This is an example of the device that the brave volunteers placed below cars. Some of them are now Sinn Fein MLAs.
Sinn Fein/IRA’s touts
Even as I write, in England, Boys and Girls , educated at Oxbridge, are wrestling with a problem.
It is this.
Given that sooner or later the enormity of the participation of senior Sinn Fein/IRA personnel as state touts will emerge, how should the state manage it? Also, how do we stop the Irish rabbiting on about the past?
Clearly, blanket denial is not an answer.
These clever Boys and Girls, schooled from childhood to take on the mantle of those who ran an Empire upon which the sun never set, will have to come up with an answer to bamboozle the Paddies.
We may be already seeing the first fruits of their labour.
“Well placed sources” and “veteran journalists” will start to mention the unmentionable. Books will be written. Reference has already been made in the last few days to Adams’ family.
I believe that I have already articulated the notion that the state knew years ago about the Adams Family Values and probably also about the Cahill family. They would have used this information for their own ends.
But I digress. The tactic is to reveal sufficient for the masses to be a little shocked, but not a lot. Slowly but surely they become used to it.
“Of course the Army Council were all informers” says the man in the pub/golf club/church/garden centre, “everybody knows that”
Then as the Boys and Girls point out , distracted by Britain’s Got Talent and other Circuses, if not bread, the masses will move on.
Jimmy Savile has already been replaced by Sepp as the Bogey Man.
The aim is to numb, neutralise and normalise so that nobody asks the hard questions about the state’s involvement in murders that could have been avoided. “It’s all terribly sad and it was a cock up not a conspiracy so let’s move on.”
Sadly , for the Boys and Girls and their Mandarin Masters, a few good people will continue to ask awkward questions.
What’s Irish for eeney,meeney, miney,moe?
Readers of this blog will know that part of my case against the state is that at the time of the murders of my parents, PIRA was so thoroughly penetrated that the state not only knew who killed them but could have prevented it and had agents participating in the crimes.
Anne Cadwallader, in the opening pages of chapter eight of her remarkable book “Lethal Allies” articulates how victims feel.
“He is a bit obsessed you know…”
Here is what de Silva has noted , when he investigated the murder of Patrick Finucane.
The Commanding Officer of the Force Research Unit said; “You cannot report on a terrorist organisation unless you have someone at the centre of things”.
In March 1991 the Secretary of State for Defence wrote: “we cannot expect to obtain valuable intelligence from agents that are not at the heart of the target organisation or group.”
So, let’s think. In PIRA, who was at the “centre” or the “heart”?
No, surely not! That can’t be right! Gerry, Marty, Bobby, the Army Council, Northern Command, Belfast CO?
Readers might accept that there would be little point in recruiting the woman cleaning Connolly House or even one of Gerry’s bodyguards.
So, who were the agents involved in the events of 6th June 1990?
Patience, Dear Reader!
“These legacy issues”
Interviewed on BBC Panorama and shown tonight, the Chief Constable referred to “these legacy issues”
Well, I have news for him.
The murders of my parents were crimes. Crimes which his force has failed to solve. Crimes where the papers were put in a box and stored away , probably months after the bomb. The exhibits were destroyed.
My parents were real living victims of crime.
They are not a “legacy”, nor an “issue”.
I suppose I should not be surprised that , having been selected as a safe pair of hands by the state, he trots out the state’s line.
Readers, particularly those who have also lost loved ones might well think [like I do] that George Hamilton’s attitude stinks.
The bully we have all known
He, for it almost always was a ‘he’ , had a scowl. Usually small and scrawny, he would approach and make a threat, in the playground. You knew that he was pretty stupid, bottom of the class and came from a bad background. He frequently told lies about other boys and tried to ingratiate himself with the teacher.
He usually had a couple of even more scrawny and stupid mates in tow.
He pointed to them as his enforcers.
He wanted your Wagon Wheel or some other item that he could not afford.
He told you that if you didn’t give him what he wanted “it would be a huge mistake”. A few boys had been beaten up.
Many people gave in , until a boy, empowered by his father, punched him on the nose [I have been that father]
Then no more was heard from the bully.
Why am I thinking of Martin McGuinness?
The partial repayment of a debt
Today I lodged papers with the Police Ombudsman. Details will follow. Essentially, I contend that PIRA was so completely penetrated by the state in 1990 that the murders of my parents were the state’s responsibility. This the police failed to investigate. I have given details of the PIRA informers, whose names I know and I have asked the Ombudsman to examine all state files. The exercise has taken a year of my life, which I have gladly given, for my parents. Other events have given me this opportunity, which I failed to take for twenty four years. A number of people who treated me badly during that time and who gave me no support will have their own God to answer to. I thank those who have stood by me through all my travails for these years. I thank those from both communities, who, in the last twelve months have given me information and insight. The PSNI and the PPS failed to come up to the mark. Let’s see if the Ombudsman is hewn from different wood.
The Simple Response To Gerry Adams’ Latest Assault On Mairia Cahill
Cock up or conspiracy? I favour the former on account of an institutional inability to run a prosecution service for the people.
As those who have been following the latest twists and turns in the wake of the Starmer report – which examined the way Barra McGrory’s increasingly dysfunctional Public Prosecution Service handled sexual abuse charges involving prominent IRA figures in West Belfast – will know, Gerry Adams’ response has been to claim that the abuse carried out against the most prominent victim, Mairia Cahill, was in fact perpetrated by ‘an uncle’, i.e. Martin Morris.
Mairia Cahill
It is clear that what Adams is trying to do here is to divert attention away from the IRA’s involvement in this sordid case by placing it in a family context and therefore nothing to do with the Provos. But the IRA’s fingerprints, so to speak, are all over the case.
First of all the accused abuser, Martin Morris was a member of the IRA’s secret police force, the so-called Administrative IRA, a much-feared body…
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Starmer review
Tucked away at para 1.13.
“It cannot be said with certainty whether the outcomes of these cases would have been different if particular decisions had been taken differently.”
For the layman, imagine Match of the Day and the endless slow motion replays and the blethering of the pundits. “Well, Alan, should he have scored there?”
“Well maybe not Gary, but his decision making has to be in question”
I wonder what the report cost? Is anyone interested?
Child victims
In March 2012 , having unsuccessfully prosecuted a case in respect of a child who, at the time of the alleged offences was under four, I wrote a report to Roger Davison, then Regional prosecutor, PPS Lisburn.
I set out the facts of the case and voiced my concerns for similar cases, in the future. I was concerned , because of the professional advice which I had received ,about extremely young witnesses and their capacity to give evidence.
My report did not rate even an acknowledgement from the Regional Prosecutor, who went on to be involved with the Mairia Cahill case.
The public should recognise and be concerned about the quality of the criminal justice system. It would be a mistake to think that Mairia Cahill , AA and BB are exceptions.
Belfast Telegraph misses the point
Today’s ‘Editor’s viewpoint’ , unsurprisingly, misses the point completely. The test for prosecution is not and never was an issue in MC,AA and BB. It does not feature in Starmer’s report.
Study instead Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy and the Peter Principle.
Look at the officials involved in this shambles and ask if they were up to the job.
Ask them what the organisation expected of them. The answer will be ‘stats’.
In my own experience , the high command was not interested in issues about victims, for example , about the evidence of young children , there were no medals for that.
Every organisation is taken over by the bureaucrats and every person in it is promoted beyond his/her level of ability. The PPS is no different.
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