The war on drugs, coming to your gaff soon
Posted on | December 12, 2007 | 64 Comments
With all the bleating and hand-wringing about cocaine at the moment there’s pressure on the government to do something.
You might think that going after the dealers would be a good idea and you might think that trying to improve detection methods so more drugs can be found before they get to the dealers would also be a good idea. Of course the people that buy the drugs are culpable too but they’re small fry. You can arrest a 100 people for possessing a gram of coke but what difference is that going to make in the grand scheme of things? You might scare people for a while but eventually the crackdown will stop and the dealers will still deal and the smugglers will still smuggle and the problem won’t go away.
So the leader of this country, who saw fit to send a representative to some model’s funeral but not the funerals of the two lads from Waterford (confirming to us all that models are better than other people), has called on the Gardai to raid house parties. Honestly. He says:
The gardaí have strong powers in this area and I would like to see them enforced more strongly. I want to be frank about that.
So, the Gardai have ‘strong powers’ to raid people’s houses. Don’t they also have ‘strong powers’ to arrest drug dealers and drug smugglers? And wouldn’t it be fair to assume that the Gardai would have more intimate knowledge of major criminals, you know, like drug dealers, than John Murphy who works for some insurance company and who’s having a few lines in his house with some of his mates?
Wouldn’t it be a far better use of their resources to take down a dealer, thus cutting the supply to hundreds of people, than some random cunt having a party? Sure, you’ll frighten them and they’ll probably get a fine and maybe lose their job but it won’t make the blindest bit of difference to Johnny the Dealer who’ll still churn out the same amount of stuff every week. You will not solve the problem by targetting users.
I could be wrong, and I’ll stand to be corrected on this, but I’d imagine there are people who are well known to Gardai because of their involvement in the drug trade. Maybe all the dealers are so clever and resourceful that there’s not the slightest bit of proof that they can use against them. Maybe the dealers are paying off the right people and those people are looking the other way. I sort of doubt it though. I bet the drug squad know exactly who’s bringing stuff into the country, who’s distributing it and who’s on the streets selling it.
I mean, if ‘normal’ people can find someone to buy their coke off every week then surely it can’t be any more difficult for the police who can then work their way back up the chain to get the really big boys. But maybe a few arrests of some middle-class professionals will make people think Bertie isn’t just paying lip-service to the whole thing.
‘Look’, the green-top rag will scream, ‘a lawyer and a doctor and a bloke who works in an IT department have been caught red-handed. They are simply feeding the scum’ – all the while ignoring the fact they’ve practically canonised their own blonde haired coke user who did just the same thing.
Garda raid squads will swarm through Foxrock, Templeogue, Clontarf, Malahide, Darndale and Fettercairn. They will raid houses in Darndale and Fettercairn, won’t they? I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t. We keep hearing how this epidemic reaches all sections of society and they have parties in the less salubrious Dublin manors, don’t they?
The bottom line is that this is like Bertie’s appearance on TV when he sniffled a bit and everyone let him away with being a big, fucking cunt. He’ll talk and he’ll do his best to sound sincere but he knows fine well this won’t make any inroads into solving the drug problem that, if we’re being honest with ourselves, is hardly a new thing. Some time ago it was heroin, later it was Ecstasy, now it’s coke. A few people kick the bucket and there’s a bit more media attention but it’ll all die down (no pun intended) after a while.
Anyway, cocaine is just this year’s road deaths. Next year it’ll be something else, probably some scandal involving immigrants and murder and rape and how we need to close our borders before they take all our joooooobs.
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December 12th, 2007 @ 12:35 am
This time it might be a bit different, simply because it’s not just places like Darndale and Fettercairn. But at the end of the day, it won’t make any difference whatsoever.
Plus ca change…..
December 12th, 2007 @ 12:36 am
I thought it was a bit rich that the leader of a dodgy party would tell the Guards to raid dodgy parties.
