What if Gemma O'Doherty is a government asset?

12-18 months before Covid, Gemma started to make a name for herself as a far right racist looper, from attacking Muslim butchers to making the Ryan family leave the country she was completely toxic and nobody would want to be associated with her, then very conveniently when covid came along she was the first person to publicly challenge the policy of restrictions and went to court at the very start when 99.9% of the public supported "2 weeks to flatten the curve" meaning any normal person who have had reservations about lockdowns since wouldn't want to say anything in case people thought they were a supporter of hers.

wakka12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058200550/what-if-gemma-odoherty-is-a-government-asset

I'm sure the concept of extremist political 'plants' in the ether does happen, as like you say it is a very effective way of swaying public opinion as opponents will fear speaking out in case of being lumped with those who voiced more extreme opinions before them and were widely derided or mocked. But I don't see any strong evidence really that this is the case with Gemma specifically, why she specifically would be used, she's not particularly influential so it would have been a bit of a questionably strategy to use her and assume the resulting controversy would grow as widespread as it did.

maestroamado

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058200550/what-if-gemma-odoherty-is-a-government-asset

I never got a good look at her backside it may be curvy... but she talks a lot of sith...

sydthebeat

She's been a racist homophobic looper for much longer than 12 - 18 months before covid.....

There's plenty of people who believe stupid crap and say ridiculous things all the time. Governments don't need to plant them.

sheesh

I have been thinking she and others like her could be unwitting assets for a foreign government a lot of their financing comes in the form of donations

for a little money you can cause a little trouble in a country and it might develop into something

anyway that is my fun conspiracy theory

dePeatrick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117655679#Comment_117655679

I’ve read that she is backed by Christian Conservatives in the US.

kal7

I doubt worth it to government or establishment time to employ Gemma.

Bit off topic, but I have received in the post, a whole load off Christian salvation literature together with all the usual Qanon conspiracy theories in there as well.

Anybody getting similar, or would know who is sending the material?

Post mark athlone mail centre.

Donald Trump

Government asset

growleaves

You can never prove these things one way or another so I will just make some general points.

1. Political opposition to the lockdowns/masks etc has been associated with deeply unpopular, shrill and dislikeable people like Gemma O'Doherty and Justin Barrett who also take extreme positions on other issues. G'OD has waged a sort of anti-Public Relations campaign of alienating the Irish public. By coincidence or design she has effectively campaigned against the issues she claims to stand for. She has blackwashed the anti-restrictions cause. She has few to none real supporters and the same goes for Justin Barrett.
2. Gemma O'Doherty and John Waters brought an incompetently-put-together legal challenge against the lockdown. The Establishment has no fear of dummy lawsuits which are destined to go nowhere so long as they are legally incorrect. This dead-on-arrival lawsuit didn't test the Constitutionality of the restrictions, but may have given some people the false impression that the restrictions had been tested and found Constitutional.
3. John Waters said before that he and other journalists wrote revisionist history/propaganda at the behest of the Irish government. So, according to him, he previously wrote directly under government orders but now he is a free agent floating around, with his stupid hairstyle, opposing the government's policies in the most self-sabotaging manner possible? Okay.

I think that everyone should be very wary of these figures who spring up out of nowhere and associate sceptical-of-the-mainstream views with their own mad, bad and un-charming behaviour.

Alex Jones is another person who has damaged the issues he claims to champion, including by partisanising them and glomming on to Trump. If people think opposing policy x or y is a cause for the Republican Party then Democrats and Independents may be easily swayed to support policy x or y.