McGregor on the day of the Dublin riots made early interventions stoking up the race riot. He explicitly called for asylum seeker accommodation to be burnt down amongst other things. On that day, refugee accommodation in Dublin did get set alight.
This follows a pattern of extremely light-touch policing on fascist agitators. The government seems intent to just allow this to continue, even allowing for a roaming band of them to travel across the country astroturfing this panic & committing acts of violence.
If the British government is able to quickly clamp down on those committing and inciting the racist violence, why can’t the Irish government?
caisdara on
People on here have moaned relentlessly about the proposed new laws on incitement to hatred and then moan relentlessly about not having them.
Edit: It’s also worth noting the tweet complained of is hopelessly vague and easily defended on the basis that it’s not an open call for anything really.
taibliteemec on
We’ve had political policing in Ireland now for a few years.
They actively helped far right scum into libraries to protest and onto buses to check IDs and they’ll try to stop PBP reps handing out leaflets and try to confiscate them at a housing protest.
momalloyd on
If we arrested everybody who comits a crime, we would get nothing done.
theseanbeag on
My guess would be nobody took responsibility for the investigation. The Gardaí are pretty territorial with district and divisional boundaries. The internet is both in everyone’s and nobody’s jurisdiction. So unless a member of the public actually makes a report to a Garda, they’ll all just assume someone else will handle it.
Senior-Scarcity-2811 on
Because we don’t live in an authoritarian police state.
You’d hope the populace in general is educated enough to know the man’s an ape. That’s a better defense than any police action for this kind of thing.
Smoked_Eels on
Have you reported it to the Guards? They might tell you.
Honestly, I reckon loads of us wondered out-loud about why he wasn’t being arrested without actually reporting him.
I assume the laws might not be there… yet.
OceanOfAnother55 on
He was only arson around
Potential-Drama-7455 on
I’m a big free speech guy but not when it comes to inciting violence and hatred. He definitely should be arrested for this.
HappyMike91 on
I’m a strong believer in freedom of speech, but that’s clearly incitement to hatred/violence. Especially because there are people in Ireland (that support the far right) who would burn down hotels because other people told them to.
marquess_rostrevor on
His legal defence may have something to do with a kettle.
Impossible-Jump-4277 on
I don’t think you know what the word evaporate means.
Byrnzillionaire on
My guess is its so vague that it would be not much more than a waste of Garda time.
FlamingoRush on
McGregor is a useless fucking idiot. 100% waste of oxygen.
Sotex on
Might not be targeted enough to prosecute. Or actually count as encouragement.
Gullintani on
Conor has family in England and his grandfather was English. Always these lads, recent to the parish, that seems to like to stir this trouble up…
DelGurifisu on
Evaporate? Wouldn’t stand up in court.
reillyrulz on
I’ll tell you why, he didnt name a place, he didnt mention a time and he didnt make a clear call to action i.e. he didnt even tell anyone to ‘burn’ anything. He also doesnt even mention a specific group of people who are supposedly taking over Irish properties. Its vague on all fronts.
Whatever you think about McGregor (which isnt much if you’re asking me), this would never stand up to any scrutiny anywhere.
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The wife of a Tory councillor over in England [has been arrested](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jll3eg33wo) after calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set alight.
McGregor on the day of the Dublin riots made early interventions stoking up the race riot. He explicitly called for asylum seeker accommodation to be burnt down amongst other things. On that day, refugee accommodation in Dublin did get set alight.
This follows a pattern of extremely light-touch policing on fascist agitators. The government seems intent to just allow this to continue, even allowing for a roaming band of them to travel across the country astroturfing this panic & committing acts of violence.
If the British government is able to quickly clamp down on those committing and inciting the racist violence, why can’t the Irish government?
People on here have moaned relentlessly about the proposed new laws on incitement to hatred and then moan relentlessly about not having them.
Edit: It’s also worth noting the tweet complained of is hopelessly vague and easily defended on the basis that it’s not an open call for anything really.
We’ve had political policing in Ireland now for a few years.
They actively helped far right scum into libraries to protest and onto buses to check IDs and they’ll try to stop PBP reps handing out leaflets and try to confiscate them at a housing protest.
If we arrested everybody who comits a crime, we would get nothing done.
My guess would be nobody took responsibility for the investigation. The Gardaí are pretty territorial with district and divisional boundaries. The internet is both in everyone’s and nobody’s jurisdiction. So unless a member of the public actually makes a report to a Garda, they’ll all just assume someone else will handle it.
Because we don’t live in an authoritarian police state.
You’d hope the populace in general is educated enough to know the man’s an ape. That’s a better defense than any police action for this kind of thing.
Have you reported it to the Guards? They might tell you.
Honestly, I reckon loads of us wondered out-loud about why he wasn’t being arrested without actually reporting him.
I assume the laws might not be there… yet.
He was only arson around
I’m a big free speech guy but not when it comes to inciting violence and hatred. He definitely should be arrested for this.
I’m a strong believer in freedom of speech, but that’s clearly incitement to hatred/violence. Especially because there are people in Ireland (that support the far right) who would burn down hotels because other people told them to.
His legal defence may have something to do with a kettle.
I don’t think you know what the word evaporate means.
My guess is its so vague that it would be not much more than a waste of Garda time.
McGregor is a useless fucking idiot. 100% waste of oxygen.
Might not be targeted enough to prosecute. Or actually count as encouragement.
Conor has family in England and his grandfather was English. Always these lads, recent to the parish, that seems to like to stir this trouble up…
Evaporate? Wouldn’t stand up in court.
I’ll tell you why, he didnt name a place, he didnt mention a time and he didnt make a clear call to action i.e. he didnt even tell anyone to ‘burn’ anything. He also doesnt even mention a specific group of people who are supposedly taking over Irish properties. Its vague on all fronts.
Whatever you think about McGregor (which isnt much if you’re asking me), this would never stand up to any scrutiny anywhere.
Not enough evidence that the call was serious.