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  • Army rejects criticism over attack response

    Found this while browsing on the RTE NEWS web site.
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    anuary 9, 2003

    (10:03)

    The Army has responded to claims by a town cleaner in Wexford that they did nothing to help him when he was attacked by two youths on New Year’s Eve.

    In an interview on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland today, 54-year-old Larry Flood alleged that a group of soldiers and gardaí who were on bank escort duty nearby failed to intervene while he was being kicked and punched.

    A spokesman for the Defence Forces said that individual armed soldiers involved in security operations did not have the discretion to intervene in incidents.

    But he said that like any other citizen, if the soldiers involved did witness the assault, they should have informed the gardaí.
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    What did he expect??? just cause the army were there doesnt mean he's safe! they were on duty protecting a bank/convoy.... they cant go fannying about stoping some teenage punks from slaping some old guy around!!!! as for the gardai.... they should of done something!! (not gardai bashing!!!)
    Last edited by T.I.M.; 9 January 2003, 18:15.
    Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

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    • #3
      I think it was shameful that either the gardai,or the soldiers, didn't help this man.

      I saw him on the news tonight and he was very badly injured. He saidhe merely asked his attackers to move as he was cleaning the street,and they set upon him.
      The doctors who treated him said he was very nearly killed.
      Apparently the guards and soldiers merely called the local cops to come and help - by which time he could have been dead !

      It's a sad day when people in the service of the state won't come to the aid of one of it's citizens !!!
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      • #4
        What were the soldiers to do - abandon their posts & run over pointing their weapons at them? What if the soldiers got involved and were disarmed? What if it was a ploy to draw them away from the bank?

        It was an unfortunate incident but I believe both the Gardai and soldiers in question acted correctly.
        "The dolphins were monkeys that didn't like the land, walked back to the water, went back from the sand."

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        • #5
          :o Now lads..we all Know the rules...
          I dont think its up for discussion what should and should not have been done..
          There were civilians there too...nobody is asking why they didnt help..at least the GardaI got him help..the average civvy would have walked away..

          Either way..we Cannot and should not discuss the rights and wrongs here!
          Last edited by Goldie fish; 9 January 2003, 23:05.


          Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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          • #6
            Oh no.... Not again! if this statrs ANOTHER topic like the abbylara/mccarthy one....
            leave it goldie fish.........please for the love of god leave it:(
            Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

            http://www.iamawesome.com/

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