yet more mindless populism from a political party, when during the dail debate on the criminal justice bill, fine gael attempted to add an amendment which would have allowed unconstitutionally obtained evidence to be used in trials!!!! WTF. but only when it was "accidentally" obtained so it's all right apparently. obviously fine gael don't want pesky technicalities (1) like constitutional rights to get in the way of them getting some votes, eh sorry getting justice served, yeah that sounds better. snark aside the amendment was thankfully not put into the already crap bill (2). right to silence, who needs that, lenghtened periods of detention for questioning for certain crimes. we have to "get tough on crime". election coming up after all.
it apparently didn't occur to the brains in fine gael that accidentally is a very broad and ambiguous term. what counts as a accident? who gets to decide whether it was an accident or not? did it occur to them that the gardai might, gasp, lie. god knows, it's never happened before. bunch of morons.
(1) yes, evidence not allowed because it was unconstitutionally obtained was actually described as a technicality.
(2) the reason given was that it would make the entire bill subject to challenge in the supreme court, rather than that government limiting citizens constitutional rights should be an idea completely beyond the pale in a republican democracy.
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