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Monday, 13 August 2012
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41 Year Anniversary Ongoing British Torture Internment Occupied Ireland
London 2012 may be, where the Olympic Games are happening but it is also probably the capital, of world wide human rights abuse. Right now Marian Price is dying in internment torture without trial, as a political prisoner of conscience. She has been force fed for more than 6 months of a hunger strike and tortured in solitary confinement for almost a year, an Olympian feat by an standards of resistance, in the context of being interned without trial 41 years, after the introduction of internment into her life experience, with two judges ordering her release, along with the queen of England. They have however been overruled by an even darker, secret force, with a record of sadistic low intelligence in Ireland but a law unto themselves only.
Forty one years ago in the early hours of the 9th August 1971 British soldiers introduced internment without trial, by kicking in the doors of hundreds of Irish homes at 4.A.M in the morning. Internment torture has been used by the British Government in British Occupied Ireland, in every decade since the creation of their sectarian based scum state, to suppress any form of genuine political opposition. Internment since the creation of British Occupied Ireland has happened in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and today as another Irish woman called Marian Price is dying, while many other republican suspects are imprisoned without trial. Despite the spin of a peace process the reality is a police state without due process ran on injustice, sponsored sectarianism and British bigotry.
The secret services relied on faulty intelligence with the British Army kidnapping 342 men. The intelligence was totally inaccurate and most of those arrested had no connections with paramilitary organizations. Others while progressive minded, in belief were not active for decades.Prominent Civil Right's members and in some instances in Armagh the British Army ripped the area apart trying to find and kidnap people who were dead for more than 4 years.Intelligence rlied then and now on paid informers who would say anything to collect their beer and drug money, resulting then and now on totally inaccurate intelligence. British alienation from the community created a huge intelligence gap in their files then as it does now. Intelligence was so far off the mark that within 2 days the British were forced to release 116 of those kidnapped by the British. So it is with internees like Marian Price and Martin Corey today.
Internment and British torture were so much part of the Irish Republican experience, that they preempted it accordingly. No Loyalists were arrested in the initial operation, despite the UVF being active with British sponsored sectarian murders since 1966. The first Loyalist internees were not kidnapped until 1973. The reaction of the community was rage, reinforced with news of barbaric British torture of the internees. This rage increased support for the IRA and started a campaign of civil disobedience that was supported by everyone in the nationalist community.British brutality in the internment centres and internment was seen as communal punishment to humiliate. The result was a backlash of violence across British Occupied Ireland.
In an IRA press conference on the 13th August, Joe Cahill, the Officer Commanding Belfast IRA stated that internment had had no effect on IRA structures and would continue.The ranks of the IRA were swollen with volunteers after the introduction. In the remainder of August 1971 after internment was introduced, 35 people were killed, more than the total for the previous 6 months.With the impending death of Marian Price currently dying interned in British Occupied Ireland the IRA has been reorganized and volunteers are said to be flooding into its ranks.
Monday, 6 August 2012
Another Irishwoman Being Murdered by London 2012
The SAS gave no warning prior to shooting. Carmen Proetta, an independent witness, told Thames Television "They [the British] didn't do anything. They just went and shot these people. That's all. They didn't say anything, they didn't scream, they didn't shout, they didn't do anything. These people were turning their heads back to see what was happening and when they saw these men had guns in their hands they put their hands up. It looked like the man was protecting the girl because he stood in front of her, but there was no chance. I mean they went to the floor immediately, they dropped."
It was the unarmed Mairead Farrell and her comrades murdered by the British, now it it is Marian Price being murdered by the British, while interned without trial, after the courts and queen of England ordered her release. As Margaret Thatcher who gave the SAS their orders said, "Murder is Murder." Marian Price has been held in solitary confinement for almost a year, force fed 400 times and interned without trial, she is a free spirit dying from British injustice in Occupied Ireland. She is close to 60 years of age and has never known freedom in her own land.
_______________Interned political dissident Marian Price has contracted pneumonia, it has emerged.Ms Price’s condition is described as “serious” and her family has expressed deep concern about her deteriorating physical and mental health.
In June Price was moved from Hydebank prison to a unit of Belfast City Hospital, where she was receiving treatment for severe depression. But her health has continued to fail. On Tuesday she was diagnosed with pneumonia and moved to the main hospital.
Campaigners have urged activists and supporters to help organise an international human rights campaign to pressurise the British establishment into immediately freeing Ms Price.
The prison authorities boarded up the windows of her intensive care room in hospital until the staff protested against it, said Geraldine McNamara, National PRO of Republican Sinn Féin.
“Unless immediate action is taken to save Marian’s life, she, like Giuseppe Conlon in 1980, will die a prisoner, another innocent victim of British ,” she said.
“Marian’s continued detention is yet another breach of human and civil rights by the British Establishment who continues to occupy the six north-eastern counties of Ireland.”
Her husband, Jerry McGlinchey, said: “We’re extremely worried. Marian has been in constant pain for months.
“Nobody has to agree with my wife’s politics to see this is wrong and violates her human rights.”
Ms Price was charged with encouraging support for the Real IRA last year, and subsequently interned without trial by British Direct Ruler Owen Paterson.
Mr McGlinchey said: “I’ve nothing to say to Owen Paterson, but I appeal to (Justice Minister) David Ford to show compassion and release my wife.”
Sinn Féin’s Jennifer McCann said her party had confirmed the deterioration in Marian Price’s condition.
“It is unacceptable that despite being moved from prison that she remains in custody with her historic licence still revoked,” she said.
“It has long since passed the time when the British government moved to show some genuine compassion in this case and reinstate Marion Price’s licence and allow her to return to the care of her family without any further delay.
“I will be making contact with the British government to continue to press them to release Marion Price before further damage is done to her health.
As to why Marian has contracted pneumonia an important clue may be found in the following extract from the diary of Bobby Sands and is taken from where he is reflecting on his situation as a prisoner. "A stretch of tarmac surrounded by barbed wire and steel is the only view from my cell window, I’m told it’s an exercise yard. I wouldn’t know. In my fourteen months in H-Block, I haven’t been allowedto walk in the fresh air. I am on ‘cellular confinement’ today. That is the three days out of every fourteen when my only possessions, three blankets and a mattress, are removed, leaving a blanket and a chamber pot. I’m left to pass the day like this, from 7.30 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. How I spend my day is determined by the weather. If it’s reasonably warm, it’s possible to sit on the floor, stare at the white walls, and passa few hours day dreaming. But otherwise I must spend my day continuously pacing the cell to prevent the cold chilling through to my bones. Even after my bedding is returned at 8.30 p.m.hours will pass before the circulation returns to my feet and legs."
