Saturday, 5 July 2025

The bombing of New Forge RUC rest centre in the South of Belfast

 In 1984-5 after an attempt to recruit me as an informer by the government harem (MI 5) agent, Jennifer Mc Curry,I decided to retaliate against the police who she enlisted to conduct open surveillance on my student lodgings.

I took an interest in Thatctcer's inflammatory rhetoric to the effect that "there must be no hiding place for terrorists in the Irish Republic or anywhere else".

I decided to reciprocate RUC harassment with an attack on their vehicles outside my lodgings. I communicated this plan to Dave Mc Auley of Lower Falls Sinn Fein.

In the event,no such operation went ahead but Newry was mortared after the end of surveillance by liveried RUC landrovers. Nine police officers were reported dead.

Near where the MI 5 hooker lived was the rest centre for the police force.

I suggested that we bring a mortar up the Lagan Canal towpath on a trolley and fire it into the New Forge building.

I cannot remember if this attack went ahead.

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In my final briefings I told Jim Wray to either bomb or mortar the New Forge building.

 As I recall the building was attacked and serious damage was caused.

I recall that my bon MOT, possibly carried in An Phoblacht was that " Briefings there should be no resting place for terrorists."

Lurgan,the killing of police detectives

 In my briefings either in 1987 to Michael Mc Manus or in my final briefings, perhaps even earlier to Manus Maguire,the double agent,I mentioned or wrote down the prevalence of jogging by police detectives as a means of patrolling and surveillance.

The police were indeed very foolhardy and naive because their behaviour formed part of a consistent pattern. 

In my conversations with other IRA members I decided to kill two police joggers in retaliation for the killing of a member of the INLA outside the police station in Lurgan or Portadown. That volunteer was called Marshall. He was shot outside the police station and there were accusations of police collusion with his loyalist killers. Loyalist gangs were established by RUC Special Branch and British Army Military Intelligence to combat the republican insurrection.

Two policemen were subsequently killed in either Portadown or Lurgan as they conducted surveillance on those walking behind them. I pointed out in my briefings to Jim Wray, having carefully studied the subject,that surveillance can be conducted from in front of the intended target.

In the killings,the IRA members dressed as women.

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

The grenade and rocket attacks on the Falls Road

 After he stepped down from the IRA I maintained some contact with Michael Mc Manus of CIRA/Republican Sinn Fein and met him frequently over the summer of 1987 after the Loughgall Ambush.

I maintained my posture against the RUC ignoring the threat posed by British Army thugs.

It was Michael Mc Manus who communicated to me in February 1983 that I was the new Director of Operations (Northern Command) "whether you like it or not". There were no other witnesses to my appointment as D.O. (N.C.) who I know since Michael Mc Manus is dead and I do not know who appointed me to that role.

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During the summer of 1987, accurate memory fails me,I briefed Mick on killing yet more RUC members.

I said to him that the Makrolon cladding on police Land rover would withstand  a Rocket Propelled Grenade but that a rocket propelled grenade would penetrate the steel tailgates of same.

I was determined on the cold-blooded killing of policemen and suggested a follow-up operation of throwing a grenade into the back of a police land rover.

I anticipated the police would leave their tailgates open after the first attack.

These brutal and barbaric attacks cost seven policemen their lives.

This is what comes of mixing with dangerous people -DEATH.

The Bomb at Killeen

 In the 1980's I rose high in the ranks of the Northern IRA after sound academic achievements and a schooling in German industrial organisation.

During my briefings with Michael Mc Manus in the early 1980's I counselled concentrating our efforts on the police.

In my tactical guidelines,the killing of policemen and the bombing of their installations was my priority.

One of these intelligence-based targets was the crossing point on the North-South border at Killeen.

I specified to Mick my tactic of a huge bomb in a hay trailer to exploit the element of subterfuge and completely wiping out our RUC targets.

A huge bomb exploded at Killeen as per my instructions and three policemen and a young policewoman were killed.

The trap was a brutal and barbaric killing by people who it has been shown abandon those who they lured into involvement with the IRA.

Those people were bought by money and overpowered by political blarney which claimed many lives after the end of the conflict.

Many adherents of the IRA were sent to prison and places of confinement by Sinn Fein headmen styling themselves politicians in the years following the final ceasefire.

Many of their followers were described as schizoaffective by virtue of listening to silly nonsense such as the Adams lectures and taking seriously Martin Mc Guinness's baloney in the Green Book.

Saturday, 31 May 2025

The killing of Gillian Johnston

 Between 1981 and August 1988,I endeavoured to gather details of RUC, British Army and UDR men's vehicles, marque, colour, manufacturer and type.

One of those vehicles was that driven by Gillian Johnston who was an ancillary worker in Lisnaskea Police Station.

It was as I recall a M.1 Vauxhall Astra,light blue.

The registration was FIB 525.

In most instances, my operational intelligence notes were thrown in the fire by disinterested Provos and I was told that "things aren't done that way".

In the summer of 1987,I passed on out-of-date information to Kathleen Gleeson in her house and told her that she should check the details first before acting.

I suggested her sister might know more about the police than I did. Indeed,in 1983 I had suggested to the Director of Intelligence in the county that we use traditional republican agents from strong republican families and new, unknown recruits to form intelligence units.

Gillian Johnston was ambushed on her way home to Garrison and killed. Gleeson either did not check the identity of the driver of the vehicle or wanted to kill a woman and make her the innocent victim of an armed attack.

Gillian Johnston left behind a heartbroken mother and a gravely traumatised boyfriend and grieving family circle.

This is what comes of high blown rhetoric in dirtrags like An Phoblacht and talk of armed struggle and wars of (national) liberation from demented penmen such as Danny Morrison and Gerry Adams.

My advice is,"Go and jump in Belfast Lough. You are both only tramps with tramps' tongues recruited from the dole queue by the Irish Army and vigilantees."

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In my briefing to Pat Doherty,the Director of Operations in August 1988,I recommended the standing down of the South Donegal/North Fermanagh unit of the IRA (and the reconstruction of the South Fermanagh/South Leitrim Command of the IRA according to standard military lines).

Friday, 30 May 2025

The downing of helicopters...."X" marks the spot.. Final orders

 In the period before Michael Mc Manus left the IRA in September 1983 to form the Continuity IRA,he imparted to myself the use of machine guns to bring down British Army helicopters.

