Garda Special Branch Spy On Cork Anti-War March

by jeff Sun Mar 09, 2003 17:53

..and where they do be at certain times, etc? If a crowd of thirty just surrounded the car and gawked and laughed at say two of them, would they go away?

by ipsiphi Sun Mar 09, 2003 18:27

by sitting with a loaded UZI sub machine gun on his lap. Garda like ambulance drivers, fire brigade drivers and taxi drivers are exempt from regulations covering seat belt use.

I remember as a young man [the younger O´as-íf] gawking regularly at the special branch duo who did the end of the day cash run up Grafton Street. I was assisted in the ·gawk· by my dear friend Chris [R.I.P.] We once tried pamhpleteering the duo and going a bit further than the ·gawk· but that resulted in my being subject to stop and search under miscellenous prohibition of Drug acts for the following period of three months. I remember the younger O´as-íf then left the city for a short period attempting to survival farm a miserable 3 acres in Carlow.

A loaded UZI can decimate a busy street in less time than it takes to read this harmless but maybe interesting indulgence in the biography of one your contemporaries. UZI submachine guns are inaccurate, take a fairly limited magazine and really are only for beginners in the "machine gun" world. I have never seen a Garda either as "passer-by witness" or "recorded on video-tape" handle a gun properly. That is ·according to regulation or training·. In fact.....I may be pushing it so I´ll retract the "in fact". I don´t seem to recall the Garda (whom the keen reader will note are the only non military force in Ireland with access to both UZI and ammunition for same) ever ever ever using these what could be thought of as "assault" weapons with the pre-requisite ·warning·.

CORK! dont be scared of them. bring them some rubbish next time. but dont go gawking at them.

by d Sun Mar 09, 2003 21:29

you can hardly blame them for 'spying' on the march...they are just trying to collect intelligence on whether or not there will be another day of direct action at shannon....

by Des Sun Mar 09, 2003 21:38

There was absolutely no need for the brach to spy on the march re any further "direct actions", the GNAW masterminds will no doubt inform them in advance via the IMC.

by Fintan Lane - Cork Anti-War Campaign Sun Mar 09, 2003 22:16

The Special Branch were also present in an unmarked car on 1 March watching people getting on our buses for the Shannon demonstration. I approached them, tapped on their window, and inquired what they were doing there, and for my troubles was threatened with arrest.

by wide eyed Sun Mar 09, 2003 22:29

The 'branch' are secret police, they spy on their citizens, that is what the politicans pay them huge amounts to do.

by Geez they're not that secret Sun Mar 09, 2003 23:58

Always obvious - have a rogues gallery of footages of same - They like fotografing us - we like fotografing them - makes it even stevens

by Bulldog brit bill lowry Mon Mar 10, 2003 00:50

Gardai special branch are bumbling bogtrotting buffoon amateurs, they're nothing compared to RUC special branch, we're the best, simply the best.

by chief cuntstable dawn lowry Mon Mar 10, 2003 00:54

Its true many of them are prods, but still bogtrotters, they try their best to copy RUC special branch, maybe someday they'll learn off the best, till then watch and learn, bumbling bogtrotting gardai.

by Big Brother Mon Mar 10, 2003 01:07

when you get into government what will you do with the money?

by Disinterested Mon Mar 10, 2003 01:41

If the RUC were so damn good how come we've had 30 years of paramilitary gangsters playing havoc in Ulster, financed by drugs and protection rackets.

