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Old June 1st, 2023 #1
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Default Irish Govt Wants to Criminalise Sharing, Retweeting ‘Hate’ Posts

Irish Govt Wants to Criminalise Sharing, Retweeting ‘Hate’ Posts




The Irish government has proposed making it a crime to share ‘hate’ comments on social media platforms even if someone else wrote of them.


Ireland’s Justice Minister, Helen McEntee, announced the new proposals this week, which could see retweeting or reposting ‘hate’ speech comments a criminal offence.According to a report from the Irish Times, the new legislation will repeal the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989 which previously dealt with hate crimes but has been deemed to not be robust enough. The paper adds that the new bill will also expand the language under the hate crime laws to include those who target transgender and disabled people. Previous legislation had covered hatred against religious and ethnic minorities, migrants, and homosexuals.


The new proposed legislation will also broaden the scope of hate speech to include language that does not have to be directly threatening. Certain exemptions will be granted under the new law to those engaged in art, academia, and public debates, supposedly. “I am determined to tackle these crimes and to ensure that those who seek to divide our communities and spread hatred and fear are dealt with effectively by our criminal justice system,” Justice Minister McEntee said.


In 2018, residents of the small Irish town of Lisdoonvarna had their population increased by around a third due to the establishment of a migrant centre, and it was claimed that locals were too afraid of being branded racists to speak out about any anxieties they may have. Earlier this year, the Irish government clamped down on free speech for pro-life activists by banning them from holding demonstrations outside of abortion clinics and setting up “exclusion zones”.




We are in a Marxist information war.


The real white privilege? Open Borders. When whites are the majority, it's diversity, open borders, minority rights, etc. When any other race is the majority, the precise opposite applies. "Racism", or self preference and preservation, is the norm in Vietnam, Mexico, and literally every nonwhite population across the globe. What's called "far right" here is normal everywhere else.
There will never be "social justice" for the long enslaved and colonized Slavs and Greeks, nor will there ever be punitive "antiracism diversity" for Turks, Japanese, Mongolians, North Africa, etc.
We are the Natives of the European civilization called America. It was built by us, in our image, for Ourselves and Our Posterity. If an antiwhite believes he's on "stolen land", his first moral obligation is to get off of it, "give back" his own "loot", and demand we stop importing more "thieves".


Ireland must have set the record for the fastest transformation from Christian Civilisation to pagan barbarism. Even just a decade ago, people would have laughed and laughed if you told them that the Irish people would vote for gay marriage and abortion. And now Ireland seems to be thrusting herself forward for a leadership position in the New World Order.


A satanic inversion of right and wrong.




Irish Govt Wants to Criminalise Sharing, Retweeting ‘Hate’ Posts



"that the Irish people would vote for gay marriage and abortion”
- I am not alone in believing those referendum were rigged despite the proceeding MSM spin, lies and social engineering telling everyone how to vote and then afterwards 'selling' the fake result.




New Bill to tackle hate crime and hate speech includes clear provision to protect freedom of expression

From IRISH Department of Justice Published on 27 October 2022

Minister McEntee publishes full Bill to update laws criminalising hate speech and legislate against hate crimes for the first time in Irish law
final Bill updated from earlier drafts to include provision to strengthen protections for genuine freedom of expression
list of identity characteristics protected under the law – the protected characteristics - developed after extensive consultations and in line with best practice internationally

New legislation to combat hate crime and hate speech is expected to become law before the end of the year.

The Minister for Justice Helen McEntee today published the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 , after securing Cabinet approval for the new legislation on Tuesday.

The new legislation will criminalise any intentional or reckless communication or behaviour that is likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or persons because they are associated with a protected characteristic. The penalty for this offence will be up to five years' imprisonment.

It will also create new, aggravated forms of certain existing criminal offences, where those offences are motivated by hatred of a protected characteristic. These will carry an enhanced penalty and the criminal record will clearly state that the offence was a hate crime.

A number of key changes have been made since the General Scheme of the Bill was published in April 2021 and are reflected in the full Bill as approved by Cabinet.

Among these, the Bill now includes a general provision to further protect genuine freedom of expression and clarifies that a communication is not taken to incite violence or hatred solely on the basis that it involves discussion or criticism of matters relating to a protected characteristic.

However, Minister McEntee said that hate speech is not about free speech – hate speech is designed to shut people down, to shut them up, to make them afraid to say who they are and to exclude and isolate them.

