Raging against a law that restricts civil liberties would barely cost Sinn Fein a single vote and would likely win it many more than it ultimately lost.
These TDs supported
Locked up for protecting privacy: New hate speech law could see Irish citizens jailed for refusing to give police phone passwords
Ultimately, the only way to resist is to completely ignore this law.
“Criminalising the wrong people.”
The objective here is plain: It is to reinforce liberal sensibilities, and lock those who speak a little too plainly out of civilised society.
And YOU pay for them
‘Inherent privilege’
“It seems like if you casually “express an opinion” within two football fields of an asylum centre, that could be construed as a violation of this proposed law as it’s currently laid out”: BEN SCALLAN unpacks the government’s bill to ban peaceful protests outside asylum centres, like the ones at East Wall and Finglas:
Not an exaggeration.
You get an adjective, not facts.
And indeed, people who would turn their faces away aghast from such rhetoric, coming from an angry truck driver with a megaphone, will instead nod soberly when it comes from a genteel columnist