Clonoe families launch shoot-to-kill report
Relatives of four IRA Volunteers killed by undercover British soldiers 20 years ago have launched a report to highlight their campaign to establish how they died.Peter Clancy, Kevin Barry O’Donnell and Sean O’Farrell, from the Coalisland area, and Patrick Vincent from Dungannon were shot dead in the grounds of St Patrick’s Church at Clonoe, County Tyrone, during the covert British military operation on February 16 1992.
They were ambushed minutes after taking part in a gun attack on nearby CoalislandRUC station during which noone was injured. All four were aged in their late teens or early twenties.
A barrage of 514 rounds were fired at the IRA unit by 12 undercover soldiers, believed to include SAS members. Eight cars, each containing two soldiers, provided back-up to the undercover troops.
Despite the passing of two decades and more than 20 preliminary hearings, a full inquest into the men’s deaths has yet to be held.
Relatives travelled to the US in March and presented the report, which has been compiled by victim-support group Relatives for Justice, to Irish and American politicians.
Six-County Justice minister David Ford and PSNI Chief Matt Baggott also received copies.
Relatives believe the soldiers ignored chances to arrest some of the IRA men prior to the planned ambush.
Hours before the shoot-out, O’Farrell was stopped at a British army checkpoint near the spot where he died.
He was allowed to continue on his journey. O’Donnell’s sister Roisin Ui Mhuiri said she and the other relatives deserve to know what happened.
“It’s about finding out the truth,” she said.
“For 20 years they have refused to tell us the truth of what happened that night.
“This is going to eat away at us until we find out the truth.
“If we stay silent, which is the easy thing to do, it means we accept what happened that night.
“It was a well-planned military operation and we believe that instead of arresting those men, which they could have done, a decision was made high up to shoot them.”
“The British government should hold up their hands so we can move forward as a community and we can heal not only as families but as a community. Instead there are families still holding all this pain and grief.”
Controversy continued after the killings when 200 mourners walked out of the funeral Mass of O’Donnell and O’Farrell at the Church of the Holy Family in Coalisland after parish priest Mgr Liam McEntegart denounced the IRA leadership.
In the aftermath of the ambush the then British ‘security’ minister, Dr Brian Mawhinney, said he had no reason to doubt that the soldiers followed proper procedures.
The report, ‘Ambush, Assassination and Impunity’, was launched at the Cornmill Heritage Centre in Coalisland on Thursday night.
“It has become apparent that state forces had exact knowledge of the IRA plan to attack the RUC station,” the report by Relatives for Justice says.
“The obvious question would, therefore, be why the state made no attempt to arrest the IRA men.
“The deployment of SAS soldiers, noted solely for their ambush and execution methods, rather than effectively securing and making arrests in accordance with international standards, adds to the concern that the aim of this operation had indeed been to kill the IRA men and not to arrest them. This was never an arrest operation.”
It demands that the full inquest should now be held and that the Public Prosecution Service should review the case.
Historic IRA realignment
In a statement released yesterday [Thursday] evening, the new IRA grouping said that following extensive consultation, the three organisations “have come together within a united structure under a single leadership subservient to the constitution of the Irish Republican Army”.
A completely new command structure and army council has been established to oversee the running of the new organisation which will combine the resources of all three former groups. It is believed members of the three original groups have already been briefed on the merger.
The transition was helped by the fact that a majority of the new IRA’s leadership previously held senior roles within the Provisional IRA at various stages of that organisation’s existence.
The new organisation does not include the Continuity IRA. In addition, one or two elements which operated under the name Oglaigh na hEireann [the Irish synonym for IRA] may not have been brought into the new group, particularly in Belfast.
In a statement issued by the regrouped organisation’s army council, the IRA said it remained “committed to the full realisation of the ideals and principles enshrined in the proclamation of 1916”.
“In recent years the establishment of a free and independent Ireland has suffered set backs due to the failures among the leaders of Irish nationalism and fractures within republicanism,” it said.
“The root cause of conflict in our country is the subversion of the nation’s inalienable right to self determination and this has yet to be addressed.
“Instead the Irish people have been sold a phony peace rubber stamped by the token legislature in Stormont.”
It said the continuing British denial of Irish self-determination remained the source of the conflict.
“It is Britain, not the IRA that has chosen provocation and conflict,” it said.
“The IRA’s mandate for armed struggle derives from Britain’s denial of the fundamental right of the Irish people to national self-determination and sovereignty.
“So long as Britain persists in its denial of national and democratic rights in Ireland then the IRA will continue to assert those rights.
“The necessity of armed actions in pursuit of Irish freedom can be avoided through the removal of the British military presence from our country, the dismantling of their armed militia and declaration of an internationally observed timescale that details the dismantling of British political interference in our country.”
It is unclear what motivated the new development, but the breakaway organisations have reported a surge in support since Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness shook hands and greeted the English queen, Elizabeth Windsor, as part of the British royal jubilee celebrations last month.
The increased size and relative unity within the organisation will directly challenge long-standing efforts by the political establishment in the North to portray republican militants as small or “micro” groups.
For the moment, there seems no possibility of an engagement between the two, but in the future, the organisation’s new combined structure could allow a single, coherent channel of communication.
North Belfast Sinn Fein assembly member Gerry Kelly recently described the breakaway IRA groups as “small groupings” but insisted that his party had sought to engage with them.
“They have no right to carry out armed actions, the vast majority of which are directed against civilians in republican areas, in the name of Irish republicanism,” he said.
One of the group’s involved in the merger, Republican Action Against Drugs, has operated a controversial vigilante campaign against criminals within the nationalist community in Derry. However, last month it began to target the PSNI, triggering a wave of raids and searches in which dozens of homes were ransacked, most recently that of the Sinn Fein Mayor, Kevin Campbell.
