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Mary Hanafin Creates Stasi for Welfare Recipients![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stasi-like policing powers up the stakes in class war Mary Hanafin seems proud of the creation of new laws which put those in receipt of welfare under checkpoint security Mary Hanafin is proud of a tranche of new regulations which in effect create Stasi-like powers for the State and further undermine the working-class. New powers just announced permit the investigation of any bank accounts held by people in receipt of social welfare, and social welfare inspectors, working with customs officers, can mount checkpoints and question the occupants of a vehicle as to whether they are claiming social welfare while also working. With no shame whatever, let alone a sense of irony, Hanafin says (Irish Independent, December 14th) that: ". . .we will do whatever is necessary to work with agencies in this and other jurisdictions to combat fraud because, after all, taxpayers' money is at stake." |
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