THE LOONDERRY & SHANKILL BUTCHERS

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Martin McGuinness, like Gerry Adams is a religious zealot and a teetolaler. Unlike Gerry, whose father was well known, indeed infamous, we don't know who Martin's father was. Martin was an apprentice butcher. After the British massacre of Bloody Sunday on January 30th, 1972, a lot of young men from the south of Ireland, travelled up to Derry, to volunteer for the IRA. When they asked which IRA they were dealing with, Official or Provisional, the stock answer was, arragh, what does it matter. Martin Mcguinness was the person a lot of volunteers dealt with, when joining the IRA.


Under Martin's command, many atrocities happened, which were own goals, discredited the IRA and lost the considerbale support. Enniskillen and the Claudy massacres, are the best known examples, while later strapping drivers into lorries, carrying bombs to explode, brought further discredit to the IRA under McGuinness's orders. This man is the leader of British Sinn Fein today, in the loyalist parliament of Stormont. McGuinness, along with his enforcer Gerry Kelly, have both called on the Irish population, to join them as informers, to the British occupation in Ireland.


Prior to the death of the 10 hunger strikers in 1981, this writer was told by an IRA colleague and friend of Martin McGuinness, that a deal had already been done with the British, to end the armed struggle, in return for giving them a political platform instead. It naturally follows, that the subsequent 10 deaths, wer sacrifices made, which were simply used, to give British Sinn Fein, the initial electoral breakthrough, among the Irish working class, that led to them assuming power in the loyalist, Stormont junta of today and also on the threshold, of taking power in the south of Ireland, with British help.


The last time such an event happened in Ireland, was when the British helped the fascist Blueshirts, take power in the form of Fine Gael in the south, which led to the summary execution, without trial, of 77 of their former comrades in the IRA and a civil war that was particularly brutal. There is no reason to believe, that it will be any different on this occasion. It is simply a question, whether the will form a coalition with the fascists in the south and repeat history, by reintroducing internment without trial or execute working class activists along with their elected representatives or if they will be a little more subtle or underhand and undermine the present uprising from within, as they did the Civil Rights movement in the north.


They have already engaged in summary execution and along with their fellow political travellers, enforce draconian censorship in their corporate media, in both parts of Ireland. Along with their British agents and trolls, trawling platforms, such as Facebook, they ensure articles such as this, receive minimum exposure, complaining to moderators and Facebook, to prevent distribution. This is compounded by micro fascist groups, like astroturf 1916 societies and other British counter political groups engaged in fascist censorship, based on the bloody censorship of Charlie Hebdo with other counter gang activity. You can help defeat this by sharing this article and blog with your friends if you agree with it's contents.

Martin McGuinness

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Martin McGuinness MLA
Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 May 2007
First Minister	Ian Paisley Peter Robinson
Preceded by	Mark Durkan
Minister of Education
In office 2 December 1999 – 14 October 2002
First Minister	David Trimble
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Caitríona Ruane
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Mid Ulster
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 June 1998
Preceded by	Office Created
Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster
In office 1 May 1997 – 2 January 2013
Preceded by	William McCrea
Succeeded by	Francie Molloy
Majority	15,363 (37.6%)
Personal details
Born	James Martin Pacelli McGuinness 23 May 1950(age 64) Derry, Northern Ireland
Political party	Sinn Féin
Spouse(s)	Bernadette Canning
Children	4 (2 sons/2 daughters)
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Website	Official website Sinn Féin profile

James Martin Pacelli 

McGuinness(Irish: Séamus Máirtín Pacelli Mag Aonghusa;[1]born 23 May 1950) is an Irish republican Sinn Féin politicianwho has been thedeputy First Minister of Northern Irelandsince 2007.[2] He was also Sinn Féin's unsuccessful candidate forPresident of Ireland in the2011 election.[3][4][5]

A formerProvisional Irish Republican Army(IRA) leader, McGuinness was the MP for Mid Ulster from 1997until his resignation on 2 January 2013.[6][7]Like all Sinn Féin MPs, McGuinness practisedabstentionism in relation to theWestminster Parliament. Following the St Andrews Agreement and the Assembly election in 2007, he became deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland on 8 May 2007, with theDemocratic Unionist Party(DUP) leader Ian Paisley becoming First Minister. On 5 June 2008 he was re-appointed as deputy First Minister to serve alongside Peter Robinson, who succeeded Paisley as First Minister.[8] McGuinness previously served as Minister of Education in the Northern Ireland Executive between 1999 and 2002.