Other units or groupings involved in the merger include one which carried out an attack which killed a member of the PSNI in County Tyrone last year, as well as others which have used the name Oglaigh na hEireann, or simply ‘the IRA’.
While the full extent of the regrouping has yet to be confirmed, it has been reported that the new IRA has membership ‘nationwide’.
Meanwhile, in an apparently separate development, the Continuity IRA (CIRA) says it has expelled several members and has a new leadership.
A statement issued in Dublin said those acting in a criminal manner and using the name of the CIRA would be subject to “military action”.
The group said it remains determined to continue its armed campaign in the north. The CIRA has claimed responsibility for several attacks in recent years, including one in 2009 in which a member of the PSNI was killed.
There has as yet been no direct response to the development by Sinn Fein or other IRA groups.
Five intelligence documents were deliberately withheld from the Smithwick Tribunal by the PSNI police, the force has said, deepening the mystery over a profoundly murky incident from 1989.
A completely new command structure and army council has been established to oversee the running of the new organisation which will combine the resources of all three former groups. It is believed members of the three original groups have already been briefed on the merger.
The transition was helped by the fact that a majority of the new IRA’s leadership previously held senior roles within the Provisional IRA at various stages of that organisation’s existence.
The new organisation does not include the Continuity IRA. In addition, one or two elements which operated under the name Oglaigh na hEireann [the Irish synonym for IRA] may not have been brought into the new group, particularly in Belfast.
In a statement issued by the regrouped organisation’s army council, the IRA said it remained “committed to the full realisation of the ideals and principles enshrined in the proclamation of 1916”.
“In recent years the establishment of a free and independent Ireland has suffered set backs due to the failures among the leaders of Irish nationalism and fractures within republicanism,” it said.
“The root cause of conflict in our country is the subversion of the nation’s inalienable right to self determination and this has yet to be addressed.
“Instead the Irish people have been sold a phony peace rubber stamped by the token legislature in Stormont.”
It said the continuing British denial of Irish self-determination remained the source of the conflict.
“It is Britain, not the IRA that has chosen provocation and conflict,” it said.
“The IRA’s mandate for armed struggle derives from Britain’s denial of the fundamental right of the Irish people to national self-determination and sovereignty.
“So long as Britain persists in its denial of national and democratic rights in Ireland then the IRA will continue to assert those rights.
“The necessity of armed actions in pursuit of Irish freedom can be avoided through the removal of the British military presence from our country, the dismantling of their armed militia and declaration of an internationally observed timescale that details the dismantling of British political interference in our country.”
It is unclear what motivated the new development, but the breakaway organisations have reported a surge in support since Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness shook hands and greeted the English queen, Elizabeth Windsor, as part of the British royal jubilee celebrations last month.
The increased size and relative unity within the organisation will directly challenge long-standing efforts by the political establishment in the North to portray republican militants as small or “micro” groups.
For the moment, there seems no possibility of an engagement between the two, but in the future, the organisation’s new combined structure could allow a single, coherent channel of communication.
North Belfast Sinn Fein assembly member Gerry Kelly recently described the breakaway IRA groups as “small groupings” but insisted that his party had sought to engage with them.
“They have no right to carry out armed actions, the vast majority of which are directed against civilians in republican areas, in the name of Irish republicanism,” he said.
One of the group’s involved in the merger, Republican Action Against Drugs, has operated a controversial vigilante campaign against criminals within the nationalist community in Derry. However, last month it began to target the PSNI, triggering a wave of raids and searches in which dozens of homes were ransacked, most recently that of the Sinn Fein Mayor, Kevin Campbell.
Other units or groupings involved in the merger include one which carried out an attack which killed a member of the PSNI in County Tyrone last year, as well as others which have used the name Oglaigh na hEireann, or simply ‘the IRA’.
While the full extent of the regrouping has yet to be confirmed, it has been reported that the new IRA has membership ‘nationwide’.
Meanwhile, in an apparently separate development, the Continuity IRA (CIRA) says it has expelled several members and has a new leadership.
A statement issued in Dublin said those acting in a criminal manner and using the name of the CIRA would be subject to “military action”.
The group said it remains determined to continue its armed campaign in the north. The CIRA has claimed responsibility for several attacks in recent years, including one in 2009 in which a member of the PSNI was killed.
There has as yet been no direct response to the development by Sinn Fein or other IRA groups.
Smithwick lawyers ‘bewildered and alarmed’ by PSNI secrecy
The ongoing tribunal at Dublin Castle was set up to investigate claims that the Provisional IRA received assistance from a member of the 26-County Garda police in 1989. It was announced following unionist demands for a ‘balance’ to nationalist calls for inquiries into collusion between the British Crown forces and loyalist death squads north of the border.
Two senior members of the police (then RUC) died when they were ambushed as they crossed the border en route to Dundalk Garda station, allegedly afer inside information was passed to the IRA.
The revelation that the PSNI had withheld the documents was described as a matter of “great concern” by lawyers at the tribunal on Wednesday. Lawyers for the two families involved said it now appeared the PSNI may be hiding even more documents from the inquiry, while lawyers for Owen Corrigan, a Garda member who had been accused of assisting the IRA, said the PSNI had very belatedly produced evidence which cleared his client.
John McBurney, solicitor for the Breen family, said there was now “a truly bewildering and alarming array of collusion pointers”.
The PSNI has provided only “summaries” of the five intelligence documents, the originals of which they said were being withheld for “reasons of national security”.
Four of the five “summaries” related to reports that a garda in Dundalk passed information to the IRA. The fifth said a Dundalk garda named as Jim Lane had repeatedly warned of inappropriate relationships between members of the IRA and Dundalk sergeants.
While the first two documents made reference to “a detective” member of the Garda in Dundalk who was said to be passing information to the IRA, the summary provided said the unnamed detective officer in question was not involved in [or revealed to] the Smithwick Tribunal.
Jim O’Callaghan SC, for Owen Corrigan, said this was “exculpatory” information about his client’s alleged involvement with the IRA, and the PSNI had decided, at least initially, not to share it.
Asked if he was prepared to apologise to Mr Corrigan, the PSNI representative replied: “A decision was taken to not release this intelligence.”
He added that he was “not in a position to tell you who made that decision, the circumstances or the context in which that or those decisions were taken. And I’d be speculating beyond that.”
