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ANTI-AUSTERITY ALLIANCE TD Paul Murphy has been banned from holding a street and door-to-door collection for his party in south-west Dublin.
A letter to Murphy from a senior Garda officer says he won’t be allowed carry out the collection, and cites a section of the Street and House to House Collections Act 1962 as the reason.
The Section in question states:
A Chief Superintendent shall not grant a collection permit for any collection in respect of which he [sic] is of opinion that — (c) the proceeds of the collection or any portion thereof would be used in such a manner as to encourage, either directly or indirectly, the commission of an unlawful act.
The TD has described it as an “incredible decision”.
“For a whole number of years the Socialist Party have held national collections and been granted permits in Dublin South West without a problem,” Murphy said this evening.
“The Anti-Austerity Alliance and the Socialist Party do not accept money from big business. Instead we rely on donations and support from people in working class communities who we represent and fight alongside against austerity.
“We have been granted permits in other areas of the country, as presumably have other political parties. We have to presume that this is a political decision to not grant the Anti-Austerity Alliance a permit in Tallaght.”
The Act governing the granting of permits states that in cases where one is refused “the applicant for the permit may appeal to the District Court against the refusal”.
Chief Superintendent Orla McPartlin of the Dublin South Division was the officer responsible for the decision in this case.
A spokesperson for the Garda Press Office said this evening that they did not comment on the granting of individual permits.
“The question has to be answered by the Gardai – what unlawful acts are being encouraged?” Murphy said this evening.
“One can only presume that it is a reference to the prominent call by the Anti-Austerity Alliance for mass non-payment of the water charges or else to the participation of AAA activists in anti-water charges protests.”
He said he had spoken by phone with McPartlin, had written a letter asking what unlawful acts she was referring to, and that the party was taking legal advice about a court appeal.
Murphy was one of more than 20 activists arrested and questioned by gardaí in relation to the alleged false imprisonment of Tánaiste Joan Burton during a protest in the south-west Dublin suburb of Jobstown last November.
On Friday, the Irish Daily Mail broke the story that gardaí had been spying on anti-water charge protesters, including Murphy, as part of an operation code-named ‘Mizen’.
Along with his Dáil colleagues Joe Higgins and Ruth Coppinger, the TD has written to Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald calling for a public statement on the claims.
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Not sure I’m comfortable with a self aware bacon butty.
Unfortunately pigs are already very intelligent and suffer incredible anxiety before death. Can’t say I’m comfortable with this form of study either. I don’t think it meets the criteria to be considered ethical.
Fairly sure animals are self aware already. Unless you mean growing a bacon butty with a brain
If there is even a remote chance this research could cure, ease or reduce alzeimhers / parkinsons then it should get the go ahead.
They sold their souls for Penney rolls and a slice of hairy bacon
what about if it cures the common cold cholly?
Totally agree with your comment, James. I’m actually horrified to think that this would be allowed to happen.
This is going to get David Cameron very excited..
Chlorines aren’t you the Trump supporter? You’re no stranger to the pig with a human brain so.
Absolute insanity. Man should not interfere with the natural order.
Yup.. ban blood transfusions, organ donation, artificial life support and any further medical research of any kind….
Randy you messer
@Paddy, you’re not going far enough, let’s go back and just ‘cure’ people with bloodletting to get their ‘juices’ into balance again, or so.
Some people on here I think have the brains of pigs can we reverse that instead
This research has been ongoing for several years. The human DNA used is being obtained mainly from aborted foetuses.
Last year the US abortion giant ‘Planned Parenthood’ were exposed as harvesting huge amounts of foetal organs such as lungs, liver & brain tissue, and selling it on to research facilities. Foetal organs can fetch prices of up to $500 dollars each.
The mainstream media has done its utmost, to deny & cover up this major story, but the public in the US are becoming slowly aware of this.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/us-government-made-humanized-mice-tissue-babies-17-22-weeks
https://www.youtube.com/user/centerformedprogress
cmon now Zoe everyone knows that was a fit-up you’re fooling no one!
investigations are still ongoing but, don’t worry, as the media will keep any developments well covered up.
Zoe
Measles – Rubella- Rabies- Chicken pox, Shingles and Hepatitis A – they all have cell lines that were taken from an aborted foetus and used in vaccinations ..
Eye tissue from fetuses has played a crucial role in studies aimed at finding treatments for degenerative diseases of the retina that are a major cause of vision loss in people as they age -Planned Parenthood were providing University with foetal tissue .
Another company who bought the tissue LEGALLY off Planed Parenthood said that foetal tissue has been used in studies of leukaemia, Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Parkinson’s disease.
You can refuse any of the breakthroughs in all of the diseases that have been mentioned ..
P.S. – Judge Orrick found no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood ..So what makes you believe that you know more than him?
@West Cork Lad, don’t you know, Zoe knows everything, because they’re wearing a tinfoil hat, and that helps them channel everything straight down from their sky fairy, or so
West Cork Lad,
If foetal organ research is so beneficial for humanity, how come we know so little about it? Those videos expose babies lungs, livers, heads, even ” fully intact cadavers’ being harvested and sold to the highest bidder.
How come the media never report on this lucrative industry?