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1 Provisional IRA activity
2 Chief negotiator and Minister of Education
3 St Andrews Agreement and deputy First Minister
4 2011 Irish presidential campaign
5 Resignation from the House of Commons
6 Personal life
7 See also
8 Further reading
9 References
10 External links


Provisional IRA activity[edit]

McGuinness has acknowledged that he is a former IRA member but claims that he left the IRA in 1974.[9] He originally joined the Official IRA, unaware of the split at the December 1969 Army Convention, switching to the Provisional IRA soon after. By the start of 1972, at the age of 21, he was second-in-command of the IRA in Derry, a position he held at the time of Bloody Sunday, when 13 civil rights protesters were killed in the city by soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment.[10][11]

During the Saville Inquiry into the events of that day, Paddy Ward claimed to have been the leader of the Fianna, the youth wing of the IRA at the time of Bloody Sunday. He claimed that McGuinness and another anonymous IRA member gave him bomb parts that morning. He said that his organisation intended to attack city centre premises in Derry on the same day. In response, McGuinness said the claims were "fantasy", whileGerry O’Hara, a Derry Sinn Féin councillor, stated that he and not Ward was the Fianna leader at the time.[12]

The inquiry concluded that, although McGuinness was "engaged in paramilitary activity" at the time of Bloody Sunday and had probably been armed with a Thompson submachine gun, there was insufficient evidence to make any finding other than they were "sure that he did not engage in any activity that provided any of the soldiers with any justification for opening fire".[13]

McGuinness negotiated alongside Gerry Adamswith the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland,Willie Whitelaw, in 1972.

In 1973, he was convicted by the Republic of Ireland's Special Criminal Court, after being arrested near a car containing 250 pounds (110 kg) of explosives and nearly 5,000 rounds of ammunition. He refused to recognise the court, and was sentenced to six months imprisonment. In court, he declared his membership of the Provisional IRA without equivocation: 'We have fought against the killing of our people... I am a member of Óglaigh na hÉireann and very, very proud of it'.[14]

After his release, and another conviction in the Republic for IRA membership, he became increasingly prominent in Sinn Féin, the political wing of the republican movement. He was in indirect contact with British intelligence during the hunger strikes in the early 1980s, and again in the early 1990s.[15] He was elected to theNorthern Ireland Assembly at Stormont in 1982, representing Londonderry. He was the second candidate elected after John Hume. As with all elected members of Sinn Féin and the SDLP, he did not take up his seat.[16] On 9 December 1982, McGuinness, Gerry Adams and Danny Morrisonwere banned from entering Great Britain under the Prevention of Terrorism Act by William Whitelaw, by then Home Secretary.[17]

In August 1993, he was the subject of a two-part special by The Cook Report, a Central TVinvestigative documentary series presented byRoger Cook. It accused him of continuing involvement in IRA activity, of attending an interrogation and of encouraging Frank Hegarty, an informer, to return to Derry from a safe house in England. Hegarty's mother Rose appeared on the programme to tell of telephone calls to McGuinness and of Hegarty's subsequent murder. McGuinness denied her account and denounced the programme saying "I have never been in the IRA. I don't have any sway over the IRA".[18]

In 2005, Michael McDowell, the Irish Tánaiste, claimed McGuinness, along with Gerry Adams andMartin Ferris, were members of the seven-manIRA Army Council.[19] McGuinness denied the claims, saying he was no longer an IRA member. Experienced "Troubles" journalist Peter Taylorpresented further apparent evidence of McGuinness's role in the IRA in his documentaryAge of Terror, shown in April 2008.[20] In his documentary, Taylor alleges that McGuinness was the head of the IRA's Northern Command and had advance knowledge of the IRA's 1987 Enniskillen bombing, which left 11 civilians dead.
Chief negotiator and Minister of Education[edit]

He became Sinn Féin's chief negotiator in the time leading to the Good Friday Agreement. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996 representing Foyle. Having contested Foyle unsuccessfully at the 1983, 1987 and 1992 Westminster elections,[citation needed] he became MP for Mid Ulster in 1997 and after the Agreement was concluded, was returned as a member of the Assembly for the same constituency, and nominated by his party for a ministerial position in the power-sharingexecutive, where he became Minister of Education. One of his controversial acts as Minister of Education was his decision to scrap the 11-plus exam, which he himself had failed as a schoolchild.[21] He was re-elected to the Westminster Parliament in 2001, 2005 and 2010.

