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"?
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???