December 12th, 2007 @ 12:57 am
Would that be the same leader of the same party,that 1 of his bright,young,future stars was caught on video snorting coke off a c.d. case? The same party thats still investigating this very incident months later ?
Oh btw the guy in question(cant remember his name,something Kelly)is only a councillor in the same constituency as our very own Minister for Drugs Pat Carey.
December 12th, 2007 @ 1:16 am
You got it right Twenty, all the dealers are known to the cops. It’s the cunts at the top who are on the take that keep the shit flowing and it’s gunna stay that way — get used to it. The political shit heels are all on the take and their piece of the action is huge. If you could see what’s in their overseas accounts you’d shit a brick. Not one of ‘em gives a rats ass about anyone but themselves.
December 12th, 2007 @ 2:37 am
It’s only a problem because it’s illegal. Prohibition doesn’t work. It just makes criminals wealthy.
Legalise everything!
December 12th, 2007 @ 3:12 am
Whatever happened to educating people about drug safety instead of scaring the shit out of them, which never works. Do you remember back in the nineties you couldnt open a youth orientated magazine, without coming across a “ten steps to safely using E” article. They seemed to accept that young people were using the drug, and wanted them to be safe? Olaf T, touched on this point in his watered down shit pipe of a column in the evening herald today!! and I had to agree.
December 12th, 2007 @ 4:02 am
Good old R.T.E. do it again,at the same time their showing the re-run of last nights Prime Time on R.T.E 1,while on Network 2 their showing Scarface.
December 12th, 2007 @ 5:52 am
I agree SC. Education is what it’s all about. Legalise, Regulate, Tax and Educate.
I saw an article proposing setting up class A treatment centres and GIVING Heroin away with clean needles, etc.(obviously there would be a pile of advice being handed out at the same time). It pays for itself in crime reduction alone. Obviously the Gardai would have to think of something else to fail miserably at.
Also – if you legalised the lot, the tax on the more harmless drugs (ie, weed) could also be diverted to drug education, thereby keeping the polulace aware of the many and varied pitfalls at no additional cost to the taxpayer.
Maybe it’s time to stop treating people as though they can’t make decisions for themselves, given enough facts.
Having said that, we are talking about the same people who voted Dirty Bertie and co. in again. Maybe they are all morons who couldn’t find their arse with both hands and a map. And an arse.
December 12th, 2007 @ 8:08 am
What about the Workers?
December 12th, 2007 @ 8:12 am
cnut, is some sort of night porter or Lackey?
December 12th, 2007 @ 8:21 am
Cnut: well said prohibition just hands the supply of drugs into the criminals, I am of the opinion you should legalise the lot.
The sheer hypocrisy of the arguments winds me up. Just look at the number of alcohol related deaths there are evry year in Ireland and the UK, yet this is seen as acceptable. Just look around you at he weekend and see the alchohol fuelled violence , and even worse the amount of violence perpetrated within the home because of alchohol.
Legalise all drugs, give the wealth back to the countries that produce coke, opium and hash and take it off the criminals.
December 12th, 2007 @ 8:59 am
Alfie – me old mucker. A Lackey? Is that like a person who repeatedly tells you to get fucked?
December 12th, 2007 @ 9:01 am
That would be me then.
December 12th, 2007 @ 9:05 am
than John Murphy who works for some insurance company and who’s having a few lines in his house with some of his mates?
Fuckin grass.
December 12th, 2007 @ 9:06 am
No, lines.
December 12th, 2007 @ 9:19 am
Ah Jaysus. Is there to be no jokes today?
What we have here gentlemen (and ladies? ha, seriosuly…) is a case of lip service. Fat, stuttering lip service at that. When Pat ‘the cadaver’ Carey isn’t calling for gaffs to be raided the Taoiseach is taking up the cry because he has to be seen to do something. Course it won’t happen. Gardai don’t have the interest or resources and neither do the courts.