In May 2003, transcripts of telephone calls between McGuinness and British officials includingMo Mowlam, the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's Chief of Staff, were published in a biography of McGuinness entitled From Guns to Government. The tapes had been made by MI5and the authors of the book were arrested under the Official Secrets Act. The conversations showed an easy and friendly relationship between McGuinness and Powell. He joked with Powell about Unionist MPs while Mowlam referred to him as "babe" and discussed her difficulties with Blair. In another transcript, he praised Bill Clinton to Gerry Adams.[22]

Lenny Murphy

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Lenny Murphy

Lenny Murphy in 1982
Born Hugh Leonard Thompson Murphy
2 March 1952
Shankill Road,Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died 16 November 1982 (aged 30)
Glencairn, upper Shankill Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Cause of death Over 20 fatal gunshot wounds
Nationality British
Other names Lenny or Lennie
Known for Leader of Shankill Butchers
Ulster Volunteer Force member
Religion Protestantism


Hugh Leonard Thompson Murphy, who commonly went by the nameLenny (or Lennie) (2 March 1952 – 16 November 1982), was anUlster loyalistfrom Belfast,Northern Ireland. Murphy was a member of theUlster Volunteer Force (UVF) and leader of the infamous Shankill Butchers gang which became notorious for its torture and murder of Roman Catholic men. Although never convicted ofmurder, Murphy is thought to have been responsible for many deaths.[1] Murphy spent long periods in custody from late 1972 to July 1982, being free for a total of only thirteen months during that time. He was shot dead by the Provisional IRA in November 1982.

A Protestant, Murphy had a fanatical hatred of Roman Catholics. In his book The Shankill Butchers, Belfast journalist Martin Dillon suggests that Murphy's visceral loathing of Catholics may have stemmed from his own family being suspected of having recent Catholic ancestry, because of his traditionally Irish surname which is more often associated with the other side of the religious divide in Northern Ireland.[2] After his death, his mother commented: "I don't honestly believe he was a bad man"; however, an unnamed loyalist from the rival Ulster Defence Association described Murphy as a "typical psychopath".[3]



Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 First crimes
3 Shankill Butchers murders
4 Imprisonment
5 Last months on the Shankill
6 Death
7 References
8 Sources


Early life[edit]

Murphy was the youngest of three sons of Joyce and William Murphy from the loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast. William was originally from Fleet Street, Sailortown in the Belfast docks area. This was where he had met Joyce Thompson, who came from the Shankill. Like his own father (also named William), he worked as a dock labourer.[4]

The Murphy family changed their residence several times; in 1957 they returned to Joyce's family home in the lower Shankill, at 28 Percy Street. Murphy's father was reclusive which led to a rumour that he was not the same man and that Joyce was now living with a different 'William Murphy', one who was a Catholic. Lenny Murphy did not use his given first name because Hugh was perceived as Catholic-sounding, especially when coupled with the surname Murphy. Prior to the erection of a peace wall in the 1970s, Percy Street ran from the lower Shankill area to theFalls Road. A hoodlum at school (Argyle Primary), where he was known for the use of a knife and had his elder brothers to back him up, Murphy logged his first conviction at the age of twelve for theft. After leaving the Belfast Boys' Model School at sixteen, he joined the Ulster Volunteer Force and was involved in the rioting that broke out in Belfast in August 1969.

His character was marked by a pathological hatred of Catholics which he brought into all of his conversations, often referring to them as "scum and animals".[5] He held a steady job as a shop assistant, although his increasing criminal activities enabled him to indulge in a more high profile and flamboyant lifestyle which involved socialising with an array of young women and heavy drinking.[6]

Dillon wrote that it is "incredible to think that Murphy was in fact a murderer at the age of twenty" (1972). There were many people at the time who would have found it hard to believe as physically he did not differ from most young men of his age. Below average height, of slim build and sallow complexion, Murphy was blue eyed and had curly dark brown hair. He sported several tattoos; most of them bearing Ulster loyalistimages.[7] He was a flashy dresser, too, often wearing a leather jacket and scarf, and occasionally a pair of leather driving-gloves, such that it reminded one contact of the time of a World War I fighter-pilot.[8]
First crimes[edit]

The Lawnbrook Social Club in Shankill Road's Centurion Street, one of Murphy's drinking haunts. It has since been demolished

According to Dillon, Murphy was involved in the torture and murder of four Catholic men as early as 1972. On 28 September of that year, a Protestant man named William Edward Pavis who had gone bird shooting with a Catholic priest, was killed at his home in East Belfast. Pavis had been threatened by loyalists who accused him of selling firearms to the IRA. Murphy was arrested for this crime along with an accomplice, Mervyn Connor.[9]

