“Somewhat complicated and unusual”
“If I’m wrong on this, I’ll eat my share of humble pie. But reader: On this one, I won’t be wrong.”
If you feel the system is rigged against you, why should you trust it?
And if it must be opposed, it should be opposed on stronger grounds than “the public cannot be trusted”.
It doesn’t matter how many cops you have, or what powers of search and seizure you give them, if criminals understand that getting caught is just a case of save-scumming, but in real life.
It is readily apparent that Mr. Babatunde was allowed into the country without anybody even googling him.
My point here is this: The Minister went on radio to spin a line, and the national broadcaster facilitated it.
Beyond a reasonable doubt? Hardly.
The discourse goes downhill.
There is no substitute, in the Irish system, for going out and building up a client base. Helen McEntee has done it, and most of her harshest critics – Willie O’Dea aside – have not.
Because officers are often petty people looking for petty wrongs to solve as these are a lot easier than say investigating all the rapes and burglaries out there.
At the launch of Fine Gael’s #GE24 law and order policy today, Ben Scallan asked Justice Minister Helen McEntee if she had any plan to address the problem of offenders caught with child sex abuse imagery being let off with fully suspended sentences. This was her response.