Nonsense.Originally Posted by Playitsam
The gards did the only thing they know how to do: weight-in with brute force. They don't do subtlety, they don't do moderation and they don't do negotiation.
They don't do much about crime either.
What is very apparent in this clip is a lack of training. When one considers the length of time that they spend in Templemore, and their lack of competence in pretty much every area of policing, one might wonder what training they actually receive, if any.
Surely an experienced police-officer should be thick-skinned enough to survive a bit of verbal hostility. We expect this from footballers, healthcare workers and even children in the school playground - a grown policeman shouldn't cry every time he hears the word "pig" - you never know, once in a while it mightn't even be aimed at him!
I'm sure that every decent person was disgusted by the death of those kids, and heartbroken for their families. But, be clear, sympathy is not about using a tragedy for political capital and as leverage to kill hundreds of civilians as Israel has done in this case.
And to describe these tragic deaths as the "spark" for what is happening in Gaza now is willfully stupid. The roots of this crisis are the same as the roots of all crises in that part of the world: A bully-boy state illegally occupies somebody else's land and labels the people who live there as terrorists so as to justify the continued occupation and the ongoing brutality towards those people.
One might understand why we here in Ireland empathise with the Palestinian people. At one time we were the Palestinian people.
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