Link to the Show / Show NotesSome quotes from the piece:
“The plan to develop the area seems ill thought-out.”
“The siting of the project has created environmental problems already, with the pollution of the lake.”
“It’s being done primarily by companies in order to save money. It doesn’t seem like oil companies really need to be saving money right now: they should be spending more and cleaning up their pollution and doing things in a cleaner, better way.”
“We found it quite shocking that the police in Erris had a policy of not arresting people who were being civil disobedient.”
“People were being shoved and beaten when they were peacefully protesting.”
“The police do not have a choice about wether to enforce the law for civil disobedience: …they need to apply the law fairly to everyone.”
“We agree with the ombudsman: there’s an unneccessary amount of police complaints up there: it needs further investigation by the justice department: so far the justice minister has refused to do that.’
“The protesters are very well organised and they’re not not putting themselves in harm’s way. They’re acting in a very professional way … The police response by comparison is not. There’s pushing; there’s shoving.”
“They need to provide the police there with the training they need.”
“They should be trained in crowd control and the proper handling of civil disobedience.”
“I don’t think they need to be permanently available; in fact if they were handling the proest in the right way and were fully trained they might find that ther’d be a change in the situation.”
“They handled the situation very badly, just as originally Shell handled the situation very badly with the Rossport 5.”
“There is the law about how you handle civil disobedience and it’s not being handled that way. That’s why many cases have being dismissed.”
“There is much evidence that the police have not handled the situation right and have not followed the law.”
“They weren’t seeking to be beat up and they shouldn’t deserve to be beat up under the law. They should be allowed to be civil disobedient.”
“The Garda Ombudsman has affirmned that the Department of Justice should review the way the protests are handled and that should happen soon.”
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