This headline and the angle of this story bothers me. Firstly, Coolock is a big place, tens of thousands of people live there. A few hundred “protesters” at most are involved here and the article paints a picture that all of Coolock is involved…even the headline of the piece. Its pure classism. No mention of the likes of Philip O Dwyer or his Ireland first crowd who along with other right wing nutters are the source of the escalation …instead it’s the usual “oh look, northsiders are at it again” type angle.
Why should the State and normal, decent people back down from racist, violent thugs?
That would only provide them with a victory and embolden them to commit further attacks to get their way.
We’ve got to stand up to these people, not back down.
It will If you revoke social welfare payments/housing from people who breach the peace
It’s a water charges situation. In the end the state will back down in coolock I think. But that doesn’t mean we don’t need to take refugees. So something else will need to happen. I can’t imagine what it will be right now.
Arrest the nazi cos players and put them on trial in the SCC and these situations would be over.
When one side is the police enforcing the rule of law, why would there be any expectation for them to “back down”?
From what? I’m still struggling to see what people want except “no more immigrants.”
Why would they? It’s not like they have to work in the morning.
If the mobbing continues to be as sustained as it has been the government absolutely will back down. They show time and again they prefer the path of least resistance.
The government is going to have to make a decisive intervention to shut this protest down and to dramatically reduce the number of asylum seekers.
If they don’t we are going to have a shit-show on our hands
Are they still at it?!
Who are the all junkie looking freaks protesting?
People want homes, spaces in schools, beds in hospitals and staff to work in them. They don’t want undocumented individuals who are literally coming here to take advantage. We will welcome anyone coming here to contribute to the country. People are sick of the government allowing this and any criticism of immigration is automatically labelled as racist. It’s gotten to this point because the government has allowed it. They didn’t listen to reason up until this point. Whether you think they’re all thugs are junkies is up to you, but I don’t see anyone from Blackrock or ballsbrige complaining about IPAs being accommodated in their area.. oh yeah because it’s not happening there 🤔
Politically I don’t know who Coolock vote for but if they set up a party that represents their views it could do well in other parts of the country that mirror Coolock’s demographics / position on the issue
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“Very fine people on both sides.”
This headline and the angle of this story bothers me. Firstly, Coolock is a big place, tens of thousands of people live there. A few hundred “protesters” at most are involved here and the article paints a picture that all of Coolock is involved…even the headline of the piece. Its pure classism. No mention of the likes of Philip O Dwyer or his Ireland first crowd who along with other right wing nutters are the source of the escalation …instead it’s the usual “oh look, northsiders are at it again” type angle.
Why should the State and normal, decent people back down from racist, violent thugs?
That would only provide them with a victory and embolden them to commit further attacks to get their way.
We’ve got to stand up to these people, not back down.
It will If you revoke social welfare payments/housing from people who breach the peace
It’s a water charges situation. In the end the state will back down in coolock I think. But that doesn’t mean we don’t need to take refugees. So something else will need to happen. I can’t imagine what it will be right now.
Arrest the nazi cos players and put them on trial in the SCC and these situations would be over.
When one side is the police enforcing the rule of law, why would there be any expectation for them to “back down”?
From what? I’m still struggling to see what people want except “no more immigrants.”
Why would they? It’s not like they have to work in the morning.
If the mobbing continues to be as sustained as it has been the government absolutely will back down. They show time and again they prefer the path of least resistance.
The government is going to have to make a decisive intervention to shut this protest down and to dramatically reduce the number of asylum seekers.
If they don’t we are going to have a shit-show on our hands
Are they still at it?!
Who are the all junkie looking freaks protesting?
People want homes, spaces in schools, beds in hospitals and staff to work in them. They don’t want undocumented individuals who are literally coming here to take advantage. We will welcome anyone coming here to contribute to the country. People are sick of the government allowing this and any criticism of immigration is automatically labelled as racist. It’s gotten to this point because the government has allowed it. They didn’t listen to reason up until this point. Whether you think they’re all thugs are junkies is up to you, but I don’t see anyone from Blackrock or ballsbrige complaining about IPAs being accommodated in their area.. oh yeah because it’s not happening there 🤔
Politically I don’t know who Coolock vote for but if they set up a party that represents their views it could do well in other parts of the country that mirror Coolock’s demographics / position on the issue