Fianna Fail election tactics

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday May 15, 2002 13:00 by John Connolly - SWP

i know this isn't exactly news but just wanted to let people know what Fianna Fail are up to here in Galway.

On Saturday posters started going up around town saying that "a vote for Fianna Fail was a vote for Incineration - Stop the Cancer before it starts". Later on Saturday a FF local rang an organiser from Galway for a Safe Environment campaign saying that this was illegal and then a Civil servant (do they work on Saturdays?) rang from Dublin saying the same. Yesterday the same organiser was paid a visit by the cops seemingly wanting to find out more about these posters.
The claim is that it is illegal to put up posters of this nature unless you are a registered organisation, sadly GSE isn't but it is made up of people in different organisations that are registered, seems to me that FF are not only attacking protestors on streets but the right to dissent as well.
An aside from Saturday. The Galway branch of the SWP were doing the usual paper sale on Saturday on Shop st when a bunch of Ogra Fianna Failers were canvassing on the street. With waving of brown envelopes and shouts in my English/Irish accent of don't vote Fianna Fail they got a nice surprise. Their only response to me was "Go back to where you come from". Anyone doubt their racism?