During pre-trial investigations, Murphy was placed in a line-up for possible identification by witnesses to Pavis' shooting. Before the process began formally, he created a disturbance and stepped out of the line-up. However, two witnesses picked him out when order was restored.[9]

Connor and Murphy were held in prison together but, in April 1973, before the trial, Connor died after ingesting cyanide in his cell. He had written a suicide note in which he confessed to the crime and exonerated Murphy. It is believed Connor was forced to write the note and take the cyanide. Murphy was sent to trial for the murder of Pavis in June 1973. Although two witnesses identified him as the gunman, he was acquitted on the basis that their evidence may have been affected by the disturbance during the police line-up inquiry. However, Murphy was re-arrested and jailed for attempted escapes.[10]

By May 1975, Murphy, now aged twenty-three, was back on the streets of Belfast. On 5 May 1973, inside the Crumlin Road prison, he had married 19-year-old Margaret Gillespie, with whom he had a daughter.[11] He moved his wife and child to Brookmount Street in the upper Shankill where his parents also had a new home; however, he spent much of his time drinking in Shankill pubs such as The Brown Bear and Lawnbrook Social Club. He also regularly frequented the Bayardo Bar in Aberdeen Street.[12] Murphy later told a Provisional IRAinmate that on 13 August 1975 he had just left the Bayardo ten minutes before the IRA carried out a gun and bombing attack against the pub which killed a UVF man and four other Protestants and left over 50 injured.[13]

With his brother William he soon formed a gang of more than twenty men that would become known as the Shankill Butchers, one of his lieutenants being William Moore.

Brookmount Street (2009), where Murphy lived close to the top of the Shankill Road
Shankill Butchers murders[edit]

The gang shot dead four Catholics (two men and two women) during a robbery at a warehouse in October 1975. Over the next few months Murphy and his accomplices began to abduct, torture and murder random Catholic men they dragged off the streets late at night. Murphy regarded the use of a blade as the "ultimate way to kill", ending the torture by hacking each victim's throat open with a butcher's knife. By February 1976 the gang had killed three Catholic men in this manner. Murphy achieved status though his paramilitary activity and was widely known in the Shankill. Many regarded his crimes as shaming the community but feared the consequences of testifying against him.[14][15] None of the victims had any connection to the IRA, and there was suspicion among some of their families that the murders were not properly investigated because those being killed were Catholics.[14]

The Butchers were also involved in the murder of Noel Shaw, a loyalist from a rival UVF unit, who had shot dead Butcher gang-member Archie Waller in Downing Street, off the Shankill Road, in November 1975. Four days before his death, Waller had been involved in the abduction and murder of the Butchers' first victim, Francis Crossen. One day after Waller's death, Shaw was beaten and pistol-whipped by Murphy while strapped to a chair, then shot. His body was later dumped in a back street off the Shankill.[16]

By the end of 1975, the UVF Brigade Staff had a new leadership of "moderates", but Murphy refused to submit to their authority, preferring to carry out attacks by his own methods. Dillon suggested that whilst some of the Brigade Staff knew about Murphy's activities (albeit not the precise details), they were too frightened of him and his gang to put a stop to them.[17]

On 10 January 1976, Murphy and Moore killed a Catholic man, Edward McQuaid (25), on the Cliftonville Road. Murphy, alighting from Moore's taxi in the small hours, shot the man six times at close range.
Imprisonment[edit]

Early on 11 March 1976, Murphy shot and injured a young Catholic woman, once again on the Cliftonville. Arrested the next day after attempting to retrieve the gun used, Murphy was charged with attempted murder and remanded in custody for a prolonged period. However, he was able to plea bargain whereby he was allowed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of a firearms offence, and received twelve years' imprisonment on 11 October 1977. Dillon notes that the police believed Murphy was involved in the Shankill Butcher murders. To divert suspicion from himself Murphy ordered the rest of the gang to continue the cut-throat murders while he was in prison. The Butchers, now under the operational command of William Moore, went on to kill and mutilate at least three more Catholics.

The team of CID detectives investigating the murders was led by Detective Chief InspectorJimmy Nesbitt who headed C Division based at Tennent Street off the Shankill Road. However the police were overworked during this period and little progress was made in the investigation until one victim, Gerard McLaverty survived his assault. Detectives were driving him down the Shankill Road on the way to the scene of his abduction where he recognized two of his assailants walking in the street. This identification of Sam McAllister and Benjamin Edwards led to the arrest of many of the gang in May 1977 and, in February 1979, they were imprisoned for long periods. Confessions of gang members had named Murphy as the leader but statements incriminating him were later retracted. He was questioned once again about the Butcher murders but denied involvement.

