PR: Government tries to silence YD
30.09.1992
The government over the past two weeks has used special branch and plain clothes gardai to harass, intimidate and obstruct peaceful demonstrations by Youth Defence. This harassment culminated yesterday (Weds) with the arrest in Cork of two members of YD and the lodging of one - a 17 year old girl in a filthy excrement smeared cell.
It is obvious that the government realises that it's policies, which present the youth of the nation with only the options of emigration, unemployment, or starvation wages on short term employment schemes, are a major cause of discontent amongst the youth of Ireland. The government are prepared to use offensive totalitarian tactics to suppress any manifestation of this discontent, and they are targeting the idealistic anti-abortion youth movement who have called their bluff on the elementary question of the murder of infant children.
Willie O'Dea, Junior Minister, Dept. of Justice has been digging through dusty British statutes and has come up with the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875 in an effort to intimidate and bully YD.
This despicable law was enacted to protect planters and their stolen property and to further silence the oppressed and starving people of post-famine Ireland.
Another British Act - the Independent Advertisement Act of 1989 was used as an excuse for the arrest and detention of the two YD members in Cork on September 1992. Section 3 of the same act prohibits the display of abortion procurement information.
Mr. O'Dea and his immediate boss, the nice Mr. New-Image Flynn (of the Fianna Fail Republican, anti-abortion, anti-swindle, anti-tribunal, anti-youth party) may take consolation that in their anti-YD bullying they have the support of reactionaries such as Nuala Fennell and Conor Crusie as expressed on RTE 1 last Monday night.
YD is the largest and most active anti-abortion organisation in the country as it is for this reason that the government seeks to silence it.
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