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		<title>By: flyer</title>
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		<dc:creator>flyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another â€˜silly seasonâ€™ story suggesting that the Brits were running the IRA while they bombed London. Itâ€™s almost as credible as the idea of 30% of MI5 taking up residence in Holywood.

Are we going to have a decade of this sort of misinformation while H.M.â€™s government does a runner?

Face it, lads. There are two counties out of thirty-two with a small unionist majority. No-one in Britain cares any more and the European mainland has been embarrassed long enough by Britain running a widely publicised mini-police state here. As for the Yanks.......!

The UUP may still think that being â€˜simply Britishâ€™ has a future but the DUP know the truth. The Ugandan Asians and the Hong Kong Chinese were just as British as yer average loyalist while the middle class is becoming ever more internationalised.&quot;

Away and live in a dreamworld. I am half &quot;immigrant&quot; and half &quot;prod&quot; and I am a unionist. You want immigrants to be on your side then you&#039;ve got to make your case. The case was made to me and I support the union.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another â€˜silly seasonâ€™ story suggesting that the Brits were running the IRA while they bombed London. Itâ€™s almost as credible as the idea of 30% of MI5 taking up residence in Holywood.</p>
<p>Are we going to have a decade of this sort of misinformation while H.M.â€™s government does a runner?</p>
<p>Face it, lads. There are two counties out of thirty-two with a small unionist majority. No-one in Britain cares any more and the European mainland has been embarrassed long enough by Britain running a widely publicised mini-police state here. As for the Yanks&#8230;&#8230;.!</p>
<p>The UUP may still think that being â€˜simply Britishâ€™ has a future but the DUP know the truth. The Ugandan Asians and the Hong Kong Chinese were just as British as yer average loyalist while the middle class is becoming ever more internationalised.&#8221;</p>
<p>Away and live in a dreamworld. I am half &#8220;immigrant&#8221; and half &#8220;prod&#8221; and I am a unionist. You want immigrants to be on your side then you&#8217;ve got to make your case. The case was made to me and I support the union.</p>
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		<title>By: andy</title>
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		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dub et al
I think Hecks point was that there was enough action by PIRA to mean that the british forces could not have infiltrated them to the extent sometimes claimed - ie PIRA committed more thant the &quot;odd murder&quot; - big bombs in the city etc. 


Also I think Morrision was in favour of an electoral strategy so would not really fit in with the idea of non-compromisers being compromised (Loughgall would though).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dub et al<br />
I think Hecks point was that there was enough action by PIRA to mean that the british forces could not have infiltrated them to the extent sometimes claimed &#8211; ie PIRA committed more thant the &#8220;odd murder&#8221; &#8211; big bombs in the city etc. </p>
<p>Also I think Morrision was in favour of an electoral strategy so would not really fit in with the idea of non-compromisers being compromised (Loughgall would though).</p>
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		<title>By: Turgon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Turgon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>lib 2016,
You really really hate the British don&#039;t you? Are you by chance actually Robert Mugabe?

Do you not see that your constant attacks on the British are attacks on unionists.

I mean in a way Dewi is British (sorry Dewi), even Prince Eoghan lives in Scotland. Oh yes I forgot there are only a few hateable Brits, the ones who are part of the conspiracy (does that include NI Prods) or is it only a small shaddowy group of conspirators? You may have a lot in common with Trowbridge. The British establishment (or actually the twevle foot tall blood drinking lizard aliens) they are the enemey aren&#039;t they.

Britain is not a perfect state nor are its politicians perfect. It is, however, not North Korea. Grow up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>lib 2016,<br />
You really really hate the British don&#8217;t you? Are you by chance actually Robert Mugabe?</p>
<p>Do you not see that your constant attacks on the British are attacks on unionists.</p>
<p>I mean in a way Dewi is British (sorry Dewi), even Prince Eoghan lives in Scotland. Oh yes I forgot there are only a few hateable Brits, the ones who are part of the conspiracy (does that include NI Prods) or is it only a small shaddowy group of conspirators? You may have a lot in common with Trowbridge. The British establishment (or actually the twevle foot tall blood drinking lizard aliens) they are the enemey aren&#8217;t they.</p>
<p>Britain is not a perfect state nor are its politicians perfect. It is, however, not North Korea. Grow up.</p>
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		<title>By: Cruimh</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cruimh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All the ould blarney about the Briish Army being gone Lib - Who pulled the local&#039;s chestnuts out of the fire after a huge explosives find in Craigavon  ....

