‘Humiliation’ of Republican’s wife

Posted by admin on February 22, 2014

The 32 County Sovereignty movement has strongly condemned the PSNI in
Derry after it said a young mother was subjected to a “very public
humiliation” as she was leaving her child to Long Tower school in the
Brandywell.

The woman in question is married to a republican, but has no connection
to any political groups or organisations.

A “quite personal” and “punitive” search was conducted front of other
parents, teachers and children making their way into the school. Her
seven-year-old child was extremely traumatised, they said,

“This is no less than we have become accustomed to from the rebranded
RUC.

“A corrupt sectarian force who shredded Patten [policing reform
proposals] to re-employ some 700 members of the RUC through the back
door… thus shoring their historical continuum of sectarianism by
numbers.

They said the PSNI are abusing children on their way to school whilst
attempting to “court” other schools within the area.

“They are harassing children on their way to schools and any right
thinking principal should deny the thugs access to what is supposed to
be a neutral learning environment,” they said.

And they accused their nationalist political rivals — Sinn Fein and the
SDLP — of “palpable” complicity.

“The Uncle Toms who once stood against human rights abuses now sustain
and lend credence to the sectarian regime by remaining silent as the
regression of civil rights for nationalists and republicans is allowed
to continue unabated.”
‘PROXY’ POLICE

Meanwhile, the Republican Network for Unity have warned that some
so-called ‘Community Safety’ initiatives are being used by the PSNI to
deploy “proxy” police in republican areas.

It emerged last month that the ‘Police and Community Safety Partnership’
(PCSP) in the County Armagh town are to commence a programme whereby
Newry civilians are fitted with surveillance cameras and effectively
sent on patrol.

The RNU urged the PCSP ‘wardens’ to avoid being used by the PSNI to
carry out policing functions “at half the price and at twice the risk”.

Other proxy programs have been introduced in South Down. One is entitled
‘StreetSafe’, which they say is being used to check out so-called “blind
spots” — staunchly republican areas of Ardglass and Newcastle.

It said people’s concerns over crime were being manipulated to
“ingratiate” the PSNI into community structures.

“A major objective of the British establishment and their supporters in
the Six Counties is to sell the RUC/PSNI as a ‘non-political community
based service’, with an appearance of the people’s full support,” they
said. “In this task, they have quite obviously failed in most
nationalist areas.”

It also claimed that the PSNI was using a long-standing practice of
using criminal informers to create confusion and fear within nationalist
communities to encourage them to accept British policing.

“The PSNI/RUC have no real interest in the welfare of working class
people in areas such as Ardglass or Newcastle. Those politicians and
party activists who are abusing the people’s worries in this way are
misrepresenting the nature of the community’s problems