Republicans shoot up gambling machines.

[IrishWorker]

Those fucking gambling machines are a menace. I know young guys who put their entire wages or dole into them.

Although this was tokenism, shooting up a couple of machines will not solve the problem, it will send a message to the greedy bastards that put them in every public space possible that its not acceptable.


Shots fired in Derry bookies.

Masked gunmen have fired shots inside two bookmakers in Londonderry.
A man fired a single shot in the Ladbrokes bookmakers on Central Drive in the Creggan area of the city at around 8.20pm on Thursday.

Ten minutes later two masked men fired a number of shots inside the Ladbrokes bookmakers on the Racecourse Road in Shantallow.

It is understood the gunmen shot up poker machines and the television and claiming to be the IRA.

No one was injured during the shootings but staff are understood to be badly shaken.

Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed suspicious behaviour in the areas to contact them.

http://www.u.tv/News/Shots-fired-in-Derry-bookies/f5b8799e-b988-4632-af8f-7c1194acec0d#comment

[GoddessCleoLover]

State-sponsored gambling is just another method by which the bourgeois state exploits the working class.

[Crux]

I truly don't see the point of this. Sure, the House always win but still...

[IrishWorker]

I truly don't see the point of this. Sure, the House always win but still...

Tactically it served very little purpose but Im sure it put the shits up the greedy bastards that own the machines.

[Zederbaum]

Those fucking gambling machines are a menace. I know young guys who put their entire wages or dole into them.

Although this was tokenism, shooting up a couple of machines will not solve the problem, it will send a message to the greedy bastards that put them in every public space possible that its not acceptable.

Gambling machines are a small evil compared self-selected moralistic militarists. The first line in your signature is Politics in command and yet you are indulgent of such idiocy. It's no wonder left republicans can never deliver on the primacy of politics when you all live in haze of nostalgia for the whiff of cordite.



Shots fired in Derry bookies.

Masked gunmen have fired shots inside two bookmakers in Londonderry.
A man fired a single shot in the Ladbrokes bookmakers on Central Drive in the Creggan area of the city at around 8.20pm on Thursday.

Ten minutes later two masked men fired a number of shots inside the Ladbrokes bookmakers on the Racecourse Road in Shantallow.

It is understood the gunmen shot up poker machines and the television and claiming to be the IRA.

No one was injured during the shootings but staff are understood to be badly shaken.

Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed suspicious behaviour in the areas to contact them.

http://www.u.tv/News/Shots-fired-in-Derry-bookies/f5b8799e-b988-4632-af8f-7c1194acec0d#comment

"Claiming to be the IRA"?

Well, since there are now about 6 different micro-versions of the IRA, each marginally less pathetic (but more riddled with informers) than the other, I suppose that is about as much clarity as we can expect.

It's a wonder they didn't run off to a priest like they usually do.

[IrishWorker]

Gambling machines are a small evil compared self-selected moralistic militarists. The first line in your signature is Politics in command and yet you are indulgent of such idiocy. It's no wonder left republicans can never deliver on the primacy of politics when you all live in haze of nostalgia for the whiff of cordite.




"Claiming to be the IRA"?

Well, since there are now about 6 different micro-versions of the IRA, each marginally less pathetic (but more riddled with informers) than the other, I suppose that is about as much clarity as we can expect.

It's a wonder they didn't run off to a priest like they usually do.


No need for the smugness.

I agree totally ,the INLA , the IRSPs armed wing has decommissioned. http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/15544744

All the IRA Kitson esqe counter gangs are a shambolic mess, whose only purpose is to shore up the sectarian power sharing agreement in Stormont, MI5 are up to their eye balls in the whole lot.

But in saying that, I will not condemn any genuine Republican for taking up arms.

[Bronco]

Pathetic

[Ballyfornia]

I second the above. Also are these the same people who shot that man in Buncranna recently?

[IrishWorker]

Pathetic

Probably as pathetic as black bloc Anarchists breaking the windows in McDonald's.

[Bronco]

Probably as pathetic as black bloc Anarchists breaking the windows in McDonald's.

Irrelevant tendency baiting

[IrishWorker]

I second the above. Also are these the same people who shot that man in Buncranna recently?

Republican Action Against Drugs killed that young lad, he had been expelled from Ireland for dealing in Derry.

Seems he took refuge in Buncranna and was found out. It looks like the RAAD tried to break down the front door of the house but failed then fired 5-6 shots through the front window and clipped him in the head.

Tragic handling, but if he wasn't dealing his poison?

[IrishWorker]

Irrelevant tendency baiting

Your op was "irrelevant tendency baiting".