British Army experts

And were the riff raff grateful?

Were they hell.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6934949.stm</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All the ould blarney about the Briish Army being gone Lib &#8211; Who pulled the local&#8217;s chestnuts out of the fire after a huge explosives find in Craigavon  &#8230;.</p>
<p>British Army experts</p>
<p>And were the riff raff grateful?</p>
<p>Were they hell.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6934949.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6934949.stm</a></p>
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		<title>By: lib2016</title>
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		<dc:creator>lib2016</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sammy Morse,

You really think that the people in Brussels don&#039;t care? That&#039;s almost as funny as all those unionist posters who used to claim that the Americans didn&#039;t know what was happening here because they (shock! horror!) had a very different perspective from the BBC.

The world knows which side the British Government very openly sided with in South Africa, right up to the point where Canada and Australia had to threaten to throw Britain out of the Commonwealth to shake some sense into them.

The rest of Europe watched while the British Establishment protected Pinochet, and while Britain transformed itself into a rogue state over it&#039;s illegal war in Iraq. They are watching now as the real government on the Thames extends it&#039;s power in all directions.

You may even have noticed the complete distain with which Brown&#039;s accession to power was greeted by the rest of Europe.

Britain&#039;s &#039;dirty war&#039; would be overlooked if Britain had friends internationally. Sadly that&#039;s not the case and the demand for a proper inquiry of the Finucane case is only the beginning. Europe will not sit by forever and Irish Republicans will use that to the full - that&#039;s what politics and networking are all about.

The Brits have lurched too far to the right and embarrassed the rest of the EU for long enough. Time for payback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sammy Morse,</p>
<p>You really think that the people in Brussels don&#8217;t care? That&#8217;s almost as funny as all those unionist posters who used to claim that the Americans didn&#8217;t know what was happening here because they (shock! horror!) had a very different perspective from the BBC.</p>
<p>The world knows which side the British Government very openly sided with in South Africa, right up to the point where Canada and Australia had to threaten to throw Britain out of the Commonwealth to shake some sense into them.</p>
<p>The rest of Europe watched while the British Establishment protected Pinochet, and while Britain transformed itself into a rogue state over it&#8217;s illegal war in Iraq. They are watching now as the real government on the Thames extends it&#8217;s power in all directions.</p>
<p>You may even have noticed the complete distain with which Brown&#8217;s accession to power was greeted by the rest of Europe.</p>
<p>Britain&#8217;s &#8216;dirty war&#8217; would be overlooked if Britain had friends internationally. Sadly that&#8217;s not the case and the demand for a proper inquiry of the Finucane case is only the beginning. Europe will not sit by forever and Irish Republicans will use that to the full &#8211; that&#8217;s what politics and networking are all about.</p>
<p>The Brits have lurched too far to the right and embarrassed the rest of the EU for long enough. Time for payback.</p>
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		<title>By: Prince Eoghan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Prince Eoghan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;&gt;We also know of the many British army officers and intelligence figures, like the senior MI6 analyst Michael Oatley, who came to empathise with the peace strategy of the republican leadership and to support their efforts.&lt;&lt;

Shit! Seems like all those doomsday Unionists are right (howdi Turgon) There WAS collusion after all, the Brits were/are conspiring with the Ra to sell you all down the river.

Dub

Unusually for you these days good points re the media, they have got off far too lightly. I would expand on that to criticise how they were only too happy to legitimise the Unionist bogeyman ideas about the Republican movement. No wonder ordinary Unionists are confused that an organisation, so bastardised by the media and politicians are now in government from top to bottom in their backyards.