Other updates since the General Scheme include the inclusion of a demonstration test for hate crimes to make it easier to secure prosecutions and convictions for crimes motivated by hate. This will be an additional/alternative test to the ‘motivation test’ as previously outlined in the General Scheme of the Bill.

[I]“We are all horrified when we hear of homophobic, racist, and other hateful incidents in our country. While these repulsive acts of violence and abuse against innocent people have been extensively reported on, we know that some people go about their lives constantly in fear of abuse simply because of who they are.

“Although it is a small minority of individuals carrying out these reprehensible acts and spouting this abuse, there is a clear desire from the public that these individuals need to be dealt with in the appropriate way.

“This Bill provides separately for hate crime and for hate speech, but on the basis of the same protected characteristics.

“All provisions throughout the Bill have been carefully developed to ensure it is victim-centred and effective in securing convictions where serious crimes are committed, and the legislation follows extensive public consultation and research.”[I]

The need for new legislation to address hate speech and hate crime has been recognised for many years. The Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989, has been widely considered as ineffective, with only about 50 prosecutions in the more than 30 years since it was enacted. The 1989 Act is being repealed and replaced with new, simpler provisions designed to be more effective in securing convictions.

The protected characteristics in the new legislation are race; colour; nationality; religion; national or ethnic origin; descent; gender; sex characteristics; sexual orientation; and disability.

Gender, disability, descent and sex characteristics were not included in the 1989 Act, and descent and sex characteristics have been added in recent months following additional consultation with key stakeholders.

Sex characteristics means all physical and biological features of a person relating to their sex.

Descent is distinct from race and would be relevant, for example, in the context of the Jewish community, where a person may have Jewish ancestry but does not practice the religion.

The specific aggravated offences provided for in the new legislation are those which most commonly manifest as hate crimes, for example assault and criminal damage. When one of these offences is committed, and the perpetrator either demonstrates hatred of a protected characteristic while committing the offence, or is motivated by hatred of a protected characteristic, this will be a hate crime.

These behaviours, such as assault and criminal damage, are already crimes, but the hate element will lead to a higher penalty and the crime will be recorded as a hate crime. For any crime other than those expressly provided for in this new law, a judge will be able to hand down a higher sentence if there is evidence that there was a hate element to the crime.

Minister McEntee added:

“The protected characteristics for this Bill are further reaching than those in the 1989 Act. These are defined in line with international best practice, and are also in line with the Equality Acts.

“They were chosen following extensive public consultation where vulnerable and minority communities shared the characteristics which are most commonly targeted.

“The new offences will allow for the ‘hate criminal’ label to follow an offender in court, in garda vetting, and so on, and the data gathered will give a fuller picture on the prevalence of different kinds of hate incidents in Ireland.”


The provisions of the new legislation have been crafted to ensure that they will capture hate speech in an online context. There has also been significant engagement between officials in the Department of Justice and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to ensure that the provisions dovetail with the regulatory framework for online safety proposed by the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill. That Bill will link closely with these provisions on incitement to hatred, particularly in a social media environment, and the role that companies will play in managing hate speech on their platforms.

Minister McEntee added:

“I want to assure the public that we have worked hard to strike a balance in this Bill in protecting the right to free speech with protection of vulnerable and minority communities from dangerous hate speech.

“There are protections for freedom of expression built into this legislation. But ultimately, hate speech is not about free speech. Hate speech is designed to shut people down, to shut them up, to make them afraid to say who they are and to exclude and isolate them. There is nothing free about that, and there is, frankly, no place for it in our society.”


The Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences Bill will fulfil two important Programme for Government commitments: to introduce hate crime legislation and to update the Prohibition on Incitement to Hatred Act 1989. The new legislation is strongly aligned to the European Council Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA on combating racism and xenophobia, and will fulfil Ireland’s international obligations.

The Bill must now be passed by both the Dáil and the Seanad before it can be enacted and signed into law by the President. The government is committed to ensuring that this happens before the end of 2022.

New Bill to tackle hate crime and hate speech includes clear provision to protect freedom of expression 01 VI 2023.


No doubt the Rep. of Ireland is the leading 'poster boy' of the globalist EU.
 
Old June 7th, 2023 #2
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Default Direct action: Why has this new form of protest suddenly emerged?

Direct action: Why has this new form of protest suddenly emerged?


In recent times, a new form of protest has emerged around Ireland. Staff at some pharmacies and libraries have had to deal with groups or individuals entering their workplaces and making unfounded accusations relating to vaccines or child protection.

