Water meter protests

Streetwalker wrote: »

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhidsnsnkfmh/

Now they are whining? Feck off

curioser wrote: »

What other country would tolerate its Deputy Prime Minister being treated as Joan Burton was on Saturday? Police, and troops if necessary, would have moved the crowds tout suite.

The anti water charges crowd have seriously undermined the whole movement and the upcoming demo at the Dail will be a collection of the hard core with very few "ordinary" folk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTiI1e-wVc

gandalf wrote: »

Well its not unique to Ireland tbh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTiI1e-wVc

I don't remember the troops being mobilised after that incident in the UK, do you?

crusher000 wrote: »

Where did the reference to photoshop come from ?. The picture is real but not from the incident that happened with the minister. Sure throw in a smouldering plane while your at it and say Irish water protestors bring down plane at protest involving minister.

AboutaWeekAgo wrote: »

To be fair, there were people on both sides of the argument saying that the picture was photoshoped because it looked ridiculously photoshoped. Once the video and the rest of the pictures came out everyone said they were wrong. But don't let that get in the way of your sly remarks.

Tallaght Water Charge Protest Update:

It has been now confired by a friend of a serving Garda member, stationed in Tallaght, that the person involved in the brick throwing incident, that was caught on video, was a serving Garda Detective based in another Dublin City Garda Station.

This confirmation was made to a friend of mine who is friends with a Uniformed Garda member that made the admission. He went on to say how he was disgusted by the actions of his colleagues in Tallaght yesterday in which he witnessed women and children being pepper sprayed by Gardai.

The Garda went on to further talk of his disgust at the fact that he had witnessed legitimate protesters being set up from the very start. The Garda member further stated that other members have quietly expressed their disgust at the same sight of women and childern being attacked and pepper sprayed.

The Garda member was shown the images of the person throwning the brick and stated that the blue garment under the persons red jacket is a Garda issue Stab Vest, he had no doubts about that fact.

The Irish Independent newspaper, owned by Tax Exile Denis O'Brien, who owns GMC Sierra Ltd, later used a Photoshop Composite image created from a selection of other digital images taking by their photgraphers in the area yesterday.

This fakey of images was believed to have been inspired by the fact that people were protesting outside the Independent Newspaper printing works in near City West that same day.

However the attempt to discredit the legitmate protest, using the altered images, falied because people online quickly spotted that the image was clearly doctored.

Also the fact that it showed no anti - water charge signs in the background of the image. The reason being is that the water charge protesters had left the area when Joan Burton was gone. The infamous brick throwning incident was captured an hour or so after Mrs Burton had left the Tallaght area and the protesters went home.

Local politicians viewing the images have said that it is a say day in the nations history that a national newspaper and the Gardai conspire to discredit legimate protest over water charges.

Bob Allen Peters

AboutaWeekAgo wrote: »

She wasn't blocking anything though? She got in touching range of the car for about half a second before two guards restrained her and another guard ran across, in front of the car, and threw her to the ground.

Streetwalker wrote: »

It's assault plain and simple. Being totally ignored by main stream media today also it's all about a minister stuck inside her car for 2 hrs god love her. I guess if you aren't part of the establishment the police force of the state can do what they want.

Phoebas wrote: »

In the video further down the page - about 35 seconds in. Same incident.

Nabber wrote: »

Timberrrrrr..... I don't think even Enda Kenny has argued the water charges as much as you have.

I don't think water charges deserves any sort of violence. People talking of revolutions like this country has it bad. People on welfare still get to have a few pints and the odd holiday.

I'm against the charges, also against the crusades.