[Bronco]

Your op was "irrelevant tendency baiting".

I don't see how, it's not like I was just being anti-Republican or whatever, I simply described the action as pathetic and would so regardless of the perpetrators because I dont see how this can be classed as worthwhile activism, my initial thought when I saw the thread title was actually that it had been committed by American Republicans who'd gone weirdly militant or something

[Agathor]

Childish PR stunt.

[IrishWorker]

I don't see how, it's not like I was just being anti-Republican or whatever, I simply described the action as pathetic and would so regardless of the perpetrators because I dont see how this can be classed as worthwhile activism, my initial thought when I saw the thread title was actually that it had been committed by American Republicans who'd gone weirdly militant or something

Your pretentious attitude spoke volumes.

[commieathighnoon]

How does this kind of moralistic adventurism qualify as proletarian politics?

[bcbm]

it will send a message to the greedy bastards
staff are understood to be badly shaken hmm

[PhoenixAsh]

you know what....as token as this sounds...I thoroughly support this action.

Anybody ever notice.....poor areas: more liquor shops, more gambling houses and bookmakers, more sigarette stalls etc??

No?

Well...look around. Here in Europe that is pretty fucking common. The reason being that it is another exploit of poor(er) people and make another buck from them selling cheap forgetful bliss, anti stressors and hopes of fortune.

It is pretty reminiscent of the industrial revoolution era when towns evolved around factories and all shops and bars were owned by the bosses.

I have nothing against gambling, I have nothing against alcohol and I have nothing against sigarettes. But they are used strategically to further exploit the working class and bind them in missery.

Sorry...but that is my view of tings.

[Crux]

I don't see how, it's not like I was just being anti-Republican or whatever, I simply described the action as pathetic and would so regardless of the perpetrators because I dont see how this can be classed as worthwhile activism, my initial thought when I saw the thread title was actually that it had been committed by American Republicans who'd gone weirdly militant or something
Haha, me too. Gambling should after all, theoretically, be shunned by any christian.

[IrishWorker]

you know what....as token as this sounds...I thoroughly support this action.

Anybody ever notice.....poor areas: more liquor shops, more gambling houses and bookmakers, more sigarette stalls etc??

No?

Well...look around. Here in Europe that is pretty fucking common. The reason being that it is another exploit of poor(er) people and make another buck from them selling cheap forgetful bliss, anti stressors and hopes of fortune.

It is pretty reminiscent of the industrial revoolution era when towns evolved around factories and all shops and bars were owned by the bosses.

I have nothing against gambling, I have nothing against alcohol and I have nothing against sigarettes. But they are used strategically to further exploit the working class and bind them in missery.

Sorry...but that is my view of tings.

Do not apologise comrade, your 100% right.

[bcbm]

Anybody ever notice.....poor areas: more liquor shops, more gambling houses and bookmakers, more sigarette stalls etc??

yes. does shooting at them and the workers inside make them go away?

[Tim Cornelis]

I like it when a bunch of armed men decide what I can and can't do, I mean I'm just too dumb to decide something for myself. I need armed violence to help me prevent doing something stupid.

[KrasnayaRossiya]

they better shoot them! i know people who gambled their whole salaries on these devil-machines

[Tim Cornelis]

they better shoot them! i know people who gambled their whole salaries on these devil-machines

You're right, and while we're at it, let's blow up beer factories, stores that sell alcohol, and liquor shops. I mean, why should people have the right to determine for themselves, while we know what is best for them?

[KrasnayaRossiya]

because gamboling doesnt benefit economy for example
and people sometimes have to helped by the community,spare us your american liberalism-individualizm please

[Tim Cornelis]

because gamboling doesnt benefit economy for example
and people sometimes have to helped by the community,spare us your american liberalism-individualizm please

What the fuck does "benefiting the economy" have anything to do with it? Gambling "benefits the economy" as much as selling beer or weed.

But you're right, sometimes the community needs to help the individual. So let's blow up alcohol factories and liquor stores. It follows the exact same logic.

Yep, that's totally American liberalism. Except I'm neither American nor liberal.

[Crux]

What the fuck does "benefiting the economy" have anything to do with it? Gambling "benefits the economy" as much as selling beer or weed.

But you're right, sometimes the community needs to help the individual. So let's blow up alcohol factories and liquor stores. It follows the exact same logic.

Yep, that's totally American liberalism. Except I'm neither American nor liberal.

Republicans like their alcohol though.

[Dr Doom]

jesus christ, these degenerate maniacs are a constant curse on the working class in northern ireland.

fuck sake give the workers that live here a break and let them get on with their everyday lives without the additional problem of having to dodge bombs, bullets watever. and for what?