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Shoes and Eggs pelted at Tony Blair in Dublin

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  • #62
    Nodin
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    Wertz wrote: »
    Excpet for all those pesky secret service standing in the way.

    They'd have so much security it would be impossible to throw an egg without hitting one of them.

    (I actually have a coat from one of them from when Reagan was here. Doesn't give off a radio activeglow of evil, funny enough)


  • #63
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Nevermind_ wrote: »

    Hindsight is a wonderful thing...

    Hindsight me bollocks. There was plenty of "hindsight" being bandied about before the move on Iraq, it was ignored/covered up/shouted down in favour of pursuing a pre-determined policy of invading Iraq.


  • #64
    RoundyMooney
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    muletide wrote: »
    Ireland has bailed out the ECB??

    Jesus, Europe is in bad way if we are bailing it out

    Well, it isn't exactly shipshape.

    The majority of the recapitalisation of Anglo will ultimately make its way back to the coffers of the European Central Bank, it's part of the reason they gave the plan the thumbs up in the first place, despite the idea of exchequer funds being used to prop up bondholders in the first place being somewhat, unusual.

    My point stands, people will rail on the streets against issues like this and yet other, more pressing problems, even down to expenses corruption among our politicians, goes unmentioned.

    One could say it's because many of the crusties involved don't pay any sizeable amount of tax (yet?) in the first place, but it runs much deeper than that.

    We'd be an apathetic nation, if we could be bothered.


  • #65
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Fcuking arseholes. You can be sure that a majority of those out to cause trouble haven't got the foggiest idea about the ins and outs of what their (supposedly) opposed to either. I don't agree with Blair's decision to go to war or the manner in which he justified it, but these sort are the same fcukwits that formed a mob outside of that halfway house after Murphy's release even though he wasn't there.. clueless retards


  • #66
    Nodin
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    Absurdum wrote: »
    agreed, there'd be a fapfest if it were Clinton :rolleyes:

    There, the security is to protect the women (or protect Clinton from the women, or them from each other...).


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  • #67
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    WindSock wrote: »
    Was Britains eggs Prime Minister quickly shoed from the scene?

    Although I wasn't here early enough to get involved in the scramble for puns, I have looked at them all, and most of them are a load of cobblers.

    Yours is ok though.





    :o


  • #68
    Absurdum
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    those muppets who threw their shoes will be eggstreamly pissed off when they have to walk home barefoot in the rain


  • #69
    Wertz
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    Firefox11 wrote: »
    It's on the BBC already.

    www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11187320#

    Embarrassing to say the least.

    Only an embarrassment in the fact that if the beying mob tried the same in the UK, there'd be people getting shot in the street. There are plenty of people in the UK who would quite happily see Blair egged for the right reasons...I'd worry that the idiots who write the red tops seize upon this as some sort of anti-english protest...judging by the responses in this thread there's plenty of people willing to believe that BS...


  • #70
    Jeboa Safari
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    What a bunch of retards, the Gardai should have baton charged them. Have they nothing better to be doing than to go embarrassing the country


  • #71
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Just saw the report on the BBC. They reckon the people who turned up for the signings outnumbered the protesters.


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  • #72
    drkpower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,474 ✭✭✭drkpower


    drkpower wrote: »
    Clearly you didnt; would you like to provide the quote? Or at least paraphrase him and we will all have a laugh at your misunderstanding?.

    Still havent managed to get that quote/paraphrase him, Nodin?:rolleyes: Didnt think so, as I said, it is entirely clear you didnt understand him.

    I'll help you. He said that you couldn't take the possibility of military action off the table if all other efforts have failed; its a nuance you probably dont understand but that is not advocating military action, however much you want it to be.

    He said that 9-11 'changed the game'; it meant that you could no longer allow 'evil' regimes to hold weapons of mass destruction as 9-11 illustrated the potential harm they could cause; its a nuance you probably dont understand but that is not linking Saddam to 9-11, however much you want it to be.

    Try & listen next time.


  • #73
    CokaColumbo
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    I am ashamed at what happened to Tony Blair.


  • #74
    Lapin
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    Nodin wrote: »
    Nothing to do with the fact he's english.

    Hardly surprising, considering he is Scottish.

    The shoe throwing scumbags in O'Connell Street should be shot.


  • #75
    Happy Monday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Happy Monday


    He will get the same response in London as in Dublin.
    The man talked of Saddam attacking London with weapons within 1 hour.
    The evidence was erroneous and he got it wrong.
    AND HE KNEW IT WAS WRONG.
    Yet tens of thousands of people died as a result.
    I am no leftie but I can understand why this has happened.


  • #76
    King of Kings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭King of Kings


    drkpower wrote: »
    He didnt actually do either. You just didnt understand it.

    Out of interest, do you advocate doing anything if Iran are on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon and diplomatic efforts at avoiding same have failed?

    I advocate doing nothing. Iran is entitled to a nuke in the same manner the UK/USA/Israel/Russia etc... have theirs.


