For the day that’s in it.
From Independent Documenteries:
What happened that day and why are 19 facing charges like false imprisonment and violent disorder?
Murphy among seven on trial over Jobstown incident (RTÉ)
previously: A Jury of Your Peers?
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lol
it’s a party political broadcast
Jail is too good for them
…should you not be on jury service?
No it really is.
Peaceful protest! Peaceful protest!
And social justice for all
Peaceful protest!
9-11 was an inside job?
And social justice for David Norris
Harambe still lives!
Neil is a gum
blushirt justice
Who exactly are “Independent Documentaries” out of interest? Because I’m not sure they have the same meaning of independent as the rest of us.
There is no indication on the Youtube account or any credits in the film itself. An Indymedia link* describes it as an “information clip” for a “Jobstown Not Guilty” protest held on Dame Street last Saturday. The link also associates it with the Louth branch of the Solidarity party, for whatever reason.
*http://www.indymedia.ie/article/106136
Not independant in the slightest.
Watched the first 10 mins or so on lunch and it’s like a fox news piece in it’s bias.
Want to get the 145 down again?
The sneering hatred of the working class in this country is shameful.
They clean your offices, change your tyres at the side of the road at 2am, deliver your food to your door, serve your obnoxious coke fueled face in Burger King at 4am, collect your bins, separate your recycling, clean your streets, mind your children, do the small DIY jobs you’re too precious to attempt.
But somehow you’re better.
i dislike Paul Murphy and he’s not working class by any definition
you could say i’m an equal opportunities anti water protester commentator
Honestly mate, I can’t think of the last time I met an individual in one of those professions that was working class Irish
Yeah, lots of D4 student types do child minding and work in retail and do delivery jobs.
You must live a very sheltered life young Sir.
+1
Surely the hypocrisy of that statement can’t be lost on you as you mash away on that greasy keyboard in whatever grim little spiderhole you’ve found yourself
Wow, nasty!
hieronymus tosh , mate.
I live in Jobstown, and I know neighbours in each of those professions.
Y U Not hire my neighbours? Eh?
Congratulations, you seem to have found yourself in the last bastion of the working class hero surrounded by kaleidoscope of hard working examples of the exact professions mentioned above, that’s convenient, credible and doesn’t sound like complete horsepoo.
Not all working class people work in menial jobs to serve the middle classes.
Surrounding an old lady in her car doesn’t make you working class; it makes you a thug. I imagine most working class people would disagree with barricading a person in their car, even if they don’t particularly like Joan Burton.
“Surrounding an old lady in her car doesn’t make you working class; it makes you a thug.”
Thug. And you would have made the journey while someone from Tallaght would have not. This country.
I agree with you, in that what they did was not… socially acceptable behaviour, for want of a better expression, HOWEVER at that point in time many people had experienced what was perceived as double standards and hypocrisy on the part of the elected government. Promises were made and not kept and continual cuts, along with failed supports for the working class and the ‘squeezed middle’ raised some very very valid anger.
I am not saying that what these people did was right, but I do think that what happened was the result of the government ignoring the needs of their people, the people who elected them, leading to a huge sense of betrayal and frustration. Desperation makes us do funny things.
bull
In your opinion.
Mine is clearly different to yours. Doesn’t make it invalid.
And I’ve yet to see you make a coherent argument here, btw. Just inserting one word comments that denigrate the point being made doesn’t make you look intelligent, if you’re interested, it just makes you look like a troll.
Silly Milly; assuming they were three dimensional, fundamentally good human beings who are as susceptible to their emotions as all people and were overcome with anger *while on a protest* at the sight of a politician who said people shouldn’t be protesting if they can afford smartphones. Don’t you know that working class people who get angry become heartless, subhuman thugs unworthy of empathy? Joan had to sit in her police protected car for THREE HOURS! Hanging is too good for these monsters.
Silly Milly…
You are fabulous, Moyest <3
Right again!
Dragging people along the road and stripping the clothes off them doesn’t make you a Garda, it makes you a thug. I imagine most working class people would agree that a sit-down protest is not a kidnapping, even if they’re all off they don’t particularly like facts.
Commenters around here are obsessed with class, it’s a shame we’re not still part of the UK so at least there’d be a formalized structure to rage against
‘People mentioning race are the REAL racists!’
Harry, the class system here is even more ingrained than it is in the UK, which has far greater social mobility.
We have people fully supporting the idea that these folks could be convicted of false imprisonment for sitting on the ground in front of a car that was surrounded by police officers. Fuppin right we’ve a problem with class in this country.
“We have people fully supporting the idea that these folks could be convicted of false imprisonment for sitting on the ground in front of a car…”
You must be thinking of some other protest; the protest that this trial is about involved people surrounding a car, banging on the roof and screaming obscenities for several hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu42hhXCLUs
They were standing up and shouting bad words? Oh my God! Lock them away for life!
If there’s no issue with banging on and roaring into a car then go into town and see how long you last by doing it.
similarly, why not prevent someone from leaving a phone box while screaming and roaring at its occupant.
I’m sure no one will mind and that there are on laws (there are) to prevent you.
If I did that, I’d expect to be locked in a cell until I was sober enough to go home and *possibly* wait for a summons for a public order charge. I would not expect to face trial for false imprisonment. But this is Ireland and uppity peasants must know their place.
Well if it did happen you could have been in for a surprised sport
A surprise sport is what the police were engaged in when they carried out *dawn raids* on people who attended a protest and shouted mean words.
that was overkill, I agree there
Human race is pathetic with its class systems. Society is a house of cards and we are all just animals on an insignificant rock.
F$%king brilliant….. very welll written Percival; really captures the social inequality which has ripped through this country in the last 8 years.
Oh, Percival, you have it aright. It’s the mutinous disobedience that really offends. How dare they not knuckle down and do what they’re told?