In places where asylum seekers are accommodated, staff have been personally accused of wrongdoing by activists filming the interaction which is then put online, as Oonagh Smyth reports.


"They had taken over the whole shop. It happened very quickly. We weren't expecting it," said Robert Murphy, a locum pharmacist in Dalton's Pharmacy in the heart of Cork City. Anti-vaccine protesters entered the premises. They were recording video on their phones as they began to address staff, as customers tried to get prescriptions filled. "Initially, I was under the assumption they were customers and went to serve them," said Mr Murphy. "That's when they issued me with two notification documents regarding the Covid-19 vaccine." The protesters ignored pleas to stop filming or leave. Over the course of ten minutes, they told Mr Murphy and other staff that they would be considered 'personally liable' for administering vaccines.

The footage was later posted online. Dalton's was just one of several pharmacies in Cork to be targeted in such a way over February and March. "It is a new form of protest to me," says Pat Dalton, the owner of the pharmacy. "It's not an acceptable form of protest, and I hope it doesn't catch on."

But it has caught on already.

In Cork City Central Library, there have been at least five visits from people using similar tactics, the latest just a few weeks ago. Instead of opposing the provision of vaccines, they have been seeking to have certain books removed. Footage posted online shows library staff being filmed without consent, as some protesters accuse them of being "ignorant of grooming" and "not caring about children".

A small group called the Irish Education Alliance has led a campaign since January, encouraging members of the public to go to address librarians in their local libraries. It encourages people to enter libraries and examine "LGBTQ+ books" in the Young Adult section, then to issue a 'notice of liability' to the head librarian and file a report with An Garda Síochána. The campaign uses the slogan '#protectchildhood', and describes certain books as pornography.

Some of the same people who have entered pharmacies in Cork to oppose vaccines support the Irish Education Alliance campaign and attend its protests. The Irish Education Alliance emerged during the pandemic, initially campaigning against mask-wearing in schools and the vaccination of children. They ask supporters to be respectful to librarians and staff, but not all their supporters have heeded that request.

At some protests, people who give access to the opposed books are described as "groomers" and "paedophiles".

The tactics used in protests in libraries came to the attention of city councillors, who passed a motion in March expressing support for staff who they said were experiencing "focused personal abuse" and "intimidation in the course of their work".

Some councillors who supported the motion said they were reluctant to speak to the media about the protests, due to concern they may be subjected to similar campaigns as a result.


Cork City Council

However, Green Party councillor Colette Finn told Prime Time that "workers should not have to be intimidated at work. I just think that's a bottom line that we shouldn't cross". "It's not the way to complain about a book. If you have a complaint about a book, you can go to the censorship of publications."

However the protests have continued. People working with the LGBTQ+ community in Cork are concerned about the impact of the protests. "There's a cohort of people that are coming to terms with their sexual orientation or their gender identity at all ages," says Aaron O'Sullivan, a support worker at The Sexual Health Centre in the city. "I think it's hugely important that people are able to find those resources and those supports and to know that they're fundamentally safe in finding that."

But members of the Irish Education Alliance defend the aims of the campaign. A representative of the campaign told Prime Time that the group "does not condone any violence and our assemblies are always communicated as 'peaceful'." "That some of these books are LGBTQ+ is not what is relevant. The fact that they contain inappropriate sexually explicit content and are categorised for 12+ year-old children is what is relevant."

It's not just library staff who have been subjected to protests in relation to books. Children's Books Ireland is a charity that aims to support literacy and reading in Ireland. It produces a recommended reading list annually for LGBTQ+ young people, which it calls the Pride Reading Guide. Some of the books opposed by Irish Education Alliance have been included. As a result, protesters turned up at the Children's Books Ireland office, demanding by name to see the CEO, Elaina Ryan. The office is in an otherwise residential and privately owned building.

Ms Ryan said the protesters refused to leave when asked by residents and were "extremely disrespectful". "We've never had this in Ireland," she told Prime Time, describing how a campaigner stood on the steps of the charity's office building and called out her name on a megaphone. "We have never had a personalised protest like this, or indeed a protest like this at all. There is a whole global movement, and we can see this new Irish movement mirroring those tactics."