This tactic involved positioning two machine guns on high ground several  hundred yards apart and firing at helicopters as they tried to escape rapid-fire,belt-fed machine guns.

This tactic was used in South Armagh in 1978 and brought down a British Army helicopter.

The tactic,best summed up as a curtain of fire,I revived in August 1988.

The instruction was passed on to GHQ.

Reports vary about the success of the tactic subsequently but one report indicates that six or seven helicopters were brought down by the IRA in the whole course of the Troubles.

I only recently became aware of the downing of a helicopter at Garrison,County Fermanagh.

Monday, 6 February 2023

The killing of Frank Hegarty...

 ...I knew nothing about the killing of  Hegarty until I read of his tragic death.

In the following year,I tried to move the goalposts by ordering that noone who had betrayed less than 150 rifles should be executed.

Perhaps,I am nearly certain that I was,I was responsible for "morally-justified" "misleading reassurances" to lure an informer back from a place of safety for execution (the Security Operations Handbook which I handed over to that witless judge, Kathleen Gleeson in August 1987,Manus Maguire having already made photocopies in 1985).

I had included that tactic in 'Lures and Snares' i.e.operational tactics of the Security Unit,set up after and inspired by the 'informer crisis' of 1981-3. The S.O.H. was written during 1985-6.

Sunday, 5 February 2023

Fiction factory. That foolish prat..."the war on three fronts..."

 I kid you not....the author of this nonsense?....a penniless penman of Irish International Press down on the quays of Dublin,Ed Moloney,by way of a sh..head called Michael Collins of the Sunday Press and,now,the Irish Times and another haelion called Gene Kerrigan.... originating with nationalist Walter Mittys in Ballymun and Belfast dreaming of a revival of a Gaelic Ireland....Moloney and Gene Kerrigan being the propagators of this Irish Romantic prosy...as with all gossip it originated with declassed elements and was instantly recognisable as West Coast American hyperbole in the Irish-American style...

Does anyone pay any attention to this morphine-induced madness?

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"What in hell's name were this unemployable trio of Kerrigan,Moloney and Mc Cann talking about....?!?!?!"

Thankfully,as even Alf Mc Carthy could discern (after Tommy Clancy),each volunteer could nonchalantly repeat to himself after a sojourn on "the front",

"Alas,the only harm I ever done,twas to nought but myself...."

Or, JOURNALISTS ARE WELL KNOWN FOR ALCOHOLISM...

And,as Francie Teague said,"Paper won't refuse ink...". An old country wisdom from a clever if noxious farmer who understood well the importance of peace,democratic mandates for republicanism and political representation and keeping your mouth shut about your personal business when it involves money....

Friday, 3 February 2023

"The worst sort of bast...who you will ever meet is ...

 ".....one of your own kind or someone who you have something in common with... a soldier,other journalist,writer, lawyer, policeman or social worker or professional person.... most Irish people's mortal foes are family members, politicians not excepted.. That's what O Riordain was trying to say to you in an indirect way and that you had to leave St Teresa's Gardens because it was full of drugs,some of which was finding its way into your drinking water along with washing up liquid and other substances. I know who put it there because he was in the Irish Army but I can't tell you because he would have me court martialed. The only thing any decent soldier wants to do us get out of the army as soon as possible because of the things they get up to and are asked to do " (My brother-in-law).

This message was the but de geste, of 'The Judgement' of O Riordain on 23 December 1991. His "dressing down" prior to announcing me as his successor was his reply to my piece of rhodomontade (Der 'Spielplan') of July -August 1988.

My monologue was audio- recorded by American Military Intelligence and retailed by the Department of Foreign Affairs on Saint Stephen's Green beside Smurfit Paribas 'merchant' bank for IR£500-600m. In association with Jim Crean,political figures had already formed a criminal syndicate of 'well-heeled' spoofers and other social parasites such as IRA moneylenders,Sinn Fein cornerboys,fly-by-night financial speculators and Italian economic analysts.

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8.3.2023

The Lenihan-Haughey gang fell out over how to "divvy up the spoils of the enterprise", namely publishing my 'play' to the US Government. Lenihan sent the FCA Hayes gang to kill me at Team Aer Lingus on 26.11.1990 in association with a joinery firm from Newry,one of whom was killed by the IRA on my part. A good little Belfast woman saw to that cutthroat,using a well-known double agent. She and I earlier "wrapped up our tent and headed for the hills" ( Der Spielplan, July-August 1988,Dublin). My tent was long ready to 'move a little further down the line' but was never truly packed away until Ms. Berniece Swift,the CIA spy, appeared in Northern revolutionary  circles. She never had a 'tent' to call her own,none of any note anyway.

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A Dublin "ending"

"The IRA were his friends...no,you have no friends in politics... He got out of politics in the end..."(Michael O Riordain,"Cam is casta"/'Bent and twisted',The Judgement,23 December 1991,public house on corner of Upper Clanbrassil Street/South Circular Road,Dublin 8). 

A 'Judgement' on me and mine from this convert to Judaism?

That was O Riordain's message. It was laden with pious phrases and noxious nostrums, some of them mentioned above, which he was trying to impart,the whole point to his lengthy forty-minute valedictory.

Monday, 19 December 2022

Two Belfast Provo-isms and some great truths learned from contemporaries and the BBC

 "If you feel instinctively that a judge or jury is against you from the outset of a case,it is because your solicitor or barrister has tipped them off before the case commenced that you were either a dubious sort of person or of bad character...."

To which the reply is,"If you call a spade a spade,you should be made to use one."

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"If psychiatric measures are invoked against you,it is because your family and a relative want to regulate your behaviour or access to means of communication...."

Not so,in our times with consciousness-altering drugs openly on sale without prescription,you have fallen into a trap and been poisoned by a police agent for MI 5 or the American Government. Those people are two-a-penny since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The East German police were the only people who knew their old female 'tricks' learned from the Middle Ages.

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Some great truths:

Firstly,if Protestants want to be properly treated by Catholics,they should vote for the Official Unionists and not the DUP or armed gangs regardless of where they reside.

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Secondly,if Catholics want to be properly treated by the British Government,they should vote Sinn Fein in the Westminster and Stormont Assembly elections unless they are indebted to a political representative by virtue of long-standing personal and family links, particularly so if that representative believes in human rights and the prosecution of British soldiers and armed criminals.

Dissident republicans? Vigilantees?

