Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings - updated 11/5/24*

TBH GG Jisakix has as much right to post here as you have.

Who is doing the objecting though? It would be one thing if the entire community was objecting to these centres : but a relatively small number of local thugs, criminals and malcontents claiming to speak on behalf of the community is a different story,

I watched this video of Gavin Pepper as he asks why is it always the working class areas this happens and not the posh areas.

I have my own analysis view to that very question.

Another way to phrase his question is who gains who benefits when there is clear division in working class areas like we see today?

In my honest analysis both FF and FG stand to gain from such division; lets remember in the very last general election their vote decreased and the SF vote increased and the for the very first time they were forced to come together in a power sharing arrangement.

As a long term electoral strategy what better way to cause division in working class areas and to split the working class vote then to purposely place International protection center's in mostly working class areas where there is underinvestment and loads of people on housing waiting lists. And that long term electoral strategy kinda worked in the recent local and eu election as the SF vote was down and the FF and FG vote was stable.

Completely irrelevant your response relative to the matter at hand.

Our current government piss on us though and don't give a crap about what any of us think. If there's no actual engagement and it's just here take these people and **** off, what do you expect people to do. Continue to bend over and hand over the lube and be like thank you. This country has been remarkably civil for so long considering the disdain the government show for the people here.

I haven't seen any polls showing public opinion is for this amount of "asylum seekers" either. Most say we're taking too much.

Yeah, we should just let the mobs roam the country causing damage and injuring people.
Guards should do nothing, ffs.

The irish government is full of landlords and business owners who profit from flooding the country with immigrants .

I really wish people would wake up and realise how the gardai behave in situations like today. They aren't the perfect police force battering the scumbags.

I don't care what political persuasion people are, but they should not be celebrating how some of the gardai behaved today. Some will be delighted, but one particular arrest of a citizen journalist is not right. Again, no matter what side of the fence you sit on, boundaries are being pushed and if the hate speech gets in, it will be even worse.

So all Gardaí have to absolutely know who is and isn’t a threat in split seconds? And what’s elderly? This is not Carlsberg doing civil disorder

Again, twitter post from a biased account but this 62 year old woman on crutches says she was pepper sprayed . I don't see any reason for that to happen barring her having a gun somewhere on her.

https://x.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/1812914176588918927/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1812914176588918927&currentTweetUser=Mick_O_Keeffe&mode=profile

He needs to wear trousers.

Any good police officer should be able to do risk assessment and then apply the most appropriate response.

TThe Problem we have is the the POU is trained for riot situations and to go in all weapons blazing,the are ill trained for a situation like Coolock where you had a mix of rioters,old,young and curious bystanders,they all were treated the same way by the POU as per instructions from Mcentee.

Elderly would be over 60 imo and they would not be a threat at a protest but I would also include very young and most ladies.