A different take on last week’s IRA announcement, by socialist republican Tommy McKearney.
Two senior members of the police (then RUC) died when they were ambushed as they crossed the border en route to Dundalk Garda station, allegedly afer inside information was passed to the IRA.
The revelation that the PSNI had withheld the documents was described as a matter of “great concern” by lawyers at the tribunal on Wednesday. Lawyers for the two families involved said it now appeared the PSNI may be hiding even more documents from the inquiry, while lawyers for Owen Corrigan, a Garda member who had been accused of assisting the IRA, said the PSNI had very belatedly produced evidence which cleared his client.
John McBurney, solicitor for the Breen family, said there was now “a truly bewildering and alarming array of collusion pointers”.
The PSNI has provided only “summaries” of the five intelligence documents, the originals of which they said were being withheld for “reasons of national security”.
Four of the five “summaries” related to reports that a garda in Dundalk passed information to the IRA. The fifth said a Dundalk garda named as Jim Lane had repeatedly warned of inappropriate relationships between members of the IRA and Dundalk sergeants.
While the first two documents made reference to “a detective” member of the Garda in Dundalk who was said to be passing information to the IRA, the summary provided said the unnamed detective officer in question was not involved in [or revealed to] the Smithwick Tribunal.
Jim O’Callaghan SC, for Owen Corrigan, said this was “exculpatory” information about his client’s alleged involvement with the IRA, and the PSNI had decided, at least initially, not to share it.
Asked if he was prepared to apologise to Mr Corrigan, the PSNI representative replied: “A decision was taken to not release this intelligence.”
He added that he was “not in a position to tell you who made that decision, the circumstances or the context in which that or those decisions were taken. And I’d be speculating beyond that.”
The merger of physical force republicans
Organisations with strong centralised and hierarchal structures, especially the conviction driven, are usually prone to splitting or the breaking away of factions. Often this occurs at periods of significant political development or societal transformation when direction-changing decisions are required. This happens in religion, in sport and with unending regularity in the world of militant Irish republicanism. Three of the largest parties in the present Irish parliament, for example, had their origins in bitter divisions within the country’s republican milieu. Such a history, therefore, makes the news of a merging of certain forces within the present day republican underground, an interesting and indeed surprising development.
A small number of journalists were briefed on Thursday 26th July that three strands of what is sometimes referred to as the ‘physical force’ element of Irish republicanism had amalgamated. The Real IRA (best known to British readers for carrying out the 1998 Omagh bombing), a vigilante group called Republican Action Against Drugs and a low profile group of armed republicans still calling themselves ‘the IRA’ have united under the, hardly original, title of the Irish Republican Army. In its communique to the press, the group repeated its commitment to militarism when it spoke of the ‘... necessity of armed struggle in the pursuit of Irish freedom ...’
In spite of its newsworthiness, this development should be kept in perspective. In the first instance, this new IRA group will be confronted with a challenge experienced by every revolutionary organisation; that of maintaining security and secrecy in the face of energetic surveillance by the state. There is little doubt that this merger will simplify MI5’s task of monitoring and foiling the new group’s activities.
Secondly, there are two other bodies, still calling themselves the IRA that remains outside this merger. Therefore the fractious and divided nature of armed Irish republicanism remains as poisonous and debilitating as ever. The particular school of Irish republicanism represented in this new group is often more certain of what it opposes rather than what it stands for. This makes it difficult for them to build the type of broad support base necessary to influence the political process.
Most pertinent of all, though, is the fact that the new formation is unlikely to change significantly the balance of forces within Northern Ireland. Trying to estimate membership strength for the various militant groups is difficult because the level and depth of support can fluctuate widely depending on the time and circumstances. One of the anomalies of the current situation is that while Sinn Féin voters are strongly opposed to further armed action, many are unwilling for historical reasons to cooperate with the authorities. Acceptance for all aspects of policing remains ambiguous within most republican circles.
Nevertheless, an overwhelming majority of people in Northern Ireland are opposed to any resumption of the violent battle of the final quarter century of the 20thcentury. Every election since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 has returned, from within the wider republican constituency, an overwhelming majority in favour of ending armed conflict and an equally strong rejection of those indicating any intention of recommencing insurrection. While there is no mechanical correlation between electoral support and ability or capacity to carry out direct action, the presiding officer’s count provides its own message. When people are unwilling to vote in secret for an insurrectionist candidate, they are unlikely to endure the unavoidable hardships and risks of war against the state. In practical terms there is insufficient water in which armed radicals can swim in Northern Ireland of the present day.
This low-key assessment notwithstanding; there is a message to be taken from a coming together of previously separate entities. It is rare for divisions in republican Ireland to be repaired or for groups to coalesce in this fashion. The significance of what has happened may not lie, therefore, in the new group’s potential for increased military capacity (and that is questionable hypothesis by any assessment) but in the fact that there is a new strategy in play and the process is towards unity rather than remaining separate.
Bear in mind that all is not well in Northern Ireland. Global recession is embedding economic and social hardship in areas that have experienced little improvement in their level of material prosperity over the last two decades. Sectarian divisions remain at a toxic level, especially in working class districts. Local devolved government performs a basic function of any parliament in that it is a substitute for civil war, yet it hardly makes any other obvious difference in the population’s day to day lives. Ominously, this new IRA is concentrated in the very areas where deprivation is most acute.
There is, in a nutshell, a space for dissenting voices to question the status quo and Irish republicanism is, after all, more a response to material conditions than it is an aspiration to a form of government. Five years ago a sense of estrangement manifested itself in France with youths burning property in the suburbs. Last year something similar happened in Britain when rioting broke out across urban centres.
Protest in Ireland sometimes follows an indigenous pattern and therein lurks the one great unknown factor in this latest ‘new departure’. Is this a huddling of desperate men determined to hang together rather than hang separately or is it an indication, even subconsciously, of a societal change that is encouraging direction-changing decisions?
A small number of journalists were briefed on Thursday 26th July that three strands of what is sometimes referred to as the ‘physical force’ element of Irish republicanism had amalgamated. The Real IRA (best known to British readers for carrying out the 1998 Omagh bombing), a vigilante group called Republican Action Against Drugs and a low profile group of armed republicans still calling themselves ‘the IRA’ have united under the, hardly original, title of the Irish Republican Army. In its communique to the press, the group repeated its commitment to militarism when it spoke of the ‘... necessity of armed struggle in the pursuit of Irish freedom ...’
