SOUL OF RAY McCREESH ALIVE IN NEWRY PLAYGROUND

Ray McCreesh Park a Newry playground was named after Ray McCreesh who was born in 1957 in Cullyhanna, and raised in Camlough, County Armagh. His Comrade Bobby Sands said our revenge will be the laughter of our children and so it is. During the IRA hunger strikes Cardinal Tomás Séamus Ó Fiaich the spiritual leader of the Celtic Church was a privately influential figure among traditional Irish republicans, credited with helping end the first hunger strike through direct contact with militant republicans in the Long Kesh in British Occupied Ireland. He visited the Maze and witnessed the "Dirty Protest" (where prisoners rubbed their faeces on the walls of their cells and left food to rot on cell floors, while just wearing blankets and refusing to wash, in protest at the withdrawal of Special Category Status from militant republican prisoners). He stated:"I was shocked at by the inhuman conditions . . . where over 300 prisoners are incarcerated. One would hardly allow an animal to remain in such conditions let alone a human being. The nearest approach to it that I have seen was the spectacle of hundreds of homeless people living in sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta."

Today despite a so called peace process, Irish political prisoners, are still being tortured and treated like Raymond in British Occupied Ireland.


When hunger striker Raymond McCreesh died, Ó Fiaich said:"Raymond McCreesh was captured bearing arms at the age of 19 and sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment. I have no doubt that he would have never seen the inside of a jail but for the abnormal political situation. Who is entitled to label him a murderer or a suicide?"

While the Cardinal showed deep concern for the treatment of all prisoners, he was equally critical of Provisional Sinn Fein, who used the hunger strikers to further their own political interests.

The motive in both cases is the same. Not only are the senior politicians in all mainstream parties members of the same “club”, committed to the same neo-conservative principles and indebted to the same corporate paymasters. But also these crimes involved the active complicity of thousands of senior members of the establishment, in the armed services, the secret services, the diplomatic services and other public servants. To come clean would take down thousands of people still in public service. or in other high places.

In the UK, for example, war criminals Sir Richard Dearlove now master of Pembroke College Cambridge and Sir Mark Allen of Shell are only two who would have to go to jail. I am sorry to say that I am convinced that some people I know and like myself, ought to be sentenced. Not that it will happen.

When a state embarks on illegal war and systematic torture and murder, as a state, the ramifications go extremely wide. Literally thousands of highly placed people are implicated. There is nothing short of political revolution which would bring justice.

It is fascinating how far even the “liberal” media will and will not go in reporting these crimes. The murder part is almost entirely left out – it is well documented, for example, that scores of rendition flights went to Uzbekistan. But it is almost never noted that not one person who was rendered to Uzbekistan ever emerged alive. They were all murdered.

The astonishing disparity of wealth in the UK – with just nine families owning as much as the poorest 15 million in the country – has now reached the point where, together with the crimes described above and the takeover of all main parties by the same neo-con philosophy – I have become, for the first time in my life, a political revolutionary. I have, unexpectedly, lost my faith in the ability of the currently constituted “democratic” system to provide a fair society. That seems to be because the extreme and escalating concentration and control of capital coincides with the extreme and escalating concentration and control of the media. That media control seems, despite the availability of alternative new media, to have sufficient power of influencing people to grant untrammeled hegemony over society to the wealthy.

Working on the Voltairian basis that il faut cultiver le jardin, I shall continue to work for Scottish independence on the grounds that smaller polities have a greater chance of resistance, a kind of theory of political asymmetric warfare, and that for cultural reasons there has been a less complete neo-con takeover of political debate there.
To return to Chilcot, there is a sense in which it is good that he has not yet reported. 

Chilcot is holding out to be able to include the Bush-Blair correspondence, which offers conclusive proof that the “WMD” meme was a knowing lie to justify a vicious and pre-determined war. The recent Tory pressure for early publication is for publication without these documents. Much better to wait and get the actual proof.

The idea that two heads of state corresponding on taking their states to war can be “private” and kept from their people, is so outrageous that the fact it is stated at all is, in itself, sufficient evidence of the media control being as complete as I assert. It is a laughable proposition. Besides which, if these were private letters, why were Sir David Manning and Sir Christopher Meyer delivering them at public expense? Can we charge Blair for this service? Meyer and Manning don’t come cheap. It was, incidentally, Sir David Manning who brought back to No. 10 the request from the White House that I be sacked as British Ambassador in Uzbekistan for kicking up a fuss internally over extraordinary rendition.
After careful consideration of the Rome Statute, I am convinced that an independent Scotland will be able to refer Blair to the war crimes tribunal at the Hague, and I am determined to make sure that this happens.

