speaker 1: mattered was they wanted mass casualties to scare us into submission.
- 31:34Speaker 1: Something you want allowed to happen to you, something I
- 31:36Speaker 1: want allowed to happen to me. And by the way,
- 31:38Speaker 1: when they kill Muslims, they say it's okay. They're going
- 31:40Speaker 1: to go straight to the right hand of Allah. It's
- 31:42Speaker 1: okay if they die during our mission, which of course
- 31:44Speaker 1: is nuts. As you said, it's not sane to allow
- 31:48Speaker 1: this to happen and not raise your voice and say something.
- 31:50Speaker 1: You've got a major voice, not only in Australia, but
- 31:52Speaker 1: you're globally. You're growing every single day. Thank you for
- 31:55Speaker 1: being out in front of this, and thank you so
- 31:56Speaker 1: much for your friendship and for coming on today.
- 31:59Speaker 2: You are a legend, and I know that your audience
- 32:01Speaker 2: loves you already. But if I can just say, I've
- 32:03Speaker 2: met so many people in this industry over twenty years
- 32:06Speaker 2: in media, you are one of the most genuine, passionate,
- 32:10Speaker 2: best broadcasters I've encountered, and the most supportive of other broadcasters.
- 32:14Speaker 2: And let me tell your audience that is rare. That
- 32:17Speaker 2: is extremely rare. So you should value this bloke that
- 32:20Speaker 2: you get to listen to every day. They're very lucky
- 32:22Speaker 2: to have you as am I as ore. We thank you, Joe.
- 32:25Speaker 1: Honored so much erin thank you so much. I can
- 32:27Speaker 1: say exactly the same. Your way, people like you could
- 32:30Speaker 1: easily blow somebody like me off and the fact that
- 32:34Speaker 1: you're mutually supportive not only of me, but of other
- 32:36Speaker 1: broadcasters as well. It just means that you are so
- 32:38Speaker 1: secure in what it is that you're doing and you
- 32:40Speaker 1: want more people to do it the right way as well.
- 32:42Speaker 1: Erin thanks a million, make rest your voice for a
- 32:44Speaker 1: second of your kennel and come back on against you.
- 32:46Speaker 2: Okay, I'd love to.
- 32:49Speaker 1: You're amazing, all right. That's it for Unshaken and Not
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