Oh and you are obviously desperate to point the elbow at the Republican leadership, why fuck about? Just do it!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>>>We also know of the many British army officers and intelligence figures, like the senior MI6 analyst Michael Oatley, who came to empathise with the peace strategy of the republican leadership and to support their efforts.<<</p>
<p>Shit! Seems like all those doomsday Unionists are right (howdi Turgon) There WAS collusion after all, the Brits were/are conspiring with the Ra to sell you all down the river.</p>
<p>Dub</p>
<p>Unusually for you these days good points re the media, they have got off far too lightly. I would expand on that to criticise how they were only too happy to legitimise the Unionist bogeyman ideas about the Republican movement. No wonder ordinary Unionists are confused that an organisation, so bastardised by the media and politicians are now in government from top to bottom in their backyards.</p>
<p>Oh and you are obviously desperate to point the elbow at the Republican leadership, why fuck about? Just do it!</p>
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		<title>By: Dread Cthulhu</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dread Cthulhu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aquifer:  &quot;Nor should it.  The state needs a near monopoly of force to be a state worthy of the name.  If it can manage to legally sanction that force and maintain some semblance of human rights for those within its territory, so much the better.  &quot;

You could not be more wrong.  The shortest route from citizenship to slavery involves a disarmed populace in a state has a monopoly (or near monopoly) on the tools of force.  An armed populace is no threat to democracy or social order within a state -- the Swiss, for example, does not merely have an armed populace, they are, by dint of law, required to practice and maintain their competence in the employment of the same.

Your recipe is for a de-facto police state, from which it is a short step to a de jure police state.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aquifer:  &#8220;Nor should it.  The state needs a near monopoly of force to be a state worthy of the name.  If it can manage to legally sanction that force and maintain some semblance of human rights for those within its territory, so much the better.  &#8221;</p>
<p>You could not be more wrong.  The shortest route from citizenship to slavery involves a disarmed populace in a state has a monopoly (or near monopoly) on the tools of force.  An armed populace is no threat to democracy or social order within a state &#8212; the Swiss, for example, does not merely have an armed populace, they are, by dint of law, required to practice and maintain their competence in the employment of the same.</p>
<p>Your recipe is for a de-facto police state, from which it is a short step to a de jure police state.</p>
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		<title>By: aquifer</title>
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		<dc:creator>aquifer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;once a state finds it needs a power, it doesnâ€™t surrender it lightly&quot;

Nor should it.  The state needs a near monopoly of force to be a state worthy of the name.  If it can manage to legally sanction that force and maintain some semblance of human rights for those within its territory, so much the better.  None of the parapolitical gun gangs came close.

The real arrogance, or idiocy, in all this, was going behind the backs of elected representatives, nationalist, unionist, and other, to negotiate with juvenille revolutionaries in circumstances that indicated that their ideas should be taken seriously.

The English though they could brow beat a horribly mistaken gun gang, the gun gang felt flattered and confirmed in their belief that the brits were bumbling patronising fools and eminently beatable.

All the English really said by meeting PIRA in those fine private rooms in London was, &#039;the bodies do not really matter&#039;.  As mood music for a murder campaign, Mozart could not have done better.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;once a state finds it needs a power, it doesnâ€™t surrender it lightly&#8221;</p>
<p>Nor should it.  The state needs a near monopoly of force to be a state worthy of the name.  If it can manage to legally sanction that force and maintain some semblance of human rights for those within its territory, so much the better.  None of the parapolitical gun gangs came close.</p>
<p>The real arrogance, or idiocy, in all this, was going behind the backs of elected representatives, nationalist, unionist, and other, to negotiate with juvenille revolutionaries in circumstances that indicated that their ideas should be taken seriously.</p>
<p>The English though they could brow beat a horribly mistaken gun gang, the gun gang felt flattered and confirmed in their belief that the brits were bumbling patronising fools and eminently beatable.</p>
<p>All the English really said by meeting PIRA in those fine private rooms in London was, &#8216;the bodies do not really matter&#8217;.  As mood music for a murder campaign, Mozart could not have done better.</p>
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		<title>By: The Dubliner</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Dubliner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another â€˜silly seasonâ€™ story suggesting that the Brits were running the IRA while they bombed London. Itâ€™s almost as credible as the idea of 30% of MI5 taking up residence in Holywood.&quot; - lib2056 (if you&#039;re lucky)


