Guards entering bus - greeted with angry passengers

This the bus apparently full or elderly people and children scarred out of their wits by strange men in Garda uniforms,

A gobby republican and gobby oul one .

Says it all really

FREEMEN REPUBLICANS, JOE

littelady wrote: »

I am at a loss as to why that gobby "lady" feels she has the right to speak to the guards like that. The guards appear to be dressed as special branch I think the were genuinely looking for someone. I don't understand the hostility at all I would provide any information the guards asked me.

They probably weren't looking for anyone in particular to be honest. The Special Branch just like getting up the arses of Republicans and this sort of routine harassment and searches etc is just common pressure they put on groups of interest to them.

littelady wrote: »

Really Tfa69 that's allot of special branch to justify getting up the arse of Republicans. .I don't mix in them circles I lead a quiet life, never see a guard from one day to the next.

The purpose of the Branch is to monitor and disrupt what they call subversive elements in the state. They do this via covert surveillance on those they suspect of being involved in unlawful activity and also overt disruption and harassment of the general support base or political base of republicanism. Often it has little to do with actually making a case and plenty to do with trying to make life generally difficult. I was once stopped and searched three times in one day as a teenager, likewise they showed up at my job at the time and tried telling my manager that I was a dangerous subversive. In other words, doing the bollix for the sake of it. Likewise them being mob handed isn't unusual, One time I ended up pulled over in a garage with 17 cops including the armed response unit.

I have little time for the group that was stopped, but I don't think the cops were up to any actual police work either.

Credit to the Gardai, I must have watched about 100 separate videos where I'm supposed to be horrified about their behavior but they always act professional. The people being questioned or arrested are always the arseholes.

No doubt that gardai go overboard sometimes, but never saw it on one of these videos yet

littelady wrote: »

I am at a loss as to why that gobby "lady" feels she has the right to speak to the guards like that. The guards appear to be dressed as special branch I think the were genuinely looking for someone. I don't understand the hostility at all I would provide any information the guards asked me.

I would suspect there's a healthy number of "fcuk da Garda" tattoos amongst that particular clientele.

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

This whole incident seems a bit weird - why were they asking for ID? What or who were they looking for?

Given that we don't have mandatory ID cards in Ireland, do they actually have a legal basis for requesting this information, assuming they do not suspect that a crime is being committed?

Offenses Against The State Act gives them carte Blanche to request details or detain people at their discretion.

Years ago the customs used to enter the bus and search your bags.
Nobody complained at all.
I didn't see anything at all wrong in what the Garda did on the bus.

They're damned if they do and dammed if they don't.......but only by slobbering worthless ejjits. Search the bejaysus ou of the lot of them and confiscate all their kids and the reproductive organs that created the poor things.

FTA69 wrote:

Offenses Against The State Act gives them carte Blanche to request details or detain people at their discretion.

Sitting on a bus ?

dev100 wrote: »

Sitting on a bus ?

It doesn't matter. Theyre fully entitled to pull you over and keep you there. They can also arrest you under the act for pretty much any reason and have the power to hold you for up to three days without charge.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Any idea why it was stopped or what they were going to Derry for...? "Celebrations" is a bit vague.

I'm guessing the big-talker had a kilo and a half of Columbia's finest in his suitcase...

A kilo weight of chip on their shoulder.

PARlance wrote: »

Seems like a worthwhile stop. 20 kilos of coke were recovered, 547 speeding tickets and 20 drink driving offences were issued.












(Will it ever get old. It has.)

Huh!!! 20 drink driving offences? But a bus only has ONE driver.

I thought Norn Iron was fcuked up enough without sending that shower up.

Beyondgone wrote: »

I didn't hear the cops asking for ID. In fact I didn't hear them say anything. Too much pointless, gobby screeching going on. Republicans? I'd say they're more familiar to the Publican than any actual Republicans. Pointless Fleg waving shoite.

Maybe so, but it's not every day they board a bus, to be fair. There must either have been something they were looking for, or they were indeed profiling and hassling Republicans. Seems very unlikely that it was random.