Posted by Jim on May 31, 2017
A family including an 11-month-old baby have escaped injury after their
house was paint-bombed and windows smashed in a sectarian attack.
Several loyalists wearing balaclavas targeted the property and smashed
windows at a house on Bloomfield Court in Bangor, County Down, in a late
night attack on Monday.
Windows at the front and back of the property were smashed with bricks
and paint bombs were also thrown, causing damage to both the outside and
inside of the house on the ground floor.
Paint damage was also caused to the outside and inside of the house on
the ground floor.
Politicians have condemned the attack.
Meanwhile, two Sinn Fein election workers were told to “get out” of
Portadown, County Armagh while putting up posters.
Assembly member John O’Dowd, the party’s Westminster election candidate
for Upper Bann, described the incident as intimidation and said it was
“completely unacceptable and an attack on the democratic process”.
He said: “These is a clear onus on unionist politicians to show
leadership in this situation and condemn those behind this intimidation
and call for it to end.”
Meanwhile, a Protestant church minister has apologised for a bizarre
sectarian comment involving blonde hair-dye.
He said he was “glad hydrogen peroxide is dyeing hair blonde and not
going into creamery cans to make explosives”.
The comments by Church of Ireland Canon Mark Watson were criticised by
Sinn Fein Assembly member Jemma Dolan, who described them as
“extraordinary and outrageous”.
They came after Mrs Foster was criticised last week for sexist remarks
in which she described Sinn Fein northern leader Michelle O’Neill as
“blonde”.
The Canon made the comments on Saturday at a Westminster election event
in County Fermanagh in support of Ulster Unionist candidate Tom Elliott,
which was attended by DUP leader Arlene Foster.
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Videos of PSNI police abuse and harassment of republicans and the people
of Derry have received hundreds upon thousands of views, likes and
shares on the internet.
Saoradh and republican youth group Eistigi have said there has been an
escalation in the harassment campaign that is being directed against
both republicans and the general public.
Dozens of these incidents have now been documented by videos recorded on
smartphones. One recent video depicts a 15 year old child being bullied
and manhandled by a group of PSNI.
“Had any other group of men in Derry been captured on film, abusing a 15
year old child in this fashion, then their homes would be picketed and
they would, without doubt, be subject to arrest,” Eistigi said in a
Facbook post.
“The gang featured in this video will not have their homes picketed.
They do not live amongst us. They creep amongst us. They are drafted in
from elsewhere and concealed behind a fortified barracks wall. They then
go out on patrol in armoured vehicles and heavily armed.
“They are not part of this community because they are not wanted and
they are not welcome. Neither will the gang in this video be subjected
to arrest. They are protected by their uniform.”
They said there had been a sharp escalation in a campaign of state
harassment that is being directed against young people in Derry as part
of a campaign to smash the youth group.
“The activity and development of Eistigi unnerves the British
establishment in Derry. Another generation of resistance to British rule
is emerging here. They cannot stop it and they know it.”
Last week, Saoradh in Belfast condemned what it described as an
escalation in the intimidation and abuse of its members there by the use
of ‘stop and search’ tactics
The harassment of West Belfast republican Damhnaic Mac Eochaidh and a
local woman was captured on video outside Dunville Park in west Belfast.
An illegal search took place of their vehicle after PSNI members
involved made an unsubstantiated reference to having authorisation from
the British Direct Ruler.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the party in Belfast said that the
searches were deliberately carried out to inhibit the lawful activity
and progress of their movement.
They said the actions were being directed by British military
intelligence. “The aim is to stifle our growth by frustrating our
development,” they said.
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The family of a teenager killed by British soldiers 46 years ago have
accused the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) of trying to obstruct a
new investigation into her death.
Martin McGavigan, whose 14-year-old sister Annette was shot dead in
Derry in 1971, made the claim after the MoD attempted to withhold
documents about her death already in the public domain.
Mr McGavigan said he believed the MoD was delaying the case in the hope
his family would eventually give up attempts to hold a new probe.
The schoolgirl was in her school uniform when she was shot in the head
on September 6 1971 while trying to collect discarded rubber bullets
following a riot near her Bogside home.
The only investigation carried out into her death was by the British
Military Police. None of the soldiers responsible were ever charged.
In 2014 the teenager’s family asked the MoD for documents relating to
her death, including an intelligence report. When the Ministry failed to
comply with their request, they complained to the Information
Commissioner.
At a subsequent tribunal hearing at the High Court in Belfast it was
revealed that 90 per cent of the documents were already in the public
domain.
The documents which were held back by the MoD included inquest
depositions taken from soldiers at the time.
In its ruling, the tribunal said it was “extraordinary” that neither the
Information Commissioner or the tribunal was alerted earlier to the fact
that most of the material was already in the public domain adding there
“was no justification for refusing the request”.
The tribunal ordered the MoD to hand over the documents.
However, it turned down the family’s request for an intelligence report
after MoD lawyers refused permission for the Information Commission’s
counsel to view its contents.
Sara Duddy, the McGavigan family’s case worker at the Pat Finucane
Centre, said the decision made it almost impossible for the Information
Commission to argue for the release of the intelligence report.
“To push families to have to battle for every piece and shred of
information, that is frustrating,” Ms Duddy said.
