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"A Garda spokesman said the event will be policed in line with standard procedures." The standard procedures so far have involved police officers standing aside while far-right goons assault+spit at anti-fascists. #lockdown #Ireland #SolidarityAgainstHate https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/anti-mask-anti-lockdown-protest-planned-for-dublin-on-saturday-1.4336100
2/ Modern policing institutions emerged out of counter insurgency operations against anti-colonial movements. Key aspects of CIO work involved the use of spies+agent provocateur, which continues to this day as the backstage work of the frontstage, image-obsessed PR centred work..
3/...of contemporary policing. This is well documented by international policing experts in research on high+low policing, secret state functions, spycops, political policing.Recently, pages claiming to be Irish anti-fascist groups have posted images of use of arms as part of...
4/...anti-fascist work. No serious, disciplined, experienced, organised antifascist group would post such images. Posting such images or using such an approach would result in intense state repression of anti-fascist work, making it practically impossible to continue.
5/Simultaneously, Irish Times have given a key feature to YV protests today. When there is a shift in media reporting on protest activity, it tends to signify a change in police tactics is on the way. For months now, YV, "patriot" far-right goons have assaulted people in public..
6/view, on main streets, in daylight, under full gaze of social media. Who will be the target of what appears today to be a changing police tactic? Far-right goons repeatedly captured on camera assulting people+ shouting racist, misogynistic, homophobic hate, or anti-fascists?
