Issue 010, Saoirse : Irish Freedom (February, 1988)

              uimh 10 feabhra - february laistigh paul o'dwyer attacks robert russell extradition verdict page 3 white australia has a black history 	 page 4 	 free statism part one - 1922 pages 4/5 another british spy plane in south page 8 british injustice damns hillsborough deal the hillsborough security pact of november 1985 and the 26-county state's extradition leg islation and court decisions which follow from it stand condemned in the face of the stalker/sampson affair and the refusal of the appeal of the birmingham six to allow the six men's apppeal would have undermined the in stitutions of the british state it would mean the discrediting of the original trial judge who is now a law lord as well as the original defence barrister now a judge and exposing the police and prison officers brut ality any investigation into the shoot to-kill actions in the six counties could not be allowed in the public interest and because of the threat to national security in plain words if any prosecutions were instituted the senior ruc men would bring the house down evening press feb 3 this would lead directly to mi5/mi6 and ultimately to 10 downing street london gerald barry has ref erred tti the fact that britain ruthlessly and rel entlessly pursues its own interests at the expense of all others sunday trib une january 31 this simply re-echoes the old quotation that britain has neither permanent friends nor permanent enemies - only permanent interests and britain's interest here is to keep ireland divided and weak and securely in britain's pocket 178 civilians killed when asked on rte why the british had not consulted with the dublin government in deciding not to prosecute anyone or publish the stalker sampson report tory spokesperson michael mates replied sharply so that you could order us what to do ?". the mask had slipped moment - tarily 	 the british occupation forces have been respon sible for at least 178 shoot-to-kill incidents involving civilians between 1969 and july 1985 see shoot to kill appendix a mercier press 1985 the roots of the latest incidents go back to 1979 when the sas trained ex british army ruc men such as constable john robinson within a few weeks of the sinn fe*in successes in the 1982 october stor mont assembly elections the right-wing death squads killed election worker peter corrigan in armagh city ruc death squad the official follow up by the ruc death squad was the killing of gervaise mc kerr eugene toman and sean burns in lurgan on november 1 1 . michael tighe was shot dead on november 24 in the same area and martin mccauley badly wounded seamus grew and roddy carroll died in a hail of bullets on decem ber 12 in armagh city the objectives of these murders were to tighten the british grip in the north and to bolster up the morale of pro-british elements as with france's dirty war in algeria and the usa's in vietnam britain's involvement in ireland is corrupting their own in stitutions at home collusion policy the dublin government has once again given every thing in concession to brit ain and got nothing in return now their collus ion policy has blown up in their faces gay byrne on rte radio feb 3 asked what could the dublin govern ment do - send a gun boat ?" what it can do immediately in concrete terms is stop political ex tradition suspend the hillsborough deal now and refuse to renew it next november totally in britain's interest as saoirse has said re peatedly hillsborough is simply a security pact to integrate free state forces into the british war mach ine in the six occupied counties and everything else about it consists simply of frills and trapp ings to divert and delude the credulous that hillsborough is a one-way street totally in britain's interest has been amply demonstrated during the last week in january stop ex tradition now and end the hillsbor ough deal ! parallels 1920 the lord mayor of cork tomas mac curtain was murdered in his own home on march 20 1920 and on april 18 the inquest jury return ed the following verdict we find .... that the murder was organised and carried out by the bri tish government and we return a ver dict of wilful murder against david lloyd george prime minister of england lord french lord lieuten ant of ireland ian macpherson late chief secretary of ireland acting inspector-general smith of the roy il irish constabulary divisional in spector clayton of the ric district inspector swanzy and some un known members of the ric " 1921 fn march 1921 the mayor and for ner mayor of limerick were similar ly murdered in their own homes by in official british crown forces mur ier gang as well as the civic i heads sinn fein jud ges were frequent tar gets of these official murder gangs 1969 samuel devenny deny city was brut ally beaten by the ruc in april 1969 and died of injuries received three months later an english police official was sent over to investigate the case a group of ruc men refused to give an ac count of their conduct to him and remained silent they were not disciplined in any way and were allowed to remain in the force