Craig Murray

Vauntie Cybernat, Former Ambassador, Human Rights Activist

MURPHY IS UNDER SURVEILLANCE

The Blair-Bush Letters

If anybody is surprised that key letters between Tony Blair and George Bush on launching the invasion of Iraq have gone missing, they have not been paying attention. On both sides of the Atlantic, the Obama and Cameron regimes have consistently and continually covered up the crimes of their predecessors, from launch illegal wars of aggression to instituting programmes of torture and extraordinary rendition and murder.

The motive in both cases is the same. Not only are the senior politicians in all mainstream parties members of the same “club”, committed to the same neo-conservative principles and indebted to the same corporate paymasters. But also these crimes involved the active complicity of thousands of senior members of the establishment, in the armed services, the secret services, the diplomatic services and other public servants. To come clean would take down thousands of people still in public service. or in other high places. In the UK, for example, war criminals Sir Richard Dearlove now master of Pembroke College Cambridge and Sir Mark Allen of Shell are only two who would have to go to jail. I am sorry to say that I am convinced that some people I know and like myself, ought to be sentenced. Not that it will happen.

When a state embarks on illegal war and systematic torture and murder, as a state, the ramifications go extremely wide. Literally thousands of highly placed people are implicated. There is nothing short of political revolution which would bring justice.

It is fascinating how far even the “liberal” media will and will not go in reporting these crimes. The murder part is almost entirely left out – it is well documented, for example, that scores of rendition flights went to Uzbekistan, including many from the CIA black base in Szymano-Szczytny in Mazuria, Poland. But it is almost never noted that not one person who was rendered to Uzbekistan ever emerged alive. They were all murdered.

The astonishing disparity of wealth in the UK – with just nine families owning as much as the poorest 15 million in the country – has now reached the point where, together with the crimes described above and the takeover of all main parties by the same neo-con philosophy – I have become, for the first time in my life, a political revolutionary. I have, unexpectedly, lost my faith in the ability of the currently constituted “democratic” system to provide a fair society. That seems to be because the extreme and escalating concentration and control of capital coincides with the extreme and escalating concentration and control of the media. That media control seems, despite the availability of alternative new media, to have sufficient power of influencing people to grant untrammeled hegemony over society to the wealthy.

Working on the Voltairian basis that il faut cultiver le jardin, I shall continue to work for Scottish independence on the grounds that smaller polities have a greater chance of resistance, a kind of theory of political asymmetric warfare, and that for cultural reasons there has been a less complete neo-con takeover of political debate there.

To return to Chilcot, there is a sense in which it is good that he has not yet reported. Chilcot is holding out to be able to include the Bush-Blair correspondence, which offers conclusive proof that the “WMD” meme was a knowing lie to justify a vicious and pre-determined war. The recent Tory pressure for early publication is for publication without these documents. Much better to wait and get the actual proof.

The idea that two heads of state corresponding on taking their states to war can be “private” and kept from their people, is so outrageous that the fact it is stated at all is, in itself, sufficient evidence of the media control being as complete as I assert. It is a laughable proposition. Besides which, if these were private letters, why were Sir David Manning and Sir Christopher Meyer delivering them at public expense? Can we charge Blair for this service? Meyer and Manning don’t come cheap. It was, incidentally, Sir David Manning who brought back to No. 10 the request from the White House that I be sacked as British Ambassador in Uzbekistan for kicking up a fuss internally over extraordinary rendition.

After careful consideration of the Rome Statute, I am convinced that an independent Scotland will be able to refer Blair to the war crimes tribunal at the Hague, and I am determined to make sure that this happens.

Craig Murray

Vauntie Cybernat, Former Ambassador, Human Rights Activist

PRINCE HARRY ROYAL SINN FEIN AND SHOT BUFFALO

WINDSOR ‘WILDLIFE MASSACRE’: 7,000 ANIMALS KILLED IN JUST ONE YEAR ON THE ROYAL ESTATE 

Figures show that the Crown Estate’s ‘vermin control’ methods wiped out 1,161 rabbits, 118 parakeets, 28 hares and nine moles

An animal welfare campaign group has slammed a ‘Windsor wildlife massacre’ with figures showing more than 7,000 animals and vermin killed on the royal estate in just a single year.

The staggering total includes 1,161 rabbits, 772 jackdaws, 325 squirrels, 191 crows, 159 foxes, 118 parakeets, 56 roe deer, 28 hares, nine moles, three mink and no rats.

Animal Aid uncovered the figures through a Freedom of Information request, called it “absolute carnage” and called the activities “morally repugnant” while certain people in British Occupied Ireland said it wasn't enough,

The royals are under fire for their hunting exploits,  despite public promises to do all they can to protect animals threatened with extinction such as general vermin.

