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Garda Checks

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭Salary Negotiator


    Juicee wrote: »
    As predicted

    Justify what though? No one actually knows what happened, that article could just as easily been about 2 shoppers showing off their Lidl SuperSaver to Gardai.

    It's a nonsense article from a nonsense source lapped up by idiots who probably have to check under their bed each night for boogiemen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭neckedit


    Juicee wrote: »
    As predicted

    What were you expecting? Really,
    Did you think people were going join in with your unstable theory that a trash piece of journalism is going to lead us to Communism? Seriously it's time take the tin hat off for a while.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Juicee wrote: »
    As predicted

    Uncanny ability right there, predicting that people on a discussion forum will discuss things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,868 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    I unsubscribed from this forum last week due to the amount of selfish morons, whack jobs and conspiracy theorists spouting rubbish.

    The VERY first thread I click into and there we go!! Another halfwit linking measures under Covid-19 leading to communism.

    You simply couldn't make it up!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,371 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Juicee wrote: »
    https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/coronavirus/photographs-emerge-of-gardai-inspecting-shopping/ar-BB12HDET?ocid=spartanntp

    I find this very disturbing although I'm sure there will be a slew of replies from boards people any minute now, trying to justify this. We are sleepwalking into communism.

    Have you being reading 'Animal Farm' lately or something?
    It sounds like a very 'studenty' thing to say looking for outrage where there is none.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,935 ✭✭✭kowloonkev


    Our politicians and gardai might be sleep walking but...

    what was the second thing you said?

    Simon Harris is monitoring the situation...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭The_Dave


    The Gardai are also carrying people's shopping now too:

    90262854_10157925957768001_3134174623873105920_o.jpg

    This is actually more of a communist action than looking in shopping bags. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

    But you probably think she's being escorted to a gulag.
    Why aren't the guards 2 metres from the lady?:D;)


  • Posts: 11,642 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Drug dealers posing as takeaway deliverymen

    In the second picture in that article, it looks to me that there is a pizza box in the basket. If thats the case the Guard has every right to stop him and ask.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,852 ✭✭✭un5byh7sqpd2x0


    Juicee wrote: »
    https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/coronavirus/photographs-emerge-of-gardai-inspecting-shopping/ar-BB12HDET?ocid=spartanntp

    I find this very disturbing although I'm sure there will be a slew of replies from boards people any minute now, trying to justify this. We are sleepwalking into communism.

    He’s not checking his shopping, he’s checking what’s in the bag. There’s no information on the location, perhaps it was in the middle of the street. I can bet you it wasn’t at the exit of a shop. Perhaps there are illegal drugs in the bag?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Juicee wrote: »
    I find this very disturbing although I'm sure there will be a slew of replies from boards people any minute now, trying to justify this. We are sleepwalking into communism.

    tenor.gif


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭Rvsmmnps


    Here in Norway they are planning to track everyone movements by GSM.. People are getting weird out and wondering will any of the laws ever be removed?
    In Poland police require selfies to confirm you are indeed at home.

    I always find peoples opinions offline greatly differ from the opinions on this site.


  • Posts: 11,642 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dogg Munde wrote: »
    He’s not checking his shopping, he’s checking what’s in the bag. There’s no information on the location, perhaps it was in the middle of the street. I can bet you it wasn’t at the exit of a shop. Perhaps there are illegal drugs in the bag?

    In that picture, the bag doesn't really look like a shopping bag. Looks more like a white bin liner. Perfectly reasonable for a guard to say "whats in the bag? just curious."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,426 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Were all pedestrians shopping bags checked on that street or just that man's? Would see less problem if every single persons bags were checked and not just selecting him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭swarlb


    If we were 'sleepwalking' or even goose stepping into 'Communism' you'd never read about it in a place like 'Boards'... simply because not long after it was shut down, all the posters, left, right or centre minded would have been contacted by 'An Stasi'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭Juicee


    Rvsmmnps wrote: »
    Here in Norway they are planning to track everyone movements by GSM.. People are getting weird out and wondering will any of the laws ever be removed?
    In Poland police require selfies to confirm you are indeed at home.

    I always find peoples opinions offline greatly differ from the opinions on this site.

    according to most on this site you are a half wit / tin foil hat / nut job (pick your preferred slur) for having the stupidity and audacity to be concerned about this this

    edit: I agree though, I don't think the level of disrespect and insults you find here is reflective of society in general. Thankfully.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭Rvsmmnps


    Were all pedestrians shopping bags checked on that street or just that man's? Would see less problem if every single persons bags were checked and not just selecting him.

    You are joking right?
    The police chase thieves and criminals,they are not there to check and see what people have in their shopping bags.


