Jolly Red Giant
12th September 2015, 10:41
National media in Ireland are claiming that Socialist Party (CWI) member and Anti-Austerity Alliance TD (member of parliament) Paul Murphy and two SP members and AAA Dublin councillors Kiernan Mahon and Mick Murphy are among 27 people from Jobstown in Dublin who are facing charges of false inprisonment, violent disorder and criminal damage for their role as part of a protest of several hundred people that staged a sit-down protest that blocked the car of Deputy Prime Minister Joan Burton for two and a half hours in Jobstown last November.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0911/727274-jobstown-gardai/
These charges are part of a wider campaign by the establishment in Ireland against the right to protest stemming from the success of the boycott of water charges which has seen initially 57% of the population boycotting the new water charges with this number rapidly growing.
The government face a general election by next April at the latest with the largest party Fine Gael facing a major seat loss and the junior Labour Party facing a complete wipeout of their 30 seats. Their survival is linked directly to whether they can defeat the boycott of water charges and this attack on the right to protest is linked to their political survival with an attempt to criminalise the anti-water charges campaign.
A month ago the DPP or the police leaked information about impeding charges out of the Jobstown protest leading to a storm of protest from anti-water charges campaigners. Last night a further leak indicated that 27 are due to be charged with crimes that carry a sentence of up to life imprisonment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8GinTeLFq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0AfgSOPQ9w
http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0911/727274-jobstown-gardai/
These charges are part of a wider campaign by the establishment in Ireland against the right to protest stemming from the success of the boycott of water charges which has seen initially 57% of the population boycotting the new water charges with this number rapidly growing.
The government face a general election by next April at the latest with the largest party Fine Gael facing a major seat loss and the junior Labour Party facing a complete wipeout of their 30 seats. Their survival is linked directly to whether they can defeat the boycott of water charges and this attack on the right to protest is linked to their political survival with an attempt to criminalise the anti-water charges campaign.
A month ago the DPP or the police leaked information about impeding charges out of the Jobstown protest leading to a storm of protest from anti-water charges campaigners. Last night a further leak indicated that 27 are due to be charged with crimes that carry a sentence of up to life imprisonment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8GinTeLFq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0AfgSOPQ9w