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Minister Alan Kelly bomb threat

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  • #32
    fergus1001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    There is, but that doesn't mean they should sit back and just accept people threatening to to harm them, trapping them in their cars, chasing them etc.

    I have no problem with protesting PEACEFULLY but that's not what is happening now and it's just wrong. People behaving like bullies and thugs and it needs to stop.

    As opposed to the politicians behaving like bullies and thugs loading legislation through the Dail without debate, I'm sorry but when they act democraticly we will act the same


  • #33
    fergus1001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    As opposed to the politicians behaving like bullies and thugs loading legislation through the Dail without debate, I'm sorry but when they act democraticly we will act the same


  • #34
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    There's not one shred of evidence that I can see....only hearsay.

    Honestly these water protesters will say anything to try and gain sympathy.

    Making things up doesn't help your cause at all.

    What evidence are you talking about?


  • #35
    Fuhrer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,661 ✭✭✭Fuhrer


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    Making things up doesn't help your cause at all.


    Sure it does.


  • #36
    Deathwish4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭Deathwish4


    This whole thing is just getting tiresome and ridiculous now.


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  • #37
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,968 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    poisonated wrote: »
    A lot of these protesters seem to be scum. Throwing a brick, hitting a minister with a water balloon, climbing on to cars of ministers. I would love to see as many of these people get arrested as possible.

    Three instances out of hundreds of thousands of people who have marched and protested.

    Get a grip.


  • #38
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Just saw someone on Facebook claiming the bomb threat was photoshopped.

    How do you photoshop a phone call?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #39
    poisonated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭poisonated


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Three instances out of hundreds of thousands of people who have marched and protested.

    Get a grip.

    The thing is that it is not just three instances. It is three instances that have been documented. If you look around these people, they appear to be acting in a similar manner.


  • #40
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    How do you photoshop a phone call?

    Badly?


  • #41
    John.Icy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,318 ✭✭✭John.Icy


    Tony EH wrote: »
    It IS pretty amazing isn't it.

    People have been prosecuted for much, much less.

    They know who it is, they have him on camera. It's case closed really.

    But no prosecution?

    Hmmmmmmmm....

    Where are you even living?

    I have read (as has anyone who is even remotely in touch with say whats happening in Dublin) COUNTLESS things that have occurred in Dublin and the perpetrators have got off free of charge. All the muggings, beatings etc happening in Dublin, nearly ALWAYS released free of charge + file sent to the DDP. People getting off without prosecution is NOT a new thing. It's our lazy justice system that tackles the easy stuff.


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  • #42
    DrGreenthumb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 720 ✭✭✭DrGreenthumb


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    How do you photoshop a phone call?

    you get a picture of a phonebox and a picture of colin farrel and blend them together


  • #43
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    DrGreenthumb wrote: »
    you get a picture of a phonebox and a picture of colin farrel and blend them together

    Won't work...Colin's off the sauce these days. He stopped making threatening phone calls after Bruce Willis had a New Jersey word with him.
    I still think Bosco may be our bomb threat person.


  • #44
    masculinist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭masculinist


    I dont' believe Minister Alan Kelly. These boyos have cried wolf for years. If they want to be believed they better do the honest thing, steer the country back towards democracy and accountability by immediately calling a referendum and General Election. They are ruling without mandate against the will of practically the whole country which is disgraceful because it sends the message that our parliament is something of a joke.


  • #45
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Timmyctc wrote: »
    Just to clarify. Everyone's taking the piss about the brick guy being a guard yeah?

    The conspiracy theorist who wrote that crap wasnt.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #46
    Streetwalker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Streetwalker


    poisonated wrote: »
    A lot of these protesters seem to be scum. Throwing a brick, hitting a minister with a water balloon, climbing on to cars of ministers. I would love to see as many of these people get arrested as possible.

    So you mean the three you have pointed out there out of hundreds of thousands that have partaken in the protests? Yeah lots that.


  • #47
    Streetwalker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Streetwalker


    Deathwish4 wrote: »
    This whole thing is just getting tiresome and ridiculous now.

    Time for an election. The government has lost it's mandate.


  • #48
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    fergus1001 wrote: »
    As opposed to the politicians behaving like bullies and thugs loading legislation through the Dail without debate, I'm sorry but when they act democraticly we will act the same

    Because two wrongs always make a right don't they :rolleyes:

    It has to stop on both sides, or nothing will change.
    Banjo String wrote: »
    What evidence are you talking about?

    There isn't any evidence to support the idea that man who threw the brick was a Garda, that's my point.
    Fuhrer wrote: »
    Sure it does.

    If you think that you're a lost cause.


  • #49
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Streetwalker wrote: »
    Time for an election. The government has lost it's mandate.

    But who's the alternative? The party who caused all this mess in the first place? The one with a terrorist and, if we're to believe the recent allegations, pedophile enabler as leader?


  • #50
    fergus1001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    But who's the alternative? The party who caused all this mess in the first place? The one with a terrorist and, if we're to believe the recent allegations, pedophile enabler as leader?

    All political parties were terrorists at some point or do you like to conveniently forget some history.


  • #51
    Fuhrer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,661 ✭✭✭Fuhrer


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »

    If you think that you're a lost cause.


    What is the proof that there was an actual bomb threat made against Alan Kelly and not just one of his staff or a friend of the staff making the whole thing up.


    This seems to be helping his cause, if hes lying about it. Doesnt lying help his cause?


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  • #52
    TheQuietFella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭TheQuietFella


    T'sure wouldn't your heart go out to them! God bless them all.


  • #53
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    What would victor meldrew Say ?


  • #54
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    He got a suspicious package this morning.

    http://www.clare.fm/news/bomb-squad-called-office-minister-alan-kelly


  • #55
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Chucken wrote: »
    He got a suspicious package this morning.

    http://www.clare.fm/news/bomb-squad-called-office-minister-alan-kelly

    It amazes me it's suspicious after it's been opened.


  • #56
    Mightydrumming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mightydrumming


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    What would victor meldrew Say ?

    I don't beeeeeeelieve it :)


  • #57
    columf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭columf


    Chucken wrote: »
    He got a suspicious package this morning.

    http://www.clare.fm/news/bomb-squad-called-office-minister-alan-kelly

    Went up the town earlier for a look. The place was fookin mental guards and army bomb disposal all over the place. Declared a hoax was a letter containing white powder and a threatening letter.


  • #58
    JustTheOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    masculinist wrote: »
    I dont' believe Minister Alan Kelly. These boyos have cried wolf for years. If they want to be believed they better do the honest thing, steer the country back towards democracy and accountability by immediately calling a referendum and General Election. They are ruling without mandate against the will of practically the whole country which is disgraceful because it sends the message that our parliament is something of a joke.
    What are you harping on about against the will of the country?


  • #59
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Poor old comical kelly always gets a hoax threat whenever he's on the end of bad PR.


  • #60
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    columf wrote: »
    Went up the town earlier for a look. The place was fookin mental guards and army bomb disposal all over the place. Declared a hoax was a letter containing white powder and a threatening letter.

    why do they need the bomb squad for letters containing white powder?

    Very convenient that this happens the day before a protest.


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  • #61
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,968 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    If Kelly thinks that this rubbish is going to get him sympathy or attention he has another thing coming.

    The sooner Labour get rid of this fake the better.


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