2.5 million sign petition
“You can’t make being an arsehole illegal”
Footage of drugs arrest viewed more than 250 times
There’s an obvious difference between the procurement of Pepper Spray, which is an obvious case of fighting the last war, and plans to equip public order Gardai with Tasers, which is a relatively obvious case of serious over-reaction.
“No serious evidence”
This is, in short, not a road that a free society should go down. The Green Party, having killed the proposal, should have the thanks of a grateful nation.
Why are NGOs which do not really represent anyone allowed to continue to claim a mandate that they simply do not have?
Criminalising speech
“Remember the “living with polio” campaign?” said Irish journalist Philip O’Connor the other day. Nope, me neither.
You know that scene in the first Jurassic Park movie, where Jeff Goldblum’s character says “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should”? That’s a great summation of where Irish politicians are at; just throwing policy after policy at the wall to see […]
20 months on, and we’re now reduced to having politicians urging citizens to root out a fifth column that threatens the national struggle.
We’re often critical of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties here at Gript, and nearly always because, well, they’re not very good at defending civil liberties. It is unusual, for example, for an organisation dedicated to civil liberties to be at the forefront of demands for restrictions on the right to protest, as they are […]