In spite of its newsworthiness, this development should be kept in perspective. In the first instance, this new IRA group will be confronted with a challenge experienced by every revolutionary organisation; that of maintaining security and secrecy in the face of energetic surveillance by the state. There is little doubt that this merger will simplify MI5’s task of monitoring and foiling the new group’s activities.
Secondly, there are two other bodies, still calling themselves the IRA that remains outside this merger. Therefore the fractious and divided nature of armed Irish republicanism remains as poisonous and debilitating as ever. The particular school of Irish republicanism represented in this new group is often more certain of what it opposes rather than what it stands for. This makes it difficult for them to build the type of broad support base necessary to influence the political process.
Most pertinent of all, though, is the fact that the new formation is unlikely to change significantly the balance of forces within Northern Ireland. Trying to estimate membership strength for the various militant groups is difficult because the level and depth of support can fluctuate widely depending on the time and circumstances. One of the anomalies of the current situation is that while Sinn Féin voters are strongly opposed to further armed action, many are unwilling for historical reasons to cooperate with the authorities. Acceptance for all aspects of policing remains ambiguous within most republican circles.
Nevertheless, an overwhelming majority of people in Northern Ireland are opposed to any resumption of the violent battle of the final quarter century of the 20thcentury. Every election since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 has returned, from within the wider republican constituency, an overwhelming majority in favour of ending armed conflict and an equally strong rejection of those indicating any intention of recommencing insurrection. While there is no mechanical correlation between electoral support and ability or capacity to carry out direct action, the presiding officer’s count provides its own message. When people are unwilling to vote in secret for an insurrectionist candidate, they are unlikely to endure the unavoidable hardships and risks of war against the state. In practical terms there is insufficient water in which armed radicals can swim in Northern Ireland of the present day.
This low-key assessment notwithstanding; there is a message to be taken from a coming together of previously separate entities. It is rare for divisions in republican Ireland to be repaired or for groups to coalesce in this fashion. The significance of what has happened may not lie, therefore, in the new group’s potential for increased military capacity (and that is questionable hypothesis by any assessment) but in the fact that there is a new strategy in play and the process is towards unity rather than remaining separate.
Bear in mind that all is not well in Northern Ireland. Global recession is embedding economic and social hardship in areas that have experienced little improvement in their level of material prosperity over the last two decades. Sectarian divisions remain at a toxic level, especially in working class districts. Local devolved government performs a basic function of any parliament in that it is a substitute for civil war, yet it hardly makes any other obvious difference in the population’s day to day lives. Ominously, this new IRA is concentrated in the very areas where deprivation is most acute.
There is, in a nutshell, a space for dissenting voices to question the status quo and Irish republicanism is, after all, more a response to material conditions than it is an aspiration to a form of government. Five years ago a sense of estrangement manifested itself in France with youths burning property in the suburbs. Last year something similar happened in Britain when rioting broke out across urban centres.
Protest in Ireland sometimes follows an indigenous pattern and therein lurks the one great unknown factor in this latest ‘new departure’. Is this a huddling of desperate men determined to hang together rather than hang separately or is it an indication, even subconsciously, of a societal change that is encouraging direction-changing decisions?
Friday, 3 August 2012
Hitler's Olympic's London 2012 Censored by Indymedia Ireland
The following article was censored by Indymedia Ireland, who are continuously involved in censorshit, similar to Hitler book burnings in Munich, prior to his holocaust and after the British holocaust in Ireland, both of which disappeared over 12 million people. Fascist and Stalinist censorshit, are really two sides of the same coin, which this author personally does not approve of, but those who engage in censorshit such as the Pensive Quill are fascist in deed and should know better.
The Olympic Torch carrying the Olympic Flame from Olympus in Greece, came via a very circuitous route around the world. Thousands of Brits lined the streets to watch it pass. Held overhead by a runner, the Torch is light enough to carry for long distances while producing a bright flame visible to all even in daylight. It can withstand wind, rain or a fall without being extinguished, while carrying enough fuel to burn all day. At night it must allow refueling while still lit. The Olympic Torch represents a major technological achievement, while its design has remained the same since before WWII.
Its invention is the single most archetypical symbol of the Olympic. The Olympic Flame for millions of people in the years since its invention, continued all over the Britain before the start of London 2012. The British like many other promises, said they would create a new Olympic Torch with a smaller carbon footprint but like the promises of the peace process and ending torture, they once again failed to deliver. The Torch for London 2012 is still Hitler’s design. So London 2012, the Olympic Torch still burns the same mixture of propane and butane as designed by Adolf Hitler, its inventor all those years ago.
Yes, thee Adolf Hitler that German engineer of advanced German engineering. The fact is, the whole torch relay thing is Hitler’s concept. Before Hitler in 1936 there simply was no torch relay. Hitler adopted a very intimate, hands-on, Olympic approach and has had a long lasting effect in many ways. The Olympics of London 2012 remain a live entity of Hitlers creative vision, that the Olympic Committee have worked ceaselessly to keep.
Hitler besides inventing the Olympic Torch, worked with filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to define the aesthetic of Olympics London 2012, creating a work of evolved art which the world had never remotely seen before. Hitler and Riefenstahl’s Olympic concept continue to inspire London 2012 today. Hitler and Riefenstahl actually branded the Olympics, which Olympic committee dare not change. They have recognized the creative genius of that vision, which London 2012 cannot equal and they try their best to recreate it every four years.
Yes the Olympics happened before 1936 but were a really low-key event. Hitler made 1936 Berlin Games a centerpiece of global propaganda which London 2012 cannot match. Hitler spared no expense in producing an unforgettable spectacle on the global stage, that London 2012 cannot touch. The 1936 Games Olympics were Hitler’s special project, with his fingerprints all over it, right down to the Olympic Torch he personally invented. Hitler took a simple sporting event and raised it to a ritual, that continues to mesmerize the world. The Olympics of London 2012 are still the pinnacle of Hitler’s creative work as an artist.
