Blue Bloc Starts a riot

by Phuq Hedd Mon May 06, 2002 23:55

Who are these depraved villains? How is it that they've been able to get away with it for so long? And not only that, they're a known organized gang. Something should be done about them.

To all the RTS participants: good party! pity it was spoiled by the criminals.

by potlatch Mon May 06, 2002 23:57

Ho, ho, very funny. How about posting something sensible.

Could someone please tell me whether that blue Fiesta was just some random car or was it brought there by some protesters deliberately?

by Phuq Hedd Tue May 07, 2002 00:07

Why is what was posted "not sensible"? It points out that the violence that happened was initiated by a group of people that initiate violence regularly at public events: the Gardai.

I think that's very sensible to point that out.

So what is it that you disagree with about the report?

by potlatch Tue May 07, 2002 00:38

I thoroughly support RTS but it turns my stomach to read uninformative crap like that. Uh huh huh, "blue bloc" - hilarious.

by ripped trousers Tue May 07, 2002 00:42

I think the article had a point and it was mildly ironic, which is fine. The Gards were well behaved right up until the Dame Street incident and their use of violence has to be highlighted. But yeah, this comment or whatever was just totally uninformative and dumb - if anyone's gonna post anything like that here, please actually inform people of something. After all, it's a news website but boards.ie.

by 8den Tue May 07, 2002 01:39

The blue fiest was a banger purchased with the intention of being trashed, by the RTSers.

It wasn't some passing punters car, but a symbolic gesture.

That being said, the gesture was fucking moronic and it sparked the violence, it was a bleeding stupid thing to do....

by turferino Tue May 07, 2002 02:36

a report on irish independent online describes the crowd as nasty and violent.
however in reality the gardai were swinging in response to the singing of "peaceful protest".

they obviously got the nod from above and rallied each other to "put manners on the hippies", they were on a rampage to achieve maximum bragging rights amongst themselves.

my friend went to help the first poor fella they got on the ground and clubbed, he wasnt violent just trying to clam the mob of gards, he got a club to the head for his efforts, i went in to drag him away and got clubbed, if my granny at 90 years of age had been there she would have got it.
the guards wore no numbers or had any form of i.d they all looked just the same to me. young lads straight out off templemore, with the taste for blood, they were well pumped up and all seemed to be enjoying the rampage.
sleep well
feargal

by monkeybomb Tue May 07, 2002 03:42

It was interesting to overhear the head Gard's telephone conversation today. Him and his ilk simply don't understand, and were completely incapable of comprehending, what was going on. I'm quite sure they were genuinely ill informed about what the RTS event was.

All I can remember the guy saying (even after talking to IMC heads): "there was a bit of a situation earlier on ... there's some kind of an event here, or something". That's 40 years of brainwashing, folks.

by yoker the toker - kraken gaat door! Tue May 07, 2002 12:40

maybe 'potlatch' should stop reading hakim bey and lighten up a bit:

I think 'blue bloc' is a funny play on words:

good to hear the rts thing still happening in dublin and quite typical to see the templemorons vying for a ruck: hows about holding the next one in sheriff street though???