He canāt be expected to talk to the media until after the pubs open in Belfast and he gets the direction heās after.
SF have seized the memes of production
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Sinn Feinās strategy of referring to the state of Ireland as āthe 26 countiesā and to Northern Ireland as" the North" reminds me a bit of when I used to refer to the Northern Ireland association football team as āIrelandā and Ireland as āEireā.
Or how myself and @ChairmanDan still refer to The Dell, Burnden Park, Roker Park etc.
You knock a bit of craic out of it for a while but then you sort of pigeonhole yourself into having to keep it up, and it gets boring.
But at least itās only the INTERNET.
Sinn Fein are out there in real politics doing the equivalent of calling St. Maryās Stadium āThe Dellā.
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Thatās some backtrack.
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Explaining = losing
I canāt read the article but to answer your question I wouldnāt have much of an issue with occupying a vacant building to highlight the homelessness crisis.
But it isnāt a backtrack.
Itās a clarification. Sinn Fein have always loved the word āclarificationā.
OāBroin has got out front and both clarified and defended his position and neutralised the fake outrage, and itās convincing.
Iām not surprised by your answer.
Iām not sure itās a good basis for a functioning society though whereby citizens get to pick and choose which laws they deem appropriate.
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Generally with things like Apollo House or the protest in Frederick Street, people side with their sense of natural justice rather than the letter of the law, precisely because the protest is to highlight the absurdity of the letter of the law.
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Following that logic through would lead to the elimination of protest about any law
I donāt think thatās true - there are vary many established way to either legally protest against any matter of issues or to get the democratic mandate to actually change the law and many many examples of that achieving results.
If SF come in and change a whole host of laws, I canāt say Iāll expect that Iāll welcome all the changes but Iāll certainly respect them as having been achieved democratically.
What is mildly amusing though is the exact same sorts who wilfully and deliberately break the law will be the ones screaming blue murder if they feel any law has been broken in respect of their rights.
Why did O Broin feel the need to ring the AGSI, I wonder?
The backtrack is truly underway.
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No words necessary.
Itās better than when SF IRA rang with a coded bomb warning I suppose.
not all citizens can appoint DPPs or judges to give them a free pass on the laws they dont like.
if you want people to obey the law then surely the government TDs should be squeaky clean, im sure youll agree
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You have to laugh at the mentallersā¦
āHe needs to apologize to the guardsā
'He spoke to the guards, what a backtrack ā
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Would you like protestors making political points in your front room?
Who do you suggest should pick the laws we abide by?
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The Alabama bus protestors broke the law. Iām not comparing laws in this country to Alabama bus laws, just saying that sometimes protests which involve breaking the law will appeal to peopleās natural sense of justice, because at the end of the day we arenāt Fluvio or Art Foley or Thomas Brady style internet bots or trolls who look for hyper consistency and the elimination of hypocrisy in all facets of our existence, but human beings.
A well aimed and well thought out housing protest which breaks the law will usually appeal to peopleās natural sense of justice.
Iāve no doubt youāre correct on your last point. Thatās the way human beings are and itās very much the way people who are members of or fervent supporters of populist parties which aspire to lead governments tend to be. We will have at least two of such competing against each other at the next election