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Is protest allowed in our vibrant "democracy"?

  • 15-05-2011 8:37am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭


    Will the west brit fifes allow peaceful protest on the day and days after that their master comes to view them?. Or will they be too busy clutching their shirts and tugging their forelocks!?.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,253 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Is just one day without this stuff too much to ask?

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Predator_


    I think we know the answer to this question, no. They are already ripping down legal posters calling for peaceful protest. When we vote no to something like Lisbon they make us vote again. West Brit anglo saxon rule is what we have in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Will the west brit fifes allow peaceful protest on the day and days after that their master comes to view them?. Or will they be too busy clutching their shirts and tugging their forelocks!?.

    No reference to scraps from the imperial table or liberal do-gooders.

    Troll fail.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,253 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Predator_ wrote: »
    I think we know the answer to this question, no. They are already ripping down legal posters calling for peaceful protest. When we vote no to something like Lisbon they make us vote again. West Brit anglo saxon rule is what we have in Ireland.
    You do understand that Lisbon(which I objected to BTW) is about Europe, not the UK? That the more ties we have with Paris the less ties we would have with London? That the UK isn't overly EU friendly? That the UK is our biggest trading partner?

    You see I got over this lets all hate the engerlish a long time ago. It got old. It got childish. It got a bit dumbed down TBH(when I hear talk of perfidious Albion from some tool in a Man U shirt who has just started shaving. You do think christ is this the descendent of Pearse?). I don't care if some inbred german monarch of any european country shows up. That includes Lizzie 2. If it shows the world that the majority of Irishmen and Irishwomen don't actually give a toss and it's just a minority of hackneyed chuckies fighting a fight where the bell was sounded years ago I'll be happy. There were no winners, the canvas is silent, only a few ranting drunks remain, switch off the lights and go the fcuk home. Please.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭AstonMartin


    we are useless at protests. After an hour we will be in the pub.

    look at greeces reaction to the imf deal.

    nobody wants to stick their neck out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    we are useless at protests. After an hour we will be in the pub.

    look at greeces reaction to the imf deal.

    nobody wants to stick their neck out.

    The man doesn't get his way all the time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    The man doesn't get his way all the time.

    Oh, but he does. He always does. Whatever it is you want to happen (or not happen) is going to happen (or not happen) whether you like it or not.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    See the problem is that those looking to protest the visit have a rather unfortunate history of blowing people up to achieve their aims. Better safe than sorry and all that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    I don't think it should be allowed. If I had my way, the Republican prisoners would be chained and shackled and made pull her carriage through the streets of Dublin.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    See the problem is that those looking to protest the visit have a rather unfortunate history of blowing people up to achieve their aims. Better safe than sorry and all that.

    Your simplistic view of history is probably a reflection of a simple mind. Take it easy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Your simplistic view of history is probably a reflection of a simple mind. Take it easy.

    Cheers, I will. Do me a favour though and try not to blow anyone up this week. Thanks a lot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Cheers, I will. Do me a favour though and try not to blow anyone up this week. Thanks a lot.

    I shall try.



    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭bradyle


    Nevore wrote: »
    I don't think it should be allowed. If I had my way, the Republican prisoners would be chained and shackled and made pull her carriage through the streets of Dublin.


    You're takin the piss yea


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭Wheelie King


    we are useless at protests. After an hour we will be in the pub.

    look at greeces reaction to the imf deal.

    nobody wants to stick their neck out.

    Agreed. Went to the anti cuts march in the winter (one of the days it was snowing) and the pathetic turnout was an embarrasment to the nation. My own brother in law would'nt go because "his boss might fire him if he noticed him there on the TV", :rolleyes:. We are a nation of cowards and that's why we are taking a big fat one up the arse from the elites at present.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    bradyle wrote: »
    You're takin the piss yea

    Never underestimate the mindset of a west brit royalist troglodyte. They are static.

    No hatred for England or the English , just hatred for the feudal parasites.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    if people start protesting and no one gives a fuck, does it make a noise

    *contemplates*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    we are useless at protests. After an hour we will be in the pub.

    look at greeces reaction to the imf deal.

    nobody wants to stick their neck out.

    So if we murder a few peopel and burn stuff that we have to pay to fix it will help our economic situation?

    Do you even know why the Greeks are protesting? It's becaus ethey dont want any cuts to government spending. The bunch of tools reckon that they should keep spending money at unsustainable levels which resulted in the country going bankrupt in the first place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    So if we murder a few peopel and burn stuff that we have to pay to fix it will help our economic situation?

    Do you even know why the Greeks are protesting? It's becaus ethey dont want any cuts to government spending. The bunch of tools reckon that they should keep spending money at unsustainable levels which resulted in the country going bankrupt in the first place.

    At least the greeks have some balls. They are stuck paying debt accumulated by their parasites and at least they can see it. Fair play. The likes of yourself just roll over without question. You are a slave.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭The Waltzing Consumer


    So if we murder a few peopel and burn stuff that we have to pay to fix it will help our economic situation?

    Do you even know why the Greeks are protesting? It's becaus ethey dont want any cuts to government spending. The bunch of tools reckon that they should keep spending money at unsustainable levels which resulted in the country going bankrupt in the first place.

    The poor public service Greeks want to go back to the good old days of getting Christmas, Easter and Summer bonuses. They want bonuses for using a computer, the turning up for work bonus and the hilarious bonus given to foresters for working outside. Their public service and our public service should get married.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    At least the greeks have some balls. .

    Stupid people having balls only makes them more stupid. Does it really take balls for a mob to break in to a bank and murder a guy in a suit?

    Whats your soluation? None of your "slave" and other rubbish. Do you genuinly think the best thing for Greece to do is to continue spending huge amounts more money than they generate? How can that end well? Where do they keep getting money to make up the difference?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    In before he replies with another unrelated youtube video.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Will the west brit fifes allow peaceful protest on the day and days after that their master comes to view them?. Or will they be too busy clutching their shirts and tugging their forelocks!?.
    A load of bollocks.
    There is no more to be said.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭The Waltzing Consumer


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    In before he replies with another unrelated youtube video.

    In before a lefty response with the following buzzwords; "special interests" "elite" "state run meeja" "working class" "poor" "propaganda" "bankers" "one balled"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,091 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    What's the point? Do you think you're going to tell the UK or Irish Govts. anything they don't know already? They are well-briefed on the issues. The security is not just to protect the Queen, it's also there to protect people from their own social and political stupidity.

    The Queen is probably more sympathetic towards Irish reunification than anyone in Whitehall, just as her husband's uncle (Lord Mountbatten) was. She might have been even more sympathetic had he not been blown up by the IRA - a short-sighted act which set back the cause of reunification by decades. This is someone you want on your side, despite everything. So remind me, again, why there's a need to protest her visit? It's a complete failure to see the big picture. If anything happens to her, you can kiss the last six counties goodbye for good.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    In before a lefty response with the following buzzwords; "special interests" "elite" "state run meeja" "working class" "poor" "propaganda" "bankers" "one balled"

    Don't think that's the line he was going for somehow...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭AstonMartin


    Not saying go the violent protest route but we are basically sitting on our arses waiting for vincent browne to tell us whats happening. Protests outside leinster house for a start to stop the gov doing whatever europe says would be a good start.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    ...Protests outside leinster house for a start to stop the gov doing whatever europe says would be a good start.
    I would join you in a protest to bring that about!


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