 The CIRA are only an armed gang at this stage of history as are the INLA. Both gangs are active participants in the drugs trade and the suborning of false witnesses to undermine the rule of law and to disrupt the court system..

The Catholic Church will always be a champion of the poor and misbegotten....

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If you want to get anything done in the North of Ireland,you have to go to the Orange Order because they run the North....

In England and Scotland,if you want to get anything done,you have to go to a tradesman or businessman. They run those countries.

In the South,if you want to get anything done,you have to go to a politician. They run the South...

In the US and Canada,if you want to get anything done, you must approach a member of the intelligentsia,be they journalists or teachers or medical profession...

Sunday, 11 December 2022

"Anyone who voted for Sinn Fein candidates after...

 "...May 1981 or gave them money for their activities was living in Dreamland or enchanted by stories of a past long gone and hadn't their head properly screwed on at all. They're only a nuisance and most of the Provos are no different.."

Today,some naive fools think that Sinn Fein's  and the IRA's ringleaders and their fellow travellers of the past can be rescued from prescient obscurity and peace be enthroned for ever.

Sadly, history moves ever onward and the former leaders both groups are doomed to obscurity by media fiat and changing social conditions and the economic facts of life.

Why,so?

The only constant is change. Time and life move ever onward and leave burning wrecks behind. In England,the Liberal Democrats were the first to be tried in the heat of internal wrangling and now it is the Conservative rich-boys who have torn their party to shreds. In the 1980's, Labour tore itself to shreds until the NEC expelled the Trotskyites around the Liverpool pamphleteers.






Thursday, 24 November 2022

Briefings April to August 1987. A real 'military' man, Michael Mc Manus. The turn back to landmines

 The turn back to landmines cost about 16 policemen their lives. That and other suggestions I made to Michael Mc Manus during the summer of 1987 with a view to killing more policemen.

Even though I had been caught up in the snares of academic spies who combined learned discourses about nothing in particular with intimidation and harassment and general annoyance,the Three Steps to (Police) Heaven,I had not lost my rank of No.3 in the IRA pecking order, responsible for the day-to-day running of the IRA and carrying out the instructions of the Standing Orders with certain personal modifications. I never,or rarely, discuss the latter,suffice it to say many people who were given up as dead are still alive,no thanks to me and half-baked eejits like me.  Likewise, my absence in England had not undermined my standing since most IRA men are not very suspicious or overwrought by taking tangental "evidence" into account. I tried to get them to do so between 1983 and 1986. My Security Operations Handbook and Intelligence Operations Handbook were soon discarded and in 2002 all copies were destroyed by the FBI agent, Kathleen Gleeson,and the MI 5 agents Jim Gibney and Manus Maguire.

While suspected of complicity in a minor breach of Standing Orders,Michael Mc Manus passed on only names and addresses to the police as did my female cousin,Ann Reihill.

Mick passed on my instructions to an individual who was known as Pat "Ward".

As an uneducated man,Mick Mc Manus was a willing tool of the CIA's Bernard O Connor who now finds himself in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan to escape police surveillance and MI 5 measures.

Sadly,the legacy of the IRA in Northern Ireland is one of death and ruin of many young people and their families and the collapse of the working life. With that has arrived a super-annuated class of social parasites festering on the British Welfare State.

Basta,stay in the South where you belong,O Connor.

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The alternating use of grenades and rocket propelled grenades after this period of military dialogues cost seven more policemen their lives.

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I suggested to Michael Mc Manus a schema to get rid of the INLA,ta gang of drug pushers,pimps, criminals and cutthroats.

I reckoned that to clear the decks of opponents we should identify two factions and nurture them with different stories (or 'leads') and play them off against one another.

I was merely fleshing out the core of Adams' speeches to the effect that 'the INLA should disband'.

My briefings cost twelve to thirteen INLA and IPLO militants their lives as they played out violent armed confrontations on the streets of Belfast in the months following my briefings in the spring/summer/autumn of 1987.

Republican socialism was thereafter a broken reed,thanks to my interventions through Mick Mc Manus and the IRA.



Joseph Paul Mc Carroll LL B ( Hons) (QUB)

Friday, 18 November 2022

Vainglorious boasting in July-August 1988. The pornography of violence...

 ...In the 'play'of 1988,I charted a twisted and bent path for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe which has revived long-forgotten antagonisms, but why?

Why was I so bold in my 'prophetic' utterances?

It was clear that the Russians, particularly Gorbachev,had "swallowed Western propaganda hook,line and sinker" and been enchanted by sweet pleasantries from "a bottled blond" (Der Spielplan,July-August 1988).The eventual outcome of my timely intervention was that the Americans very quickly realised that I was no friend of theirs. Even the FSB and SVR realised,they and the Chinese and British,that I was a true friend but one  whose audacity brought about not only far-reaching but temporary and transient developments.

In July-August 1988,finding my way cautiously but precipitously through a fog of ideas,I claimed adroitly that,for my own part,"I feel like the German captain who got into the grain elevator at Stalingrad and declared Germany had won the war".That was the theme taken up by a Japanese halfwit who put pen to paper and wrote fanciful prose titled The End of History.

 Little did my Communist or republican friends and 'enemies'  know that I am a democrat but see only too well the incongruities and bizarre outcomes it brings.

A king has no need of either republicans or Communists of any stripe. Get lost,I now say to both sets of calling-birds. I say so because Communists and republicans have nothing to show for their activities except death and destruction. The same goes for all armed gangs set up by the US Government and Stalin regardless of how they categorise myself or other people.


Sunday, 30 October 2022

"I met with Death upon the way,He had a face like Castlereagh..."

 The Home Office Secretary of the British Government who took his own life,evidently caught up in pre-Royal Irish Constabulary days in his own 'wicked designs' of power and wealth was one of those modern spiders who "get ensnared in their own web". He, Castlereagh, was THE MAIN ARCHITECT OF THE ACT OF UNION.

Let us not forget with thousands of deaths behind us where unionist intransigence and Sinn Fein moral blackmail has placed so many well-meaning but naive people i.e. in a conundrum which can only be resolved by more death or self-immolation.

A bas la mort,as humanists always say in France. British cinematographers and screenwriters talk of 'Live another Day'. That latter phrase of modern contrivance is based on the savvy soldier's riposte to Provo bravado,"He who fights and runs away,Lives to fight another day."

