New Psychoactive substances bill basically turns Garda into a tool of intimidation

Hammered hippie

Just read through this new psychoactive bill. Apart from the fact that it competely violates loads of articles of the EU Fundamental Rights Chapter and apart from the potential threats to freedom of speech and press posed by this bill, I cannot escape fromt the impression that it is a bill which legitimises the use of police force as a tool of intimidation.
Basically if a politician doesn't want a shop to exist they can let the Garda know and they then can , without a warrant, raid shops, offices, houses and cars of whomever they see fit.
In short, if you are suspected of suspicious behaviour by our streetwise politicians you are done for.

Hail the new police state

ardmacha

This is a democracy, if you don't like this you can vote for a politician that will repeal this legislation. In fact this has much greater support than almost anything else that FF have done.

Eliot Rosewater

ardmacha wrote: »

This is a democracy, if you don't like this you can vote for a politician that will repeal this legislation. In fact this has much greater support than almost anything else that FF have done.

So the majority get to have a free reign and basically walk over the civil liberties of any given minority? Doesn't sound fair to me. Martin Luther King didn't think so, too.

Prof.Badass

Hey, now people can get prosecuted for "implying" something. Justice all round :rolleyes:.

You have to wonder how much of this will stand up in court though. In a true free country these cases would be thrown out due to lack of evidence (how can you prove beyond all reasonable doubt that someone was implying the exact opposite of what they actually said ).

maccored

it would be fantastic if they end up banning alcohol - http://www.ehow.com/facts_5588807_alcohol-psychoactive-drug_.html

sceptre

Even by the standards of what we've let slide as a convenient outlet valve on this subject, the opening post here (read as "the state of it" at your whim) isn't going to be the genesis of a useful discussion at the standard required in this forum.

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