The total of sentences handed down to the gang at Belfast Crown Court was the longest in legal history in the United Kingdom.
Last months on the Shankill[edit]

On completing his sentence for the firearms charge, Lenny Murphy walked out of the Maze prison on Friday, 16 July 1982. During his term inside, his wife Margaret had initiated divorce proceedings which were being finalised at the time of his death. Murphy returned to his old ways, killing at least four more people over the next four months. He beat to death a partially disabled man one day after returning to the Shankill. Another victim sold him a car and was shot dead after demanding full payment.[18]Murphy also attempted to extort money from local businessmen who had been sympathetic in the past; however, this encroached on Loyalist figures with established protection rackets.[19]

In late August 1982, Murphy killed a part-timeUDR soldier from the Lower Shankill area who was closely involved with the UVF in Ballymena and was allegedly an informer. The man's body was not discovered for almost a year.[1] In mid-October, Murphy and several associates kidnapped a Catholic man who was then tortured and beaten to death in Murphy's own house (temporally vacated due to renovations). Murphy, who had left the house strewn with the victim's blood and teeth, was arrested for questioning the next morning but later released. The sadism of the widely publicised killing led to Loyalism receiving a great deal of bad publicity, and paramilitary figures concluded that Murphy's horrific methods of sectarian murder had made him too much of a liability.[9]
Death[edit]

On 16 November 1982, Murphy had just pulled up outside the rear of his girlfriend's house in the Glencairn area of the upper Shankill when twoProvisional IRA gunmen emerged from a black van nearby and opened fire with an assault rifle and a 9 mm pistol. Murphy was hit by more than twenty rounds and died instantly.[20]Coincidentally, he was gunned down just around the corner from where the bodies of many of the Butchers' victims had been dumped. A few days after his death the IRA claimed responsibility. According to RUC reports, the UVF had provided the IRA hit team with the details of Murphy's habits and movements, which allowed them to assassinate him at that particular location. Another line of inquiry ends at UDA leader James Craig,[19] who saw Murphy as a serious threat to his widespread racketeering and provided the IRA with key information on Murphy's movements. Craig was known to meet IRA commanders to discuss their racketeering activities - he was later killed by his comrades for "treason".[21]

Murphy was given a large paramilitary funeral by the UVF with a guard of honour wearing the UVF uniform and balaclavas. A volley of three shots was fired over his coffin as it was brought out of his house and a piper played "Abide With Me". He was buried in Carnmoney Cemetery; on his tombstone the following words were inscribed: "Here Lies a Soldier".[22] The tombstone was smashed in 1989.[23] His photograph was displayed inside "The Eagle", the UVF Brigade Staff's headquarters over a chip shop in the Shankill Road. According to investigative journalist Paul Larkin, it graced the walls as a "fallen officer" up until the late 1990s.[24]
References[edit]

^ Jump up to:a b "Exposure sealed fate of notorious activists",The Independent, 24 August 2000
Jump up^ Dillon, Shankill Butchers, pp 4-9
Jump up^ News Letter, November 18, 1982
Jump up^ Dillon, pp.1-2
Jump up^ Dillon, p.8
Jump up^ Dillon, Martin (1989). The Shankill Butchers: the real story of cold-blooded mass murder. New York: Routledge. pp.17-18 ISBN 0-415-92231-3
Jump up^ Dillon, Martin (1989). The Shankill Butchers: the real story of cold-blooded mass murder. New York: Routledge. p.20
Jump up^ Dillon, p.21
^ Jump up to:a b c Dillon, Martin (1989). The Shankill Butchers. ISBN 0-415-92231-3
Jump up^ Dillon and Lehane,Political Murder in Northern Ireland(1973), pp 125-27
Jump up^ Dillon, p.54
Jump up^ Dillon, Martin (1989). The Shankill Butchers: the real story of cold-blooded mass murder. New York: Routledge. p.7
Jump up^ Stevenson, Jonathan (1996). We Wrecked the Place: contemplating an end to the Northern Irish Troubles. Free Press. p.54
^ Jump up to:a b BBC TV programme, 2011,Shankill Butchers, 60 mins,
Jump up^ Dillon, Martin (1989). Shankill Butchers. pp 66-69, 115-31
Jump up^ Jordan, Milestones in Murder (centre pages with image of Shaw's body in basket)
Jump up^ Dillon, pp.53-54
Jump up^ Dillon, p.291
^ Jump up to:a b Dillon, Martin (1989). The Shankill Butchers. p.263
Jump up^ McKittrick, David & McVea, David (2002).Making Sense of the Troubles: the story of the conflict in Northern Ireland. New Amsterdam Books. p.149
Jump up^ Dillon, pp 312-16
Jump up^ Moloney, Ed (2010).Voices From the Grave: Two men's war in Ireland. Faber & Faber. pp.381-382
Jump up^ McKittrick et al.Lost Lives Page 924
Jump up^ Larkin, Paul (2004).A Very British Jihad: collusion, conspiracy and cover-up in Northern Ireland. Belfast: Beyond the Pale publications. p.124
Sources[edit]
The Shankill Butchers, Martin Dillon, 1989 ISBN 0-415-92231-3
Crime Library's Through a Veil of Blood and Tears article
Political Murder in Northern Ireland Martin Dillon and Denis Lehane (Penguin, 1973)
"Murdered Man was not the Shankill Butcher, says mother", News Letter, 18 November 1982