The Gardai don't allow the IRA much room for their criminal activites in the other provinces.

by ipsiphi Mon Mar 10, 2003 13:08

I remember gawking at the RUC special branch as well once. Oh thought I, this is pushing the "boundaries".
They used to, probably still do, come down and have a gawk themselves at the interesting people in Dublin.
Sure in the eighties half the traffic on the swords road was either Hawkins Street branch going to Dundalk or the Ulster crowd coming south to do a reconaisance. Probably no-one else had enough money for the petrol money. And indeed some of these incursions were very symbolic. Don´t we all remember Paisley and Robinson and their Irish Times postering direct action night?
And some may remember the RUC coming to the All Ireland final to keep an eye on the GAA a number of times. I´ve changed my mind.
Go on Give a Gawk!
give ´em all a gawk.
point gawking like the vegetable victims of the bodfy snatchers with outstretched arm and finger screaming in a hellish infernal sort of screechy way.
..........you´ll feel better about yourself afterwards.

by Miss Noolah O'Hooligan - 'Branch' Memory Division Mon Mar 10, 2003 14:37

State sponsored terror
British Collusion in Murder and Terrorism

Kenneth and Keith Littlejohn in the 1970s. Collin Wallace and Fred Holroyd in the 1980s. Brian Nelson, Bobby Philpott and Jim Sands in the 1990s. These are all names associated with thirty years of collusion between regular British forces and pro-British paramilitary groups in the north of Ireland. The latest name to be added to the list is John Oliver Weir. Weir joined the locally recruited Royal Ulster Constabulary in 1970 and served for 10 years. This is his story. It was given in the form of an affidavit in February 1999 in support of Sean McPhilemy, the author of The Committee.

by Miss Noolah O'Hooligan - 'Branch' Memory Division Mon Mar 10, 2003 14:37

State sponsored terror
British Collusion in Murder and Terrorism

Kenneth and Keith Littlejohn in the 1970s. Collin Wallace and Fred Holroyd in the 1980s. Brian Nelson, Bobby Philpott and Jim Sands in the 1990s. These are all names associated with thirty years of collusion between regular British forces and pro-British paramilitary groups in the north of Ireland. The latest name to be added to the list is John Oliver Weir. Weir joined the locally recruited Royal Ulster Constabulary in 1970 and served for 10 years. This is his story. It was given in the form of an affidavit in February 1999 in support of Sean McPhilemy, the author of The Committee.

by Mags Mon Mar 10, 2003 16:18

Must have been about 15 years ago and a few of us were on a bus in Parnell Square waiting to go up to the Border on some God foresaken freezing night to protest against a Republican being extradited. Used to involve running around fields all night in the freezing cold, or - if nothing happening - standing on a road shivering until dawn.

Anyhow the bus was going to be delayed for a while so four of us went down to Cinellis to get food. There were flocks of Branch circling Parnell Sq. and one car kerb crawled us all the way down to the chippers and a brancher stood staring in the door taking notes - we reckoned it must be "three singles, two onion rings, battered sausage..., etc." We came out and stared at him until he got back in the car and they circled the square again before joining the main pack of Branch after their brave sortie to investigate the diets of suspicious Republicans. Probably a file with that vital intelligence on it in the Dept. of Justice!

by ipsi Mon Mar 10, 2003 19:52

gawking fado fadó.

by Chris Henry - SP Tue Mar 11, 2003 11:48

These are workers in uniform , out of uniform, carrying out their duty. Dont you dare attack these proletarians.

by jeff Tue Mar 11, 2003 13:27

Sarky cunts some yis. Anyway, just stand ten of yis round a car that has filth in it, and gawk. So no emotion, look like members of a cult, and stare them out of it. That would be funny. The angry, sarky cunts that reply to this can gio, and ,I dunno, do direct action or something brilliant.Hurrah!

by Mags Tue Mar 11, 2003 17:37

You could also try ringing the uniforms and complain that you are being spied on and stalked by strange men in a car and are afraid for your safety, etc. Get them to come along and investigate.

Was once at the GPO and the Branch were spotting faces. A female uniform came along and started booking them for being illegally parked. Lots of red faces and laughing protesters until they finally drilled it into her head that they were filth too.

by UP YOURS Sat Mar 15, 2003 15:09

WHO THE FUCK ARE THE GARDA SPECIAL BRANCH
I THINK YOU WANKERS MEAN S.D.U

P.S. R.U.C. STOP LIVING IN THE PAST ITS THE P.S.N.I