Wednesday, April 09, 2008
“do their best to maintain a sense of law and order in their own communities..”
On Channel 4 News tonight Carl Dinnen reported from here on how, ten years after the 1998 Agreement, “the paramilitaries are still operating in Northern Ireland and many are still holding onto their guns.” He starts with the murder of Paul Quinn, and talks to Assistant Chief Constable Peter Sheridan about that and other republican paramilitaries’ activity. But perhaps the most interesting point comes when he interviews Jackie McDonald - described in the report as the “UDA’s leading brigadier” - about policing and “the people’s guns”. You can watch the video here. [direct link] And here are the relevant quotes.
Carl Dinnen: “What is the point, what is the need for the UDA?”
Jackie McDonald: “Some people.. while the paramilitaries themselves would see that the war is over, the war is over with Sinn Féin, IRA. But there is dissident republicans there. There is the threat from criminal gangs who will exploit the situation, as it happens in Manchester, Liverpool, areas like that. We’ve seen it all in the mainland. That is all going to happen here within the next year or two. There’s going to be dead bodies in the streets here and it’s going to be over territory, it’s going to be over drugs and who owes money to who. And loyalist paramilitaries are going to be loyal to the people who supported them for years and do their best to maintain a sense of law and order in their own communities.”
Well he did want to talk to Hugh Orde about policing.. and he may have seen something similar elsewhere..
Pete Baker @ 05:51 PM
Nevin
>>it’s been reported that the godfathers<<
Ahhh gotcha Nev, I’ve been so busy with my own agenda that I forgot that you also have one ;)
The last three apart, all of us would know someone who has done a bit of that foolishly or otherwise, some of us have even participated I bet. Are we ‘Godfathers’ never mind Republican ones? I would also argue that of the last three, armed robbery could certainly be laid at the door of the IRA, certainly not human trafficking and evidence points to the IRA being anti drugs, as per my agenda.
My contention is that there are no Republican Godfathers of the type you mean. Plenty of if’s but’s and maybe’s (thanks Dread) and certainly desire and wishful thinking. Alas though, the shoe will not fit if there is no Cinderella.
Posted by on Apr 14, 2008 @ 05:39 PMSome of those activities were carried out by state agencies and therefore I hope you are not blaming merely the criminal elements.
The myopia of SF, is that they screamed collusion, and them they stopped screaming it at the same time the DUP stopped saying SF/IRA.
I have missing persons to find as well. Everybody and their dog is happy enough for them to stay buried.
Here is the place I am now.
I have pornography merchants in both the USA and Europe, who would not dare F with my head,
assuring me that the NCIS/SOCA & SB types are the true authors of Ms Ruane’s vetting policy.
(That should be an issue for SF, why are spooks interested in teacher vetting?)
State-sponsored racketeering.
DEL, DETE, and DWP were all in the juvenile sex trafficking business.
I worked four exotic dancer programmes, one in Canada, one in Dublin, one in Belfast, one in London, and all were trafficking kids to pimps.
Jane Kennedy & Fiona MacTaggart still have a lot of questions to answer, as does Mary Harney, and I suppose, given the least of them, so does Beverly Hughes.
SF, PDs, SDLP, it is all fake morality, they don’t believe in God,
the first ‘temporary’ suspension of exotic dancer permits in Dublin was because Jimmy Guerin wrote an article about forty dancers living next to McDowell and annoying his neighbors.
That was September 2002, the UKIS would raif the DELNI candidates later in the year for me, the PSNI pointly refused to upset their SB coleagues by raiding it when the Home Office requested the raids.
I got a call from a Home Office official asking me to tell him how he explains to the PSNI, that he is in charge and not their chief constable.
SB had a sex industry hobby and they flipping hated me rotten for ruining on them. A free blow job is a free blow job.
C. Ruane should wise up.
G.
Posted by on Apr 14, 2008 @ 10:17 PMPrince Eoghan: “So instead of evidence we are to insert half-hearted supposition, gotcha! “
Hey, if rumor, innuendo and promises is good enough for the IMC—funny, we never hear you complain about them when they except the mutters from the street that work in the IRA’s favor.
Prince Eoghan: “More than one world view is allowed you know, smears and innuendo, well va fungoo! “
Kind of like when you said there were no useful Allied-held ports at or about the time of the Battle of the Bulge? You may be entitled to your own view… but the rest of us aren’t obligated to take it seriously, particularly when you’re making things up as you go.
Posted by on Apr 15, 2008 @ 12:08 AM>>Kind of like when you said there were no useful Allied-held ports at or about the time of the Battle of the Bulge?<<
Using bitchy comment is usually a sign that a spoiled brat has made an arse of himself, funny this is the second time I have been attacked in this puerile fashion in recent weeks. No argument to offer I suppose.
Do you remember when you made the stupid comment regarding the US declining Finland’s declaration of war? Some made fun of you, I brushed it off as no big deal, perhaps a sign of class that you are not showing here Dread. We all get it wrong on occasion. Oh and Antwerp was not fully operational so in a sense I was right. Va fungoo pisano!
>>particularly when you’re making things up as you go.<<
Please show me where I am doing this? Idiotic chatter does not an argument make.
Posted by on Apr 15, 2008 @ 11:17 AM
