“the time has come for these people to drop the name Sinn Fein”
More evidence, I’d suggest, of an ongoing “bid to exert control in nationalist areas in particular..” Via Newshound. Yesterday’s Irish News carried a report of a man forced to wear a placard claiming he was a house burglar and a thief and stand on a traffic island on the Andersonstown Road. The Irish News also reported Republican Sinn Féin’s criticism of last week’s briefings by those anonymous “senior republican sources”.
“We believe the time has come for these people to drop the name Sinn Fein and no longer claim to be the republican movement.”
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On the plus side, anything you guys decide to do in West Belfast with your criminals is a whole lot fairer than this fine example of due process in Pennsylvania, USA.
http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/4518008/
Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash
For years, the juvenile court system in Wilkes-Barre operated like a conveyor belt: Youngsters were brought before judges without a lawyer, given hearings that lasted only a minute or two, and then sent off to juvenile prison for months for minor offenses.
The explanation, prosecutors say, was corruption on the bench.
In one of the most shocking cases of courtroom graft on record, two Pennsylvania judges have been charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers.
“I’ve never encountered, and I don’t think that we will in our lifetimes, a case where literally thousands of kids’ lives were just tossed aside in order for a couple of judges to make some money,” said Marsha Levick, an attorney with the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, which is representing hundreds of youths sentenced in Wilkes-Barre.
It was interesting listening to a Sinn Feiner giving his views on the alleged Dissident IRA killing of Jim McCallion in Londonderry’s Prehen area in the early hours of Wednesday morning. It was wrong etc etc….however, it set me wondering what the difference was, when a few years ago his mates in Sinn Fein / IRA murdered another notorious drug-dealer, Christopher ‘Crikey’ O’Kane, a few miles from Prehen, at Curryneiran just outside the city near Ardmore? That murder was claimed by the SF / IRA badge of convenience organisation, Direct Action against Drugs [DAAD]. As usual with the Chukkies, when we did it, it was good, now you folk who were once part of us do it, it is bad. Another reason why Sinn Fein / IRA are unfit to be in a democratic Government.
the Chukkies
Do you play for a polo team, William?
NCM
“Earnan: “West Belfast sounds like a real sh*thole”
No, you should see some parts of Chicago.”
I work a few blocks from the White House, which means I only work a few miles from parts of DC that have worse murder rates than any part of Chicago. The only time I have been through there is driving my grandpa to the Veterans Hospital
So, NCM, how many civil rights did the average American lose under King George II?
Non citizen, enemy combatants dont count
Earnan: “So, NCM, how many civil rights did the average American lose under King George II?”
Let’s see. Warrantless wiretapping, arbitrary no-fly lists, routine “no knock” local militarized police raids on private residences, routine surveillance of international phone calls, confiscation of laptops and papers at borders without any probable cause or reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing… but why worry about such things, right? Oh, and citizens better hope that they are never branded “enemy combatants” and subjected to kangaroo courts and evidence obtained by torture.
But I promise, if history teaches anything it is this: I’m sure we can trust our government not to abuse its new-found powers. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
The “average American” had to wait until King George had decamped before losing their civil rights, along with their culture, land and lives.
It was the people of the USA who destroyed the American way of life replacing the native peoples with a planter-society led by a succession of planter-presidents extending to the present day and all built on the land and bones of the true Americans.