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These guards are LGBT activists. They are pictured supporting pride, posing and linking their arms with a drag queen. The guards had 'a pride car' at the pride event. Then the guard who arrested him drove this same car in the parade. All this pride activity turns them into pride activists. Are guards not supposed to be neutral? It was an awful mockery of John's convictions about the LGBT ideology, for the arresting guard to then drive the pride Garda car in the pride parade. I thought the Garda car was supposed to be neutral too and free of emblems. Is posing with the drag queen and driving in the pride parade part of their day's work? Are they scheduled to do that? Did she take time out from her pride activism to arrest John? Not hard to believe why the country has so much crime and is riddled with drugs. We have often heard they are overworked. I don't believe it. John's arrest seems to stem from the fact that Garda Grehan is a pride activist and is not neutral as one expects a guard to be. This country has gone mad.

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The PSNI have recognised the problem with members in uniform marching in pride parades.

After doing it for six years they stopped this year.

The reason they gave: their "statutory obligations to act with fairness, integrity and impartiality"

"Police service policy on ‘off duty standards’ and the Code of Ethics, create clear expectations for all officers and staff in terms of impartiality – prohibiting officers from wearing their uniform, or being identifiable as police employees, when engaging in what the PSNI describes as “cause issues”

https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/people/psni-confirms-officers-in-uniform-will-not-participate-in-this-years-pride-parade-in-belfast-4219204

Carol Nolan TD welcomed the decision and called on the Guards to do the same.

"refusing to explicitly identify with the objectives of organisations or activists with a clear political agenda should be a given for any police force

"many people who have real concerns that our own Gardai, and I am talking here about those at the senior level, have essentially been captured by the woke ideology

“The fear is that senior gardaí have become to some extent, enthusiastic enforcers of a new and highly toxic political regime.

https://gript.ie/calls-for-gardai-to-follow-psni-and-stand-back-from-political-agenda-of-pride/

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Can you spread the word early this week Rita? We need to support this man while we still can.

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Can people on here please spread this far and wide, we need to remind the gardai what their job actually is.

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Everyone who stands with John should be in portlaoise courthouse on November the 23th, I’m getting stickers made up stating our right to freedom of expression and our right to protest. If we don’t stand up now we may not get another chance.

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I agree. It needs to be highlighted by Gript and groups like Free Speech Ireland.

Given the kind of level headed person John is, if people show up it will give him a platform to speak up. It won't be a circus like if say it was Gemma.

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Completely agree, we must fill the court, I will have large stickers to remind the court of our rights. Could people please comment if they will be there so we can get an idea of numbers. This man needs supported.

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Can you spread the word on other forums please.

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People need to be in portlaoise courthouse on the 23rd to support John. The man brave enough to stand up. If we don’t stand with him, we may not get a chance to stand again.

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I believe this case is up this coming Thursday the 23rd in portlaoise @10,30 am, anyone that can go along to support would be great, this bill is being pushed through before Christmas. We will have 0 speech once this gos through. It’s too late to complain than as you don’t have the right to complain.

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