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9.7.2023

A British Government soldiering gangster will ask you for something which he does not intend to return whereas the Irish Government soldier or informer will offer to give it back which he rarely does. You will meet your main adversary around any town on a Thursday or Friday because that is when Jesus was being betrayed,never on a Wednesday because that is when preparations are being made to arrest or kill someone. Therefore,we say that all insensate people like Our Lord's disciples who did not see a plot being hatched are people who save their own necks by giving information to the authorities. In my instance,the people who gave evidence to the police being Joe Mc V. and Kevin Lunny and Sean Sheridan. 

Most of the Belfast Provos were set up by Peter Reid and priests from the Holy Cross Monastery in Ardoyne,North Belfast. All acted under the express orders of their respective bishops. That fact became clear when Cahal Daly ascended to the seat of Armagh and the rogue priest,Monsignor Faul began his calls for informers to 'get stuck into the Provisionals'. At that juncture,the Provos were having a measure of success in disciplining the psychopaths in their own ranks.

Phil Flanagan from Tallaght,real name Trevor Mc Manus,he changed his name by deed poll or it was changed for him like that ol' stray who was adopted by Canon Day when he was parish priest in Raphoe,must enter the medical profession or Army in some jurisdiction to hide the shame of not bearing their real father's name.

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"But peace comes dripping slow' (Yeats)

....the Irish countryman's Death,as mentioned,is a mortgage on his land or a court order for the sequestration of his assets in lieu of gambling debts and his second Death is meeting an informer or beggar along the way to court with "a face like a month of wet Sundays".

Thursday, 25 August 2022

Slattery's mounted foot. The March on Rome. Mussolini and the police rebellion...

Men in tall hats?

There were only 44 of these fascists but with the open co-operation of the Vatican, particularly groups of cutthroats such as Catholic Action,their activities eventually cost 55 million lives...

Let that be a warning to those who fall into the fatal embrace of either false prophets such as French Protestants who preach the same sort of race hatred or Italian Catholics. That is called 'the grip of the death-watch beetle'. Go to a war cemetery to see where mixtures of politics and religion lead as a Protestant anti-Paisleyite always points out...

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The people in question -the Italians 

While many Italians are good at mathematics and equations, something which they learnt from the Greeks,they do not like to hear one number,432,either written 432 B.C. or 432 A.D. one date being when the Gauls sacked Rome,the other being when the Visigoths and Huns attacked and looted Rome...

Me, personally?

 I believe that races and peoples,the Irish since 1882 and the Jews since 1888,are returning to their point and place of origin. There may be as many points to the compass as you choose but there are,for me, only two political hemispheres, not three as dialecticians claim,namely capitalist or socialist, democratic or authoritarian. The Italians and Germans are born authoritarians because they prefer noise to silence ('la dolce vita'). The Irish and Cockneys apart from the Cistercian priest,are born democrats because they like  the gaggle of geese in the market place. Gan bruscar ar fad,mar a deirfear....

Sunday, 21 August 2022

Full spectrum dominance. Isolation tactics by police and informers and the agents of the police

All seasoned radicals know that the police, businessmen, doctors,lawyers and politicians of the unionist and nationalist type set out to Slander,Defame and Kill.

We count Tony Blair,Haughey,Ahern and Paisley and Manley and Cody amongst those behemoths of state repression, people no different In their bizarre rationale than Hitler.

In London and Dublin,and later in Enniskillen,I  experienced the isolation tactics of the resident gendarmerie and their agents in armed gangs such as the IRA, gougers, UDA,UDR, British Army and UVF and the George Cross Association.

These tactics are referred to by spies as "damage limitation exercises "  to the excitement of radical politics and they are preliminaries to eviction and forced removal. 

The activities in question were undertaken to cover up the public culpability of some nationalist lawyers and the preachers of political violence and sectarian murder. Their agents in the police acted under the auspices of public safety mechanisms which were administered by the local district council. (Where the housing is private or largely private,this activity is undertaken by the housing landlord).

In Dublin the police and judges dredged up the offal of society to engineer a crisis in the locality. They were assisted by every vigilantee and prospective beneficiary of public funds in the immediate vicinity.

These  police tactics,wherever they are deployed, amount to inhuman and degrading treatment and often lead on to cruel and unusual punishment.

The Gardai practice this malevolence when their powers are invoked by concerned citizens,local vigilantees and petty criminals on the take from the police. The Dublin IRA are past masters of getting the better of these commercial agents,criminals and greedy landlords, exploiters and moneylenders and,of necessity,their protection is often invoked in the Free State prison nation.

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Bringing it all back home. Garda elements in the Dublin street scenes

The 57 varieties of scum are recruited by political parties under the supervision of their local representatives. The repulsive self-styled "models" of this belle epoque are the women who modelled on hospital sofas for doctors and nurses.(Vulnerable women and  women who have accepted money for sexual favours join the political 'trade' from the 'sex trade' to 'get the vote out'. If their favoured audience doesn't vote for their preferred candidate,they endeavour to evict him. That is an old urban bailiffs' and political hawkers tactic.)

Collins, Griffith and Ahern mobilised the urban poor against those wise to the drunkenness, ignorance, sloth, poverty and idleness which nationalist politicians and their country supporters thrive on.

Preliminaries consist of practised in-house MI 5 and Home Office parlance. This domestic repartee of the police headmen happens when they visit you because they will visit you if they are interested in recruitment as copper or copper's nark.

An MI 5 informer's sly innuendo is followed by open denunciation to police or worse again, vigilantees. That ruse leads on to a brazen confrontation if you invoke the assistance of the drunken arsehole who you voted for. 

From him?

The blatant lie,"You don't vote for us anyway...!?!" 

And that,reader,is when you realise,"It's a rat-trap and you've been conned".

I ndeireadh na dala you will find that the whole "operation " was ultimately controlled by the Dublin police who Colm 'Murphy' ('Bryce',real name Brimstone), Seamus Treanor or Tony Gregory had denounced you to.

Then?

EXIT, POLITICIANS,STAGE LEFT,ENTER POLICE, STAGE RIGHT.

Contrary to street commentary, the source of the problem "is not all local" . The police and the alternative,the keepers of the flame are like "the seven devils [Pharisees] who travel across land and sea to make one convert".

The main 'player'? The MI 5 -types?

 The unwanted hashed-up house-visitor says, "The book must be fulfilled" to anyone foolish enough to offer him solace.