Analysts and academics who closely watch these groups agree. Aoife Gallagher works for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, researching emerging online campaigns and narratives. She says the tactics and language used in 'direct action' protests originally emerged from the United States. "They're part of this larger international ecosystem. What we're seeing is more encouragement to take that extreme action," Ms Gallagher told Prime Time. "That's not something that we have seen before. It is something that is quite different and quite a worrying development."

She says protesters are gaining an increasing influence through social media. "Content that generates engagement tends to be content that is divisive, that provokes outrage, that provokes fear. And they're very good at kind of creating content that can game those algorithms."

As a result, she says, such narratives are disproportionately amplified online, leading to them becoming prominent in communities across the world. In Ireland, direct action tactics have become increasingly popular among groups which campaign on issues like immigration also.

In communities where most carry out local peaceful protests, others are now taking their own kind of direct action to oppose the housing of asylum seekers. While this form of protest against asylum seekers has grown since mid-2022 - following the influx of Ukrainian refugees - the number of incidents has increased across the country in the past few months. In Dublin's Santry, vehicles carrying asylum seekers have been turned away by organised groups attaching themselves to local protests. In Inch, Co Clare, well-known agitators from Dublin showed up and attached themselves to local peaceful protests. And in the most serious incident to date, in Dublin city centre, tents and shelter used by asylum seekers were damaged.

Dr Barry Cannon of Maynooth University says that policy changes and resources are needed to prevent such tactics becoming more widespread.

"I think that if this level of agitation and this level of intimidation of people continues, I think that we are - and we will have to see - a lot more invoking of garda powers against these protesters." "We've also got to talk to communities as well about this. There's got to be much more consultation. People have got to be promised that resources will go in there so that the services which are already stretched there are not going to be stretched even further."





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Old June 7th, 2023 #3
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Cork 'Direct Action' protests against the EU globalist hijacking of the Rep. of Ireland to infest the country with Maghreb, Congoloid and Asian spongers and impose the LGBT and abortion agenda.

Zionist Pushed LGBTQ+ Is A Depraved Harbinger Of The End Of Western Civilization - A Rense Video

https://rense.com/videos/la.mp4

Zionist Pushed LGBTQ+ Is A Depraved Harbinger Of The End Of Christian Civilization - Rense Video
 
Old June 18th, 2023 #4
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Default Hate Speech Law to ‘Restrict Freedom’ for the ‘Common Good’, Claims Irish Senator

Hate Speech Law to ‘Restrict Freedom’ for the ‘Common Good’, Claims Irish Senator



Impending hate speech legislation is about “restricting freedom” for the “common good”, the chairwoman of the Irish Green Party said this week.

Appearing before the Irish Senate (Seanad) this week, Green Party chairwoman Pauline O’Reilly admitted that the intention of proposed legislation to further curtail speech in Emerald Isle is intended to “restrict freedom”, but in an Orwellian turn attempted to convince the public that this would somehow be in their interests.

“When one thinks about it, all law and all legislation is about the restriction of freedom. This is exactly what we are doing here. We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good,” Senator O’Reilly said.

“Throughout our Constitution one can see that while one has rights they are restricted for the common good. Everything needs to be balanced.

“If a person’s views on other people’s identities make their lives unsafe and insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace, our job as legislators is to restrict those freedoms for the common good.

“Social media has fuelled hatred but it has also put on display for all of us the dirty, filthy, underbelly of hatred in Irish society. That hatred has always existed.”


The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022, which is still being debated by Irish lawmakers, has become highly controversial, with Twitter chief Elon Musk recently branding the bill as a “massive attack against freedom of speech”.

The legislation would criminalise large swaths of speech, including “incitement to violence or hatred against” against people with “protected characteristics”, as well as “condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace.”

The hate speech law would also controversially allow the government to jail citizens for merely possessing supposedly offensive material. Under the current form of the bill, anyone found in possession of so-called hateful material would be subject to up to one year in prison.

Speaking against the bill, Senator Rónán Mullen warned that the legislation would curtail free speech and be used as a weapon to target political dissent. “We are in a society dominated by cancel culture where people are frequently accused of being haters for expressing points of view that are not hate but simply robust expressions of opinion,” Mullen said.
“When the social media mob is on the rampage, the Garda and the prosecution service will have little choice but to pursue the Graham Linehans and JK Rowlings of Irish society for robustly expressing their points of view.”
The independent Senator went on to say: “Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right. Without it, there is no free exchange of ideas at all levels within society. In short, there is no democracy. That is why we use the term ‘fundamental’.”

