Scuffles break out as Occupy Dame Street protestors march on police station

rights bring responsibilities, there is also a hierarchy of rights, where some rights will supersede other rights, the right to life is paramount here, therefore the right to assemble and protest has to give away to the superior right. The Garda are protecting the superior right, the camp was a a hazard to the parade and people viewing it. On a separate note the is the property of the Central Bank.

If a place is public, whose permission do you need to enter it? Christ was a bleeding heart. But then, they got rid of Him too, for interfering with their 2nd. Temple shekel bureau-de-change. Did a handful of protesters threaten a mass parade? They must be very powerful. Or did a minority coalition Irish government fear mass sympathy? Will they be allowed return after the parade. Using cops like this will sour relations between them and the taxpayers who pay their wages. An Garda Sionchana guard everyone's peace, not just bankers'. The Central Bank of Ireland, (i.e. Ireland Federal Reserve) acknowledged not regulating private banks properly. Why is loitering such a big deal, and wrecking a country's economy is not. Nominate Occupy Dame Street Protesters for Nobel Peace Prize NOW!

people have a right of assembly under the Constitution, people have also a right to work (an unspecified right)this was being interfered with. An Garda Siochana also have a duty to protect society, the occupy camp was a danger to the he crowds for the upcoming Saint Patricks Day Parade, the occupy movement were requested to move, they declined. They were moved for to protect the expected 500000 crowd for the Parade, the site of the camp impeded pressure relief routes, societies right to safety and consquently their right to life was deemed to be superior to the right to assemble and protest

Conform or you will be reviled by the righteous! 1. Boston Tea Party\American Revolution 2. French Revolution 3. Easter Rebellion The Police are an army of those in power, no more, no less...

EphraimKibbey you have the right to peacefully protest (peacefully is key word). However you do not have the right to live on those Public lands in America. You wish to go camp on public lands, you must pay a fee. These people are not. You have a right to speak, peacefully, without Hate now, but the occupiers (love that word, same word previously applied to some of the "greats" of the past like Hitler and Saddam.). Here in America these supposedly peaceful people destroyed Public property. When you do that you can, and should be, removed, and fined. Of course the bleeding hearts like yourself do not think these people should have to pay for their destruction of property. As for their possessions being taken by authorities. Again police are allowed to do so under certain circumstances. The people have a right to ask for the return of those items, peacefully. Not enmass in a threateningly manner.

The only thing Ehraim or anyone else involved is something we are all guilty of from time to time: "Never argue with a fool or people will not be able to tell who the fool is". Trouble is Village Idiot's like, Old Sarge, King George Dilloon and you Murph46, are too Self Rightous and Ignorant to resist in weaker moments!

@Murph - I do not know what rights Ireland's laws give to protesters. In America they have the right to peacefully assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievences. It is in our constitution and all police are supposed to enforce the constitution as well as state and local laws. When our police exceed their authority there is massive condemnation from the public. Occupy Dame St. appears to have been peaceful until the police tried to break up the protest and stole their stuff. Do you know of a certain law in Dublin or Ireland that they were breaking when attacked by the police or do you think that the police ARE the law there rather than just enforcers of it? As for paying the consequences, that is what peaceful disobedience is all about. The protesters are willing to risk incarceration, injury or even death to call the publics attention to an injustice. these young people are equal in every way to earlier Irish patriots who layed down their lives for a free Ireland. What good is freedom from England if the country is enslaved by the banks and the world's 1%?