18 arson attacks so far, that’s domestic terrorism pure and simple.
The government has had a really slow response to the domestic terrorism coming from the far right.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it looks like someone might have to die for the government to really step up their efforts to combat the far right.
He’s right. The government are just sitting back and allowing this to happen. It beggars belief.
He’s not wrong and the government trying to downplay or deflect from Garda inability to get to grips with it (whether through incompetence or poor resourcing or both) is laughable.
Massive failure of community policing. This is going on all over the country and apparently the Gardai aren’t close enough to communities to know what’s happening, which in a way is scarcely believable. There is something very wrong when local people can congregate and have meetings leading to this kind of action and the Gardai aren’t all over it like a hot snot. What are they supposed to be doing, exactly? It feels like scumbags and reprobates are in charge of the streets in some places like Dublin, Athlone and Longford and then buildings are being set alight daily. How is this possible? These are not the conditions we want.
the gardaí have been downplaying the risk of the far right in the last couple of years while they have been consistently carrying out arson attacks since at least 2017/18. when people inevitably start dying that’s on them too
Surprised the blue shirts took pride in their history ? S/
Letting the numpties do what they liked during Covid was the start of it.
It’s like arson isn’t a crime here or something.
What policing by consent doin’?
Weren’t there a spare of arrests today?
He is right to call it terrorism. Dumb luck no one has been killed.
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What a load of rubbish!
If it was any group that could be associated with Murphy’s party or sinn feinn there would’ve government ministers queuing up to vilify them. There would be special task forces. Funding to gardai. But for some reason these thugs aren’t being taken seriously. I really worry for where we are headed.
Jesus some real tinfoil hat stuff in this thread.
Honestly the consistency of it really suggests it’s one group pulling this off. I very much doubt it’s locals in every area deciding to burn it down..
He’s right that they should have Garda at these places since the pattern is clearly there, although I’m not mad on him mentioning far right activist names every time. They love hearing their names in the Dail.
So [here](https://twitter.com/paulmurphy_TD/status/1674138458493800462) Paul Murphy presents well-reasoned opposition to the Special Criminal Court – but in using the ‘terrorist’ label for this, that means the cases would automatically go to the Special Criminal Court.
These aren’t inconsistent positions – he can consider those people terrorists while still wanting to abolish the SCC – but I would think he out of anyone would know the harm and arbitrary nature of the definition of ‘terrorist’, and associated laws, and that the risk of expanding use of anti-terror laws threatens many legitimate forms of activism/protest he would support.
It’s not terrorism. Paul is being a bit melodramatic. Any Irish people over 45 know what terrorism is unfortunately.
Don’t get me wrong, the people doing it are scum. It’s a horrible thing to do. But it’s objectively not terrorism. It could kill someone, but that is not its purpose. Its purpose is to both send a message, and put a property beyond use. It’s non-violent direct action against property.
As I said before, I don’t agree with it, I pass homeless refugees on Mount Street daily and depriving them of shelter is really fucked up, and I hope the people responsible are caught and prosecuted…but it’s not terrorism.
You had your chance to set a precedent when the BLM riots were happening. Doing anything now would be hypocritical. So get fucked.
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18 arson attacks so far, that’s domestic terrorism pure and simple.
The government has had a really slow response to the domestic terrorism coming from the far right.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it looks like someone might have to die for the government to really step up their efforts to combat the far right.
He’s right. The government are just sitting back and allowing this to happen. It beggars belief.
He’s not wrong and the government trying to downplay or deflect from Garda inability to get to grips with it (whether through incompetence or poor resourcing or both) is laughable.
Massive failure of community policing. This is going on all over the country and apparently the Gardai aren’t close enough to communities to know what’s happening, which in a way is scarcely believable. There is something very wrong when local people can congregate and have meetings leading to this kind of action and the Gardai aren’t all over it like a hot snot. What are they supposed to be doing, exactly? It feels like scumbags and reprobates are in charge of the streets in some places like Dublin, Athlone and Longford and then buildings are being set alight daily. How is this possible? These are not the conditions we want.
the gardaí have been downplaying the risk of the far right in the last couple of years while they have been consistently carrying out arson attacks since at least 2017/18. when people inevitably start dying that’s on them too
Surprised the blue shirts took pride in their history ? S/
Letting the numpties do what they liked during Covid was the start of it.
It’s like arson isn’t a crime here or something.
What policing by consent doin’?
Weren’t there a spare of arrests today?
He is right to call it terrorism. Dumb luck no one has been killed.
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What a load of rubbish!
If it was any group that could be associated with Murphy’s party or sinn feinn there would’ve government ministers queuing up to vilify them. There would be special task forces. Funding to gardai. But for some reason these thugs aren’t being taken seriously. I really worry for where we are headed.
Jesus some real tinfoil hat stuff in this thread.
Honestly the consistency of it really suggests it’s one group pulling this off. I very much doubt it’s locals in every area deciding to burn it down..
He’s right that they should have Garda at these places since the pattern is clearly there, although I’m not mad on him mentioning far right activist names every time. They love hearing their names in the Dail.
So [here](https://twitter.com/paulmurphy_TD/status/1674138458493800462) Paul Murphy presents well-reasoned opposition to the Special Criminal Court – but in using the ‘terrorist’ label for this, that means the cases would automatically go to the Special Criminal Court.
These aren’t inconsistent positions – he can consider those people terrorists while still wanting to abolish the SCC – but I would think he out of anyone would know the harm and arbitrary nature of the definition of ‘terrorist’, and associated laws, and that the risk of expanding use of anti-terror laws threatens many legitimate forms of activism/protest he would support.
It’s not terrorism. Paul is being a bit melodramatic. Any Irish people over 45 know what terrorism is unfortunately.
Don’t get me wrong, the people doing it are scum. It’s a horrible thing to do. But it’s objectively not terrorism. It could kill someone, but that is not its purpose. Its purpose is to both send a message, and put a property beyond use. It’s non-violent direct action against property.
As I said before, I don’t agree with it, I pass homeless refugees on Mount Street daily and depriving them of shelter is really fucked up, and I hope the people responsible are caught and prosecuted…but it’s not terrorism.
You had your chance to set a precedent when the BLM riots were happening. Doing anything now would be hypocritical. So get fucked.