Gardai Seize Porn - What About Real Crime?

JupiterKid

It's not as if there's nothing for the Gardai to do what with crime, especially violent crime soaring, but a friend emailed me today telling me that the Gardai raided all the sex shops in Dublin to seize their porn videos.

Article here:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0919/dvd.html

Now correct me if I'm wrong but what the hell in the year 2008 are the Gardai doing seizing porno DVDs from Sex shops? Yes, by all means crack down hard on child porn but adult videos? Seriously what bloody decade are we in? :mad:

Since when does the censor determine what fully grown adults can and cannot watch as entertainment? It's embarrassing.

Despite big changes in recent years, let's face it: Ireland is in many ways still a pretty backward country...:(

Wishbone Ash

I think you missed the word "unlicenced".

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

hah

now all the **** can get a taste of what the stoners have been enduring for decades.

enjoy it, bastards.

Kiera

Afraid you wont get anymore porn? You should try this thing called the interweb

JupiterKid

My friend works in a sex shop. It was raided and the Gardai still do this at least once a year. The problem is that porn DVDs can't get a licence in the first place because the censors refuse to classify them, making them illegal.

By law, anyone who purchases, owns or views a porn DVD/video is also a deemed to be a criminal. WTF year are we in anyway? The social backwardness of this country makes me despair sometimes!

Mossy Monk

People buy their porn in sex shops?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

JupiterKid wrote: »

My friend works in a sex shop. It was raided and the Gardai still do this at least once a year. The problem is that porn DVDs can't get a licence in the first place because the censors refuse to classify them, making them illegal.

By law, anyone who purchases, owns or views a porn DVD/video is also a deemed to be a criminal. WTF year are we in anyway? The social backwardness of this country makes me despair sometimes!

If you're buying it when it's easily downloadable, you're doing something wrong.

SV

There isn't enough 'real' crime in Ireland to get the gardas the overtime they crave.

krpc

I wonder how many were caught in the act.

galwayrush

This type of "crime detection" brings in easy money for the state , the more serious stuff costs money.:rolleyes:

JupiterKid

I didn't say I wanted to buy porn for myself. I don't need to for a good reason..:D But if others want to, then why not? I thought this country was supposed to have matured and become more liberal and open-minded?

Surely downloading porn from the internet is also a crime? If any film is "unlicenced" ie not seen by the film censor, then it's completely illegal. Under Irish law it is a crime to download porn. The law is an ass.

Daithi McGee

MistressMord wrote: »

hah

now all the **** can get a taste of what the stoners have been enduring for decades.

enjoy it, bastards.

Feelings of ambition passing them by?

galwayrush

i-bloodhound wrote: »

I wonder how many were caught in the act.

Sticky subject.:P

Terry

I was in tesco earlier today and saw some DVD's for sale. Not porn.
I wondered who buys DVD's these days.

Dennis the Stone

I buy my child porn from Tesco, it's slightly cheaper there than in HMV

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Tago Mago wrote: »

I buy my child porn from Tesco, it's slightly cheaper there than in HMV

every little helps

Galvasean

What are those 'movies' they have in Tower Records? Ah yes, 'erotic feature films'. :pac:

This is an absolute disgrace. Like has already been said the Irish film industry refuses to give porn a rating so wtf can the shop owners do!?

The corrupt state is quite happy to take VAT though funnily enough from the shops involved. For what? for something they will steal anyway? I say **** our backwards system. Complete and total hypocrites we have.

Run_to_da_hills

Some of this unlicensed stuff could contain footage of underage teens posing as adults. Technically speaking it can be classed as underage XXX

ejmaztec

If you see a guard wandering around in a few days, with bloodshot eyes and callouses on his hand, you'll know he was on the team.

Terry

ejmaztec wrote: »

If you see a guard wandering around in a few days, with bloodshot eyes and callouses on his hand, you'll know he was on the team.

I thought they were all ****.


Note: I do not think cops are ****. They have treated me quite well in the past.

Dennis the Stone

I hope the guards have to sit through hours and hours of hairy Willie O'Dea porn

The guy

ITT: Where do you buy your porn?

ejmaztec

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

every little helps

Their Value range is well worth the money, so I'm told.

Feral Mutant

Hang on

RTE page wrote:

Unlicensed DVDs seized in Dublin

Friday, 19 September 2008 19:44
Gardaí in Dublin have seized unlicensed DVDs with an estimated retail value of up to €400,000.
A total of 7,800 DVDs were recovered following searches of five premises as part of an ongoing operation.
A file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

There's no mention of porn there, have I missed something?

Terry

The guy wrote: »

ITT: Where do you buy your porn?

I don't. I get it free on the internet.

Run_to_da_hills

Terry wrote: »

I don't. I get it free on the internet.

Xtube I guess

ronbyrne2005

The DVDs are unlicencesed as censor thinks they are too graphic. These dvds are licenced and legal everywhere else in Europe and they can be bought from online stores in those countries making a mockery of the censors and gardai's actions.

