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Is Simply Being A Dissident Republican Now A Crime?

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    #2
    KTRIC
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    Yes


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    #3
    stovelid
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    Against intelligence: yes.


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    My name is URL
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    I doubt the guy is being questioned because he held a placard


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    FatherLen
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    i honestly couldn't give a shit.


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    MagicSean
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    Offences Against the State Act pretty much makes it a crime in the Republic anyway.


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    starbelgrade
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    In the South, you can be arrested under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act on suspicion of membership of an unlawful organisation.

    Having a beard & a wooly jumper on is usually a good indication of this.


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    44leto
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    keithob wrote: »
    We live in a police state both North and South.

    IMHO that would be better then living in a dissident republican state.


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    starbelgrade
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    keithob wrote: »
    We live in a police state both North and South.

    More of a state with Police. But if you want to look at it that way, then that's up to you.


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    KeithAFC
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    44leto wrote: »
    IMHO that would be better then living in a dissident republican state.
    Fully agree.


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    #11
    Just a visitor
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    Yes. All terrorist activity and sympathy is frowned upon.


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    Logical Fallacy
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    nomnomnom wrote: »
    http://www.u.tv/News/Man-arrested-in-dissident-probe/132c8950-f54d-4867-a675-9bd921aa3140

    When did Dissident Republican Activity constitute a crime?Surely Dissident Republican Activity could constitute simply holding a placard at a dissident demonstration etc?

    Is simply being a Dissident Republican a crime now?

    It's swings and roundabouts for the days of claiming that murders, thieves and scumbag drug dealers were "political prisoners".

    Harsh, right?


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    AnonoBoy
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    keithob wrote: »
    We live in a police state both North and South.

    No we don't.

    Quite simply we don't have enough money in this country to run a proper police state even if we wanted to.

    Those po-po states be mad expensive yo!


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    My name is URL
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    MagicSean wrote: »
    Offences Against the State Act pretty much makes it a crime in the Republic anyway.

    Being a dissident means that you are unsupportive of the peace agreements.. that on it's own is not a crime. It may be retarded, but it's not a crime


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    biko
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    A man has been arrested in Co Armagh on suspicion of dissident republican activity.
    The 28-year-old was detained in the Armagh area on Tuesday morning.
    The operation was carried out by the PSNI's Serious Crime Branch.

    Detectives are now questioning him at Antrim serious crime suite on suspicion of dissident republican activity.
    Who's to say what these activities are but probably not just holding some sign up...


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    Mr.Crinklewood
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    I doubt the guy is being questioned because he held a placard

    Probably didn't like "Foreign Sports".


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    Biggins
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    ...Having a beard & a wooly jumper on is usually a good indication of this.
    Dr James Reilly better stay in his suit then!
    Have ya seem him lately! :D


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    IT-Guy
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Being a dissident means that you are unsupportive of the peace agreements.. that on it's own is not a crime. It may be retarded, but it's not a crime

    I dislike black and white thinking for the most part but for people who are "unsupportive of the peace agreements" I make an exception. If they feel this way then they long for a return of the "good 'ol days" when they were oppressed, unrepresented and felt the only way to change this was by killing people and blowing things up. F**k the lot of them, they don't speak for me.


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    starbelgrade
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Dr James Reilly better stay in his suit then!
    Have ya seem him lately! :D

    I have my suspicions that he is actually Brendan Grace.


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    eblistic
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    I doubt "dissident republican activity" is legally an arrestable offence (someone correct me). It's more of a weasel term used in contemporary mass-media for certain activities which really are illegal, and illegal for good reasons too.


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