Surely if it so beneficial for humanity, then why the secrecy?
gway back to the stone age Zoe
Zoe,
Planned Parenthood were cleared by a Judge in Texas (of all places) of doing anything that you accuse them of doing .
I agree with Larissa as you’ve repeated yourself again.Even after a judge cleared them of any wrongdoing .
Hope that helps.
Yes, Planned Parenthood (& their allies in politics & media) have kept the lid on things – for now.
But meanwhile the videos are still on youtube, and have been viewed by millions.
Try as they might, the abortion industry, and their media allies, will never quite fully sweep this under the rug.
“Yes, Planned Parenthood (& their allies in politics & media) have kept the lid on things – for now.”
Indiana – In July 2015, Republican Gov. MIKE ‘PERIOD’ PENCE (have you ever heard of him,Zoe? ) asked the state Department of Health to investigate the state’s Planned Parenthood clinics, to see whether they were engaging in any sale of foetal tissue…And guess what Zoe ? Zilch! The Department said that there was no activity at the THREE Planned Parenthood facilities in the state,
Other witch hunts by Republican run states have turned up ZILCH….
yes, of course. keep saying its all ‘lies’ and it will all go away.
The youtube clip below (at 13.22 minutes in) exposes what is going on. One of the viewers has left a comment that ”the pyrex dish filled with human anatomical parts doesn’t lie”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJPLzMIC7CI
@Zoe, you are aware that this youtube video has been exposed as a forgery, aren’t you? But keep on believing everything on youtube, rather then facts
Have a look at the video at around 13.22 minutes. Don’t know how they could edit in or ‘forge’ a baby’s arm.
Zoe youre a pure messer you scallywag
Great trolling Zoe!
she’s a very naughty girl!
Perhaps the greatest danger to man is his own mind if left unchecked?! Because you can do something does that mean you should do it?!
Strange choice of picture for this article .. Since when did pigs come from eggs
Will that mean if we eat that pork we’ll become even more smarterer
@ Bobby..Naw,just fatter.
thats unpossible
I know plenty humans with pigs brains
That is vile, mixing genes like that can cause diseases to jump species and the main reason it is wrong is that it could implant human consciousness into pigs. Could you imagine waking up yourself and your in the body of a pig, it would be the exact same.
sounds class
Jester, I doubt that? Pigs don’t live that long?
This is inhumane, transferring ‘human intelligence’ into such a noble creature as the Pig who is as intelligent as Chimps and the other higher apes which humans have driven to the edge of extinction.
FFS it’s a pig created to be consumed jaysus I’d love a salty Crubeen right now
If it was eagle eyes, tiger claws, gills, wings or gorilla muscles it would make sense.
Nobody needs a part pig brain.
I guess nobody needs pig parts transplanted at all… oh like maybe heart valves…
In ancient Greece they were many half animal, half human creatures, I think scientists want to see if they can recreate them now in reality? Blade Runner?
i think you might mean mythical Greece?
Jester I should have wrote that but then at that time they believe these things existed, belief versus myth hay ;)
At least it made me sound like an Ancient Alien freak, thanks ;)
Pigs with human brains.. It’s been done before, has nobody showed them Brian Cowan?
Maybe the first two will be called Napoleon and Snowball!
Very hard to make meaningful progress in those difficult to research areas without taking some risks. A cure for schizophrenia or Alzheimer’s would be worth it.
Yes but sometimes you think these scientists just want to play Frankenstein to see if they can? This could then cause pig diseases to jump from pigs to humans like HIV which jumped from Chimps to humans.
Are the risks worth it if it opens a pandora’s box of new diseases and blind morals as in human consciousness in pigs?
AKA politicians
Oryx and Crake is a novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood which came out in 2003 and she dealt with this with her Pigoon animals.No spoilers but it doesn’t end well ! Great book.
I wish they would leave the poor animals alone and start experimenting on the likes of trump and put in.
Already happening for years and legally, cloning animals and humans together is not covered by human rights or animal rights laws as the end product is not designated an animal or human #alexjones that man is on fire lately
Isn’t there one of those running for president?
2 of them are
Don’t we have them already……well pigs with half a brain but we call them the political class, im sure we can send a few dozen current or retired ones over to the states for testing……be a win win
How do they sleep at night!
https://www.pinterest.com/ambuster/pot-belly-pigs/
They are called men ,she says
..eh, the way we handle things, shouldn’t we be trying to install pigs brains in humans? I’d sign up for that, just as long as it was a PRACTICAL one without any frontal lobe, bi-polar, schizophrenic, split-hemisphere and no developing tumours thank you very much. Now for the body I want to look like Atlas (in full body armour) with all the harpies I can handle and a Hydra which gives head(s.) Yours etc. Frank N. Stein.
That’s all we need pigs behaving like humans……oh wait…We already have them in Dail Eireann.
Only in America. All the mad Professors live in the U S. Thank the stars.
It’s been done already ,a female friend of mine said
I can’t see the problem .. Already many humans with pigs brains
Why show a photo of how to grow a virus using an egg to make the vaccines normally?
Parma Man
“I wish there were pig-men. You get a few of those pig-men walking around, suddenly I’m looking a lot better. That way if someone wanted to fix me up they could say, ‘Hey, at least he’s no pig-man.’” – George Costanza
Insert Donald Trump joke here.
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