What will it take to get you out on the street protesting?

connundrum

There will be some/all sarcastic answers considering the forum, but in considering all of the events up to now which have caused disquiet, I was wondering what it would take to get a sizeable number of people out in the streets protesting.

My favourite phrase of recent weeks has been 'We can't take much more, someone will have to stand up'. If everyone trots out this phrase, who will stand up?

It would seem that interest groups i.e. the IFA, home carers are well able to organise and protest against specific injustices, but is it that we as a nation are just pissed off in general, and sure, how can you protest against being pissed off?

My real answer is: the new household charge (when it is announced), another interest hike by AIB, more judgements like the one seen here.

My AH answer: Angela Merkel visiting for 6 hours, if/when Jacobs cease production of Fig Rolls, atari jaguar.

summerskin

Sean Sherlock blocking youporn.com

Atlantic Dawn

Nothing can be done we are spending 20 billion more than we are taking in, only protest I would go to is one seeking cuts equatting to those savings.

Kensington

When the price of a pint goes over a €5er, by jaesus there'll be uproar.

Larbre34

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Nothing can be done we are spending 20 billion more than we are taking in, only protest I would go to is one seeking cuts equatting to those savings.[/QUOTE

What an idiotic comment, if the budget was balanced in one fell swoop it would close every school, hospital, clinic, advice centre, garda station, fire station, library, museum, park, leisure centre, tourist attraction, prison, army base, and end every community welfare, district nurse, home help and social worker service in the country

Some people seem to be brainwashed into thinking the 'public sector' is a sink hole of bureaucracy for every cent of taxes but don't equate that to the services and amenities they use and rely on every single day

Its not the public spending that bankrupted the country, it was the evaporation of a €20 billion tax stream built on a house of cards that caused massive inflation and profligacy, all traceable back to the reckless economic policies of Ahern and McCreevy. The bank debt is just an added millstone

We're back to year 1999 living standards not 1949 or even the stone age as some would have you believe.

As for a march to get me out? one against ignorance and red herrings

Lando Griffin

We are only bringing in 75000 PA now with all the cuts.
When you take out my mortgage of 1400 and other utility bills we have only 109 euro left for my unemployed wife, unemployed genius eldest son and two other poor starving children.
How can this be?
If Sky put up there prices anymore for HD + Multiroom the will have to eat unbranded products.
7 years ago when we moved into a modest well located semi d who would have thought it impossible to rent out our holiday apt in Bulgaria.
We cannot afford to put Calgon in the dishwasher every day now and it broke down.
My mother drove 40 miles to wash the dishes that day.
Who would have thought it would take nearly 120 euro a Week to fill my SUV.
Ihave started the tipping point all ready writing letters on ordinary paper since we ran out of the Belveder note paper.

Mr. CooL ICE

As long as a Starbucks is nearby

/adjusts scarf and oversized glasses

fishy fishy

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Nothing can be done we are spending 20 billion more than we are taking in, only protest I would go to is one seeking cuts equatting to those savings.

Thats the same as saying "oh let me lie down here for you, and you can trample all over me, with my full blessing sir"

:rolleyes:

the crock that run this country DEPEND on opinions like yours, while they laugh all the way to the bank.

bnt

It would take a clear description and a guarantee of what it would achieve. I'm not going to waste my time and energy on "sound and fury signifying nothing".

Protests are predictable. The establishment knows exactly how to handle them, thanks to experience in this and other countries. More subtle methods get better results, such as lobbying and blackmail.

seipeal1

A first class return air ticket from Australia. Oh, and hotel accommodation either side of the protest day, in a hotel that would not be burned down as part of the protest! Cannot wait. Ireland, here I come!

connundrum

bnt wrote: »

It would take a clear description and a guarantee of what it would achieve. I'm not going to waste my time and energy on "sound and fury signifying nothing".

Agreed.

Taking medical cards from some OPS = protest = Govt rollback. Result.

Austerity = protest = ......?

I get the feeling that if we were to protest against every measure which we feel is unjust, we'd be on the streets 365 days a year. But, in not protesting anything, we just absorb all measures and bleet to Joe Duffy.

No win situation

muppetkiller

Increasing the Dole :P

My name is URL

LordChessington wrote: »

As long as a Starbucks is nearby

/adjusts scarf and oversized glasses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3252FSW7OC4

saiint

nude protest
should work

DavyD_83

The belief that getting out on the street protesting will actually cause a change.

Oh, and a day off work would help too, at the moment I'd be giving up a days pay to stand around and achieve nothing (at least that's how i see it, which i'm sure is part of the problem).