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The following piece was published by Junior McDaid House, a new joint
Irish Republican Prisoners’ Welfare Association and Saoradh office in
Derry named after the late IRA volunteer, James ‘Junior’ McDaid.
It is impossible to forget certain media reports. They are engraved upon
your mind at the moment you first view them. Younger Republicans will
not remember certain articles and images from the war but as recent
investigations have brought them back into the public domain, there is
no doubt that all of us can relate to them and their meaning.
The account of Aidan Starrs, Johnny Dignam and Gregory Burns. Three
British agents who had murdered and secretly buried Margaret Perry in an
attempt to conceal their role within British intelligence. They were
executed by the IRA and their bodies left on the road. The recently
aired confession of Caroline Moreland, a Belfast woman who confessed to
being a British agent inside the IRA and who was subsequently executed
with her body being left on the Fermanagh Monaghan border in July 1994.
The recent lonesome and pathetic death of Derry British agent Raymond
Gilmore who had worked for British intelligence against his own people
before ironically being exposed by his handlers. This forced him to flee
his home and to rot in isolation and alcoholism in various shabby
English flats until his pathetic existence was finally extinguished. His
rotting corpse lay undiscovered for days. No-one cares about an
informer, they do not have loved ones.
All of these horrid images and stories raise the question, “What
happened to send these people into such pathetic lonely deaths?”
It begins with an approach. Caroline Moreland claims to have been
threatened with the loss of her children, Johnny Dignam & Co offered
various reasons. Raymond Gilmore pretended he had a justification for
turning on his own but an informer is a narcissist and by virtue of
their existence will do or say anything to protect only themselves and
only for their own selfish interest.
The intelligence world is a dark place that we know is bereft of law,
morals or justice. British intelligence controls everything in the 6
Counties, from the Prisons to the so-called ‘Police’. Over the past 10
years Nationalist politicians aided by the NIO have rammed an image of
the RUC down our throats that simply doesn’t exist.
They have told us that the RUC has changed its ways and swore that it is
no longer at war with the Nationalist community. They have ordered us to
endorse it and they have forced it into every aspect of community life
to such an extent it is impossible to live without “them” being “there”
somewhere.
Last year PSNI commander Will Kerr stated on radio that “MI5 and the
PSNI” are “the same thing”. No-one seemed to raise an eyebrow at this
revelation but it was the first time that someone so senior conceded
what Republicans have known always.
At the weekend National Organiser for Saoradh, Joe Barr, arrived home to
find that a letter signed by “Caroline” awaited him. Joe does not know
who “Caroline” is. The letter is a disgusting attempt by British
intelligence to recruit an agent within the Revolutionary Republican
Party Saoradh.
This letter arrived a week following the publication of a newspaper
article. The article detailed how Joe had been forced from the U.S. by
FBI agents working on the instructions of British intelligence while on
a business trip and how he has been left unemployed as a result.
“Caroline’s” attempt to exploit the very circumstances which British
intelligence created in order to facilitate an approach is truly
shocking in 2017.
“Caroline” tells Joe in the letter that only she can help him. In an
attempt to manipulate him, she tells him that he is smarter than his
comrades and has already proven an ability to act and think differently
than them. It is probably the same theme that was once applied to the
narcissistic Raymond Gilmore and one that appealed to him.
British intelligence have targeted Joe in a number of ways over the last
12 months. He has been arrested, charged, constantly harassed by the RUC
on a daily basis, they terminated his employment and have applied so
much pressure upon him, that both his family and personal relationships
are inevitably enduring stress.
Having directed this vendetta against Joe, MI5 now believe that he is
ready to break and enter the arena for MI5 against his people, his
friends and his Country.
They want him to inflict damage on Saoradh and the Republican movement.
They want him to engage in the activities Johnny Dignam and Co. did and
they want his life to extinguish in a dirty oul’ flat in England in the
same isolation as Raymond Gilmores.
British intelligence set about to destroy this young mans life last year
because of his legitimate Republican beliefs. They targeted a very hard
working, well educated and decent young man until he had lost his
employment, was before the courts and had featured in the local media.
They did so in order to make him vulnerable enough to recruit him into a
life of unthinkable crime. Former agents include Mark Haddock, Torrens
Knight and Freddie Scappaticci. The pathway to a better life that
“Caroline” has offered to Joe is the road to pure evil.
Saoradh demand that the British explain them-selves in relation to this
disgusting attempt at wreaking havoc upon the people of Derry through
agency. We call on the forces of Nationalism, who have been driving the
Normalisation process for a decade, to come out now and to condemn this
horrific and now wholly exposed agenda. The RUC and MI5 are one and the
same body. They have no place around any Irish person and have been
exposed by “Caroline” for what they are and always have been.
Do not be fooled by British intelligence or flattered by their
overtures. They possess the same consideration for Joe or indeed any
other Republican, as they did for the rest of those whom they gleefully
sent to lay dead on border roads, in England’s dirty war games.
We make an appeal to anyone who has been approached by British
intelligence and has accepted their false promises of a better life to
come forward and to make it known. Do not allow yourselves to end up in
the same sorry state that others did. As revolutionaries we understand
how England works and why they work in this manner. We therefore are
truly here to help all victims of British rule.
In response to Caroline who asked that Joe keep her little letter to
himself. We hope you enjoyed this statement.
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