"Earlier this month, police wrapped up a 30-day sting involving plainclothes officers mimicking tourists and other pedestrians. Once they were panhandled, they essentially became victims guaranteed to show up for a trial"
But the Boston cops got time to cruise the strip, bust brothels, hang out in bars, buy drugs, and worry about cellphones!!
"Irish law prohibits aggressive begging; Panhandling more visible as economy falters" by Mary Jordan, Washington Post | December 23, 2008
DUBLIN - ....
Police now consider "aggressive" begging a crime.
How about poisoned food?
Last month, the government announced a crackdown on hostile panhandlers, introducing the first new laws against begging since the Potato Famine in the 1840s. A conviction could lead to as much as a month in jail or a 700 euro fine, about $976, according to a Justice Ministry statement....
Does that GO FOR LOBBYISTS and POLITICIANS, too?
And how are beggars expected to pay fines? War looters and bilking banks never do -- they give out bonuses!
The move comes as begging near bank machines, rail stations, and landmarks grows more visible in cities across Europe, which has been badly battered by the global economic crisis.
In Ireland, where a once red-hot economy was among the first to falter, many people say an influx of immigrants from Romania and other Eastern European countries has added to the panhandling problem. Most disturbing, some say, is that adults might be exploiting children by forcing them to beg.
Oh, that is why the agenda-pushing globalist paper is concerned.
"It was very distressing to witness young children effectively forced onto the streets to beg by sinister adults," said Dermot Ahern, the justice minister. "Business and tourists are damaged by begging on the streets."
How about TAKING the TRILLIONS upon TRILLIONS for WAR and using them to FEED SOME PEOPLE and GROW SOME FOOD?!!! WHO CARES about BUSINESS and TOURISTS and their "inconvenience?"
Caroline O'Sullivan, a spokeswoman for the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, said that government officials felt pressured to do something, but that she personally has "not come across an intimidating beggar." She criticized the law for heavily fining those asking for spare change: "They will have to go out begging again to pay the fine."
Roughan McNamara, a spokesman for Focus Ireland, a charity for the homeless, said the new measure "smacks of total overreaction." "Isn't it easy to say no?" McNamara said.
Not to war looters, financial string-pullers, or the ZOG.
Currently, McNamara said, there are about 5,000 homeless people in Ireland, nearly all housed in shelters or temporary housing. "All charities are seeing a rising in demand for their services," McNamara said. "Life is getting a lot more difficult."
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Gary Kennedy, 50, a shopkeeper, said he "wouldn't call those who have an intimidating manner a beggar." "I'd call them a robber," he said. "And there are already laws against that. It's strange to have a law against hostile begging."
Yeah, I KNOW WHO you are talking about, and while the illegals are part of the whole globalist plan on the economic side, give me a bit of 'Sicko," and TAKE the WAR MONIES and BAILOUT LOOT to PROVIDE for THAT! SHUT DOWN the WAR MACHINE! They are the ULTIMATE LOOTERS of not only loot, but LIFE!!!
Several Dubliners said they sometimes wonder whether panhandlers are destitute or prefer begging to working.
Oh, now we are getting into classist crapola!
Advocates for the homeless and children said that immigrants from many nations are asking for money on Irish street corners, but that those with children often are "travelers," as some itinerant Irish people are known. The society has launched an awareness campaign called "Giving Money Is Not the Answer."
You know whom to TELL IT TO, and it ain't the kids and their "immigrant" parents!!!!!!