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British General Frank Kitson created the concept of the State sponsored ‘pseudo gang,’ which was experimented and developed further in Britsih Occupied Ireland, to include astroturf political parties. In the case of Ireland, most of the violence that was blamed on the ‘Loyalists,’ was actually the result of death squads secretly run by the British secret state. It was also used later, to form Al Qaeda. The Pseudo sponsored group, is used to advance an agenda of the State, while discrediting the real opposition. The strategy evolved under Kitson in Kenya and Ireland.  

The latest attack in Paris, was used for the purpose of further provoking a right-wing backlash in Europe, end the dithering, wavering support for sanctions on Russia and solidify French support for NATO. One of the brothers involved in the attack, received training in Yemen, a former colony of Britain, which ended with the bloody Aden conflict, in which pseudo gangs were originally developed.

Elements of this doctine, were included in the formation of politcal parties in Ireland, which include the formation of the West Brit, blueshirt Fine Gael Party and what is known by political analysts, as British Sinn Fein today. There are also several other, pseudo opposition political groupings, which are part of this strategy today, who's principal aim is the re-introduction of all of the island of Ireland, rejoining the British Commonwealth, as a counter-balance to the EU, and particularly any strnegthening of the German French alliance.

January 11, 2015 "ICH" - "Lew Rockwell" -   Hypocrites up and down the line. Terrorists themselves. Leaders who have been stoking the furnace of terrorism themselves, creating terrorists, supplying them with arms, tolerating their education in Saudi Arabia. Hypocrites. All those leaders who have been attacking Muslim countries for years on end and supplying arms. Hypocrites. All those leaders who yell “terrorism” when it suits their grander schemes of domination. Now when there is blowback in Paris, they yell “extremism” and use the occasion to continue and enlarge the war on terror. They use it to strengthen police state surveillance and to frighten the populations under their control. The West’s leaders have created terrorism, intentionally and unintentionally, knowingly and unknowingly, depending on the person and situation, and now they again are seeking to benefit from an attack on western ground. These same leaders stand by while Netanyahu engages in slaughtering Palestinians. They dismember Libya. They supply arms in Syria. They attack and destroy Iraq and Afghanistan. They now bemoan deaths for which they bear responsibility, for it is they who have invaded one Muslim country after another.
“British prime minister David Cameron, German chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are among more than 40 world leaders who linked arms as they led the march to loud applause from the massive crowd.
“Speaking at the march, Mr Cameron said extremist violence would remain a threat for many years to come.
“‘We in Britain face a very similar threat, a threat of fanatical extremism,’ he said.”
Among the unnamed 40 are the hypocrites who have been on the attack.
Hypocrites, including Obama:
“In the wake of terrorist attacks in France and elsewhere, the Obama administration announced Sunday it will host a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism next month.”
These leaders have no moral standing whatever, no moral credibility whatever on this matter or any other. They have long since dirtied their hands with their lies and propaganda. In their foulness, they have given up all respect. These are despicable people who are so low that they use the Paris attacks to jump on a moral white horse and act as if they are pure and defenders of their citizens. Hypocrites. They have no intention whatever of changing their very own policies of extremism and foreign intervention that have brought about attacks such as those in Paris and on 9/11. The West indulged in new forms of colonialism and imperialism in the 20th century and now the 21st. This has to be recognized, admitted and ended. It is leading to an even greater conflagration than anything yet seen.

