|
|
Blog Feeds
Anti-Empire
The SakerA bird's eye view of the vineyard
Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international edition
|
Have the gardai been americanised? national |
miscellaneous |
news report
 Tuesday April 08, 2003 21:57 by James Conole conole at eircom dot net
 It appears to me that our peace police have changed. Is it just me, or was there once a time in lovely olde Ireland, when the Gardai Siochana, or the Peaceful police were just "a lovely bunch of lads"? We can now feel safe with police attacking peace marches. Peaceful police attacking peace marches(excuse the irony) is now O.K. We now have a globalised policeforce, one that hits first and asks questions later.But were're the better for it-we have our nice cars and our two holidays- if our peace police need beat some sense into our nations nonconformists,well, To hell with them. |
printable version
Digg this
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Technorati
Facebook
Gab
Twitter
|
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (4 of 4)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Did you just arrive from Mars? Ever hear of the Broy Harriers, or the Heavy Gang?
How would you handle people who intentionally disrupt public roads and access to public buildings by blockading them?
How would you have handled situations recently where "peace" protesters attacked Jews?
Don't blame the Gardai for doing their job. Most of them are very good people who work hard and are underappreciated.
Yes, the Broy Harriers...
...and Special Branch Sergeant Patrick Crinnion, arrested for passing documents to an MI6 agent, John Wyman (who used the cover name "Douglas Smythe")
Two English criminals, Kenneth Littlejohn, a former member of the Parachute Regiment, and his brother Keith, took part in various subversive activities which included bank robberies, kidnapping, bombings, and attacks on garda stations. Their "handler" was MI6 agent John Wyman, who seems to have had unrestricted freedom of movement in the twenty-six counties during the early 1970's. Hardly surprising, since he appears to have had so many members of the gardai passing information to him.
The British had contact with a member of the gardai who they codenamed "The Badger". The Sunday World (3 May 1987) had an interview with him during which he admitted that he was "only one of a string of gardai who did the same thing".
PS
....and I havn't even begun to mention the Heavy Gang....
...(and that's just the political stuff. I havn't mentioned the house in the Prussia Street area either.)
....then there is the affair in Donegal,
....and the Abeylara affair,
....the "Reclaim the Streets" incidents.
I'm sure that is only the tip of the iceberg.
Whatever about all that, If you live in certain working class districts you will be harassed on an ongoing basis, purely as a matter of routine.
...of course, regarding the Heavy Gang affair, if I was to go into detail on that I would be up all night, and all day tomorrow, and tomorrow night as well...