Ireland has slowly evolved into a very Soviet and Atheistic State . The Irish have welcomed every dictatorial practice known in one party states. During the Covid lock down the Gardai ( Irish KGB ) was very brutal dealing with dissent. Churches that dared to open were viciously shut down by smiling Irish Police who absolutely relished the beatings and jailing of Irish Citizens. When Irish eyes are smiling run quickly to protect yourself and your families. “Romantic Ireland is long dead and gone……..”

"It’s for your own good", what every dictators/tyrant has ever said in the history of everything.

When you hear government declare "it's for the common good" you know without a doubt it's too either protect their power or strip you of yours. The Rule of Law and limited powers is the only "common good" we need. It's like saying "climate change" while you destroy food and agriculture to cause millions to die of starvation.



Hate Speech Law to ‘Restrict Freedom’ for the ‘Common Good’, Claims Irish Senator


Globalist Marxism in action and soon coming everywhere.
 
Old June 23rd, 2023 #5
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Default Ireland’s ‘hate speech’ laws – censoring ukraine truth?

Ireland’s ‘Hate Speech’ Laws – Censoring Ukraine Truth?

Last month, global attention was drawn to the southern Irish State’s proposed ‘hate speech’ laws, owing to online commentary on the new bill from high-profile figures such as Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and Jordan B Peterson.

Allowing for someone to be convicted for merely possessing ‘hateful’ material – which could be something as simple as an internet meme – without even distributing it, the new legislation, if passed, will effectively create thought crimes in what is a supposed democratic western state.

Domestic critics of the bill have expressed concern that it will stifle debate on the introduction of gender ideology to the school curriculum, citing the recent case of Enoch Burke as an example. Burke, a teacher at the prestigious Wilson’s Hospital boarding school in County Westmeath, was imprisoned for three months last year over his refusal to not attend the school following his suspension over a dispute relating to the use of ‘they/them’ pronouns on a student.

There have also been concerns expressed that the new legislation will be used to censor critics of the 26-County State’s immigration policy.

Since last November, using emotive coverage of the war in Ukraine as a cover, the southern Irish government has placed hundreds of male migrants into wildly unsuitable locations such as an inner city office block and children’s primary school, leading to protests by local residents over the lack of consultation with community representatives beforehand, the unsuitability of the chosen locations, and the lack of transparency on whether those placed in said locations had been vetted or not.

Protests, that in a similar vein to last year’s Canadian Freedom Convoy, have drawn widespread condemnation from the 26 County political establishment as being ‘organised by the far-right’, with Leo Varadkar, like Justin Trudeau, also being a WEF ‘Young Global leader’.

The spotlight was shone once again on the new legislation this week when Pauline O’Reilly, a Senator and chairwoman of the ruling coalition’s Green Party, announced, in dystopian fashion, that the purpose of the bill was to ‘restrict freedom for the common good’, her comments drawing attention from as far afield as Fox News and acclaimed US journalist Glenn Greenwald.

One facet of the new legislation that has been overlooked by most onlookers however, is the section related to the denial or condoning of ‘war crimes’, which with an increased push amongst the 26 County political establishment for the State to join NATO amidst the ongoing Russian operation in Ukraine, may soon become one of its most relevant.

Since the launch of the Russian intervention last February, the southern Irish State has, in lockstep with the rest of the collective west, condemned what it calls an ‘unprovoked invasion’.

What has been conveniently omitted from this description however, is the almost nine years of western provocations that preceded it, beginning with the November 2013 US and British-instigated Maidan coup, the use of anti-Russian extremist elements such as Right Sector and Azov Battalion to wage a bloody war on the predominantly ethnic Russian Donbass region, and the revelation that the US was producing bioweapons on Russia’s borders.

Key details related to the conflict that, under the new legislation, could soon be made illegal to publicly disclose in the 26 County State.

Indeed, this would tie in with Leinster House’s desire to join NATO, a view not shared by the majority of the Irish public. This has not hindered the 26 Counties anti-Russian policies however, with a number of Russian diplomats expelled in the weeks following Moscow’s intervention; a step noticeably never taken by the southern Irish state towards US Diplomats over Washington’s conflicts in Iraq and Syria, or indeed, British Diplomats over British Intelligence’s role in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

Now, with the strong possibility that a Nord Stream-style false flag attack off the Irish coast is imminent, the criminalisation of facts related to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, may soon be used to clear the path towards NATO membership for the south of Ireland.

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