Some Protesters More Equal Than Others?

17-09-2019 12:31PM #1

Beef protesters block factory entrances despite court injunctions outlawing same, other protesters (e.g. students and water meter protesters) have been beaten off the streets when causing obstructions.

Discuss.

farmchoice · 17-09-2019 12:33PM

who were beaten off the streets and when?

randd1 · 17-09-2019 12:40PM

The beef protesters aren't attacking lads doing their jobs, trapping people in cars or refusing to pay for something that costs a fortune to be provided to them.

JohnnyFlash · 17-09-2019 12:43PM

Paul Murphy isn’t involved. So the urge to tear gas them isn’t there.

Boom_Bap · 17-09-2019 12:46PM

People beating off everywhere

Fan of Netflix · 17-09-2019 12:48PM

Farmers probably aren't attacking and abusing Gardai and others like socialist protestors are well known for. Thugs in Dublin also routinely get involved in criminality at many protests. They are hijacked by the likes of Coppinger and Paul Murphy and cause disorder.

17-09-2019 12:48PM

farmchoice wrote: »

who were beaten off the streets and when?

A random example, now do your own research:

17-09-2019 12:49PM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Paul Murphy isn’t involved. So the urge to tear gas them isn’t there.

So the softly softly approach to beef protesters is politically motivated?

Raconteuse · 17-09-2019 12:51PM

Some protestors' mothers are more equal than other protestors' mothers, imo.

Arghus · 17-09-2019 12:54PM

It probably plays it's part.

Unfortunately, you can be a bit more heavy handed with students because at the end of the day a lot of them won't vote.

Allinall · 17-09-2019 12:55PM

Farmers are downtrodden and don’t have Council houses.

17-09-2019 12:56PM

Allinall wrote: »

Farmers are downtrodden and don’t have Council houses.

Enlightening.

jam_mac_jam · 17-09-2019 12:57PM

Of course. People look down on working class people and young people, farmers not so much. They have more of a right to an opinion. You can see it in some of the above comments already. And off they will go...

jam_mac_jam · 17-09-2019 12:58PM

Allinall wrote: »

Farmers are downtrodden and don’t have Council houses.

Do students? or all other protestors?

sheesh · 17-09-2019 01:02PM

The farmers are picketing meat factories.

Have the farmers thrown concrete blocks at car windows.

Mad_maxx · 17-09-2019 01:03PM

One group want stuff for nothing, the farmers want a price for the stuff they produce which covers the cost of production.

A fair share of the meat industry business

17-09-2019 01:06PM

Mad_maxx wrote: »

One group want stuff for nothing, the farmers want a price for the stuff they produce which covers the cost of production.

A fair share of the meat industry business

That should have no influence on policing.

Mad_maxx · 17-09-2019 01:07PM

Thread is about attitudes to protests, not policing

17-09-2019 01:09PM

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Thread is about attitudes to protests, not policing

Wrong.

Tacitus Kilgore · 17-09-2019 01:12PM

"Research" :pac:

17-09-2019 01:17PM

There was a few posts over in the Farming forum about disrupting supermarkets with nuisance tactics, i did wonder if they would attract the same level of outrage as other protesters if posted over here

E.g. filling up trolleys and then abandoning them at the checkout during the busy times, or at closing, arguing with managers at the till about the origin of the meat and then refusing to pay etc

MrMusician18 · 17-09-2019 01:19PM

I've actually a huge amount of sympathy for the farmers. Over the course of the last 15 years in particular, small farming, the traditional type, has been undermined by a globalised market. Irish beef farmers, particularly those on marginal land are uncompetitive, and there has been little or no effort from the farming organisations, government or indeed most importantly the farmers themselves for meaningful diversification. The small farmer has been led into a dead end. This crisis could finish the beef sector here in the next 4 weeks if the protests continues, the stakes (pardon the pun) are that high.

Markets need to be developed for products that can be derived from other uses of that land. Bio energy, solar, forestry, other crops, rewilding are all options for the land. Farmers need to be open when it comes to these options, and accept that the fundamental operation of their farm will have to radically change to stay viable. Farm supports and tinkering at the edges won't do.

CrankyHaus · 17-09-2019 01:21PM

Farmers are a well organised lobby with a tradition of pursuing their interests aggressively. Above all they have an expectation of their interests being served by politicians that other groups may not have. Taxi drivers are the same and their protests get the same softly softly approach.

17-09-2019 01:24PM

riffmongous wrote: »

There was a few posts over in the Farming forum about disrupting supermarkets with nuisance tactics, i did wonder if they would attract the same level of outrage as other protesters if posted over here

E.g. filling up trolleys and then abandoning them at the checkout during the busy times, or at closing, arguing with managers at the till about the origin of the meat and then refusing to pay etc

They have form for this, previously picketing supermarket car parks and blocking trollies in etc.

There were no consequences to those actions at that time either.

Hotblack Desiato · 17-09-2019 01:27PM

Anyone shooting a vertical video deserves to have the living sh!t beaten out of them, in fairness.

sbsquarepants · 17-09-2019 01:28PM

The fúcking perennial whine of the farmer "you just can't make a living doing.....bla bla bla"

The thought just never seems to occur to them to do something else though does it? I wonder why that is:rolleyes::rolleyes:

nkl12xtw5goz70 · 17-09-2019 01:30PM

The Occupy protesters were camped out on Dame Street for months and nobody came to beat them off the streets.

CrankyHaus · 17-09-2019 01:33PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

The fúcking perennial whine of the farmer "you just can't make a living doing.....bla bla bla"

The thought just never seems to occur to them to do something else though does it? I wonder why that is:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Tbf there is a well established priority for any state to maintain agriculture so that if necessary we can survive great disruption without famine. This is an existential matter for the state

Hotblack Desiato · 17-09-2019 01:37PM

Not going a great job of it are we then, a large proportion of potatoes are imported. Almost all that chippers use are imported from the UK.

17-09-2019 01:39PM

Personality I would pay 20 cents more a kilogram for beef provided i was guaranteed it went to the producer farmer.

On the other consumption of red meat is going to decline in the western world and farming in Ireland is going to become more commercialised and less and less part-time farmers.

sbsquarepants · 17-09-2019 01:40PM

Good auld farmers eh, slaving away, morning noon and night for a pittance and doing it all to ward off famine!

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