Relaxation of Restrictions, Part IX *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

facehugger99 wrote: »

Scary to witness how easily democratic freedoms are extinguished.

We have seen in this country, the removal of civil liberties on the flimsiest of pretexts. We have seen the Guards mobilsed to prevent the protesting of the removal of these liberties. We have seen the State media coopted into spreading propaganda and fear.

Most chillingly, we have seen our fellow citizens cheer this on.

The bar has now been set incredibly low to have your freedoms removed on the whim of a Government. This crowd are cowardly and incompetent The next lot may be taking their instructions from a shadowy cabal of terrorists and subversives.

wouldnt call it so grim, the protest in Dublin was mix n match of far left and right wing nuts, and throw in scum that were around doing it just for ****s and it wasnt really a protest, not in any normal way anyhow, the root issue lies that government spalshed millions to give away basically for anyone, then started to implement whatever crap they could come up with that created small bubble of those that prob lived in their own reality for long before covid came and same people will rant that we need those restrictions. only benefit is most of them can do it online so it sort of doesnt matter what they say, as majority want to move on with life covid or not, and arent buying into this BS.

dalyboy wrote: »

Yip. The minute the north reopens I’ll have a tank of fuel in the car and off we go. First stop is the quays shopping centre in Newry. Then beers in a pub. A game of golf. A pleasant night in a hotel with a pool. A game of tennis next day etc etc.

Only 40 mins up the road from where I am.

Priority action will be to de-program RTÉ and newstalk from my car radio though.
Don’t want the presence of them extremists with me on my journey.

There'll be a hell of a lot behind you. It's only an hours drive for over a million people.

SnuggyBear wrote: »

When they talk about lifting the 5k limit is it really just increasing it to 10k? That's funny

Which is what people have done by themselves a month ago already.

Some of the comments on Journal.ie articles

"Yes it’s the right thing to do and I think lockdown level 5 should be extended till the end of 2021 and everyone is vaccinated or if need be into early 2022"

People - relax the restrictions. We will not take the pi$$.

People -

dalyboy wrote: »

Yip. The minute the north reopens I’ll have a tank of fuel in the car and off we go. First stop is the quays shopping centre in Newry. Then beers in a pub. A game of golf. A pleasant night in a hotel with a pool. A game of tennis next day etc etc.

Only 40 mins up the road from where I am.

Priority action will be to de-program RTÉ and newstalk from my car radio though.
Don’t want the presence of them extremists with me on my journey.

Boggles wrote: »

Now, of course they can impose that when a certain majority of the populous believe whatever is written on the side of a bus.

Thats a good point - its similar to here where a certain majority of the populous believe whatever is suggested on RTE each night, and this gives rise to all kinds of frankly wild impositions.

Sobit1964 wrote: »

Making authoritarian laws which stick around using a pandemic as an excuse is what people are discussing - do try to keep up.

Ah conspiracy theory stuff about laws in he UK. Get ya.

And just not conflate the two- on the other hand laws to help slow down the spread of covid here? Source of same saying any such laws are going to 'stick" around here which isn't some looney bin website?

Sobit1964 wrote: »

Thats a good point - its similar to here where a certain majority of the populous believe whatever is suggested on RTE each night, and this gives rise to all kinds of frankly wild impositions.

Side of a bus would also be online grifter with all the easy solutions.

facehugger99 wrote: »

Scary to witness how easily democratic freedoms are extinguished. We have seen in this country, the removal of civil liberties on the flimsiest of pretexts. We have seen the Guards mobilsed to prevent the protesting of the removal of these liberties. We have seen the State media coopted into spreading propaganda and fear.Most chillingly, we have seen our fellow citizens cheer this on.The bar has now been set incredibly low to have your freedoms removed on the whim of a Government. This crowd are cowardly and incompetent The next lot may be taking their instructions from a shadowy cabal of terrorists and subversives.

Jayzus the hyperbole and utter nonsense in that comment is truely gobsmacking.

One thing you forgot facehugger and didn't mention once ....

We're in the middle of a pandemic and are currently attempting to keep the rate of infection down whilst vaccinations are rolled out.

And yea I know its not been a smooth road by any description but ffs a bit less from anarchists book of quotes

bb1234567 wrote: »

It is relevant considering there is a large police operation planned to disrupt any protests on St.Patricks day whether peaceful or not.

Let's be honest here. What will scutter into Dublin tomorrow in the majority will be a bunch of fúcking clowns who couldn't give 2 flying fúcks about you or your family.

You''ll have the racist scum using the pandemic to recruit weak minded individuals into racist scummary, then you will have the weak minded individuals howling the elite are Luciferians trying to kill babies.

Then you will have the guards in the middle of it trying not to get hospitalized by bottles and fireworks.

So probably best to try and cut it off a source, because the alternative is the inevitable.

Trying to pretend it's an attack on democracy is not reality.

But again certain individuals will love that's framed that way.

Kiith wrote: »

Fan of COVID restrictions or not, this should be one thing everyone can agree is extremely dangerous if true.

Tory boy Neale Richmond isn't far behind based on this mornings tweet.
Wonder how he will feel if the 12th of July parades are cancelled again this year?

gozunda wrote: »

Ah I see even more conspiracy theories well done.

Btw I asked a question which you didn't answer - so once again please provide a

Source of same saying any such laws are going to 'stick" around here which isn't some looney bin website?

I said it on this forum no less than 30 minutes ago. Can you provide any evidence that the body of law reduces over time rather than increases - its ok if you cant find a link on RTE to support this - im happy to take your opinion.

Herb Powell wrote: »

Look at the bigger picture. Pandemic will end. Protests need to be an option forever. I'm not even anti-lockdown as such (restrictions are needed unfortunately), I don't think it's a "good idea" to be gathering at the moment, nor have I attended any such, but for fucck sake, would you not engage your brain a bit? The virus is not the only thing happening in the world.

May I suggest you do the same?. This is a thread a covid and the relaxation of restrictions. And as you say there's other things happening in the world. Start a thread - it could be an interesting topic indeed.

But as it is - its a UK law being dragged up here by the usual sources for a bit of ol agitation about why everyone should go out and protest now completely regardless of any notion that we're in the midst of a pandemic.