It might surprise you to learn that the biggest users of coke are working class men. While the rest of us went to college etc. (don’t pretend you didn’t) the boyz in the hood have been working a trade since they were 16. They’ve got a gaff, a mortgage, kids generally, and a fucking lot more money than the rest of us at this stage in life. And it’s status to them. Bling. ‘He must be doing well, sure he always has coke, so he does’.
The National Advisory Committee on Drugs are going to tell you exactly this fact in all the papers sometime next January of February.
Which is not near as much fun as laughing at Miriam O’Callaghan’s weird accent and wondering is it caused by the draft she must get up her massive fanny.
December 12th, 2007 @ 9:20 am
Which is not near as much fun as laughing at Miriam O’Callaghan’s weird accent and wondering is it caused by the draft she must get up her massive fanny.
Yeah, I watched Prime Time last night and I meant to comment on that. Where the fuck is she from?
December 12th, 2007 @ 9:32 am
I was taken aback when my normally quiet girlfriend referred to her as a “bucket fannied old hoor”
December 12th, 2007 @ 9:37 am
PP – Just snorted Aussie pinot noir out my nose!
December 12th, 2007 @ 9:38 am
Haven’t the last few days taught you anything, cnut? You’re supposed to snort stuff UP your nose.
December 12th, 2007 @ 9:49 am
OOOhhh. UP?!
Nope. No improvement! Good bouquet though.
By the way – they can have my fucking joooob.
December 12th, 2007 @ 9:50 am
No, lines.
Geebag.
December 12th, 2007 @ 9:51 am
It’s funny isn’t it? I mean it’s absolutely fucking hilarious when there’s some crisis in the news. Road deaths, drinking, violence, health service being shite and now drugs.
For all the talk that goes on in the Dáil and the media, absolutely nothing worthwhile will be done about anything. The Gardai just don’t want to know about crime. But if the opportunity to shoot a few fish in a barrel (drunk drivers on a Sunday morning) comes up, they’ll be all over it. And they might just get some overtime out of it too, the heroic cunts.
Not that I give a shite about the deaths of drug users, but Bertie sending an emissary to that cuntbag’s funeral? Well that beggars belief doesn’t it..
I love this fucking country.
December 12th, 2007 @ 10:12 am
I like having parties, I DON’T do drugs. If any facist cunt raids my gaff for no reason other than looking for drugs, I’m going to take him to the fuckin cleaners!
December 12th, 2007 @ 10:22 am
it’d be funny to murder some gardai that raid your party.
December 12th, 2007 @ 10:22 am
i think i’m going weird.
December 12th, 2007 @ 10:29 am
They’re welcome to come to my place anytime. Morgor – Did you mean funny as in “kind of fun”?
December 12th, 2007 @ 10:31 am
Cnut: they may bust you for being a ponce and drinking “Aussie Pinot Noir”
December 12th, 2007 @ 10:57 am
If it isn’t one thing, it’s the other, like.
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:03 am
Cnut, yeah, i could be a like a game,
see how loud you have to turn up the music before they raid the house, you could even have cardboard cutout silhouettes behind the curtains leaning over a table.
Then you could set up traps all over the house, like pit traps and spear traps from Heroquest.(remember that game?)
alternatively you could lurk behind doors with garottes and silenced pistols.
Ever play Hitman?
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:07 am
People should go back to traditional entertanment – drinking Ether.
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:08 am
Ever play Hitman while smoking weed? Nearly impossible but well worth the experience.
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:09 am
seems fg think politician and civil servant pay should be performance related. that’s a lot of money to pay back to the public. maybe could keep some as slaves. http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mheyaucwidsn/
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:13 am
You can have Harney as your slave..the Jabba impersonating auld fuck would lie around eating you out of house and home…Bertie would dip money out of your wallet/purse.
Nah, better to have a show like the running man with the fuckers fighting for the lives for our entertainment.
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:17 am
think the uk government are going to see how something like that will work out -
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mheyaucwqloj/
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:20 am
Hitman + weed eh? sounds like fun.
Ever try 2 player Burnout (ps2) + 4 bottles of wine + Tool (aenima at high volume)?
thats good too.
