Informers behind the wire.
The Newsletter is reporting that
THE Government had IRA informers inside the Maze and had prior warning of republicans going “on the blanket” and the dirty protests.
And the republican sources said they had been threatened by the IRA Army Council with “being shot”, if they did not participate in the campaign.
Lucy: The Unionists had the English Army to do their dirty work while they sat on their asses in their homes.
Well done Lucy. You would be surprised at the number of nationalists around the place who would suggest that unionists are, in general, active, violent, aggressive, brutal and thuggish. But our secret is that we are really meek, peaceful and endlessly inclined to non-violence, reason and basket-weaving. We were on the verge of extinction before the British Army was deployed on the streets at the beginning of the troubles.
Just on your original point, though – what *should* we have been doing instead?
Shock horror people that are getting paid to talk to other people tell the paymasters what they want to hear.
It really is not rocket science.