28064212

connundrum wrote: »

Austerity = protest = ......?

I get the feeling that if we were to protest against every measure which we feel is unjust, we'd be on the streets 365 days a year. But, in not protesting anything, we just absorb all measures and bleet to Joe Duffy.

No win situation

The phrase "Unjust cutbacks" doesn't mean anything. It's a totally meaningless phrase, like the vast majority of nonsense slogans the rent-a-mob crowd use.

If someone organises a protest that has a clear objective, and can articulate how a protest actually helps obtain that objective, then I'll join. Until then, no thanks

SEPT 23 1989

A visit from Herr Merkel could be a flashpoint

byronbay2

seipeal1 wrote: »

A first class return air ticket from Australia. Oh, and hotel accommodation either side of the protest day, in a hotel that would not be burned down as part of the protest! Cannot wait. Ireland, here I come!

Would The Hilton be suitable - I believe they have some good deals at the moment!:)

She Devil

I was actually thinking about this coming into work this morning, I am ready to protest now, I can't take another cut, its scraping the barrell as it is.

When did we become so laid back and lazy? As a nation?

fishy fishy

lets just wait and see this budget, before we decide if protests work or not. I;m sure many will be changing their tune.

Nippledragon

Irish people should have been out on the streets when all the big-wigs were getting away with screwing the country, and leaving the average joe to pay for it. It's too late for protesting now tbh...

She Devil

She Devil wrote: »

I was actually thinking about this coming into work this morning, I am ready to protest now, I can't take another cut, its scraping the barrell as it is.

When did we become so laid back and lazy? As a nation?

So who should face cuts instead? What exactly are you angry about?

gobnaitolunacy

IMO protesting doesn't get you much unless you put the frighteners on the powers that be. And it has to have a unified goal.

HellFireClub

Sorry I'd be too busy trying to keep my business open. What the fúck would I be at standing beside some public sector clown like a teacher or a middle ranking Garda at a protest, them on 70K a year thinking that they are poorly paid and "under attack" as they put it, and don't come back with this bullshít of "we're all in this together", 'cos we aren't all in this together, that's just horseshít and that argument doesn't stand up to any sort of scrutiny whatsoever...

It seems to me that the very shower of cúnts in this country who are the best looked after, in terms of Croke Park Deals and sure "whatever you are having yourself", are the very same people who have the most whinging, bawling and fúcking moaning to do at the moment.

greecy_joe

Nippledragon wrote: »

Irish people should have been out on the streets when all the big-wigs were getting away with screwing the country, and leaving the average joe to pay for it. It's too late for protesting now tbh...

FF are well up in the polls today so it looks like we have forgiven those who sold us down the river

Larbre34

HellFireClub wrote: »

Sorry I'd be too busy trying to keep my business open. What the fúck would I be at standing beside some public sector clown like a teacher or a middle ranking Garda at a protest, them on 70K a year thinking that they are poorly paid and "under attack" as they put it, and don't come back with this bullshít of "we're all in this together", 'cos we aren't all in this together, that's just horseshít and that argument doesn't stand up to any sort of scrutiny whatsoever...

It seems to me that the very shower of cúnts in this country who are the best looked after, in terms of Croke Park Deals and sure "whatever you are having yourself", are the very same people who have the most whinging, bawling and fúcking moaning to do at the moment.

Call them a clown to their face when you're meeting them to discuss your child's progress or a burglary or your elderly father's homecare, you feckin coward.

Aenaes

No internet.

HellFireClub

Larbre34 wrote: »

Call them a clown to their face when you're meeting them to discuss your child's progress or a burglary or your elderly father's homecare, you feckin coward.

(1) Don't have kids 'cos I can't afford to have kids. (2) My father is fit and healthy thank you, and (3) I have the very same discussion face to face, with any people I know in the public sector who starts to shíte on about "having it hard", while they are on a 50K plus salary. I've a mate who is a paramedic for the HSE and was left under no illusions as to how I feel about this nonsense when he started trying to tell me he was relatively poorly paid. He isn't poorly paid, he is very well paid by any standard, but his union and his buddies that he works with, they are all subscribing to the only mantra that they know, which is that they are "under attack", poorly paid and basically being abused by their employers.

Bullshít and bollóx the lot of it, when you look at what is on offer in the private sector.

Cabaal

If the pope visits Ireland I'll go out an protest, been saying it for years

Rabidlamb

I'd love to march, unfortunately the protest would be co-opted by the Unions or the Shinners & I hate them more than the government.

Shenshen

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

A visit from Herr Merkel could be a flashpoint

What, him?