Prince Harry is pictured here with Colm Murphy MP of Royal Sinn Fein with the body a shot docile, harmless, water buffalo and Prince William also appeared at a United for Wildlife Symposium, days after spending a weekend  protecting rats, while shooting wild boar in South Armagh. Prince Philip, the the Duke of Edinburgh, is the official ranger of Windsor Great Park and the Windsor Estate along with British Occupied Ireland is presntly owned and managed by the British Crown.

The Windsor Estate has responded to the figures by claiming that most of the “vermin control” was done at the request of tenant farmers but that they were protected species in Ireland. It said deer and squirrels were destroyed at the request of the foresters horticulturalists as well as Natural England to protect young trees.

While foxes were shot to protect game birds reared to be shot for sport, wild deer were “managed” to protect trees and formal gardens, and small mammals such as moles were “only controlled in our formal garden areas or on sports grounds”.

But Animal Aid hit back at the claims, saying the “mass destruction of corvids and pigeons was unscrupulous and unnecessary”. It said that the killing of 28 brown hares “will upset many people who believe that hares are protected”. Although plans are in place to reverse their declining number, they are still legally hunted and shot.

The charity said that there are non-lethal solutions available to problems cited by the Windsor Estate and criticised the “culture of killing in the countryside” where animals not serving a useful purpose or posing a risk, however small, are “snuffed out”. Animal Aid’s Kate Fowler said: “The annual massacre at Windsor is without justification.

“Across the UK, wild animals are under great threat from industry, road and housing development, climate change, habitat loss, pesticide use and other man-made problems. “Rather than looking for humane solutions, one of the richest estates in the country – managed by individuals who are connected to blood sports – would rather reach for guns, traps and poisons and obliterate animals who get in its way. “What about compassion? What about sharing the natural world with the other species who live here, even if that means taking a minor dent in its multimillion pound profits?”.Here’s the full breakdown of the animals killed on the Windsor Estate last year

Pigeons 3,901

Rabbits 1,161

Jackdaws 772

Squirrels 325

Crows 191

Foxes 159

Rats 145 

Protected Rats 0

Muntjac 127

Parakeets 118

Magpies 70

Roe 56

Rooks 55

Hares 28

Jays 9

Moles 9

Mink 3

North West Hunt Saboteurs Association 

Direct Action 

ROYAL SINN FEIN A PROTECTED SPECIES

PSNI ACCUSE ADAMS OF WORKING FOR MI5
MONDAY, MAY 19, 2014  AM  NO COMMENTS
John McDonagh (JM) and Sandy Boyer (SB) interview via telephone from Belfast free-lance reporter Suzanne Breen about the arrest of Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams.


Radio Free Éireann 



WBAI 99.5FM Pacifica Radio 

New York City 

17 May 2014 


(begins time stamp 30:45) 




JM: Last week Suzanne Breen wrote a story that most of the newspapers really didn't pick up on and here's just part of it:

(John reads from Breen's article ) 


But then comes a startling sentence: 'They claimed I was turned by special branch during interrogation in Belfast’s Palace Barracks in 1972 and that I became an MI5 agent.' 

Rumours that Mr Adams was recruited by the British intelligence services have been around in militant republican circles for decades and certainly strengthened after the 1994 ceasefire. 

Some unionists have also long suspected that he was a protected species during the conflict. 

‘Tout’ was recently scrawled on the new wall mural to him on the Falls Road but beyond the graffiti artists, many of his own former IRA comrades have raised questions about him. However, if police officers made the very same accusation, as he himself says they did, it’s a first.

(John ends) 

With us on the line from Belfast is Suzanne. Now, Suzanne, you got this one sentence from an article that Gerry Adams wrote but there was no denying it or saying it was outrageous before the comment or after the comment which I thought was very strange that he didn't deny anything.

Breen: I believe he put it out there, John, to take control of the situation. Because this information that police officers interrogating him, accused him, said as a statement of fact, that he had been an agent for MI5, this could be potentially very damaging for him further along the line. And I think that he was deliberately putting it out there to take control of the situation and hoping that if he did that it would go away. And that strategy appears to have worked because I was quite amazed that the rest of the media didn't pick up on this allegation. Now maybe I'm wrong but I would have thought that it is not something that police officers, experienced detectives, would just throw about willy-nilly to someone as senior a member of the political establishment like Mr. Adams. I would have thought that if they were going to put that allegation to him it would have to be well-grounded. It would have to be based on documents, on serious intelligence, on something that they know that the rest of us don't know. 