These are'nt dvds of kids, or underage girls just "Gonzo" Style violent sex films that are legal in USA, UK, most EU.

Porn on dvd has much clearer/better picture quality than watching mpegs and avi's on your PC.

Feral Mutant

Feral Mutant wrote: »

Hang on

There's no mention of porn there, have I missed something?

yes you missed the van load of heroes around South William st earlier for one anyway.

Run_to_da_hills

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

The DVDs are unlicencesed as censor thinks they are too graphic. These dvds are licenced and legal everywhere else in Europe and they can be bought from online stores in those countries making a mockery of the censors and gardai's actions.

These are'nt dvds of kids, or underage girls just "Gonzo" Style violent sex films that are legal in USA, UK, most EU.

Porn on dvd has much clearer/better picture quality than watching mpegs and avi's on your PC.

You can only blame the Catholic Church for that

One would want to be a hard up idiot to buying from these shops, ie e60 to e70 a vid.

Capt'n Midnight

JupiterKid wrote: »

By law, anyone who purchases, owns or views a porn DVD/video is also a deemed to be a criminal. WTF year are we in anyway? The social backwardness of this country makes me despair sometimes!

99% of motorists were measured to break the old 30mph speed limit in urban areas
L drivers aren't allowed out on their own either
most Irish computer users , have copied or used pirated software many through casual copying

Used to be the case that you could sell p0rn until the censor classified it , so they've closed that loophole maybe,

JupiterKid

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

You can only blame the Catholic Church for that

One would want to be a hard up idiot to buying from these shops, ie e60 to e70 a vid.

But that's not the point. It's a matter of principle. This "seizure" of porn and adult films is wasteful, pathetic and sad in this day and age. Ireland is still a pretty backward country. Pretty much everyehere else in the developed world, porn is legal and regulated. But Ireland is too holy for that sort of "carry on". WTF?

Hmmm, let's see:

90% of all primary schools - still run and controlled by religious
Same sex relationships - no legal regonition
Transgender people - no legal recognition
Porn - Illegal
Abortion - Illegal, effectively exported to the UK

Ireland = backward, still a long way to go.

let's not fool ourselves.:(

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

JupiterKid wrote: »

But that's not the point. It's a matter of principle. This "seizure" of porn and adult films is wasteful, pathetic and sad in this day and age. Ireland is still a pretty backward country. Pretty much everyehere else in the developed world, porn is legal and regulated. But Ireland is too holy for that sort of "carry on". WTF?

Hmmm, let's see:

90% of all primary schools - still run and controlled by religious
Same sex relationships - no legal regonition
Transgender people - no legal recognition
Porn - Illegal
Abortion - Illegal, effectively exported to the UK

Ireland = backward, still a long way to go.

let's not fool ourselves.:(

Agreed, but I think it's more the Sunday World than the church that's resposnible for keeping the country that way.

rainbow kirby

Wait wait wait, people actually PAY for porn? :eek:

HouseHippo

Ah they just needed a gud aul pull, i'm sure they'll give it back in the morning

DonkeyStyle \o/

phew I feel much safer now, knowing those porno vids won't get me

o1s1n

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

phew I feel much safer now, knowing those porno vids won't get me

Yep, it's a load off my mind.




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JupiterKid

There's an appalling discrapancy over what the film censor passes and what is not even viewed as it's deemed "unacceptable" by the powers that be. How is it then that a highly graphic film like "9 Songs" will full penetrative sex scenes or the similar "Shortbus" passes uncut whilst pornographic films with similar content are deemed "unlicenced" and therefore illegal?

It's total hypocrisy and a disgrace. But I'm sure the Gardai are delighted at removing this "filth" from the good people of Dublin. God forbid that grown adults can avail of adult entertainment.

Ireland is still considerably behind the rest of Europe in social terms - let's not fool ourselves the reality.

Dragan

JupiterKid wrote: »

There's an appalling discrapancy over what the film censor passes and what is not even viewed as it's deemed "unacceptable" by the powers that be. How is it then that a highly graphic film like "9 Songs" will full penetrative sex scenes or the similar "Shortbus" passes uncut whilst pornographic films with similar content are deemed "unlicenced" and therefore illegal?

The censor is trying to save us from the story lines.

Milky Moo

of course people still buy porn i mean imagine some poor dude down the arsehole of nowhere with a very slow connection waiting for a video to stream on redtube..stopping and starting thats how you would do yourself an injury my friend...and as it was said previously the church doesnt keep this country backwards on these matters people do....

Bob the Builder

Kiera wrote: »

Afraid you wont get anymore porn? You should try this thing called the interweb

been there, done that, got it all over my t-shirt.

gandalf

Ah great after the Army deafness scandal we're going to have the sore wrist and blindness claims from the Gardai !!!!