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While the corporate media froths and sputters over fantasy foreign "armies of anarchists" invading Irish soil and overstretching the "young inexperienced Gardai" a full scale invasion is taking place with the assistance of the government, the Gardai and the airport authorities at Shannon.
Thousands of US troops (and probably munitions) are passing through Shannon every month. Plane-spotter extraordinaire Tim Hourigan is the only reason that we are aware of this: in this latest report taken from the newswire he details his latest spotting and the petty harrassment of him by a secret police goon and Garda who managed to obtain a banana skin from him. NUJ journalists could learn something about ethics and originality in reporting from Tim.
"Went out to Shannon yesterday following reports of military traffic. Saw plenty, and got a rude visit from a cocky detective.
3 ATA planes carrying troops for the military and 2 USAF Hercules. One had been there since noon on Saturday and the other probably stayed over last night, after depositing a number of passengers."
So a Video (punctuated by visuals of scaremongering 'riot' newspaper headlines on the subject of planned protests on Mayday) posted on this site becomes front page news in the Irish Examiner. Strange days indeed. Here's what the maker of the Video had to say about the video in question on the newswire a few days ago. The journalist concerned - Juno McEnroe of the Irish Examiner - obviously read this. The ironies are multiple:
By Maydayer Wednesday, Mar 31 2004, 9:08pm: "It was a piss-take, a bit of fun. Propaganda can work both ways. It was meant to show how silly (and frightening) the whole thing is. I am sure most Indymedia viewers are smart enough to see what’s going on. Using the media to create fear as justification for violence - that’s what I said in the video. As for attracting "extreme elements" of whatever the cops are calling peace protesters or environmental activists - I think the corporate media has already done a good job of that.
The only thing this video advertises is peaceful protests like Critical Mass and RTS.
Not one stone let alone one petrol bomb has ever been thrown at a (anti-War / Globalisation) protest in Ireland - It is not the Irish protesters who are arming themselves to the teeth and training for violence is it? Lets look at the facts and look behind the propaganda lie machine. Any violence on Mayday if there is any will likely come from the State against the protesters, the Government is running scared - every day now they make another announcement escalating and militarising the situation. As for the video - tongue in cheek ;) stay tuned for many more..."
Continue at link below for info on the latest Scare Story and an analysis (from an Irish Imcer) of how Juno McEnroe helped the Irish media eat its own Shit .
From the newswire:
In the wake of last year's successful Campaign for a Free Education (CFE) something of a ‘new bloom’ of student activism has sprouted up in Universities and Colleges across the country carrying with it an enormous amount of dissatisfaction with and opposition to the direction in which the Irish Education system is currently being steered.
Exemplary of such activism was the recent inaugural sitting of the Irish Education Forum (IEF) and its subsequent plan of ‘building an alternative’ to the threat of privatisation. The IEF is a vital foundation stone in the formulation of a response to the very imminent reintroduction of College fees and the subsequent privatisation of third level education. Continue to a full report on the Irish Education Forum >>
FROM THE NEWSWIRE:
Early copies of Saturday's Independent reveal that Ireand's biggest selling daily has compounded the media hysteria that is building up around planned protests for Mayday. The Independent is only the latest paper to join in the frenzy, in the wake of an anonymous smear campaign in the tabloids which sought to link protestors to terrorism and football hooligans.
The Independent headline seems to include a revealing Freudian slip. It reads "Riot troops drafted in to put down EU protestors." So apparently protestors are going to be "put down". I wonder if it will be by lethal injection? Presumably the sensationalising editor meant to write - "put down protests" - but the mistake sums up what sections of the media in cahoots with elements in the Gardai and Government are attempting to do to the right to protest.
All of the media reporting about Mayday so far has concentrated almost exclusively on the "violent" protestors. No evidence is presented of a real risk of violence, nothing beyond a few pictures from an Italian city of "the type of violence that could occur in Dublin". The stories focus on the resources the Gardai are going to need to quell the violence. Barely a mention is made of the reasons that people are protesting. No questions are asked about why the government feels the need for thousands of police to protect itself from protestors.
This type of reporting creates a state of fear. The tabloids build up a picture of protesters as violent thugs, football hooligans and skinheads. They constantly emphasise how stretched the Gardai will be and the need for extraordinary repressive measures against this terror. All of this is presented without any evidence and based on quotes "from a website", but who expects evidence from a tabloid?
The respectable broadsheets weigh in with tales of garda preparedness. They are lighter on the lurid details about violent thugs, but the assumption that the repressive measures are needed is never questioned. We are told how "International police forces are supplying vital intelligence to Garda headquarters in the Phoenix Park on the movements of known anarchists and troublemakers." We are told about the sudden appearance of a dedicated force of 1,200 newly trained riot cops with "new riot gear" and "water cannons".
A state of fear is created in the hope that the citizenry will accept the state repression of protests with force. In all of this coverage the organisers have not had a voice at all. No chance to defend themselves in the face of a massive scare story. The corporate media is creating the climate for repression.They are trying to drive people away from protests and creating the climate where the police can smash the protests with force. It's not really that surprising; the corporations who control commercial media would be expected to react like that to those who attempt to stand up to them.
The Independent also report that they are considering erecting a fence around Farmleigh! At least it shows that they are worried. At least somebody is making them worried. The union leaders have bowed to their master and called off their Mayday lest they inconvenience the state. The Trots will be listening to minor pop-stars. These scares are all the more reason to get out on Mayday with the Grassroots.
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