HOLOCAUST DENIAL BARS TURDS

What ludicrous, delusional, insane nonsense these West Brit Holocaust-denying conspiracy theorists are spewing, infecting and corrupting the minds of millions of otherwise good natured people all across the world! Think for a moment what exactly these Irish Holocaust-denying conspiracy theorists would have you believe. That it was just a Famine that killed one million people! Bottom line: you're either with us or against us Irish. Check the Facts here and sign the petition if you are not censored,  YET!   

Irish Holocaust

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"Holocaust" satire

satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

You may have read in some obscure part of the internet that the Holocaust of six million Jews during WWII is a hoax - it didn't happen - and that all of the heroic survivors and eye witnesses of Nazis atrocities are actually embellishing or outright fabricating their entire experience during WWII. Some even go so far as to claim that much, if not all, of the infamous photographic and video imagery depicting the Holocaust - piles of dead bodies, emaciated prisoners, death camps, and other iconic imagery associated with WWII and the systematic extermination of European Jewry - is either misrepresented, distorted, or even outright fabricated.

Many bloggers, researchers, and independent media personalities promote this far fetched, ridiculous conspiracy theory on the internet and elsewhere. Only a pathologically insane and illogical mind - a delusional individual - could actually entertain these ideas, and I'm here today to set the record straight.

Holocaust denying conspiracy theorists claim that the survivors of the Holocaust and other eye witnesses to Nazi atrocities are embellishing or outright fabricating their experience and suffering during WWII, "acting" so to speak in a made-for-television drama designed to denigrate and slander Adolf Hitler and National Socialism specifically, and the German people generally, in addition to capturing a lucrative financial and sympathy racket manufactured to advance international Jewry's global agenda. I'm sure you've seen Holocaust survivors and other eye witnesses to Nazi atrocities on television programs, in documentaries, at museums, or even in person. Many Holocaust survivors actually travel around the country, visiting elementary and middle schools across the United States, to tell students about their experience during WWII.

First of all, if the Holocaust denying conspiracy theorists are correct, how many people would have to be involved in this gigantic swindle? Are we to believe that allof the alleged "lying Holocaust survivors" and other eye witnesses to Nazi atrocities are "crisis actors" deceiving the public in order to advance a particular agenda and narrative of history, as Holocaust denying conspiracy theorists allege? Again, how many people would have to be involved in such a massive conspiracy? And to think that the mass media, entertainment establishment, and educational system would simply go along with and participate in such a deception - where does this pathologically insane conspiracy theorizing end?

Do you really believe that all of the Holocaust survivors and eye witnesses of Nazi atrocities presented on the television and at Holocaust museums are liars, playing a role in a scripted propaganda campaign designed to systematically target and exploit a mass audience's emotions and basic psychology, as some argue?

Are we to believe that "everyone is in on it," including modern Hollywood producers and educators, such as the legendary Hollywood film director Steven Spielberg, the renowned historian Deborah Lipstadt, and Holocaust icon and activist Elie Wiesel, along with millions of others? Is the United States federal government - the President and Congress, for example - part of the conspiracy to promote the "Holohoax" as well? Are they all "crisis actors" or somehow a part of the conspiracy?

Think about it: for the Holocaust to have been a hoax millions of people - Holocaust survivors, government officials, media executives, educators and historians, and countless others - would have to be involved in this conspiracy. And no one has said anything about it or exposed these "liars" yet? Come on folks!

Holocaust denying conspiracy theorists also claim that gas chambers do not exist - at least not for the purpose of systematically murdering people - and there never was an organized effort to exterminate European Jewry during WWII.

How such ridiculous claims could be taken seriously is simply beyond me.

We have seen countless videos and images of gas chambers, along with numerous photos of emaciated (presumably) Jewish prisoners and stacks of (presumably) dead Jewish men, women, and children, demonstrating that the Holocaust was indeed real and that there was indeed a systematic campaign to exterminate European Jewry. Plus, countless Holocaust survivors have provided first hand eye witness accounts of gassings and mass murders of fellow Jews - often their own family members and personal friends - at the hands of the Nazis and their sympathizers during WWII. Even Rudolf Höss, the German Commandant of the Auschwitz death camp, admitted that the Germans did have a systematic plan to exterminate European Jewry, and that roughly 3 million Jews were murdered at Auschwitz alone - 2.5 million of them by means of gassing.