Who claimed that British Intelligence approved every PIRA murder? No-one, so that puts that little jack back in its box. Who helped the &#039;good&#039; PIRA defeat the the &#039;bad&#039; PIRA (Eksund, Loughgall, etc, compromised weapons, bombs, operations and compromised no-compromisers - hello Morrision) and kept the leaders of the the &#039;good&#039; PIRA safe from harm (with Gerry Adams being one of only two people that the Stevens Inquiry identified as being saved by the British Army&#039;s FRU operative, Brian Nelson)?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another â€˜silly seasonâ€™ story suggesting that the Brits were running the IRA while they bombed London. Itâ€™s almost as credible as the idea of 30% of MI5 taking up residence in Holywood.&#8221; &#8211; lib2056 (if you&#8217;re lucky)</p>
<p>Who claimed that British Intelligence approved every PIRA murder? No-one, so that puts that little jack back in its box. Who helped the &#8216;good&#8217; PIRA defeat the the &#8216;bad&#8217; PIRA (Eksund, Loughgall, etc, compromised weapons, bombs, operations and compromised no-compromisers &#8211; hello Morrision) and kept the leaders of the the &#8216;good&#8217; PIRA safe from harm (with Gerry Adams being one of only two people that the Stevens Inquiry identified as being saved by the British Army&#8217;s FRU operative, Brian Nelson)?</p>
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		<title>By: Sammy Morse</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sammy Morse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;I&gt;the European mainland has been embarrassed long enough by Britain running a widely publicised mini-police state here&lt;/I&gt;

Nope.  They don&#039;t give a tinker&#039;s.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>the European mainland has been embarrassed long enough by Britain running a widely publicised mini-police state here</i></p>
<p>Nope.  They don&#8217;t give a tinker&#8217;s.</p>
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		<title>By: John East Belfast</title>
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		<dc:creator>John East Belfast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>lib2016

I am happy for you to be content with your own Lord Haw Hawesque propaganda but unionists arent listening.

The biggest laugh will be you silently changing your non de plume as 2016 fast approaches</description>
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<p>I am happy for you to be content with your own Lord Haw Hawesque propaganda but unionists arent listening.</p>
<p>The biggest laugh will be you silently changing your non de plume as 2016 fast approaches</p>
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		<title>By: lib2016</title>
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		<dc:creator>lib2016</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another &#039;silly season&#039; story suggesting that the Brits were running the IRA while they bombed London. It&#039;s almost as credible as the idea of 30% of MI5 taking up residence in Holywood.

Are we going to have a decade of this sort of misinformation while H.M.&#039;s government does a runner?

Face it, lads. There are two counties out of thirty-two with a small unionist majority. No-one in Britain cares any more and the European mainland has been embarrassed long enough by Britain running a widely publicised mini-police state here. As for the Yanks.......!

The UUP may still think that being &#039;simply British&#039; has a future but the DUP know the truth. The Ugandan Asians and the Hong Kong Chinese were just as British as yer average loyalist while the middle class is becoming ever more internationalised.

I hope they fix the road at Clohogue up quick, there are going to be a lot of jobs depending on it soon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another &#8216;silly season&#8217; story suggesting that the Brits were running the IRA while they bombed London. It&#8217;s almost as credible as the idea of 30% of MI5 taking up residence in Holywood.</p>
<p>Are we going to have a decade of this sort of misinformation while H.M.&#8217;s government does a runner?</p>
<p>Face it, lads. There are two counties out of thirty-two with a small unionist majority. No-one in Britain cares any more and the European mainland has been embarrassed long enough by Britain running a widely publicised mini-police state here. As for the Yanks&#8230;&#8230;.!</p>
<p>The UUP may still think that being &#8216;simply British&#8217; has a future but the DUP know the truth. The Ugandan Asians and the Hong Kong Chinese were just as British as yer average loyalist while the middle class is becoming ever more internationalised.</p>
<p>I hope they fix the road at Clohogue up quick, there are going to be a lot of jobs depending on it soon.</p>
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		<title>By: sportsman</title>
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		<dc:creator>sportsman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ROI Coastguard, Air Corps and naval service frequently cross the border to assist in rescues and so on. One a few days ago in Fermanagh. Dont suppose Garda would be an issue if the need was great enough. Do the fire brigade cross border either way? Must do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ROI Coastguard, Air Corps and naval service frequently cross the border to assist in rescues and so on. One a few days ago in Fermanagh. Dont suppose Garda would be an issue if the need was great enough. Do the fire brigade cross border either way? Must do.</p>
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		<title>By: Dewi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dewi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;once a state finds it needs a power, it doesnâ€™t surrender it lightly&quot;

