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Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters
Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'
Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home
British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.
Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.
Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,
It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.
[Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.
The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.
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News Round-Up Thu Jul 31, 2025 00:51 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Migration Adds 707,000 People to the Population of England and Wales in Just a YEAR ? The Second Lar... Wed Jul 30, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
707,000 people have been added to the population of England and Wales in just one year ? 98% of them due to net migration ? making it the second-biggest rise in more than 75 years.
The post Migration Adds 707,000 People to the Population of England and Wales in Just a YEAR ? The Second Largest Jump Since 1945 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Masking Our Schoolchildren Was Child Abuse ? A Rare Chance to Stop It Returning Wed Jul 30, 2025 17:00 | Dr Gary Sidley
Thanks to the Declaration of Dumfries, parents now have a real shot at suing councils that unlawfully forced masks on their children ? and at making sure this form of child abuse never happens again, says Gary Sidley.
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Rotherham Police Sexually Abused Us Too, Say Five Grooming Victims Wed Jul 30, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Just when you think the rape gang scandal can't get worse, five Rotherham victims say police officers abused them too ? claims currently being investigated by South Yorkshire Police itself, sparking fears of a whitewash.
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The Online Safety Act is a Censor?s Charter Wed Jul 30, 2025 13:00 | Andrew Doyle
We were assured by Conservative and Labour politicians that the Online Safety Act was designed to protect children. In the last few days, its real, more sinister purpose has become, writes Andrew Doyle.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Fair play to the Shell to Sea supporters in the face of this disgraceful Garda/Branch harrassment. Shell don't even have enough respect to speak to the people in the region of the proposed refinery; rather than show so much deference to those expected to live with environmental devastation, the screws go on anyone who dares to question the wider outcomes (beyond a few jobs) of a refinery onshore, & an experimental-pressure pipeline. Take a look at Shell's poisoned legacy so far in its oil provinces.
A person should not be forced to go to a Garda station or anywhere else against his or her will.
You do not have to go to a Garda station against your will unless you are arrested. The Gardaí can of course ask you to accompany them; you are well within your rights to refuse to do so.
Anyone forced to go to a Garda station without having been arrested has been falsely imprisoned.
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False imprisonment.
15.—(1) A person shall be guilty of the offence of false imprisonment who intentionally or recklessly—
( a ) takes or detains, or
( b ) causes to be taken or detained, or
( c ) otherwise restricts the personal liberty of,
another without that other's consent.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a person acts without the consent of another if the person obtains the other's consent by force or threat of force, or by deception causing the other to believe that he or she is under legal compulsion to consent.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—
( a ) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £1,500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both, or
( b ) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for life.
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All he wanted was hugs and kiss,did not want his photo taken,very shy.
If your taken to a Garda station against your will you HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. Gardai on duty cannot be guilty of false imprisonment within a Garda station, its called unlawful arrest / detention and is dealt with buy way of a Habeas Corpus application. Seriously, you need more than Google to understand the law!
Also, only photographing I see going on is by the protestors not these people, if they even were Gardai to begin with. What proof to support either allegation or comment?
You're absolutely right, there's no evidence that these people are police officers, and they certainly never identify themselves as such.
If you watch the video from which the pictures above come, you'll see they have a big camera with a long lens, but there are probably many reasons why two men would sit in a car at an empty petrol station taking pictures of a protest from a distance, and then threaten to confiscate the camera of someone who approaches and photographs them.
The video is here: http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=48b1WNCbrRU
There is also probably a good reason why the two men in the picture below stood on a corner opposite where some Shell to Sea protesters were meeting, taking pictures and trying their best to blend into the brickwork. Maybe they were just tourists on holiday...
If you have been taken to a Garda station against your will, you have not necessarily been arrested. There's lots of case law in existence that shows this. The most common example is where someone is taken to the station to 'help the Gardaí with their enquiries.' Sometimes when such a person asks if they can leave they are told that they cannot. A good rule of thumb regarding arrest would be: you should be told that you are being arrested and you should be told why. To be arrested under false pretences or without a lawful reason is false arrest. However if you are dragged into a car by some unidentified assailants, this is not false arrest. Secondly, someone pulled from the street, who has not been arrested, has at the very least, been falsely imprisoned. Moreover, to be directed to perform some action under the colour of law (like being told to leave an area) when one is not violating the law is another example of false imprisonment. Neither false arrest nor false imprisonment require that a Garda station be a part of the picture.
A quick scan of my pal Google turned up the following: "The Sunday Tribune recently reported that in the year 2002 one million euro will be paid by the state in out-of-court settlements to dozens of people who are suing the Gardai for false arrest or imprisonment, assault and malicious prosecution. Six million euro has been paid out in compensation over the past five years for breach of citizens' rights by Gardai. Cases settled out of court are not reported and plaintiffs sign confidentiality agreements, so such matters conveniently do not reach the papers. In addition to the 6 million euro paid out to citizens abused by Gardai, the taxpayer also the pays the costs of compensation for Gardai injured while on duty. Currently 1,500 Gardai (14% of the force) are suing the State for such compensation and the final cost is expected to top 80 million euro, which works out as an average payout of 40,000 euro per individual guard." http://www.fourthwrite.ie/mags1.html It's a bit old, but my point is made. Fair enough, this example cites the civil action of 'false imprisonment,' it stands to reason, that if a Garda can be sued for 'false imprisonment' that this Garda is capable of committing the crime of 'false imprisonment.' Three cheers for Google! The rest of the piece is well worth a read to get an idea of the scope of charges that can be brought against Gardaí who act in a criminal fashion. Strangely enough, despite the fact that many have successfully sued the State and the Gardaí for the criminal actions of the Gardaí, it's rare indeed that a Garda be prosecuted for the crime that the State has already compensated someone for. Wanna bet this'll change in the near future? Google 'private prosecution.' And note that for serious charges, it's the duty of the DPP to do the prosecuting.
Anyone can be guilty of false imprisonment, including on duty Gardaí. Say for example, a Garda abducts a young child, is this false arrest? I don't think so, not by a long shot. Of course false imprisonment charges would be the least of this Garda's legal worries.
Habeas Corpus is only useful to obtain one's release, it does not deal with those who've acted unlawfully. Also it would be a tad unusual to say the least, for someone in Garda custody, who had not been arrested, to apply for Habeas Corpus.
I think some Gardaí et al would have a better knowledge of their duty if they checked out Google every now and then, rather than making it up as they go along.
The video has been removed from YouTube.com for some reason. It's still available here-
He's called detective Alcock and he's in the Special Detective Unit. He is in with those that appear on this website:
http://www.trust-us.ch/cryptome/01-Cryptome-061213/spec...h.htm
Why they think its worth their while harassing S2S is a question above my pay grade.