So as the best athletes from all world compete in London 2012, tens of thousands of spectators with TV cameras reaching billions all over the world, the focus is on Hitler’s torch at the London 2012 Games. The British recreated again, Hitler's glorious human transcendence of the evolution of the German master race in all of its power and glory, right in the middle of London 2012.
Londoners, once again in east London lost their homes to create the Olympic Village. Hitler once again certainly has had a tremendous influence on the architecture of London going right back to the early 1940. Londoners are now celebrating his influence on their city.With the creme de la creme of the world’s athletes competing beneath snipers and surface to air missiles in the highly fortified Olympic enclave, Hitlers vision is truly alive again in London 2012. Hitler Hype ?
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Thursday, 2 August 2012
London 2012 Hitler's Olympics Militarized
London 2012 Hitler's Olympics Militarized
international | arts and media | opinion/analysis 
Thursday August 02, 2012 07:34
by BrianClarkeNUJ - AllVoices 
With Irish Concentration Camps
First they came for Marian Price,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't Irish..
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Muslims,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Muslim.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
The truth about British Occupied Ireland can be suppressed for the time being but it cannot be erased from the record of objective history written by truth tellers not corrupt corporate state sponsored revisionists.
Global Alternative Media Rising to challenge British Propaganda
The establishment media such as the BBC world service, no longer has a monopoly on reality. British official lies are challenged daily, buried historical and contemporary truths are dug up while objective reality is preserved. Truths such a Britain's ethnic cleansing of Ireland and it's engineered holocaust in Ireland, which has accounted for the disappearance of 6 million Irish people. The con artists's tricks have been revealed, the global alternative media's engine of peace, liberation, understanding and sanity is rising.
British media are forced to admit they have been lying to the world about almost everything and their warmongering is not mainstream. They are losing their control over the minds of the masses and they are also losing control of their own minds in the process.In fact, British establishment journalists have already gone crazy and lost their tenuous grip on reality. Their subjective world is falling apart around them and their temporary power is disappearing daily. Truth is too strong and will win out. British establishment media is going against commonsense reality and while winning some battles, is losing their war on the truth.
Not everyone of the British media has lost their heart and mind. There are still some respectable and honourable journalists around who place the facts of history, above the lies of the British government. The writer "b" of MoA writes:
"Commentators on the news websites are now mostly highly critical about the usual propaganda pieces. There also seems to be a slight shift in international media." Whereas until recently past the British establishment media was all-powerful and its official narratives were unquestioningly accepted by the general public, today its legitimacy is rapidly collapsing and it is failing to make people believe in government lies.
Young readers of news are looking to rising global independent media to get the facts about critical issues and conflicts. In the process, their worldview is changing and their government made beliefs are dying. It is essential to understand that, as British empire has always done with its monolithic corporate-financier interests of the City of London, seeking regional hegemony, as a step toward total Commonwealth domination, saying and doing anything in order to achieve it. As resistance increases, British lies become more difficult to sell with the obvious inconsistencies of their propaganda crumbling in full public view.
Britain's sense of logic is funny and twisted, but it is not unique. That's the way of the world. Throughout history, the British empire first attempted to conquer the truth, reality, and human consciousness, and then moved their way to resource-rich lands. Ireland being their first colony and still is their training ground, both for tactics and equipment, for it's industrial war complex to showcase and sell to their compliant neo-colonial commonwealth mentored regimes.The dying power of the British empire is dependent on the cult beliefs and cult personalities that are created by media such as the BBC world service, to divide and conquer, to have the Irish at each others throats, to have Muslims stabbing each other in the back, to justify its brutal rule at home and places such as British Occupied Ireland, abroad.
It is a sign of hope for Ireland and for the collective life of mankind, when the sovereignty of truth overcomes an empire of death that has ravaged the world for far too long. The UK media would have us all believe, their's was the Empire of civilization while their pupils the US is the Empire of savagery, while they wait to pick up the scraps of their failing 'special relationship.' This is why torture and internment without trial in British Occupied Ireland, is relevant to everyone worldwide today. This is why Olympic London 2012, in a city with a centuries ol history of dictating torture and abuse of human rights, is right now a primary stage for protest, for all genuine human rights activists worldwide.
For some this hope is a tediously slow, ongoing process but it will bear fruit over time. Ordinary citizen journalists and truth tellers world wide are making use of the internet and will continue like the Occupy movement to serve to clarify as catalysts, getting many more people thinking and acting on the growing inequalities, which are an intrinsic part of this Brutish unjust system of government, not just in British Occupied Ireland or it's Commonwealth but most parts of our world currently. It starts with us all individually and while everyone may not support the politics of Marian Price or Irish political dissidents or prisoners of conscience in British Occupied Ireland, the experience of internment without trial, the concentration camps of Occupied Ireland an Nazi Germany, the holocaust and massacres of more than 12 millions Irish and Jews in both, coupled with today's religious wars instigated by Britain in their former ruled territories of the Middle-East, on innocent Muslims, as they attempt to create a false reality and legacy of world wide eternal wars with the rest of the world.
Internment without trial and torture are instruments of war used for centuries by the British on defenceless civilian communities, to ultimately liquidate all native of resistance, to their brutal international piracy and savagery. The famous statement about the inactivity of German intellectuals during the Nazi rise to power while purging group after group, is as true in today's corporate fascist London 2012 as it was for Hitler's Nazi Olympics.
First they came for Marian Price,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't Irish..
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Muslims,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Muslim.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Global Alternative Media Rising to challenge British Propaganda
The establishment media such as the BBC world service, no longer has a monopoly on reality. British official lies are challenged daily, buried historical and contemporary truths are dug up while objective reality is preserved. Truths such a Britain's ethnic cleansing of Ireland and it's engineered holocaust in Ireland, which has accounted for the disappearance of 6 million Irish people. The con artists's tricks have been revealed, the global alternative media's engine of peace, liberation, understanding and sanity is rising.
British media are forced to admit they have been lying to the world about almost everything and their warmongering is not mainstream. They are losing their control over the minds of the masses and they are also losing control of their own minds in the process.In fact, British establishment journalists have already gone crazy and lost their tenuous grip on reality. Their subjective world is falling apart around them and their temporary power is disappearing daily. Truth is too strong and will win out. British establishment media is going against commonsense reality and while winning some battles, is losing their war on the truth.