The country player? The small farmer? The political sponsor?

 The gombeen buys the farmer's vote for a drink and sets him in motion against the townie and the rental landlord's role is played out against a background of loud noise and police discord.

The outcome? Discovery?

You will see the main culprit in a little blue or grey car before and after the offending behaviour. That 'player' is usually a dwarf or a fat-arsed little lady of leisure anxious to get her hands on what is yours by law. I am referring to people such as Berniece Swift and Anne Marie Gleeson.

Tuesday, 9 August 2022

Yesterdays...

 ...I wonder in amazement at myself sometimes regarding my brazen audacity of the 1980's.

One thing was as clear then as it is now-there could be no compromise with Thatcher.

When I look at the dog-ends of society recruited by the IRA to fight the English,full of cheap Dublin pisswater and nationalist venom,I ask myself why I took such risks with my life and sowed such discord in my family. The answer is as all those who become involved in armed groups realise, youthful naivete.

One thing the police got right was that those people would do anything for money. Behind drunken Dublin bards,nestled vipers and corner-boys,the sweepings of the gutter. I am thinking,today, of Joe Mallon who raped Mairead Mc Conville before he had her killed.

Knowing these things would enlighten a generation as to what they are actually voting for when they vote Sinn Fein or endorse street-crawlers and door-bangers. A knowledgeable Provo is a disenchanted Provo such as myself.

Thursday, 28 July 2022

L'entrainement de rue. Les jeus de France

 La theatre!

La repond du jour?

Ils sont les miserables,les enrages et les enchaines...

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Le but des jeudesses? Les avventures de cheminie?

"C'est une aide. Les jeus de l'eglise,l'un ou l'autre."

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O 'Riordain?

"It (surveillance) can be a help...no,the police stop soldiers fighting...he got it right in the end [after I approached the Gardai in Kevin Street about Provo thuggery organised by Mickie Morgan,Mc Evoy,O Brien and Cahill of the Dublin IRA counter-revolutionary gang of thieves,pimps and criminals]..he thought he had a new way of dealing with 'it'... He had to learn to keep his views to himself ..if you're not afraid of anyone they kill you...when you live amongst criminals,you become like a criminal. That is the new [ leader of the Communist Party of Ireland]...no he got out of politics in the end and married my daughter,my real daughter that is... I owed him money...he was scrupulously honest and well-known for it ...."( Michael O Riordain,The Judgement,23 December 1991, Dublin)

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Or,alternatively,

"Obey your father and give ear to your mother's advice." ( Proverbs,O.T.)

And,

"Do as the doctor says!" ( My mother)

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The U.S. President Truman, alternatively," If you're not going to piss,get off the pot!"

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Or,"That's just idle gossip or women looking for a man who follow them around hoping to get them infatuated with them so that they can get a ring from them. Marriage is soon going to be a thing of the past." (Brian Mc Cartney).

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27.12.2024

Is street scenography a "help"?

An old man's wise remarks

"Do not kid yourself about street crawlers or the riff-raff deployed by the police and Army on either side of the border to harass people and keep them under watch,they wouldn't stop to help anyone in difficulty or stop someone being beaten up by armed thugs. You saw that in Dublin with the Whites and the Neighbourhood Watch and the Dowdalls were nowhere to be seen. They were part of it like all Provos and criminals. Only a British soldier helps anyone in that situation and that's why the British Army will eventually come out on top of gangs like the  Provos because they're more tolerant of their opponents. It might have something to do with religion,I don't know. James Josie Lynch and Fergal Connolly gave the orders that you were to be beaten up...Morgan had nothing to do with it,either him or O Connor like Connolly told Pat Doherty or Greg Shine told you... Greg Shine worked for your enemies,British Military Intelligence.Let that be a lesson to you about going down to Dublin without being properly prepared or telling your true friends like your cousin Gerry or Hugh Pat Prunty,not any of his sons.Eaman Carey is only a bollocks who doesn't know what he is talking about and everybody gets fed up with people who do nothing but talk... He is responsible for most of Sean Lynch's and Owen Carron's big talk. Manus Maguire told you to stay well away from all of them, particularly the Belfast IRA,so don't let me hear tell of you associating with them again. Someone in your situation would be well advised not to vote because it only encourages them. You can get any help you need elsewhere if you have a bit of manners with other people and respect for women. Jimmy Gleeson doesn't want you calling again. He wanted to turn you into a gunman like he turned his son into. That's where fireside chat gets you and idle talk in pubs and drinking establishments. Kevin Gleeson shot Abercrombie and told the whole story to your brother because he wanted to recruit him into the IRA. Dee has more wit than to listen to old nonsense like that coming from Curran's or Mc Govern's pub. He goes to Frank's. Manus Maguire learned his lesson well. Neither him nor the Maguires want anything to do with the whole cursed lot of them and their old street crawlers. Your mother will tell you more when I am gone because some of it is current news. People like the Lynchs and the Maguires are dogs for news and information because that's how politics works,not books and newspapers..."

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"Where do you get that old nonsense from anyway,squire. Can you not see L. set you up,him and the people in Maghaberry who you're sending books to, people who you call your real friends. If you don't stop sending books to them, you'll end up there too,or somewhere else even worse like a hospital or prison in England. Do you not know that your letters are being read for evidence of leanings towards dissident republicans. The Provos know only too well that the game is up for themselves and others and they'll just have to accept what few crumbs of comfort they're given by the British Government.

"Where do you get that old nonsense from anyway that the British Army are your friends after what you have said and done. No British soldier would help you or anyone else who carried a gun in this country. Stop going to pubs until you learn how to handle yourself better. Put what happened in Dublin behind you."

Sunday, 24 July 2022

Hunger and dirt. Dublin 1988-1992. "Out as often as you like on a Sunday!"

" Out as often as you like!"

Soldiers 'games'? House arrest? Nos?

Gangsters and thugs,most soldiers particularly the English types-the Germans are no different- whose threats and insults must be taken seriously and,if necessary, met with armed force when that response is properly justified by international law and ordinary sense. The English, Irish and German bandits were met by armed force wherever they put their foot. 

Similarly,the U. S. must be challenged by the torch-bearers of civilisation, modernisation and basic moral and human values. Eastern overtures of peace have been spurned and the hand of peace rejected. The path of compromise has not been followed.