SB: Suzanne, one of the things that always raised suspicions was that the RUC actually saved Gerry Adams' life when there was an attempt to assassinate him. He may even have been the only one who was saved in that circumstance. And I know that always raised doubts in people's minds. 

Breen: That's true, Sandy. In the early 1980's when there was an assassination attempt on him we now know that the bullets were doctored in advanced so that they wouldn't actually kill him. There are other incidents where agents within the Loyalist paramilitaries moved to prevent other attacks on Gerry Adams. 
There was a planned attack by the UDA in 1988 in which they were going to attach a limpet mine with a magnetic clamp to a car in which he was traveling and that was actually foiled by the British agent in that terror organization, Brian Nelson. And why I think Mr. Adams may be putting out this allegation now that he's a agent is because there is a danger that it's going to be leaked in future. Leaked either by perhaps disgruntled police officers who were involved in this investigation into Jean McConville but much more likely the McConville family we believe are going to take a civil case against Mr. Adams. And as part of that civil case they would be likely to get a transcript of his interview notes from police and those interview notes obviously would contain this allegation. So I think Gerry Adams knows that the McConvilles are likely to get this information at some point in the future and of course they're going to go public with it. 

JM: But you also have Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness announcing to the press that anybody who has any information on attacks in the previous thirty years to please come forward - help the PSNI. And here when people do come forward, say with the Boston tapes, as say: well...here's what I know about this and that – Adams and them are calling them and McIntyre – they're calling them “touts” and how dare that they give up this type of information. Gerry Adams likes to have it both ways: he wants, publicly, to tell people: Come forward if you know anything about it. And then when the people do come forward, say like Brendan Hughes: alright, I'll come forward about the McConville thing. Here's what I know ... And then they say: Oh, how dare you come forward like this and give this information. 

                                                THE REAL MURPHY





Breen: There is a huge hypocrisy here and Sinn Féin are attempting to have it both ways. You either support the police or you don't support the police. And there really is no logic in Martin McGuinness standing shoulder to shoulder with the then PSNI Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde after the Massereene attack in which two soldiers were killed and calling for information to be given to the police and for people to cooperate with the police. After police officer Ronan Kerr's murder Sinn Féin leaders did exactly the same but yet they will not stand shoulder to shoulder with Matt Baggott, the police Chief Constable now, and call for information on Jean McConville's murder. It really, really appears to be totally, totally, double standards. People are accused of being “touts”. Republicans are accused of being “touts” who simply talked to academics, who talked to journalists. These Republicans haven't talked to the police. They have just said what they wanted to say, they have divulged things to academics and journalists and yet they're “touts”. But yet Sinn Féin leaders are calling on other Republicans to talk about dissident Republican murders and that's being a good citizen. So there's a massive hypocrisy here. 

JM: And that brings me now to the next article you wrote, it's the cult-like status of Gerry Adams. There wouldn't be a political party here in the United States or you would think in Ireland that would be brought in to be questioned about a killing from thirty years ago, be brought in about his brother and him going to gaol about the sexual allegations made there. But it just seems that no matter what is said about Gerry Adams, either people don't believe it or they just say that's yesterday's news. And Suzanne, I don't know if it's a Belfast thing but when he got out of gaol and he had a press conference in front of the wall mural they had signs that said: “Our Gerry. Our Leader.” Like, you would never see that in the United States say: Our Barack. Our Leader. It was such to me looking at that type of sign - what does that mean – Our Gerry? That's sort of a Belfast colloquialism like, here's “our Gerry”. But they broke it down on that type of level with the protest signs that they were holding up. 

Breen: There were actually people out with dozens of gold-framed photographs. Now they did not appear overnight. This was well planned and well-calculated and these were clearly given to the crowd. The sad thing is that there is truth in it. Do we live in the North of Ireland or do we live in North Korea? Because that to me really is what it resembles. It is like people can lose their independent thought, their ability to analyse situations and just blindly fall into this devotion to a leader. There is of course nothing wrong with loyalty. There is nothing wrong with people liking their leaders, loving their leaders, caring for their leaders, supporting them but when it come to the point of view where mind are closed to all facts and all information then it really is worrying. And this cult-like devotion to Gerry Adams reached its zenith for me when he was released from Antrim police station and he came back to what was billed as a press event but was really like more a homecoming party and all that was missing was alcohol and the yellow ribbons. And there was cheering and applause from the group of Republicans gathered. The atmosphere really didn't do justice to the fact that this was a murder suspect being released. Had a leading Loyalist been arrested and questioned, for example about the McGurk's Bar, in which Catholics died and they were clapped and cheered and there was this party-carnival atmosphere people would have been saying it was in appalling bad taste. If when Colin Duffy was found not guilty or the murder soldiers at Massereene, if dissident Republicans had held a similar event they would have been cursed to high heaven and rightfully so. It would have been judged as just totally insulting to the victims and to their families. And yet, Sinn Féin engaged in this behaviour and got away with it. Nobody in the media uttered a word.

