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Poet, Activist, Parkinson's sufferer and Granny (79) gets jailed for 6 months.

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  • #32
    An Fhuiseog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭An Fhuiseog


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    If there's one thing that literally makes me tear my hair out and set fire to my head and boil my brains in the scorching heat, it's emotive journalism.

    You must have one ugly looking head so!


  • #33
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Two wrongs never make a right.

    (There are an infinite amount of examples available to any human being with a working brain to contradict this horrifically overused term.)

    Anyway, she was given the option to avoid jail and she refused it, so obviously this is what she wanted.


  • #34
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Two wrongs never make a right.

    I don't argue that she shouldn't have been jailed. She broke the law, refused not to do so again and has rightly been jailed as anyone else would be if they done the same.

    I do however find it ironic and intolerable that people harp on about how she endangered lives (did she even.. where's the evidence for that?).. She was protesting against the use of the airport, and of our sovereign nation; being used for the purposes of enabling torture and kidnapping of people in other countries. Anyone that doesn't have an issue with those things, yet feigns concern over how the woman endangered lives; is frankly not worth listening to.


  • #35
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭mathepac


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    ... tear my hair out and set fire to my head and boil my brains in the scorching heat ...
    Can I help ow might this do it for you?
    bumper234 wrote: »
    You do realise that she put hundreds of innocent people in danger right? ....
    Is this hyperbolic enough to encourage you, right?


  • #36
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    end of the road wrote: »
    not at all, US military aren't "innocent"

    would cost to much, we can't afford it, we have to save the space for actual criminals such as murderers rapists paedophiles and so on. and she isn't a "silly old cow" she is a brave woman standing up for whats right and paying almost the ultimate price, fair play to her, a true hero
    No offence but thats utter Boll*x


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  • #37
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    mathepac wrote: »
    Poet, Activist, Parkinson's sufferer and Granny (79) gets jailed for 6 months and abused by brave, anonymous internet posters for acting on her principles.

    Fellow anonymous internet poster mathepac.

    Seeing as you're quoting me there can you please point out where in my post did I direct any abuse in the direction of Mrs D'Arcy ?


  • #38
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    A brave, courageous woman. Shannon Whoreport is a national disgrace. How we bent over and took it in the ass from the US military machine is a constant source of shame.


  • #39
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,007 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    The Manganese Overlord wrote: »
    Stupid cause
    your in favour of the US military using an irish airport on their way to a war or possibly as part of some secret dodgy program possibly involving torcher, grand so, not a stupid cause at all

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • #40
    opinionated3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭opinionated3


    Delighted she got sent down. Sick of these crusties hanging around like a bad smell at our airport. Most local people around Shannon are happy to have the US military use the airport despite the propaganda that groups like shannonwatch like to peddle.


  • #41
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    I think it was Shelley who called poets the unacknowledged legislators of the world, so shouldn't it really be her who sends them to jail?


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  • #42
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    opinionated3 wrote: »
    Delighted she got sent down. Sick of these crusties hanging around like a bad smell at our airport. Most local people around Shannon are happy to have the US military use the airport despite the propaganda that groups like shannonwatch like to peddle.

    What sort of propaganda? I wouldn't boast of being happy allowing a country use ours as a stopover before partaking in illegal acts of rendition and torture. Whatever about your thoughts on this lady's actions, to be happy about their presence is pretty shameful.


  • #43
    DwightSchrute1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭DwightSchrute1


    old hippy wrote: »
    A brave, courageous woman. Shannon Whoreport is a national disgrace. How we bent over and took it in the ass from the US military machine is a constant source of shame.

    Shannon Whoreport instead of Shannon Airport, I get it. I get jokes. Very clever


  • #44
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    opinionated3 wrote: »
    Delighted she got sent down. Sick of these crusties hanging around like a bad smell at our airport. Most local people around Shannon are happy to have the US military use the airport despite the propaganda that groups like shannonwatch like to peddle.

    So Shannon Airport just 'belongs' to the people of Shannon now??