I wonder, if, sometime in the not too distant future that statement could apply to Sinn Fein @ Stormont ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;once a state finds it needs a power, it doesnâ€™t surrender it lightly&#8221;</p>
<p>I wonder, if, sometime in the not too distant future that statement could apply to Sinn Fein @ Stormont ?</p>
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		<title>By: The Dubliner</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Dubliner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Think also of how the state controlled the media in Norn Iron over the last 30 years.&quot; - Heck


Yup, and the Irish and British media&#039;s partisanship prolonged the conflict by purposefully obfuscating the public&#039;s understanding of it. The public cannot properly resolve that which it has not been permitted to properly understand; and, ergo, the public&#039;s moral imperative thusly dissolved into impotence, stagnation and despair. Essentially, that form of media control allowed the state to engage in criminality free from public scrutiny. Those media partisans who facilitated the state&#039;s directive are no better than de facto collaborators in state terrorism, despite their self-reassuring smugness about &quot;behaving responsibly.&quot; There is never any justification for perpetuating ignorance via the dissemination of misinformation and disinformation or censorship of information which conflicts with the official propaganda from the vested interests. Truth is indeed the first - and the last - casualty when the state&#039;s pimps turn the media into cheap whores. No wonder then that the great Harold Evans claimed that the British so-called &#039;free press&#039; is only &quot;half free.&quot;

And in Ireland, a billionaire brothel keeper was born...



&quot;It was, Holroyd was told, a lesson of Aden and other colonial trouble-spots that you must not only learn how your opponent thinks but also control his structures, shape his thinking and determine as much as possible who rises in his ranks and who dies.&quot; - Liam Clarke