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Why my interest in house arrest and the activities of the 'gangster elite' of Irish Army, Irish Prison Service and Gardai?

Because the Great Satan,the U. S.,is behind Western political policing. It follows the tactic which it learned from the Catholic Church and Italian cutthroats' ghettoisation of the Jews in the Venetian Republic.

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Political "intervention" (Charlie Mc Clintock)

The murderous,insentient madmen in politics who give Army thugs succour and lend support to their dirty work outside the US are not welcome in any normal company.

 Most American and British politicians are receiving money from private businessmen and,in England,financial conglomerates.

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"Go out as often as you want!",a Dublin street-caller shouted in 1991-2 when I was under house 'arrest' by armed gangs. 

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Tell a legal practitioner,wherever you are in the world. 

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"Do not go lightly into that dark night," as Dylan Thomas wrote in Michael D. Higgins recitation to the Irish Labour Party conference in 1990.


Wednesday, 18 May 2022

Obstacles to social justice in Ireland.

A witless sort of person in Ireland always has a sheaf of objections to the status quo but inevitably ends up by supporting the very politicians whose party he should vehemently oppose.

We say of that type of fool,that he is suffering from a schizoaffective disorder though the proposition is used so frequently that it is entirely meaningless,these days.

......sometimes he-it is always a man or male youth,never a woman,they have their heads well screwed-on in political terms-attracts a good guide, perhaps a Church scholar or a clergyman. More often,a member of their own family steps forward to help that hapless individual. A countryman will always put you in the picture about another countryman.

Due to the recent insurgency which has engendered country blinds and double blinds,the latter role may be filled by a person who has been in a similar or worse position and one who keeps his cards very close to his chest. That latter person says very little in public. 

One a 'talker', the other someone who gets things done. One a slow learner;the other,a diplomat. Those two types rely on one another in legal situations where subjects of mutual interest concerning  mental acuity are at issue,the lesser of the pair being a naif. He is 'a gamey chick' who feeds the other vital information.

The 'media' response? Obstacles to Catholics in the North of Ireland?

The Orange Order was set up to break down the ties of family, kinship and home, not forgetting the main obstacle in reaction's path,the Catholic Church and the education system. 

The RUC/PSNI? 

An even bigger hurdle for nationalists. Is there any outside help?

Most Sinn Fein politicians claim not to see or know of the dangerous side of the police.

 The police are the people who put the Orange Order and its opponents,the GAA,up to their antics on the streets of our towns and cities across Ireland. They operate street parades through the CID Operations Room in the local police station.

The police and army wherever you find them try to play one type of person or class off against another so that they come out on top.

 In Northern Ireland,the police have lost sight of the reason a police force exists. That fact is due to the pressure exerted from London and the US Department of State.

Minor politicians join in a chorus of support for perpetual chaos and support for crime crackdowns is led by local worthies such as Protestant clergymen and various literati.

The result? Here?

The final place of confiement.

Health service policing of protest and of ordinary people going about their lawful business.

Monday, 16 May 2022

Peter Sutherland and his estate?Michael Mc Dowell? Debtors!

 Old bollocks who talked a lot of made-up legal jargon and political piffle. Their antagonism and anger was directed at the poor and those who criticise them as superannuated old bores with no proper education in law. Judges upbraid these fools as wafflers and ambitious charlatans.

 Southern.lawyers have no concern for facts or the elementary laws of a constitutional democracy.

These people are bitter Irish Tories apart from Chief Justice Catherine Mc Guinness and my Southern legal representative, Justice Garrett Sheehan.

And money owed to me under Irish contract law for work performed by myself and marketed by Sinn Fein?

Direct any euro payments to the latter's office,Adams. You owe me money... you,Rory Quinn and Eugene Mc Cartan of the Connolly Media Group.

The total, according to a neutral party,the British Labour Party,£37.74 millions.

 AND,Adams,my Svengali friend, NOT A PENNY LESS.

You are serial offenders against many of those young men and women whom you enlisted,tried to pimp and did not pay.

Adams,in the eyes of trained men,you were the legitimate target we all wanted to kill over thirty years ago. You and Sinn Fein did nothing except give orders and embezzle OUR wages. You were told to get lost and go away so why do you still appear in public to annoy and antagonise those of us who despise you and your scrawny-necked hangmen? 

You come to people's doors at election time uninvited. You are not welcome amongst  Irish Catholics or former militants in the armed struggle. The latter you betrayed. You told your fellow hangmen to scorn them when they needed assistance from the threats, intimidation and harassment of the Free State Government when you were embarking on your All-for-Ireland international partying.





Joseph Paul Mc Carroll LL B (Hons.) (QUB)

Sunday, 9 January 2022

Criminals

 The only thing a thief understands is a gun or a baton or a sledgehammer or hook.

Friday, 10 December 2021

The South is full of it!

....greed and gluttony and.....

....shite talked by journalists and politicians, worry and fright caused by the police and BLIND TERROR caused by the Army and the people who soldiers mix with i.e. criminals, refugees and asylum seekers and the rest of the poor.

Saturday, 13 November 2021

Exile in Dublin 1988-1992. The dual ménage-a-trois of North and South.

Best summed up by my mother as,"The Official IRA kept control on the Provos and British Army for you in the South and continued to do so after you left by dealing with the people they were extorting from and the Provisionals and British Army kept a tight grip on the people the Official IRA were extorting from in the North before you left because it is people who are being extorted from or rampantly exploited who do favours for other people such as hitting their principals' enemies with knuckle-dusters or attacking them with cut-throat razors ..."

Friday, 18 June 2021

MI 5 and CIA agents...

 ...and a few clever people in India and Asia and Britain and Germany are responsible for most of the damage done to the reputations and livelihoods of the Catholic intelligentsia in the state of Northern Ireland. 

But what is the nature of the well-educated draft dodger and female morphinee drawn to the CIA ? 

What do they hope to attain by way of results for their verbal exertions and petty intrigues with university professors and poisoners?

It is results of a very special kind,namely technical expertise or literary inspiration to fund US invention,film, television and music...

What,I hear you say,no guns and bombs?

No,no guns and bombs,just carefully -modulated advice to join the drugs milieu and the deployment of clever manipulation...

The violence comes later.

In contemplating the real face of America it must be remembered that both presidential parties of the US back and finance these people and those who they utilise as agents,criminals and undercover soldiers with knuckledusters and cutthroat razors, murderers. 

