Tuesday, July 8, 2003

Home raided, computer confiscated Carrie Twomey On the fourth of July, in a massive security operation involving 33 jeeps and over a hundred officers (5-6 officers per jeep) - 14 jeeps in my small street alone - my home was raided. 4 search teams spent almost 3 hours going through everything, seizing our computer, my digital camera, our mobile phone...This was in relation to the protest at Dundonald House which I had blogged about below. I am at an internet cafe now. The blog will be on hiatus. [The Broom of Anger: Home raided, computer confiscated] Comments: 10:40:13 PM

Bigots Paul Dunne Catholic prejudice and its blanket of power are everywhere.I was in hospital recently; officially a non-religious hospital; certainly not owned by the religious. On admission I was asked my religion, and told I didn't have to state it. I said there was no problem, I had no religion (I could have added that art and integrity were the basis of my beliefs, but I thought that might be getting a bit complicated). ... and so on and so forth, read the whole thing if you want, I'm not stopping you (though I'll pity you). Fr. Paul: tut, tut... (puts down newspaper, shakes head) Fr. Jack, have you any thoughts on the matter? Fr. Jack: (gesticulating frenziedly at newspaper) GOBSHITE! GOBSHITE! Fr. Paul: Precisely, Father. Couldn't have put it better myself! [The Shamrockshire Eagle: Bigots] Comments: 10:40:05 PM

Magazine closed down Mick Fealty The Republican Blanket web magazine has effectively been closed after the house of its editor was raided last Friday and all computers confiscated. The raid came on the tail of a public demonstration in support of a protest by dissident Republican prisoners, which were attended by two of the magazines key staff - Carrie Twomey and Anthony McIntyre. [Letter to Slugge O'Toole: Magazine closed down] Comments: 10:39:57 PM

Leave them be Tommy McKearney There is little doubt but that the Andersonstown News faithfully reflects the views and outlook of the Sinn Fein leadership in a fashion similar to how Belfast's other nationalist newspaper The Irish News once carried the views of the Roman Catholic pontiff and hierarchy. There is something very disturbing therefore when we see the management of the A/Town News use its financial and political muscle to curb alternative publications such as Anthony McIntyre's website The Blanket. [Fourthwrite: Leave them be] Comments: 10:39:49 PM

Human rights: Britain guilty All seven judges of the European Court of Human Rights unanimously found the British government guilty of breaches of human rights in the case of the death of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989. [Saoirse: Human rights: Britain guilty] Comments: 10:39:42 PM

Protest at Dundonald House Anthony McIntyre In the past few days the issue of segregation in the North's jails has made prime time viewing. For as long as I remember the separation of prisoners has featured in the discourse associated with prisons. Throughout the 1980s in particular it was a regular news item. The British state seems to think that if it builds a new penal establishment or change the name of an existing one that, hey presto, the nature of the problem shall have disappeared. Do they ever learn? [The Blanket: Protest at Dundonald House] Comments: 10:39:25 PM

Springfield residents call for support Springfield Road residents in Belfast are calling on nationalists to support their protest against an Orange Parade along the nationalist road this coming Saturday, 28 June. [AP/RN: Springfield residents call for support] Comments: 10:38:49 PM

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