**ALL THINGS IRISH WATER/WATER RELATED** Part 2 - MOD WARNING IN OP

Stargate wrote: »

if your so adamant on what you say , why don't you go here and make your point.

Er, because if he is right, he will get a bit of a seeing to, won't he? No?

Banjo String wrote: »

I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories, but to he'll with it, I'm gonna throw this one out here.

A week or two ago, we had Enda Kenny attending an appointment near Santry (Northwood) which is on Dublin's North side, and quite close to the scene of numerous protests, some of which successfully ended water meter installation in the areas.

Of course, Endas car was surrounded, protesters pepper sprayed, and an end result was Coolock Garda Station being surrounded by a group of people chanting.

That was the first of the "dissident republican" accusations to be trotted out.

Today then, we have the Tánaiste heading in to Jobstown, apparently to announce some election campaign fundraiser.

Jobstown, a working class area, Prob ninety percent of them would have been Labour voters, and they've witnessed the champagne socialists rip up pretty much every pre-election promise made, and rabbite, Gilmore, and Joan sneer at people, while they cut another service, or introduce another levy.

Unsurprisingly, Joans car gets surrounded by an angry mob (which their seems to be no shortage of these days)

Must set my alarm for early in the morning, cant wait on the Indos take on things.

My money is on either Al Qaeda, ISIS, Or the KKK now to have alleged links to the protests.

The clock is ticking FG and Labour. Not long left.

I think this is a conspiracy theory. Since you don't seem to know the reason she was where she was.

twowheelsgood wrote: »

Er, because if he is right, he will get a bit of a seeing to, won't he? No?

No twowheelsgood , there you go assuming things . Overall protests HAVE been peaceful , and i hope and pray they stay that way for everybody's sake . He could get shouted out of it , or pushed around like the protesters do , but that comes with the territory don't ya think?

The point i was trying to make is generalizing people as scumbags does not help imho .

conditioned games wrote: »

Having watched the tuggery behaviour on tv irish water now gets my full backing.

That's kinda like when I moved from the bloods to the crips.

All you have to do is have a look at some of these water protest facebook pages and you will see the kinda yokes that are supporting this anti government crap thats been going on in Ireland for a while now.

See thats the thing a lot of different everyday people from all classes and areas are protesting in the right way and are standing up for what they believe in and ive no issue with that. I personally think its pointless but at end the day its there choice and fair play.

The problem is theres a major amount of scumbags from working class areas jumping on this bandwagon now and giving whoever stands in there way hassle.

They dont give a **** weather its a water charge or a property tax they just dont want to pay it for the sake of it. Weather the government and the gardai deserve it or not theres a huge thug mentality towards them now and its obviously much worse when there thrown into holes like Jobstown.

The way I see it is protesting is ok fair play to them all

Blocking a road by sitting or whatever is not ok it's against the public order act in fact

Not compling with the directions of a Garda is not ok weather u agree with them or not

Throwing whatever and running after that wagon it's what she is but that's still not ok

That protest may of started peacefully and for very valid reasons but it did not end up that way

jonnny68 wrote: »

Independents and the Socialist Party and People before profit will make huge gains i think, i genuinely feel this time that people have finally woken up and seen that there is no point in this vicious merry go around involving FF /FG/LAB as they are all the same,there really is absolutely no difference at all, they are all equally as bad as each other, personally ill vote either People before profit or Socialist party, i might not necessarily agree with absolutely everything they stand for,one things for sure though, they wont impose austerity after austerity and bail the bankers out at the expense of Irish people not to mention scrap this shambles that is Irish water.

That sounds a bit Dublin centric. I don't think those groups are even organised in most areas outside Dublin. Plenty of Independents of all sorts, Kerry is full of Healy-Raes.

Burton is a troll of the highest order, going to areas where there is the strongest objection so as to get a violent reaction from a tiny minority so the govt can tarnish the majority who oppose the water tax.

I am really disappointed with the role An Garda Síochána is playing in this. Yes, they got forced into this mess but they should have more integrity and go after law breakers on both sites of the spectrum.

Why are they not going after the Irish water contractors that are clearly engaging in criminal behaviour (as shown on videos yesterday)? Now you can argue that the individual property owner did handle this not to the best but the contractors were clearly trespassing and using force while doing so.

Also how can they allow a senior cabinet minister to be illegally detained for several hours by a mob? Her close protection officer needs to be relegated to traffic warden for allowing this to happen, he is not fit to be detective in the special detectives unit.

Nothing against peaceful protest but stopping someone from going their way is not peaceful, especially when it involved hamming a car.

There is a difference in standing on the site of the street shouting slogans and waving signs (peaceful) and surrounding a car, hammering on it and throwing objects at Gardaí. This whole scene reminds me of a Lynch Mob. I don’t like Joan Burton (and it was foolish to go to such a hotspot in the first place) but that must have been a bad experience for her. The participants of this mob are losing their argument if even conservatives like me are feeling bad for labour party people.

It’s a sad state of affair that we have now mobs on the street that think they can do whatever they want while simultaneous having another mob running the country as they want (or rather doing as they have been told by their masters).