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Just a few thoughts on this possible turning point in the recent history of Ireland.
Events
At midday on the above date an Algerian, presumed Muslim, stabbed three 5 year old girls and a teacher outside a Gaelscoil on Parnell Square on the North side of Dublin City. After the event a crowd gathered, partly onlookers of all nationalities, partly local working class Dubliners from the flat complexes in that area especially as rumours abounded that some of these were local children, and, in particular from approximately 7pm on, there was a general call for a protest by anti-mass immigration activists, who, in various shapes and forms, have been protesting on the subject around Dublin City for approximately a year.
There was some general bad feeling exchanged with the Gardaí on the scene – who were few enough initially – then some general debris was thrown at them, then somehow, as the crowd gathered to a thousand or a few thousand on nearby O'Connell Street, two Garda squad cars were simultaneously ignited on either end of that street. After that there was some period of general mayhem, with a lot of smoke and small explosions caused by the vehicles on fire – which in time included a bus and tram carriage – and bangers let loose among the crowd, but in particular the Gardaí aimed to clear that street by pushing the crowd from the Parnell monument towards the bridge and the South side.
At this charge by the Gardaí most fled in front of them, but some, perceiving their ranks not to be so great, and bearing in mind the wide streets here so that only a large force can completely seal all gaps, stood their ground and even pushed back. When this happened most that had fled started to come back and help out. Then the Gardaí charged again and the same pattern developed, and this happened a few times. At any rate most of the protesters dispersed off the side streets onto the South Side and it began to fizzle out from about 9.30pm on, although there remained a big Garda presence in the city for much of the night.
Who caused most of the damage, looting and arson etc?
There have been countless protests on this subject all around Ireland over the past year, and at absolutely none of them has there been the least trouble caused by any of the protesters – although a few times some injuries were caused by the Gardaí – so the question has to be asked, who set alight those vehicles and also looted the stores nearby? The looting seems to have been caused by some at the periphery of the protest, many of whom were foreign nationals themselves, as is obvious from some of the names released among those charged with looting.
At this point it should be noted too that at many of those earlier migration protests there has been a presence of some very young, about 15 year old, boys on bikes or scooters, who do sometimes threaten to cause trouble, like abusing foreign nationals they come across. They are always stopped by the rest of the crowd, with whom they don't engage very much, and they are also usually masked a bit by scarves etc. Who exactly they represent is hard to say, maybe they are just spoiling for a fight a bit, or are some engaged by the Gardaí as agent provocateurs, despite their young age? At any rate it was they that set the fires which really touched off this incident as a riot as opposed to a normal protest, as was explained to this writer by people involved and confirmed by the bus driver attacked, in an interview on RTE radio.
Government Tactics
If there was some underhand government action like this, the obvious question is what could they have to gain by such a riot? That answer is not hard to come by.
During this summer, almost for the first time in living memory, Irish people, concerned about upcoming legislation, had some impact on it, by at least delaying its passage through the Oireachtas. This is the Hate Speech Bill which, as articulated by good work by such as Professor Gerard Casey, Barrister Tracey O'Mahoney and Solicitor Sarah Hardiman, looks like an attempt by the government to seize power to destroy all Irish freedom of speech, on internet social networks at any rate. Certainly it would go a long way towards criminalizing any criticism of the complete open door/ mass immigration policies of the current regime. So while delayed in the summer it was reported a few weeks ago, by a member of the Oireachtas at a meeting in Kells Co. Meath on the subject, that the government are very determined to get it passed before the end of the year.
Then after this riot/protest we have a renewed push to get the legislation passed, as openly stated by the Taoiseach for example, and even accompanied by new totalitarian steps like laws to authorise the use of automatic AI facial recognition, and other draconian measures. Also this riot might just be used to usher in newer harsher policing steps against the mass immigration protesters, especially in Dublin, as, again, is openly stated by the current powers that be.
Hence deliberate cause and effect, is not so difficult to see here when we consider this 'agent provocateur' thesis.
Genuine Outrage of Dubliners
But this is by no means the only story of last Thursday. The native population of Dublin are in fact genuinely outraged and exasperated by government policy on the immigration issue, and that has boiled over with this attack. Many of these citizens, particularly females, are now afraid to walk streets that they were safe on a few months before and now a completely unprovoked stabbing of 5 year children in broad daylight on one of the main streets, has tipped things over the edge.
You can see that in the response of some of the people caught up in this incident, for example:
And as regards the view of the mothers of the victims:
Sure, frequently, in fact usually, its very wrong for people to take to the streets over one particular emotional type episode, because these things can be very manipulated, especially by the media. But this type of random stabbing is not all that uncommon now, you hear reports of a unprovoked stabbing of an Irish person a week before in Dublin,(3) not long ago we had the same type of incident at Dublin airport, and elsewhere we had the beheading of two people in Sligo and a still largely unexplained stabbing on a canal bank in Offaly.
Of course all this has nothing to do with immigration, supposedly, deliberately ignoring a clear pattern of these incidents being perpetrated by immigrants, especially Muslims, which is the predominant religion of recent immigration, and very frequently, when it is by them it is covered up or played down by the Irish media. The people of Dublin knew it would be like this again, and are fed up with that pattern, they want answers to the questions that arise in these cases (for example its reported that the immigrant was earlier served with a deportation order, which was over turned for no given reason, and charged recently with knife offenses, which resulted in no follow up legal action it seems) and they want it highlighted and not covered up like so much recent crime by the new immigrants.
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