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Jump To Comment: 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Qoute from Josef:
"BTW, you're trying to defend the regime of Saddam by doing this. I hope you can all sleep at night, going around doing what you're doing."
.....WTF??
Only they thought they would provoke some of the crowd into reacting, by using OTT tactics and being generally violent and aggressive.
I witnessed one protester in a minor scuffle withe three riot police. The protesters were completely peaceful, the only other incident I heard of that could be described as agressive was when an elderly lady who was part of the protest threw her banner at the police obviously in complete anger and disgust at what she was witnessing!
They can't have sent out the riot police for the craic! They obviously knew there would be muppets there who were going to try and hijack the protest.
I didn't see any tear gas, battons, plastic shields etc, it wasn't PSNI tactics so stop whinging!
The Guards once again appeared annonymously last night outside the Dail, just as they did on the March last May for Reclaim the Streets.
I phoned the Garda Press Office this morning, all guards when on duty MUST display their ID numbers. However, the riot outfits that they are allocated have no way of attaching their numbers. Therefore they effectively operate in secrecy as there is no way of identifying them unless you recognise their faces.
Twice in one year? Currently there 2 seperate tribunals investigating the Guards. Will they never learn or have some respect for the citizens they are supposedly protecting?
The Minister for Justice said they broke their own laws by appearing without their ID. Let's not leave it at that, you can make a complaint about this behaviour at any Gardai Station or to the Gardai Compaints Board, either in person or in writing to Block 1, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1.
Demand an answer, let them know we are keeping our own records on them. Ask questions...ask questions.......ask questions.
Well now, it was good to C Joe making a stand (or a sit down) last night.
i could drag up the past and say it was a pity Joe didnt do the same on March 1st, but i'll leave the past to fools like "red hot trot".
fair play to Joe.
as for my virtual warrior, well isnt it better to see aidan & myself at peace rather than at war?
strictly platonic , i hasten to add.
Hope you can sleep in your bed Josef, after watching iraqi men, women and children begging and clawing desperately at troops distributing aid. Iraqi men, women and children had water, food, electricity and homes before the so called 'liberators' arrived, since our troops 'liberation' of Iraq.Iraqis are all starving, dying of thirst and hunger and living in rubbles that once were their homes. Its our aid agencies Oxfam, save the children etc who have to pick up the pieces of iraqi peoples lives. Who have to try and fix the destruction caused by troops. There was no need for this war, to go in and disrupt and destroy thousands of iraqi civillians homes and water supplies. So don't complain if theres a sharp tax rise, afterall you wanted to 'liberate' the iraqis didn't you. So you'd better be prepared to fork out the cash to rebuild their homes, water and electricity supplies.
so f**k off you asshole and go tear down someone else's wall in cyberspace - and yes I have given Joe shit about that stupid obnoxious speech to his face and at least he has the courtest to drop the subject and not harp on about it like the speech was some great victory for the SP
Gwan Pat C ask the hard questions! And don't you think you and aidan are making are making a bit too free with the love in. Its making me nauseous.
Pat C et al who were attacking Joe about describing some as 'virtual warriors' hope you saw Irish Times and Irish Examiner front pages!
Just got back from Pearse St garda station where I was arrested for a Breach of the PEACE. How ironic.
I was sitting on the ground at the last gate that was lining the middle of the demo. Got pulled off the ground by riot police and arrested, while most other people were just let go. I didn't even put up any resistance, just let them pull me away and I was the only person I seen arrested.
Your job is to believe what you're told to believe, accept what you're told to accept, and do (or don't do) exactly what you're told.
Understand?
Fifteen years ago when authority told that Saddam was a friend and ally you went with that line too.
(Not even the aggressors in this war say that their motivation is a concern for the human rights of Iraqi's. That's fodder to get the mob and the authority freaks like yourself on board. And I have yet to meet the anti-war protestor that sees Saddam Hussain as anything more than a monster).
Go bay for some blood like you're told!
Our day is come Josef. If you like war so much why ar'nt you in Iraq with those whom you extol so much. You are just one more armchair hypocrite!
Just more silly nonsense from students and champagne socialists. You people represent nobody. BTW, you're trying to defend the regime of Saddam by doing this. I hope you can all sleep at night, going around doing what you're doing.
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riotcops have - after some form of negotiation moved off - still hundreds keeping up blocade on Buswells Street Both ends and at front gate - mood describet to me as ebullient
riotcops have - after some form of negotiation moved off - still hundreds keeping up blocade on Buswells Street Both ends and at front gate - mood describet to me as ebullient
hope the vid lads got some good footage for the gcb.