(follow up with tequila)
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:31 am
this is a game from a while ago, but wipeout3, magic mushrooms and a crate of redbull… it was fun for a while.
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:31 am
also, put fifa2000-2008 (whichever u have) on 90 min mode, computer v computer, n watch while ur tripping to chill out…
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:31 am
wipeout was fucking class.
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:33 am
Tool-aenima and PS2 Burnout. You are a man of exquisite taste morgor.
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:34 am
hehe or GTA vice city, several bottles of buckfast, and a full (cheats) on rampage thru miami…
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:42 am
tekken 3 warrants a mention, but I think we’ve covered the cream of the crop.
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:45 am
Hey Morgor, I love that idea of seeing how loud you can get the music before you’re raided. You could all hide in the dark and when they bust in turn on all the lights and shout ‘SURPRISE!’
December 12th, 2007 @ 11:47 am
Jack, you could have all have fake machines guns and balaclavas as you jump out, see if you can make them piss themselves.
plus it wouldn’t be illegal cos you’re just playing a game on your own property.
hehe.
December 12th, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
heh heh heh
December 12th, 2007 @ 12:28 pm
They’d probably batter you in your own home right after pissing themselves, and not face any repercussions for it, as your home is probably the only place left without CCTV so all the cunts have to do is close ranks, deny everything or say you took a swing at them first.
Like when they battered those designer crusty dreadlocked Trinity students at the May day thing a few years ago (though they deserved it)
December 12th, 2007 @ 1:42 pm
Dean Lyons was fitted up by the boys-in-blue for 2 murders he didn’t commit.
The only person before the courts in relation to the fit-up is the boy-in-blue who leaked the report of the enquiry into the fit-up.
The boy-in-blue who took the “statements of admission” from Dean Lyons for murdering 2 women have not been before the courts.
this is a banana republic
I do drugs to self-medicate the horror of this corrupt little country away from my mind. I live on the 3rd floor so the pigs can fook off if they think they’ll arrest me for helping terrorists i.e. smoking afghani black.
December 12th, 2007 @ 2:07 pm
When I read about Cnut blowing pinot noir out the nose I laughed so hard I nearly dropped my monacle…
December 12th, 2007 @ 2:28 pm
Dont the police need a warrant to enter someones home, or did this change? Also, getting a judge up to sign a warrant late on a friday/saturday night would be nigh on impossible. So any evidence collected would be inadmissable in court……
(thatas as far as I know anyways, it could be all wrong)
December 12th, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
here we go:
http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/justice/arrests/powers-of-search/?searchterm=search%20warrant
“Generally, search warrants are issued by District Court Judges or Peace Commissioners when a Garda makes a statement on oath that he/she knows or has reasonable cause for believing or suspecting that a crime has been or is being committed.”
so they will need the district court running all night at the weekends.
Cunts.
December 12th, 2007 @ 2:51 pm
twenty, if my door gets kicked in, im sending you the bill
December 12th, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
Twenty, there appear to be a sizeable number of cunts discussing viedo games on your blog.
I’m not going to stand for it.
December 12th, 2007 @ 3:06 pm
Again, Fianna Glas are ambivalent when it comes to actually having to do anything… soft on crime, soft as shit on the causes of crime. MoJ’s answer bore similarities to industrial policy in the 1980′s (before the Easties ‘tuk our jobs’. The attitude was Fas’ll do it, and the buck-passing in this case seems to be analogous in implying that the cops’ll do it. (Wasn’t me guv). For the govt, the problem is availability: get the dealers and stop fucking about.
Drug takers are another matter. On RTE, the programme about drugs left me laughing because it was so lame: one guy went through all his savings in a year… as my granny used to quip ‘fools and their money, etc’.
So I really don’t buy it that “I was depressed/ in jail/ bored/ too rich/ a fashion model/ at a party, so I turned to [insert name of drug(s) here]“. The old sociologist in me says this is a ‘gloss’ to avoid stigma and avoid accepting they’re not able to cope with contemporary society, thus the issue is much wider than ‘drugs’ per se.
