Hello everyone
Hello everyone. James Geagan, Fine Gael TD for Dublin Bay South, is bringing forward a Fine Gael bill for closed-circuit television cameras to be rolled out right across Dublin. Now, he is claiming that this is to combat the high prevalence of crime and the high rates of illegal dumping across the Dublin region. And he also said that it now creates an opportunity to cut down on the red tape and bureaucracy that the gardaí face in terms of accessing.
More cameras. Here we go again. Now, well, a year ago, there was a parliamentary question that I covered in a video from James Geagan to Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan. Now, O'Callaghan also is a Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin Bay South, as well. And this was to look at the number of gardaí controlled CCTV cameras in Dublin city. Now, the response was that there was 209 cameras operated in the Dublin metropolitan police area.
And this is very low by European standards, according to Fine Gael and James Geagan. It's one for every 6,000 people in Dublin. Now, wait for Dublin City Council also operate cameras that the gardaí have access to. That's before 100 cameras, and about 80% of those are on traffic lights or in traffic junctions around Dublin city. And also, under legislation that was brought forward in 2023, the gardaí have access to business owners' cameras, which compels businesses to.
Provide live feed to An Garda Síochána. And what's really interesting about this is James Geagan himself. He was the head of the Dublin task force that brought forward the whole approach around Dublin city in relation to the task force that was set up around Dave McRedmond, the CEO of An Post. And McRedmond himself is the man who's overseeing the privatization of the postal services in Ireland.
And he also is the spokesman for Dublin for Fine Gael. And in accordance to Simon Harris, who appointed him to that position, said that Geagan will drive the agenda for change. Mass surveillance, here we come. And he also was pushing when he was running Dublin Bay South by-election in 2021, the 15-minute city and the drive towards sustainability, about pedestrian and smart cycling infrastructure.
Now, coincidentally, and completely coincidence, isn't it
Now, coincidentally, and completely coincidence, isn't it? Jim O'Callaghan has been pushing forward his own facial recognition technology uh through body cameras uh with the gardaí as well. And they will claim that we need more safety on our streets and more protection for the citizens. So, rather than addressing the underlying issues in Dublin city and across Ireland in relation to the high prevalence of crime and the lack of basic investment in public services, and particularly around working-class communities and areas that.
Are completely disadvantaged in parts of the city, there's a high prevalence of these cameras. Such as areas of North North Inner City has 65 cameras out of that those 209 cameras. And areas like Pearse Street on the South Inner City, as well, have about 20 to 30 cameras. So, again, it's a further erosion on ordinary working-class people's lives. And they'll say we'll have to provide more cameras for our safety. Isn't this what it's all about?
“Are completely disadvantaged in parts of the city, there's a high prevalence of these cameras”
Safety and convenience. And we can go about our daily lives that we know we're being watched by Big Brother. Now, four cameras per 1,000 of the population is the current amount in Rome, in Italy. So, 14 cameras for every 1,000 of the population in London. In some areas of London, as such as Westminster and Fulham, have a high prevalence of closed-circuit cameras being operated by the British state.
So, here we go. The bill is being brought forward around this to try and fast-track the rollout of CCTV around Dublin under the rules of the high prevalence of crime and to face and challenge illegal dumping and so forth, as well. And that's provide a safe city for people. Well, maybe in the first instance, as I said, look at the underlying issues which created the city unsafe in the first instance. But also, on top of that, it was always politicians who are.
Now trying to push this agenda. And remember, as I said, back in 2021, when when Geagan was running, he was pushing the 15-minute city agenda. So, you can't take any of these issues in isolation. This is all part of a bigger drive in the globalist agenda in terms of a surveillance state and to further erode our basic rights. It's like all these politicians are working in lockstep, and they're flying goals at different stages to pursue this.
Agenda
Agenda. And this is no different to what Geagan is currently trying to roll out. A complete and utter yes-man for the globalist establishment here in Ireland. This will have major impacts and ramifications on basic civil rights, civil liberties, and the context of those rights that were struggled for and won by generations of ordinary working-class people, which are being quickly eroded away. And Geagan himself also said during the period of COVID that showed great solidarity. And in the context of.
That, he said this was an opportunity then to push towards the 15-minute city. Already in my videos, I covered this a couple of times around Seán Ó Fearghaíl and his vision for Athlone to become Ireland's first 15-minute city. And this is a bigger agenda that those in inverted commas, elites, at the very top of the system, are the ones calling the shots uh to enforce their totalitarian, dystopian, Orwellian nightmare on the population.
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