The Atlantic Alliance. Its outworkings in Northern Ireland 

For their part,the British Administration in Northern Ireland employ thuggee gangs on hospital wards to brutalise the Catholic intelligentsia.

Change

 The situation will continue until Indian, British,German and Asian doctors are sent back to where they came from.

How to deal with the government -sponsored hooliganism in our midst?

There is no exclusively national answer. Until the CIA and its sister organisations such as MI 5 and the FBI are dissolved and America is expelled from the UN,its diplomats arrested, its spy networks closed down,its presidents and functionaries made subject to international justice and criminal and civil liability for very serious crimes and breaches of international treaties, there  will be no international peace or real agreement on anything such as the disarmament of armies and  the neutering of aggressive civil bodies.

Only a fool believes otherwise and Ireland is full of country fools who believe in pious phrases about nothing in particular. Their counterparts are dossers who spend most of their life gossiping and talking on their telephones. 

Who are they talking to? 

The police.

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31.10.2022

Entryism

A technique learned from the medical profession has in my experience spread to the CIA. When one of their number or someone of that ilk  wants to destroy you and your family,he or she will always find some pretext for coming into your home... but help is at hand.

 Consult a good advocate and,in Northern Ireland,other than a wake, welcome a clergyman of your own faith community into your home no matter how ridiculous you find his claims about eternal life. The Church has lost a lot of its temporal authority. Make them welcome and ignore media criticism and false newspaper reports about the clergy in the mass media.

 Most clergymen's dealings with the public are fair and above board nowadays.















Joseph Paul Mc Carroll LL B (Hons.)

Thursday, 17 June 2021

The Mysterons. Communications blocking and interference. The Police State and the BBC. 'Blitzschnell.und raus'

Let me begin at the beginning,shall I,...

Calls can be rerouted to a call centre. There the ventriloquist's dummy answers the phone e.g. in Manchester, Liverpool or Glasgow. Someone who you barely know such as Deniece Crudden or Anita or Martina Mc Manus,Celene Fee,Imelda Mc Manus or Edna Latimer give out false information. In Miss Crudden's case,a Special Branch Chief Superintendent's, Jason Murphy's,telephone number was forwarded. Subsequently a call was diverted from an idiot politician. 

A call can be diverted to a meme in a solicitor's office in Enniskillen or a university tutor's number in Queen's University Faculty of Law or a call can simply be blocked.One recognises the distinctive tones of George Flanagan, Paddy Joe Manley,Pat Harte,Colm Bryce,Michael Ennis,Alex Hanrahan and the rest of the products of police breeding stations.

The digital audio link-up takes five sevenths seconds to kick in. The analogue pick-up of a landline telephone takes two minutes to activate. 

Related matters,radio broadcasts

This process of call interception is designed at sowing chaos and confusion as a preliminary to a physical attack or attacks,not least of all on the senses. The process is also directed at enabling nuisance broadcasts and nuisance radio stations to kick in and to dim good broadcasting,what Dylan Thomas called "THE DYING OF THE LIGHT". We say of the participants in these secret communications that their life is suffused in the occult.


13.11.2021

Saturdays

In the North of Ireland,communications interception is carried on by the Royal Air Force from RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Scranton or Massereene Army Barracks on a Saturday. 

Information is fed, ultimately,to street-crawling 'promoters' anxious to drum up trade for businesses on the brink of insolvency and that business failure is due to ignorant mistreatment of regular customers and trusted employees.

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26.12.2021

Voice coaches train impersonators. Social commentators and dog-fanciers supply the contents of the speaking engagement. 

Passwords to internet accounts 

The tomcat such as Gerry Mc Corry,Eugene Mc Cartan,Ben Chacko or Dave Pettifor attempt a ruse of requesting passwords for internet email addresses.

Others such as Mickey Hannigan of GCHQ chance their arm with a 'Trojan horse'. 

The OFMDFM go direct to the service provider and use savages with rundown, failing businesses to listen in. 

" It's all local..."

Most problems with communication interception originate with local shopkeepers, not the police. 

If that is the case,should we also say as Marlene Dietrich sings,"Tell me what the boys in the backroom are having,And tell them I'm having the same..."?

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12.1.2022

The police and military and the interception of communications 

This manoeuvring is undertaken by low-ranking police officers in the interests of what they zealously believe is isolation of a "target" and public justice.

The British Army?

The military sow doubt, fear, confusion, chaos and disillusionment with family members and the victim's favoured politicians.

 Ultimately,it is private telephone providers and British Telecom which filter calls to these telephone hoaxers.

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Where a lawyer is regarded as hostile or inimical to police and their selfish interests as an armed body of men,his calls are filtered too. A policeman's dummy answers the telephone. 

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In our times,it is the Northern Ireland Office which is ordering this surveillance system.

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 Where you are being detained in a psychiatric hospital,the ward manager, charge nurse or administrator monitors and intercepts telephone calls. If challenged,they will soon make their appearance with pleas for your understanding of their 'position'. Even in a psychiatric hospital ,there is an informer.

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20.1.2022

If an unpopular politician's calls are being monitored,it is usually with his permission. He or she has received a litany of threats. In these cases,the telephone will be slammed down or a non-commital or unintelligible response  given. If you are dealing with a lunatic such as Colm Gildernew,it is a case of not expecting anything from a pig but a grunt.

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4.5.2022

I am not moved to song or musical reminisce as I once was but do not the words of "Moody blue" come to mind,

"Can you tell me who I'm talking to?"

when talking about call interception by GCHQ sub-contractors. 

When we are trying to resolve to act we must act quickly because this telephone interference can lead to sudden and unexpected outcomes. 

A quick follow-up?

In 1916 in Dublin,the gangsters' molls threw night soil and rotten vegetables at the insurrectionists,regardless of what nationalist histories or tales of heroism or stories of devotion to 'Home and Faith and Freedom to the last' may tell or re-tell.

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16.5.2022

The type of the interlocutor?

Many of the British self-styled 'security consultants' and  call centre go-betweens and operators,I am thinking in particular of those in the style of the old Derry whore who I met at the September 1999 GAA County Final in the GAA clubhouse in Enniskillen are the types who should be tarred and feathered. Her clients in the local Football Club were violently disenchanted with her allowing me to discern her purpose. Theirs is the fever-pitch of annoyance and public nuisance known to be associated with GAA  in Enniskillen.

