After an Algerian-born man attempted to stab several children in Dublin last week, a riot kicked off in the center of Dublin. While it was attributed to the “far right,” it mainly consisted of the usual opportunistic lootings. A Foot Locker that had been ransacked in a 2006 riot was, again, looted in this one.

Ireland has a state government, but its society has always been effectively governed by a clerical class (formerly Catholic, now media), while a foreign class extracts the value and money from Ireland (formerly British, now Silicon Valley). That clerical class has gone into overdrive in recent weeks, emphasizing that there is nothing wrong with Ireland’s incredible demographic transformation, only with “the far right” that dislikes it. The Irish Times hastened to note that one of the heroic bystanders in the stabbing incident was a Brazilian immigrant, a man who has already now been honored by the Taoiseach, unlike all the native Irish who also intervened. The Irish Times also hastily mentioned that the alleged assailant was a “naturalized citizen” of Ireland — conveniently burying the fact that he was a habitual criminal, a welfare recipient, and his legal status only came about because the state never enforced deportation orders on him. In fact, the state rarely enforces deportation notices on anyone.

Some estimates have it that 18 percent of the population of Ireland is now foreign-born — a rate higher than even the great waves of migration brought to the United States in the late 19th century, and an absolutely shocking number for a state that struggled with emmigration problems as recently as a decade ago and whose nurses still emigrate to Australia.

That the “far right” has reliably come along to every European country after that country becomes transformed by mass migration — even to Sweden! — seems to have occurred to absolutely everyone in Ireland, except the far right themselves, who have not managed to elect a single person to the Dáil or Seanad.

Nevertheless, the riots have caused the government to go into warp drive to pass their proposed hate-speech laws. Ireland already has laws on the books to stop criminal harassment and laws to stop the incitement of riots. But the proposed hate-speech laws go much, much further, to the point of criminalizing speech that a person has neither uttered nor published. A person could be arrested under these new laws for merely possessing speech, perhaps on his phone, that a judge deems offensive.

Some sources are already reporting that MMA superstar Conor McGregor, who vocally criticized the government’s asylum and refugee policies during the riots, is being investigated by authorities. Interesting times ahead.