Sunday, December 15, 2002

Census shock on its way. From Jude Collins, simply the most important story of the week. I cannot vouch for the rest of the speculation in Jude's piece, but this one aspect alone could be revolutionary in its implications:"When census returns are released this month, the figure beside the Catholic 45% will not be 55% Protestant. [Letter to Slugger O'Toole] Comments: 12:35:55 PM

What is happening to the Criminal Justice System Siobhan O'Dwyer The past two months have seen some interesting events take place in the British Criminal Justice and civil liberties arena. These events, at first sight, seem to take place in very different areas of the justice system but are interlinked and a cause of concern.  It is true to say that law made in an emergency, when the state feels threatened, always leads to bad law and an erosion of our rights and that is what is happening here. [Fourthwrite: What is happening to the Criminal Justice System] Comments: Google It! 12:15:29 PM

Provos, SDLP remember Brits with pride Remembrance Sunday -- Poppy Day -- was marked in Belfast by a volley of shots fired by loyalists on the Shankill Road. The Pro-British death squad show of strength was carried out within earshot of an RUC/PSNI team at the scene of an attempted murder, believed to be part of a loyalist feud, where a man had been beaten around the head with an unidentified object. [Saoirse: Provos, SDLP remember Brits with pride (original), "Provos, SDLP remember Brits with pride..." (permalink)] Comments: Google It! 12:05:04 PM

Don't Join RUC/PSNI Sean Matthews This new, re-packaged RUC fails to address the true nature of this military police force which continues to use plastic bullets and sectarian intimidation against the Nationalist people. It is controlled and directed by British secureocrats and bureocrats including Specail Branch, M15 and others in the defending of British Rule in Ireland. Recently, the partisan and Brtish nature of this police force was vividly illustrated in the raiding of Sinn Fein offices. It is still an instrument of Britain's counter-insurgency operations against the opponents of this failed State. Is there any wonder why the Britsh Government is failing to implement so-called Pattorn Recomendations as this police force has a hidden British agenda and has a vested interest in the maintenance of the status-quo in Ireland. This police force was flawed from the start because Chris Patten was part of the British Political Establishment and that it is un-democratic for the British to self-regulate itself. There has been over 400 sectarian attacks on Catholics including bombings, shootings and intimidation and YET there has hardly been anyone arrested or even charged! It still smells and acts like the RUC. Even if some Catholics join the British Police Force there will be no change because the old RIC was 100% Catholic and yet that was the eyes and ears of the British Military Establishment in Ireland. How can you allow your child to collaborate with the British Armed Forces of Occupation? [The Blanket: Don't Join RUC/PSNI] Comments: Google It! 11:52:15 AM

MoD wants to scapegoat soldiers - Bloody Sunday families Fern Lane The Bloody Sunday families have submitted a lengthy document to the British and Irish governments detailing their concerns about the conduct of various British government departments in relation to the Saville inquiry. [AP/RN:MoD wants to scapegoat soldiers - Bloody Sunday families] Comments: Google It! 11:45:31 AM

Government accused of suppressing documents Fern Lane The family of Jim Wray, one of the victims of Bloody Sunday, has accused the British government of deliberately suppressing documents concerning Edward Heath, the British prime minister in 1972, because they illuminate Heath's "planning and foreknowledge" of Bloody Sunday. [AP/RN:Government accused of suppressing documents] Comments: Google It! 11:43:10 AM

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