Their streak-of-lightning cars,ostentatious lifestyles and wives' expensive tastes in jewellery and clothes betray a lack of any real purpose in life.

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Most of these intermediaries are spurned women or "those to whom life has been unkind".

 Sinn Fein have recruited a legion of these 'false flag' agents for the FBI and CIA since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. In Fermanagh, Berniece Swift is FBI liaison with the police. Colin Brimstone of the Free State Army and Jenny de Witt in Derry replace Eamann Mc Cann and Goretti Horgan who in turn replaced the US-born McClenaghan sisters.

Talking to psychopaths

Very few real communications interlocutors or spies have proper elocution or good written grammar. We think of those whose second income comes from the Department of the Taoiseach or Ministry of Defence.

The nub.of the matter?

What a communications interceptions staff member wants to know is what radio station his or her 'target' listens to in order to give him an immediate "brush-off". He may make a "courtesy call"  with the assistance of some old hen such as Mc Cord of Omagh.

"Tune in, turn on and drop out"?

Or,hang up and reject cretins who give out false information in these circumstances.

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The tail

Double trouble is unwanted house guests and a radio babbling in the background.

Turn off the radio and TV.

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30.5.2022

Signs of trouble ahead in popular culture, Y'oussou N'dour and "Seven seconds away"

 On the Continent where national governments rely on their own technology,the automated digital audio service takes seven seconds to kick in,as the sporting metaphor has it.

Another riposte to a call "handler" in these circumstances...

 If you don't like a spy as Steven Rafferty doesn't,say,"There's your bottle of Lucozade,Paul,you left it sitting there..." A man,Mr. Rafferty,who clearly watched the ball,not the man,on the rare occasions when he went to football matches.

A world turned on its head? July 1988? To repeat my answer to this sportsman's jest..

I am not looking for someone to make an honest woman of me or 'give me a dig-out'" ("Ci sono barbari!","What is to be done-the Sequel").


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31.5.2022

A concatenation of.nonsense from a call "handler"

All things,like it or not,bear a loose,if not a close, connection to one another. That is the great truth.of socialism.

The nub of the problem with these people who see themselves as guardians of society is that like the Great Frontiersmen of 1950's America,they are meddlers are high on amphetamines and Jack Daniels Whiskey and cocaine supplied by the Italian mafiia.Their US musical pony troupe all had a glass of water nearby since their mouths were permanently dry from imbibing or snorting cocaine.

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21.11.2022

Therefore,we say with certainty about undercover policemen such as Colm Johnston (alias 'Bryce') and police communications tracking in association with telephone companies,that their activities and claims are 'a big ball of dung' ("Ci sono barbari," the 'Play'of July-August 1988).

The 'handover' of these hospital intendants and self-employed disc jockeys and these media continuity announcers as they are referred to,takes less than a second to 'kick in'. 

Always,it is a political policeman or sinister,anti-social element or elements such as the Security Service who are at "the root of the problem'.

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How you will know that you are talking to a telephone "dummy"?

If it is a male 'relative' or 'friend',they will gamely say at a certain interval,"Do you not know..." or "Surely,you are aware that...."

Pay no heed and HANG UP.


Friday, 2 April 2021

Safety and surveillance

 It is the job of the police to keep people safe. Therefore, do not try to dodge surveillance or try to make their work more difficult and heed their advice because they know a lot more about threats to personal safety than the public...

Remember that where police do very little to protect the public as is the situation in France,30 000 people go missing and 600 people are shot dead,thrown onto the railway tracks of the Metro or kicked to death in the Metro every year (Les amis de la rue,2005).

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26.12.2021

If you want to see a society without a police force,go to France. There,you will witness random murder,compulsive thieves running riot and spy agencies trafficking in heroin and cocaine and a complete lack of organised charity. Only food relief and temporary shelter is available in that country. Mais encore,la France...


4.4.2021

It is morally insane to associate with tiny political micro-groups like the Socialist Workers Party or Communist Party or more aptly in the matter of civil disturbance and rioting in the street People Before Profit. Avoid would be dictators such as the Communist Party or wannabe socialists like Sinn Fein. Like all fleeting stardust-gazers that party is run by a small group of political tricksters,professional thieves and dole clerks who are in bed with strike-busters. Nationalist agitators associate with these riff-raff and vermin.

 Lawyers and most elected representatives and Enniskillen councillors face considerable outside pressure, loyalist opposition and mounting difficulties in even getting elected by those who speak highly of them. Most public representatives are on the drip-drip feed of information about prominent supporters' activities. It is in the nature of idle journalists and"misunderstood geniuses" to volunteer their information on the internet and social media freely without disclosing that its main source is other media representatives of the rich and infamous. 

Public media outlets are jealous of a greater nous for news gathering,collation and dissemination of well-researched news articles grounded in fact not fiction or idle commentary. Most news articles are dreamed up in a homosexual brothel in Cambridgeshire or Dun Laoghaire by Richard Boyd-Barrett or Leo Varadkar....

Basta.


18.7.2021 

The police and criminal justice system take their orders from politicians,cheats and doctors. 

That benighted pair,England and India,try to avoid legal retribution for very serious libels and crimes of violence. Those people are living in a gangster's paradise concocted not by science or Reason but by bar-room philosophers and little old wine-drinkers. The latter have consumed too much alcohol for their own good.

A small but growing number of common people know,to quote Shakespeare that " there is something amiss in the State of Denmark".

 Even the political elite in Germany,America and  Ireland are concerned about public justice and policing and the rule of law in the North of Ireland, not forgetting in Iran and China. Concerned leaders and countries are singing from the same hymn sheet..

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27.12.2021

It must be remembered that secret and covert measures by police and the NHS have become Britain's first line of defence against internal subversion and domestic criticism by witnesses,lawyers, journalists and judges and the occasional politician of good standing with the public. 

State gangsterism associated with the health system remains a constant, not a variable, throughout one's entire life with the same old 'players' appearing and reappearing at intervals for tree-hugging nonsense. 

MI5 and RUC/PSNI hangmen swap the whip but the lash goes on wherever you have a mafia system such as a public health network of gasbags and old bores.

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18.7.2023

If you are worried about police surveillance, the dogs are everywhere these last two weeks,duck into a church and they will most assuredly follow you in or wait respectfully outside to take up the chase again and what follows next is "the mace or the cowl".