  • #45
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    end of the road wrote: »
    not at all, US military aren't "innocent"

    would cost to much, we can't afford it, we have to save the space for actual criminals such as murderers rapists paedophiles and so on. and she isn't a "silly old cow" she is a brave woman standing up for whats right and paying almost the ultimate price, fair play to her, a true hero

    Who mentioned US military flights?

    I am talking about the hundreds of innocent men women and children who were on civilian flights approaching Shannon when this old bint and her cronies pulled their stupid stunt.


  • #46
    opinionated3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭opinionated3


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    What sort of propaganda? I wouldn't boast of being happy allowing a country use ours as a stopover before partaking in illegal acts of rendition and torture. Whatever about your thoughts on this lady's actions, to be happy about their presence is pretty shameful.

    I have nothing to be ashamed of buddy. Very happy to support the US military in their pursuit of the likes of the taliban and al qaeda wherever they may be. That's the way I look at it. You may not agree and that's fine. ... that's your opinion. Shannonwatch would have everyone believe that the whole irish populace is against the military using Shannon. Not the case


  • #47
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,007 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    opinionated3 wrote: »
    Delighted she got sent down. Sick of these crusties hanging around like a bad smell at our airport.
    people protesting at an airport isn't an issue for you, a lot more important things you should be worrying about such as ireland acting as a pimp to the US meaning those people having to protest
    opinionated3 wrote: »
    Most local people around Shannon are happy to have the US military use the airport
    you have asked all those living around the area?
    opinionated3 wrote: »
    despite the propaganda that groups like shannonwatch like to peddle.
    what "propaganda" the US military are using the airport for the laugh yes? or is it because its the most convenient re-fueling point on the way to their latest war?

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • #48
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    whirlpool wrote: »
    (There are an infinite amount of examples available to any human being with a working brain to contradict this horrifically overused term.)

    Anyway, she was given the option to avoid jail and she refused it, so obviously this is what she wanted.

    And there are an infinite amount of examples to anyone with a working human brain, including the subject of this thread, that support this overused term.


  • #49
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    opinionated3 wrote: »
    Delighted she got sent down. Sick of these crusties hanging around like a bad smell at our airport. Most local people around Shannon are happy to have the US military use the airport despite the propaganda that groups like shannonwatch like to peddle.

    And you got to love the propaganda that us anti-war folk are smelly crusties etc. etc. Have you ever been on a demo or march? People from all walks of life go on them.
    bumper234 wrote: »
    Who mentioned US military flights?

    I am talking about the hundreds of innocent men women and children who were on civilian flights approaching Shannon when this old bint and her cronies pulled their stupid stunt.

    That's not very nice of you. Why use her age against her?


  • #50
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,007 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    bumper234 wrote: »
    Who mentioned US military flights?

    I am talking about the hundreds of innocent men women and children who were on civilian flights approaching Shannon when this old bint and her cronies pulled their stupid stunt.
    doubt that happened

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • #51
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    She escaped from Tales From The Big House? That is where she should be. Did she really think that she'd achieve anything other than notoriety. That, I think, was her plan.


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  • #52
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Chucken wrote: »
    And if you don't stand up for something, you'll fall for anything.

    A woman of principles. Fair play to her.

    Most people have principles, but she broke the law in excercising hers and refused to say she would jot do it again. This is just plain silly in my opinion.


  • #53
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I don't argue that she shouldn't have been jailed. She broke the law, refused not to do so again and has rightly been jailed as anyone else would be if they done the same.

    I do however find it ironic and intolerable that people harp on about how she endangered lives (did she even.. where's the evidence for that?).. She was protesting against the use of the airport, and of our sovereign nation; being used for the purposes of enabling torture and kidnapping of people in other countries. Anyone that doesn't have an issue with those things, yet feigns concern over how the woman endangered lives; is frankly not worth listening to.

    Could not agree more on both points.


  • #54
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    old hippy wrote: »
    And you got to love the propaganda that us anti-war folk are smelly crusties etc. etc. Have you ever been on a demo or march? People from all walks of life go on them.



