Issue 188, Saoirse: Irish Freedom (December, 2002)

              uimh 188 nollaig — december 2002 http://saoirse.rr.nu 1 70p stg usa 30 p.a saomse trtsh freedom irish freedom i republican mow from the next issue saoirse will be revamped with the masthead as above and full colour on four pages look out for our january 2003 edition published on january 9 • nollaig fe shean is fe mhaise dar leitheoiri go leir • 2 in ro if a measure of the provisionals determination to join the british police in the six counties was needed you need look no further than the recent comments of their belfast mayor alec maskey the british crown forces shot and critically wounded a nationalist man in the centre of belfast on november 24 alec maskey stated on televi sion that he could not con demn the shooting as the injured man may have been armed he was not armed but key's comments reveal the attitude that if the man was armed and engaged in military action against british power in ireland he could jus tifiably be shot maskey it will be remem bered has already on behalf of his party laid wreaths on british war memorials which honour among others those who killed irish freedom fighters the stage is set over the coming months for the final capitulation by the provo leadership to british rule in ireland acceptance of the british police force in the six counties since partition ihe nationalist community's rejec tion of the six-county state was clearly revealed in their antipathy to the british police the demand for provo military disbandment has been circumvented by tony blair's seeking acts of com pletion of course il amounts to the same thing and the pro isionals military wing will fade awa just as the official ira did before then all that will then remain for them to do to complete the counter-revolution will be to turn on their former comrades in the republican movement and to harass them hunt them down and even worse . . . history teaches us that such is always the role of poachers turned gamekeep ers as was seen in the 26 counties when the broy harriers were formed by fianna fail in 1933 the ruc special branch ma well be renamed the intelligence branch but the force within a force will continue to spearhead the maintenance and enforcement of british rule in ireland who were the broy harriers a group of several hundred former republicans policemen given 24 hours training and the task initially | of protecting free state min isters they were then used to combat the blueshirts on the streets of the 26 counties it soon became obvious that the real threat to the i.einster mouse administration was not republican resistance republican resistance calendar 4/£3stg each 5/£4stg including p&p order now from 223 parnell street dublin 1 telephone 872 9747 e-mail saoirse@iol.ie uuiiu from the blueshirts on the right but from the republicans on the left the brd harriers real role was to harass and combat republicans after all they knew their former comrades haunts and habits their sympathisers their houses and their meth ods and procedures the broy harriers were eventually amalgamated into the special branch along with cosgrave's old cid today the excuse will be that ex-republicans will be needed to protect nationalists from the loyalists but the real reason will be the same as in the 1930s — to suppress republicans the new british supremo paul murphy held out the car rot to the provisionals on november 26 when he reminded them that control of policing and justice could be quickly handed over to the new stormont this will be after the upcoming stormont elections — republican sinn rein has been proved right about the provisionals surrender before and will be again after all there is no going back for them once they stepped on the constitutional road republican sinn fein — itc of provisional accep tance of the ruc/psn1 — calls on young irish people of whatever persuasion not to join the renamed british police to do england's work here a change of name and badge makes no fundamental difference to their role in ireland republican sinn fein meeting bugged the miniature listening device pictured above mea suring just i out m by 40mm was discovered at a republican sinn fein ard chomhairle meeting in dublin during november it was planted by members of the 26-county political police and uncovered before the meeting began this incident is part of an escalation of harassment by the i.einster house administration its political police and british crown forces in the six counties seati sabhat commemoration sunday january 5 2003 speaker gerald c'rilly south armagh cfctiimtjv sf-wim 6 s tulle ahlraiit bm;i<]toni cc umrrirk mount st lawrence as'sfinhle h^dlintl row