SB: Suzanne, is this kind of treatment of Republican leaders a new thing? Because I don't remember for instance the late Ruarí Ó Brádaigh, who was the Chief-of-Staff of the IRA, Presdient of Sinn Féin, I don't think people ever treated him that way. Brendan Hughes was the legendary commander of the IRA in Belfast and revered by many people. But I don't think he ever got this kind of treatment. So is this a very new thing? 

Breen: I think it is a new thing and there is some talk that there is an urge to replace Bobby Sands actually as the icon of modern Republicanism - to replace that with Gerry Adams. Gerry Adams has compared himself very cleverly to Bobby Sands - that was the main comparison he made when he was released - he said how he thought as he penned his little writings in the police cell that he thought of Bobby and he thought of Bobby's writings. So he was very cleverly comparing himself to Bobby Sands. Bobby Sands of course went sixty-seven days without food before he died. Mr. Adams had four days with food just he didn't like the food that the police gave him in an Antrim cell. So the comparisons really don't run very deep in terms of their contribution to the Provisional Republican Movement in terms of their suffering but that's the comparison that Mr. Adams still is very, very keen to make. 

JM: You're listening to Radio Free Éireann and we're speaking with Suzanne Breen, who's a free-lance journalist in The Six Counties and has been covering The Troubles for thirty years. Suzanne, before we go: elections are coming up next Friday for the European election and local councils. What have you been hearing? What are some of the polls that are coming out? And has this hurt Sinn Féin? 

Breen: I don't think that it's hurt Sinn Féin at all. I think Sinn Féin will poll very strongly. Elections here in reality are nothing more that a sectarian head count. The SDLP have in my opinion fought a very poor campaign and they have the tag of losers all over them. People like winners. And there has been a draining off of the Nationalist electorate after the IRA ceasefire of 1994. I would expect Sinn Féin to poll very strongly and to come out as the major party once again in Northern Ireland. I think they'll do very,very well in this election. 

JM: And what do you think about down South? 

Breen: Down South the Jean McConville allegations will hurt them much more than in The North. But they have the advantage there of being a party which is not tarnished with involvement in government. And at a time of recession and when people are finding it very, very hard to make ends meet Sinn Féin can play the “radical outsider” when it actually is, certainly in The North, very much a part of the establishment but it can play a radical card down South that may appeal to voters. 

JM: Thank you, Suzanne, for coming on and participating here and giving us a little insight into what's going on. 

Breen: Thank you. (ends time stamp 43:10)
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MURPHY MATE PRINCE HARRY ROYAL SINN FEIN

‘

Cry God, for Harry, England and St. George’. Shakespeare, Henry V; Act Three.

Will England Ever Learn?

Surreal. Prince Harry, the Queen’s grandson, Princess Diana’s youngest son and third in line to the throne, has been dispatched to South Armagh after a brief visit with his friend Conor Murphy MP yesterday. Apparently he has undergone a course in cultural awareness and customs secretly(also including kicking down doors at 4 a.m., throwing Irish families from their beds and dragging, teenagers into barracks and beating them up, with the odd bit of torture thrown in.) He was spotted again early this morning in some undergrowth at the back of Murphy's house in Mullaghbawn, South Armagh.


When Prince Harry’s mother, Princess Diana died, Tony Blair at his schoolboy Shakespearean best, spoke with wobbly lip of the People’s Princess. It was hoped, that despite all best efforts, the final chapter in this historic folly which defies utter shame, was not Tony stumbling off into the sunset, for a seat at the giant Carlyle Group table (founded by the Bush and Bin Laden families) and that he be remembered for all time, paying tribute to : ‘The People’s Prince. Well hell NO ! it was not to be, so say hello ! to Prince Harry's Royal Sinn Fein Friend Murphy Mate.

Apparently Murphy of Royal Sinn Fein has been unable to subdue with hurleys and beatings, some of the remaining Unrepentant Fenian Bastard elements in South Armagh, and in the lead up to the election, it is bad PR for Royal Sinn Sinn Fein, with the very real danger of even more murders from beatings happening. Harry's friend Commander Gale said, if the South Armagh natives hadn’t learned by our previous example to behave themselves in a civilized way, then Harry and I, with the help of the Murphy family, will have to spank their bottoms again.