Armed Gardai and the Lusk Situation

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Monday October 29, 2007 10:15

by Reductio ad Absurdum

Anyone notice the Press Silence?

On the second of October 2007 a complaint was received at the coroner's court about the
alledged use of lethal force by members of the armed ERU in relation to the shootings
at lusk P.O. The Coroner Brian Farrell decided to press ahead with the inquest to bring in
Verdict on the deaths of the two men. Interestingly not much has happened on the media
in the ensuing 26 days. is it suppression?
The Gardai want to arm the plod- GRA press-released yesterday.

The Lusk inquest had:

1.A screen to protect ERU identity.
2.Forensic evidence about how many bullets were discharged and whose weapons were use (ERU).

In the context of democracy, I would suggest that arming regular Gardai is the worst Idea
I have heard. Ineptitude of the highest political order has accompanied what is a hierarchy
riddled with difficulties. We have armed ERU, they want SWAT, and Branch is armed.
One of the indices of failure is refusal to deal with issues in an independent manner and this
has accompanied the Abbeylara failure, the Morris Failure and the drunken officer with gun outside the
US embassy (discharging his weapon). It is difficult enough to not laugh at the way the State
spends money monitoring and suppressing political dissent whilst allowing for the rise of
drug gangs than to even imagine ordinary Gardai- already scaring kids in bullet -proof vests
with guns clenched to their thighs.

*GRA is asking for phased introductions of arms.
*The Ombudsman is not independent and therefore Brutality or alleged brutality is covered by
law= no justice.
*The GRA wants to go to East Europe to recruit Gardai whilst ignoring the kids on the sink
estates in Ireland who might benefit from a bit of arms training.

And all the time there is no State response to what is in effect a strong , possibly armed
State within a State with high priced legal and are a law onto themselves-

I would suggest that if anyone has difficulty with my rant , that they look into how the GRA
fought for the right not to be 'grouped' in relation to the RTS defence and almost all of them
who mobbed unarmed pacificsts got off- and imagine the feckers with guns in their hands
and itchy trigger fingers. Weapons are failure and the GRA has been speaking to the Gun
lobby.