  • Posts: 11,642 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Rvsmmnps wrote: »
    Here in Norway they are planning to track everyone movements by GSM.. People are getting weird out and wondering will any of the laws ever be removed?
    In Poland police require selfies to confirm you are indeed at home.

    I always find peoples opinions offline greatly differ from the opinions on this site.

    Have you a source for either of these? A cursory search has provided no mention of either restriction.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,356 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Doesn't seem like the right place to do it, what if the shopper had some odd purchase that would cause maximum embarrasement but was essential to him like say knob rot cream?

    Just use the same stuff for Athelets Foot. :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Solidarity-People Before Profit TD Brid Smith said she thought the apparent checking of people’s shopping was an overreach of Garda powers.

    SPBP will not let a matter pass without issuing a half baked comment about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭neckedit


    Juicee wrote: »
    according to most on this site you are a half wit / tin foil hat / nut job (pick your preferred slur) for having the stupidity and audacity to be concerned about this this

    edit: I agree though, I don't think the level of disrespect and insults you find here is reflective of society in general. Thankfully.

    This is not the battle you should be concerned about.
    There is a certain amount of disrespect sharing this article, its scaremongering plain and simple.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Pa ElGrande


    If this was a communist regime, the state police would confiscate your shopping for having "contraband" unless you paid them a bribe (usually cigarettes) to look the other way. We have not reached that level yet! We might when the tax revenue collapses.

    If you want to look for the communists though look no further than Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the EU and Commissioner for Competition who has stated that EU states should now nationalize companies in the fight against China, which is a country governed by the Chinese Communist party (CCP).


    European countries need to protect their companies from Chinese takeovers, says EU Commissioner
    Margrethe Vestager, European Competition Commissioner, told the Financial Times: “We don’t have any issues of states acting as market participants if need be — if they provide shares in a company, if they want to prevent a takeover of this kind.

    source


    The banks in this country have been government sponsored enterprises since the last economic crash. How would people feel about the government nationalising Ryanair?

    Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭Rvsmmnps


    Have you a source for either of these? A cursory search has provided no mention of either restriction.

    Vg norway
    Then go check the polish news yourself


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,469 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Threads merged


  • Posts: 16,208 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Juicee wrote: »
    As predicted

    If you'd wanted an echo chamber in agreement, why not just stay on twitter? :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭eddie73


    There are 3 photographs in that newspaper report.

    The first is a guard looking into a white plastic bag. (this could be a shopping bag or it may be several other types as well). The context of the photo as someone previously has said, is unknown. The guard could have recognised the person as being an addict for instance or a petty criminal and wanted to know what was in the bag. We don't know this, any more than we don't know that it was a shopping bag. Both cases are equally possible.

    there are not several other photos of Guards looking into shopping bags as this newspaper is reporting. At least, they haven't provided any evidence of it. Yes there is a photo of a Guard talking to someone on a bike, but this is not looking into a shopping bag. The last photo is a pic of an Asian woman in a face mask and Patrick's day hat and no guard in sight.

    Interesting jig saw this.


  • Posts: 11,642 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Rvsmmnps wrote: »
    Then go check the polish news yourself

    I did, and as i said, found no reference to your claim.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,887 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Have you a source for either of these? A cursory search has provided no mention of either restriction.


    People returning from Poland from abroad, and other who were suspected of having the virus, were subject to a 14-day quarantine period. They had a choice to either receive random uscheduled visits from police to ensure they were staying at home, or download an app on which their (lack of) movements could be tracked, which involved the app requesting a selfie and the quarantined person needing to provide one within 20 minutes or the police would be notified.


    https://www.businessinsider.com/poland-app-coronavirus-patients-mandaotory-selfie-2020-3?r=US&IR=T


  • Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I just knew that communism would sneak in somehow. There I was out for a stroll, and a Garda on his bicycle uttered "good morning" in passing. The breathtaking audacity, I felt my throat involuntarily tighten as my liberty ebbed away. The founding fathers of 1776 would be up in arms...oops wrong country. I knew you was pinko when I saw you spoke the ten gallon stetson to John Wayne, virtual-signalling libtards wanna trample all over my freedom. Heck, I ain't even registered another account to agree with me yet. You don't go tellin' no one, hear?


  • Posts: 19,178 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Why are the guards faces pixelated? Also, looks like hey aren't wearing facemasks...

    no facemasks for gardai.
    they are taking advice from the CMO & won't supply their members with masks.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,580 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Juicee wrote: »
    "The pictures also shocked Consumers’ Association of Ireland chief Dermott Jewell, who said: ‘This is, to all intents and purposes, a violation of privacy.’"

    The Irish Council for Civil Liberties had no problems with it at all.
    You seem to cherry pick what suits you even from the articles you produce yourself.
    You clearly have an agenda.


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