PIRA promoted a key component of that strategy as being its greatest strength when, in actuality, it was its greatest weakness: ourselves alone, i.e. listen only to the voices within; and within, listen only to the voices at the top. The voices at the top deliberately marginalised and censored dissenting voices by scaremongering that dissenting voices would lead to splits and splits are Perfidious Albion&#039;s &#039;divide and conquer&#039; modus operandi - essentially, debate equals a sinister British Intelligence plot to &quot;undermine the movement.&quot; Well, not quite that paranoid, but distrust of outside voices led PSF/PIRA members to blindly follow the leadership wherever it led them (and part of that distrust was a justified distrust of the media and Intelligence disinformation campaigns). So, with that tight shepherdâ€™s control of the sheep, whoever led the leadership led the members. The big question is who led the leadership? As Clarke says, we&#039;ll probably never know for sure in our lifetimes. Suffice to say that tightly knit cults such as PSF/PIRA (that are encouraged to trust the leaders implicitly and the leaders alone) are most vulnerable at their weakest point: the top.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Think also of how the state controlled the media in Norn Iron over the last 30 years.&#8221; &#8211; Heck</p>
<p>Yup, and the Irish and British media&#8217;s partisanship prolonged the conflict by purposefully obfuscating the public&#8217;s understanding of it. The public cannot properly resolve that which it has not been permitted to properly understand; and, ergo, the public&#8217;s moral imperative thusly dissolved into impotence, stagnation and despair. Essentially, that form of media control allowed the state to engage in criminality free from public scrutiny. Those media partisans who facilitated the state&#8217;s directive are no better than de facto collaborators in state terrorism, despite their self-reassuring smugness about &#8220;behaving responsibly.&#8221; There is never any justification for perpetuating ignorance via the dissemination of misinformation and disinformation or censorship of information which conflicts with the official propaganda from the vested interests. Truth is indeed the first &#8211; and the last &#8211; casualty when the state&#8217;s pimps turn the media into cheap whores. No wonder then that the great Harold Evans claimed that the British so-called &#8216;free press&#8217; is only &#8220;half free.&#8221;</p>
<p>And in Ireland, a billionaire brothel keeper was born&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;It was, Holroyd was told, a lesson of Aden and other colonial trouble-spots that you must not only learn how your opponent thinks but also control his structures, shape his thinking and determine as much as possible who rises in his ranks and who dies.&#8221; &#8211; Liam Clarke</p>
<p>PIRA promoted a key component of that strategy as being its greatest strength when, in actuality, it was its greatest weakness: ourselves alone, i.e. listen only to the voices within; and within, listen only to the voices at the top. The voices at the top deliberately marginalised and censored dissenting voices by scaremongering that dissenting voices would lead to splits and splits are Perfidious Albion&#8217;s &#8216;divide and conquer&#8217; modus operandi &#8211; essentially, debate equals a sinister British Intelligence plot to &#8220;undermine the movement.&#8221; Well, not quite that paranoid, but distrust of outside voices led PSF/PIRA members to blindly follow the leadership wherever it led them (and part of that distrust was a justified distrust of the media and Intelligence disinformation campaigns). So, with that tight shepherdâ€™s control of the sheep, whoever led the leadership led the members. The big question is who led the leadership? As Clarke says, we&#8217;ll probably never know for sure in our lifetimes. Suffice to say that tightly knit cults such as PSF/PIRA (that are encouraged to trust the leaders implicitly and the leaders alone) are most vulnerable at their weakest point: the top.</p>
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		<title>By: Sammy Morse</title>
		<link>http://sluggerotoole.com/2007/08/06/once-a-state-finds-it-needs-a-power-it-doesnt-surrender-it-lightly/comment-page-1/#comment-161546</link>
		<dc:creator>Sammy Morse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Heck, it hasn&#039;t actually stopped, I&#039;m afraid - http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2141943,00.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heck, it hasn&#8217;t actually stopped, I&#8217;m afraid &#8211; <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0" rel="nofollow">http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0</a>,,2141943,00.html</p>
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		<title>By: heck</title>
		<link>http://sluggerotoole.com/2007/08/06/once-a-state-finds-it-needs-a-power-it-doesnt-surrender-it-lightly/comment-page-1/#comment-161526</link>
		<dc:creator>heck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>does&#039;nt it make you wonder what sort of antics these people are up to in Iraq today.

Might they not be supporting shite death squads to undermine sunnis. (not our brave boys!!LOL)The Americans, being more open that the Brits, have already admitted arming sunni insurgents to fight Al Qaeda and funding fundamentalist sunnis inside Iran. Are british soldiers being killed by british agents inside the militias?

Think also of how the state controlled the media in Norn Iron over the last 30 years. It makes me sceptical of media reporting about brave squadies keeping the peace... blah blah blah. 

Or their control of elections, firts gerrymandering, then banning some canditates from standing for election (after bobby sand&#039;s victory) and honest tony&#039;s attempts to call elections only when he could control the outcome. 

The next time some British politican, media hack, or church man condemns &quot;violence&quot; in iraq it might be a good idea to bash him over the head.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>does&#8217;nt it make you wonder what sort of antics these people are up to in Iraq today.</p>
<p>Might they not be supporting shite death squads to undermine sunnis. (not our brave boys!!LOL)The Americans, being more open that the Brits, have already admitted arming sunni insurgents to fight Al Qaeda and funding fundamentalist sunnis inside Iran. Are british soldiers being killed by british agents inside the militias?</p>
<p>Think also of how the state controlled the media in Norn Iron over the last 30 years. It makes me sceptical of media reporting about brave squadies keeping the peace&#8230; blah blah blah. </p>
<p>Or their control of elections, firts gerrymandering, then banning some canditates from standing for election (after bobby sand&#8217;s victory) and honest tony&#8217;s attempts to call elections only when he could control the outcome. </p>
<p>The next time some British politican, media hack, or church man condemns &#8220;violence&#8221; in iraq it might be a good idea to bash him over the head.</p>
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