Not everyone of the British media has lost their heart and mind. There are still some respectable and honourable journalists around who place the facts of history, above the lies of the British government. The writer "b" of MoA writes:
"Commentators on the news websites are now mostly highly critical about the usual propaganda pieces. There also seems to be a slight shift in international media." Whereas until recently past the British establishment media was all-powerful and its official narratives were unquestioningly accepted by the general public, today its legitimacy is rapidly collapsing and it is failing to make people believe in government lies.
Young readers of news are looking to rising global independent media to get the facts about critical issues and conflicts. In the process, their worldview is changing and their government made beliefs are dying. It is essential to understand that, as British empire has always done with its monolithic corporate-financier interests of the City of London, seeking regional hegemony, as a step toward total Commonwealth domination, saying and doing anything in order to achieve it. As resistance increases, British lies become more difficult to sell with the obvious inconsistencies of their propaganda crumbling in full public view.
Britain's sense of logic is funny and twisted, but it is not unique. That's the way of the world. Throughout history, the British empire first attempted to conquer the truth, reality, and human consciousness, and then moved their way to resource-rich lands. Ireland being their first colony and still is their training ground, both for tactics and equipment, for it's industrial war complex to showcase and sell to their compliant neo-colonial commonwealth mentored regimes.The dying power of the British empire is dependent on the cult beliefs and cult personalities that are created by media such as the BBC world service, to divide and conquer, to have the Irish at each others throats, to have Muslims stabbing each other in the back, to justify its brutal rule at home and places such as British Occupied Ireland, abroad.
It is a sign of hope for Ireland and for the collective life of mankind, when the sovereignty of truth overcomes an empire of death that has ravaged the world for far too long. The UK media would have us all believe, their's was the Empire of civilization while their pupils the US is the Empire of savagery, while they wait to pick up the scraps of their failing 'special relationship.' This is why torture and internment without trial in British Occupied Ireland, is relevant to everyone worldwide today. This is why Olympic London 2012, in a city with a centuries ol history of dictating torture and abuse of human rights, is right now a primary stage for protest, for all genuine human rights activists worldwide.
For some this hope is a tediously slow, ongoing process but it will bear fruit over time. Ordinary citizen journalists and truth tellers world wide are making use of the internet and will continue like the Occupy movement to serve to clarify as catalysts, getting many more people thinking and acting on the growing inequalities, which are an intrinsic part of this Brutish unjust system of government, not just in British Occupied Ireland or it's Commonwealth but most parts of our world currently. It starts with us all individually and while everyone may not support the politics of Marian Price or Irish political dissidents or prisoners of conscience in British Occupied Ireland, the experience of internment without trial, the concentration camps of Occupied Ireland an Nazi Germany, the holocaust and massacres of more than 12 millions Irish and Jews in both, coupled with today's religious wars instigated by Britain in their former ruled territories of the Middle-East, on innocent Muslims, as they attempt to create a false reality and legacy of world wide eternal wars with the rest of the world.
Internment without trial and torture are instruments of war used for centuries by the British on defenceless civilian communities, to ultimately liquidate all native of resistance, to their brutal international piracy and savagery. The famous statement about the inactivity of German intellectuals during the Nazi rise to power while purging group after group, is as true in today's corporate fascist London 2012 as it was for Hitler's Nazi Olympics.
First they came for Marian Price,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't Irish..
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Muslims,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Muslim.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
MI5 London 2012 Proxy Death Squads British Occupied Ireland
London's agenda in Ireland still involves their mentored Loyalist sectarian death squads. The evidence is piled high over the years proving it. It has been standard practice in all of UK colonial and proxy wars. Divide and conquer is how Britain pirates plunder the world. Unspeakable ethnic cleansing with atrocities and massacres, are still being committed by their agents worldwide. Women and men are still being kidnapped by the British in Ireland and politically raped of their human rights in solitary confinement with internment without trial. Citizens or commoners as they are known in Britain, are treated like combatants, while people with a political conscience, are treated like criminals.
The Irish are targeted for opposing British occupation and aggression in their own land, while political prisoners are tortured. Duplicitous lies and cover-up are used to lock people up and throw away the key, while scoundrels of the media help censor it. The British politicians, media secret services hands are all bloodstained, like the UK mentored sectarian proxy killers. The British media including the BBC world service, distort what's happening in Ireland on the ground. Irish viewers and readers know they are professional liars. They are paid to lie, while ethical journalists, working for the truth, are shadowed by British secret services and need not apply for work.
Meanwhile the British secret services, MI5 and MI6 are a law unto themselves as are their British paramilitary police in Ireland. Last week it was divulged at a very expensive long running inquiry of police behaviour and collusion in the killing of their own officers, that intelligence documents were withheld from the Smithwick Tribunal by the PSNI and MI5. The revelation that the PSNI withheld documents into the killing of 'their own' was described as a matter of “great concern” by lawyers for families of two RUC officers, executed by the IRA allegedly with assistance from their police.Ernie Waterworth, of McCartan Turkington Breen Solicitors in Belfast, said it was of “great concern” for the family of the late Supt Bob Buchanan and Chief Supt Harry Breen.
There have been numerous cases of proven collusion between British State agencies and paramilitary organisations in carrying out British proxy loyalist massacres and atrocities Ireland. Three sets of official inquiries into this criminal British activity give us a very clear understanding of what UK Proxy Loyalist Death Squads in British Occupied Ireland actually means. The authors of official reports Judge Cory, a retired Canadian judge, Lord Stevens, former Commisioner of the London Metropolitan Police and Nuala O'Loan, former Police Ombudsman of British occupied Ireland. They are widely recognised as being professional and independent with integrity.
Judge Cory said:
"Police forces must not act collusively by ignoring or turning a blind eye to the wrongful act of their officers or of their servants or agents. Nor can the police act collusively by supplying information to assist those committing wrongful acts or by encouraging them to commit wrongful acts." "Any lesser definition would have the effect of condoning, or even encouraging, state involvement in crimes, thereby shattering all public confidence in important Government agencies."
Lord Stevens said:
"Collusion is... the wilful failure to keep records, the absence of accountability, the withholding of intelligence and evidence, the extreme of agents being involved in murder." Nuala O'Loan incorporated both of the above into her investigation of acts of collusion carried out by the British paramilitary police.
