Minister Mc Dowell's speed lasers are not covered by law.

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Tuesday February 15, 2005 21:19

by yet again minister.

Minister Mc Dowell (darling of the IMC ireland team) has f***ed up again.

the 2002 Road traffic Act was meant to stop people hurling themselves at full kilter "speed" as it is technically known, on the high roads and bye roads of Eire in anything more threatening than a milk float (not very original I know but who is these days?)

It is a sad fact, that the vast majority of paraplegics due to accidents in Europe were caused by cars.

Cars are very bad.

Which is why the minister armed the gardaí with LASERs. A handy hip version of the European -Death :Ray as used by the Lula Chavez alliance to save the planet from impending asteroid collision this morning: but cheaper on batteries and obviously a lot easier to use.

but the Minister's Laser gun is not covered by the relevant legislation!

from Radio Telefis Eirinnn-

The Minister for Justice has said it is deeply regrettable that handheld laser speed guns used by gardaí were not adequately covered by the relevant legislation.

Yesterday the High Court ruled that the use of the guns, which do not produce a written or permanent record of the alleged speed, does not meet the requirements set out in the Road Traffic Act 2002.

The ruling means that thousands of prosecutions for speeding could be threatened.

Minister Michael McDowell said he recognised that it was very frustrating for members of An Garda Síochána that the legislature had not given them the law required to make the guns effective.

But he said he hoped the situation had been remedied in subsequent legislation passed last year, which alters the requirements.

Mr McDowell was speaking at the announcement of the appointment of three new Assistant Garda Commissioners - Assistant Commissioner Edward Rock, Assistant Commissioner James Kelly and Assistant Commissioner Martin Callinan.

Assistant Commissioner Rock will assume overall responsibility for the new garda traffic corps.

Addressing the controversy surrounding the laser speed guns, he said what had happened had happened, and he now looked forward to putting policy into practice which would see increased garda visibility and enforcement on the country's roads.

He denied he was facing an uphill struggle in trying to get Irish motorists to change their behaviour.

The new traffic corps will see the numbers of gardaí directly involved in traffic duties climb from 500 to 1,200 over the next two years.

Mr McDowell said the key element of the new traffic corps would be making the public aware that they will face vigorous enforcement of the road safety laws.
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For the moment the Euro DR can not guarantee our old foe, Mikey Mc Do-well the blonde haired aryan - jesuit educated - chief bane of Irish love children born to foreign volker that we can help out with the speed situation of Ireland.

Maybe he should consider more RTS! events and car free days, and even asking the Pope over.

And if the minister can't be trusted with Speed LASERs then he surely can't be trusted with firing electrical prods at your arse at forty paces TASERs.

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Tasers. 2002 law not adequate.

by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethics Please

Mon Feb 21, 2005 21:00

What has happened in Ireland? Everything in government appears to be about traffic and yet effectiveness of legislation misses out on the basics. There are more traffic Gardai and yet the deaths are up.

Did we not learn with the e-Voting system? Millions of euros have been spent and now we have to find 'lodgings' and pay rent for this ingenuity that could never work.

Why? Surely in Ireland where Trust seems to be so low down the scale of priorities, someone in Government ought to have known that taking the vote requires a receipt. We already have Sinn Fein electioneers stating that there could be as many as 2,000 missing voters.......

Verification as proof is our right as citizens of the Island of Ireland. To think that Tasers cannot be issued to this new Traffic Corp team because they don't provide the evidence makes a laughing stock of all concerned.

What is about evidence these days? Our judiciary at least fulfil their contribution to the Separation of Powers and have highlighted that the Tasers are basically 'useless' and thanks to a pro-active President with Legal qualifications, that our Health System has to repay amounts appopriated without the consent of elderly people, psychiatric patients and the more vulnerable members of society.

Jonathan Swift Dean of St. Patrick's circa 1600 said 'Give Vision to the Visionless'
In 2005, a frequents visitor to St. Patricks, I say give Vision to our Government and particularly our Taoiseach, Minister for Justice, Mr. Michael McDowell, and Tanaiste Mary Harney........

gardai bully people to plede guility

by pycrow

Tue Apr 04, 2006 23:40

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IT SEEMS THAT THE KEEPERS OF THE LAW IN THIS COUNTRY USE BULLY BOY TACTICS TO FORCE PEOPLE INTO PLEADING GUILTY, THEY STILL USE LASER SPEED GUNS TO CATCH SPEEDERS ON RURAL ROADS SHOWING THE DRIVER A NUMBER ON A L.C.D. SCREEN WITH NO PROOF THAT IT WAS THEM WHO PRODUCED THE NUMBER! IT COULD OF BEEN THE SPEED THAT A COW HAS A CRAP. I THOUGHT WE HAD A RIGHT TO INNOCENCE UNTILL PROVEN GUILTY!!!!

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