Have the gardai been americanised?

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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"?
Sure after the tea, down the road they would go to question some republican sympatiser.
"Ahh go on aur that, ye eejit,will ye tell us were you have hidden da guns?", They'd joke.
"I couldn't be doin that now,sir,sure what would me, a lonely ould man know of guns"? Would be the common reply.
Of course it was all a joke, they already knew the location, but, of course, it passed the time.

And what else had they to do save for the odd assault that sometimes occurred or to interigate some out of towner about his life. Ohh, They were simple times but all's changed,changed utterly, for Globalisation has been born.

In todays dynamic globalised world were terror is at the forefront of everything a much more efficient police service in needed,of course.
People cannot sleep at night for fear of Bin Laden marching down the road with his henchman in a pernicious plot to destroy the local pub.
"No-Go on aur that, not the pub", people scream. "Bin Laden, go on our that, your certainly not welcome in Ballybackward".

So the peaceful police, in light of the treat to our irish lives-DAILY-have had to modernise.

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.

Greed is Good, money's good and obviously terror is bad. Thank God those old days are gone: and you know, I'm glad that I don't know my neighbours name- ARE YOU???

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THE FUCKING WORLD HAS CHANGED!!!!

by .

Wed Apr 09, 2003 10:05

The good old times???

by Long-time Observer

Wed Apr 09, 2003 03:22

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...

How would you handle Die-Ins?

by gargoyle

Wed Apr 09, 2003 02:21

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.

Mars?

by George Plant

Tue Apr 08, 2003 23:18

Did you just arrive from Mars? Ever hear of the Broy Harriers, or the Heavy Gang?

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Have the gardai been americanised?

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