How much proof do we need to demonstrate that the evil Nazis systematically murdered 6 million Jews during WWII?

Are we to believe, as the Holocaust denying conspiracy theorists allege, that the iconic Holocaust imagery, including the numerous videos and photos depicting the events of WWII and the Holocaust, is either distorted, taken out of context, or even outright fabricated? That the thousands - perhaps millions - of Holocaust survivors are "liars" deceiving the public in order to advance a particular narrative of history that benefits international Jewry's global agenda? That Rudolf Höss and other captured German military and political officials were coerced or tortured into providing their "false" testimony?

Again, how many people would have to be involved for such a deception to be successfully executed - without anyone saying anything?

Think for a moment what exactly these Holocaust denying conspiracy theorists would have you believe. 

They would have you believe that the mass media and entertainment complex, in addition to the educational establishment, is systematically deceiving the public by presenting distorted, fabricated or otherwise misleading images and videos, along with scripted testimony from "crisis actors" playing Holocaust survivors, in an effort to instill and perpetuate the official narrative of WWII and the deliberate murder of 6 million Jews at the hands of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis - all in order to advance a particular Jewish financial and political agenda. That somehow the Holocaust "didn't happen" and all the survivors are really just lying about or outright fabricating their experience and mistreatment at the hands of the evil Nazis during WWII. That somehow, without anyone actually saying anything, the media and entertainment industry have been and continue to present misleading or even fabricated photographic and video imagery to demonstrate the Holocaust did indeed take place.

What ludicrous, delusional, insane nonsense these Holocaust denying conspiracy theorists are spewing, infecting and corrupting the minds of millions of otherwise good natured people all across the world!

Many Holocaust denying conspiracy theorists point to David Cole's investigation and subsequent video documentaries allegedly "debunking" the fact that gas chambers were used to exterminate millions of Jews at the Auschwitz death camp and elsewhere (see here for more). Of course, those of us in the real truth movement recognize that David Cole is himself a Jew, and his entire presentation is based on "Jew tricks" and deceptions designed to dupe an unsuspecting investigator.

We simply cannot accept or even entertain ideas coming from Jews (or non-Whites generally).

Bottom line: you're either with us or against us. 

You either entertain and accept these ludicrous, delusional conspiracy theories, or you recognize how insane these ideas truly are and how damaging they are to our credibility as a movement. Even if the Holocaust denying conspiracy theorists are correct (which, of course, they are not), and the media and educational establishment have been and continue to systematically deceive and manipulate the public usingmisleading, distorted, or outright fabricated imagery, in addition to presenting ostensibly genuine victims and survivors of the Holocaust who in fact are telling entirely fabricated stories designed to target an audience's emotions and base psychology - even if all this is true - discussing or highlighting any of this information only makes us look crazy and alienates the masses from our main message.

Individuals promoting ridiculous conspiracy theories, such as the Holocaust was a "hoax" and never happened, must be called out, discredited, and shunned from our movement.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a game: delusional, mentally unstable individuals promoting ridiculous and outlandish conspiracy theories, including the notion that the Jewish controlled mass media is systematically deceiving and manipulating the global public by broadcasting fabricated, distorted, or misleading photographs and videos, and presenting false scripted testimony as a means of manufacturing and advancing a particular (false) narrative of history or contemporary events for geopolitical and sociocultural purposes, cannot be tolerated in this movement. These pathologically insane individuals must be denounced and shunned before they do our movement any more damage than they already have.

Hail victory.

Editor's Note: I have been criticized (in a rather ignorant, fallacious manner, I might add) by individuals in the alternative media for discussing the role that the Jewish mass media plays in systematically deceiving and manipulating the public by presenting misleading, distorted, or entirely fabricated images or videos and false scripted testimony in order to advance certain agendas and manufacture an artificial reality we are forced to operate in. 

However, these same individuals will be the first to proudly proclaim that the alleged Jewish "Holocaust" of 6 million Jews is a total fraud (which, of course, it is), and that the media has been and continues to systematically deceive and manipulate the global public into accepting this fake story. 

What you just read was a satirical piece I wrote using the faulty logic and arguments of my critics, and applying them to the fake "Holocaust" narrative of WWII in an effort to debunk "Holocaust deniers". My critics apparently fail to understand that if they were to utilize the faulty logic and arguments when critcizing me (for analyzing the media's role in events such as 9/11 or Sandy Hook or the Boston "bombing", for example) they would have a hard time debunking the fake "Holocaust" narrative of WWII. - JRF