All of the above professionals have found considerable evidence of collusion between British Occupation state agencies in British Occupied Ireland and paramilitary groups. These agencies included the RUC, British Military, MI5 and now the PSNI. Despite a supposed peace process of several years, injustice without due process and collusion, are still the norm with an unelected British Viceroyal, giving the secret services, carte blanche to ride roughshod over the judiciary and even royal edicts from their own queen. In the instance of the current internment without trial and torture of Marian Price, they essentially told the judiciary and her majesty to take a running jump, with her royal prerogative of mercy and judicial orders for her release totally ignored.
Alongside all of this, currently they have set up vigilantes, under the cover of a republican veneer, who have been kneecapping children by appointment with their parents. The British paramilitary police the PSNI deliver the notices and the vigilantes do the kneecapping by appointment. Meanwhile the British paramilitary police turn a blind eye, fully aware of the identity of the punishment squads. British spook rule in Occupied Ireland is rotten with injustice to the core ,with other British spook agencies, running the distribution of drugs in Irish communities in a catch 22 network of total control in a vicious society of fear and drug wars.
Alongside all of this, currently they have set up vigilantes, under the cover of a republican veneer, who have been kneecapping children by appointment with their parents. The British paramilitary police the PSNI deliver the notices and the vigilantes do the kneecapping by appointment. Meanwhile the British paramilitary police turn a blind eye, fully aware of the identity of the punishment squads. British spook rule in Occupied Ireland is rotten with injustice to the core ,with other British spook agencies, running the distribution of drugs in Irish communities in a catch 22 network of total control in a vicious society of fear and drug wars.
INVITATION TO THE LAUNCH OF THE REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON ALLEGED COLLUSION IN SECTARIAN KILLINGS IN NORTHERN IRELAND . . .
Irish Times/ireland.com, 6 November 2006: Garda Castigated In Report On North Collusion
Irish American Information Service online, 6 November 2006: RUC APPROVED AND COLLUDED IN 25 MURDERS - REPORT
2006-11-06 11:53:00.0 EST
2006-11-06 11:53:00.0 EST
BBC News online, 6 November 2006: Security 'Links' To Murder Plots
Ulster Television News online, 6 November 2006: US academic shocked by report's findings
Belfast Telegraph, 7 November 2006 Collusion: PSNI team 'not capable of getting to truth' Orde defends cold case team after international criticism
Irish Independent, 7 November 2006: Inquiry 'shocked' at RUC collusion
The Irish Daily Mirror, 7 November 2006: Shock report alleges high-level collusionOfficials 'had information on 25 atrocities' RUC & Army 'helped loyalists carry out. . 74 MURDERS
The Irish Daily Mirror, 7 November 2006: So many victims
The Irish Examiner, 7 November 2006: Evidence found of British collusion in bombings
The Guardian, 7 November 2006: RUC and army 'backed killers'
The Irish-American Information Service, 7 November 2006: PRESSURE ON BRITISH TO INVESTIGATE COLLUSION EVIDENCE
The Irish News, 7 November 2006: Questions haunt probe into loyalist collusion.
The Dundalk Democrat, 15 November 2006:'We just want the truth' New investigation into 1975 bombing
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Thursday, 26 July 2012
YANKEE DOODLE TO WHIP LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS INTO SHAPE
Yankee Doodle came to town
A-riding on a pony
A feather in Mitt's Presidential hat
Calling Olympic Brit baloney.
Y
Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the radioactive Olympic site
The Old boys and the brandy.
Mitt Romney came to London Town
Olympic expert of Salt Lake city
Looked at the British army there
Declared Olympic security shitty
Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the radioactive Olympic site
The Old boys and the brandy.
There was Mrs. Mitt Washington
Upon a slapping stallion
A-giving orders to British men
I guess there was a million.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the radioactive Olympic site
The Old boys and the brandy.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney questions British on the Olympic Games during a visit to London, questioned on whether Britain was up to the task, said it was hard to know 'just how well it ...will turn out' The Indian Prime minister also tweeted that athletes think their London accommodation is worse than the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. After less than two days in London, the American Presidential candidate questioned whether Britain had what it takes to host an Olympics.
He said there were 'disconcerting' signs about whether Britain can handle the event, and called into question the commitment of the British people.
Mr Romney with Foreign Secretary William Hague in London today further questioned whether Britain is ready to 'celebrate' the Games and says there were 'a few things that were disconcerting.' He further said that, 'There are a few things that were disconcerting, the stories about the private security firm not having enough people, supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials, that obviously is not something which is encouraging. Because in the Games, there are three parts that makes Games successful. Mr Romney is an expert on Olympic matters and was chief executive of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002 which he successfully managed.
Mr Romney said, 'Number one, of course, are the athletes. That’s what overwhelmingly the Games are about. Number two are the volunteers. And they’ll have great volunteers here.But number three are the people of the country. Do they come together and celebrate the Olympic moment? And that’s something which we only find out once the Games actually begin.' He met Mr Miliband the head of the Labour party who also criticized the Games amid concerns raised ever since private security firm G4S said it would have to provide thousands fewer staff than they originally promised.
Thousands of soldiers many of whom have just returned from Afghanistan to plug the gap. There are alsoproblems with Border Agency staff threatening to go on strike during the Games, although it was called off yesterday. There was chaos
During a meeting with Mr Miliband, Mr Romney was asked by the British media about Olympic security issues and the error over the North Korean team flag. He tried to be diplomatic by replying: 'It is impossible for absolutely no mistakes to occur.
'Of course there will be errors from time to time, but those are all overshadowed by the extraordinary demonstrations of courage, character and determination by the athletes.
Meanwhile Indian government minister Ajay Maken said on Twitter that his country's athletes think the Commonwealth Games in Delhi two years ago were better than the the London 2012 complex. Athletes are upset about toilet facilities which have been converted into sub-standard housing for over 16,000 athletes and officials from more than 200 countries. They also say up to six athletes are forced to use one filthy toilet in London, forcing some of them to change their training schedules. There are shocking pictures exposing the filthy state of London's bedrooms and bathroom. Many nations are complaining that facilities are not fit for human habitation with evidence of animals using the beds, wash basins, toilers and showers.
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