December 12th, 2007 @ 3:09 pm
Twenty, there appear to be a sizeable number of cunts discussing viedo games on your blog.
I thought ignoring them might make them stop.
December 12th, 2007 @ 3:23 pm
We need a government of the people by the people to do something about drugs, not a government of the people by bob the builder (lobbyist)in his range rover who couldnt give a shite except where his next killing will be. And it woudn’t surprise me if some of these guys get caught with the white stuff trying to stop their over stretched businesses going under along with their lifestyle and ( I was going to say morals but that presumes they had some to begin with).
Of course there will be some poor slob arrested in time at a party but he will be middle class and not very high profile just a poor Joe in the wrong place at the wrong time. On the otherhand if they know where he/she got their stuff and can follow it back to the next source etc etc maybe we have a chance of achieving something, but if the powers that be dont do this we may as well hang out the sign. “Welcome to Ireland, theres never been more coke in the country since we shut down the factory in Drogheda”
December 12th, 2007 @ 7:56 pm
PP – Yes – Aussie Pinot out the nose is a wee bit gay. I should have said Buckfast, dammit.
Bit of a delay – just woke up.
December 12th, 2007 @ 8:29 pm
I saw a photo of model Andrea Roche at a funeral with her husband.
Andrea Roche looked very sexy. Her husband is a fat ugly cunt with 6 chins. As dylan moran would say he looks like an irishman – he looks like he’s been told two very important pieces of information at the same time.
Who’s he and how did she fall for him? Jesus; she could do better than that oaf.
Hang on- there’s the door…probably the bertie pigs.
December 12th, 2007 @ 8:32 pm
cnut, Stop before the next wave gets to your feet!
December 12th, 2007 @ 8:40 pm
But Twenty, if you go chasing the actual cause, you know what you’re going to pay for a gram? Fuckloads. I guess somebody in FF was smart enough to think that out.
Probably that team that investigates that Kelly-dude. “No don’t go chasing the dealers, we’re never able to get actual footage of the snorting motherfucker. It’ll be to expensive for him. And he’ll be going to be the next Bertie taking money from anyone just to kick his habbit.”
December 12th, 2007 @ 9:52 pm
Of course the real problem is cigarettes…Bertie is taxing the legitimate drug dealers´(tobacco) heavy, cause he cant tax the others.´!
Imagine how much money the drug dealers would make if tobacco was outlawed,selling fags as well as the other stuff.
Tobacco is killing far more than Cocaine or Hash.
Ahern´s gang would never jeopardise that legitimate revenue stream.
Michael O´Leary would be the main beneficiary.Ryanair would make a massive fortune on away weekends!!
Amsterdam here we come. drugs and women come and get me!
Its all out of control.´
Cop on.Sell the stuff through government outlets Bart.
Give all your whiparound pals an “off licence” to offload the stuff at better prices than the drug barons. Let the builders diversify now that hard times are upon them.
December 13th, 2007 @ 3:34 am
Sean R,
I believe the saying goes…
“..A Fool and his money are soon Partying..”
December 13th, 2007 @ 11:39 am
Not that it is pleasant that people do die from taking coke, but for an completely unregulated drug a few deaths a year does not seem like many in comparison to some other regulated drugs.
Taking any kind of drug will always be a risk to the user. Education is the key here to *minimise* risk of death. Lets face it if people weren’t dying from taking coke no one would care because the media wouldn’t be on it. Life would go as normal (fucked up as it is) and some people would get high but go to hell, and their punishment would be listening coked up wankers talk shite for eternity.
December 13th, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
Is Bertie saying go after the users because they aren’t likely to hand him bags of cash?
December 13th, 2007 @ 8:55 pm
I would like to see more people laugh at Berties suggestions. If you were there beside the cunt when he said all this, wouldn’t you just laugh out loud at him.
I mean, the shit he comes out with is so fucking stupid, you couldn’t help ripping the piss….