  • #77
    drkpower
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    King of Kings wrote: »
    I advocate doing nothing. Iran is entitled to a nuke in the same manner the UK/USA/Israel/Russia etc... have theirs.
    Good for you; but that is the reason that you, like Nodin, will never have any influence anywhere......ever. And thank Jebus for that.


  • #78
    RobitTV
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    those twats Embarrsing are country


  • #79
    macgrub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭macgrub


    Even if people do not agree with the man, I really do not think throwing eggs and shoes will prove much.
    If anything, that mob are not doing the anti-Blair contingent any favours. It's making them look like spoilt brats.


  • #80
    Min
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    Anti-war protesters firing missiles at Tony Blair.

    Do these people not see their own hypocrisy?
    Anti-war intelligence fail.


  • #81
    dan719
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    Nodin wrote: »
    I've never made an excuse for the dissidents and have condemned same on numerous occassions. Do not make false allegations, thanks.

    The dissidents? Who are they now exactly? Because AFAIK Sinn Fein didn't consider the Provisional Ira as dissidents? So those lads were grand chaps yeah?

    Blair did more for peace in the North than those scum ever will.


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  • #82
    Pauleta
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    These left wing wierdos have no respect for peace and democracy. No doubt that nutjob Boyd Barrett and his stooge Hugh Lewis are there directing things.


  • #83
    Wertz
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    King of Kings wrote: »
    I advocate doing nothing. Iran is entitled to a nuke in the same manner the UK/USA/Israel/Russia etc... have theirs.

    Oh tut tut...not if they propose the obliteration of the state of Israel, they're not.

    It's alright for all the rest to have their weapons (Israel included) once they're only allowed to use them for "defensive deterrent" purposes, but if you are an enemy of Israel, the "international commmunity" will shun you and seek to make sure that you can never make good on your threat...


  • #84
    Denerick
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    Groups represented at the demonstration included the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Coalition and the 32-County Sovereignty Movement.

    Why do these twats take over EVERY protest. The Palestinian solidarity movement is a front for far left Trotskyists and uncritical idiots who will defend the indefensible until the day they die, the other is the political wing of the CIRA.

    Makes me sick.


  • #85
    Absurdum
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    RobitTV wrote: »
    those twats Embarrsing are country

    LOL!


  • #86
    super_furry
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    Pauleta wrote: »
    These left wing wierdos have no respect for peace and democracy. No doubt that nutjob Boyd Barrett and his stooge Hugh Lewis are there directing things.

    Heard him on the radio on Thursday and, yep, he's one of the crusties pulling the strings. He's been at this carry on for at least 15 years now. I remember when I was still in school and seeing him and the rest of the rent-a-mob Socialist Workers Party of People Before Profit Popular Front of Judea, out at the central bank every weekend with a megaphone and a petition over that week's outrage.

    Some things never change.


  • #87
    Carlos_Ray
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    RobitTV wrote: »
    those twats Embarrsing are country


    Why do people say things like this? It must be the inferiority complex of the Irish bubbling to the surface again.:rolleyes:

    I wouldn't do what these people did, but I don't feel they embarrassed the country. Events like this happen all the time, all over the world.

    If you are so concerned with winning approval of other people all the time, then maybe your priorities are wrong. Besides, if someone allows a group of protestors to shape their view on a whole nation, their opinion is idiotic and irrelevant.


  • #88
    Sunnyisland
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    RoundyMooney wrote: »
    We're a funny bunch. Tony B. Liar, Axl Rose, and a few coach loads of orangemen incur the wrath of the nation, yet we bail out bondholders and the ECB for the next twenty years and nobody even raises their head.


    :o well said :o


  • #89
    Mike 1972
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    stimpson wrote: »
    He's lucky he wasn't late or it would have been bottles full of p1ss

    Say about 45 minutes :pac:
    Min wrote: »
    Anti-war protesters firing missiles at Tony Blair.
    Do these people not see their own hypocrisy?

    Unlike those used in Iraq on Blairs orders I dont see the missiles in question having much potential for lethality....unfortunately
    drkpower wrote: »
    He said that 9-11 'changed the game'; it meant that you could no longer allow 'evil' regimes to hold weapons of mass destruction
    like USA/Russia/China/France/UK/Israel/India/Pakistan/North Korea
    drkpower wrote: »
    as 9-11 illustrated the potential harm they could cause; .
    11/9 involved the use of hijacked airliners against tall buildings Not WMD's


  • #90
    ejmaztec
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    King of Kings wrote: »
    I advocate doing nothing. Iran is entitled to a nuke in the same manner the UK/USA/Israel/Russia etc... have theirs.

    You'd probably need more than one to take them all out, unless you've got a particularly huge one.


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  • #91
    CSF
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    Probably said before but well deserved imo, I think he can live with a few shoes and eggs considering how many unnecessary deaths he has on his conscience. He should face way more serious consequences imo. Not exactly a fan of mob justice but now that its done, I'm not about to backpat the offenders, but I can still feel the 'victim' deserved it.


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