    That's not very nice of you. Why use her age against her?
    Why not use her age against her? The article is using it to sympathy whore for her. People always harp on about discrimination and ageism. She's being treated like anyone else would be. A pointless woman indulging in an egotistical publicity stunt. Shannonwatch are a bunch of fcuking egotistical idiots who bore the ar*e off anyone who'll listen to them. There's not much support locally for them. Let them feck off and protest outside an American embassy or something, instead of fannying about in orange jumpsuits.

    When all's said and done she'll probably be at home tonight after being processed and told she's on licence due to overcrowding or some such excuse.


  • #55
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    old hippy wrote: »
    A brave, courageous woman. Shannon Whoreport is a national disgrace. How we bent over and took it in the ass from the US military machine is a constant source of shame.

    You seem very much at home with your analogies. Speaking from experience, are we?


  • #56
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Most people have principles, but she broke the law in excercising hers and refused to say she would jot do it again. This is just plain silly in my opinion.

    What about the unlawful practice the US adopted in its so-called ‘War on
    Terror’ in which numerous men have been illegally detained by US secret
    services, and secretly flown to third countries?


  • #57
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    end of the road wrote: »
    if it was US military flights she was disrupting then good on her, anything that makes it a little difficult for the US to use any of our airports as part of a war gets the thumbs up from me, 24 year old man or 79 year old woman wouldn't matter to me

    If you think she was right why don't you pop down to Shannon for a while so?


  • #58
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,007 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    opinionated3 wrote: »
    I have nothing to be ashamed of buddy.
    well you should be ashamed supporting the US using ireland as part of their latist acts of terrorism
    opinionated3 wrote: »
    Very happy to support the US military in their pursuit of the likes of the taliban and al qaeda wherever they may be.
    why would you support the US going after a made up organisation (al qaeda) and a bunch of nobodies such as the taliban who really aren't a threat to anyone, and in the process deliberately killing civilians, and causing an all ready failed state or failed states to go under more, they have turned iraq into a blood bath and a state who's government can't control it where division is even more rife then under the brutal dictator who was there before who even though he was filth of the highest order kept the country together.
    opinionated3 wrote: »
    That's the way I look at it.
    your deluded, thats not the reason the US are invading these countries, anyone delusianel to support the US in their endeavours are the ones spreading the propaganda to be honest
    opinionated3 wrote: »
    You may not agree and that's fine. ... that's your opinion.
    i disagree with torcher, war, causing states to fail, killing of civilians deliberately, and i disagree with those who condone such actions.
    opinionated3 wrote: »
    Shannonwatch would have everyone believe that the whole irish populace is against the military using Shannon.
    many are, but haven't the time to protest sadly, if people really knew what the US were up to a lot more would be against.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • #59
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    end of the road wrote: »
    well you should be ashamed supporting the US using ireland as part of their latist acts of terrorism

    why would you support the US going after a made up organisation (al qaeda) and a bunch of nobodies such as the taliban who really aren't a threat to anyone, and in the process deliberately killing civilians, and causing an all ready failed state or failed states to go under more, they have turned iraq into a blood bath and a state who's government can't control it where division is even more rife then under the brutal dictator who was there before who even though he was filth of the highest order kept the country together.

    your deluded, thats not the reason the US are invading these countries, anyone delusianel to support the US in their endeavours are the ones spreading the propaganda to be honest

    i disagree with torcher, war, causing states to fail, killing of civilians deliberately, and i disagree with those who condone such actions.

    many are, but haven't the time to protest sadly, if people really knew what the US were up to a lot more would be against.

    have you ever thought maybe you'd feel more at home in the conspiracy theory forum?


  • #60
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    end of the road wrote: »
    a lot more important things you should be worrying about such as ireland acting as a pimp to the US meaning those people having to protest

    why would that have to worry me?

    amount of sleep lost - 0
    amount of ****s given - 0


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  • #61
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    end of the road wrote: »
    doubt that happened

    You doubt it happened but I tell you for a fact that it did happen.


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