Rinvenuto in una cella di una stazione di polizia di Derry il corpo privo di vita di John Brady

Rinvenuto in una cella di una stazione di polizia di Derry il corpo privo di vita di John Brady

John Brady, 40 anni e noto repubblicano, è stato rinvenuto morto nella stazione di polizia di Strand Road di Derry, dove era stato portato a seguito dell’arresto avvenuto lo scorso venerdì. Pare sia stato sottoposto ad interrogatorio in relazione ad un assalimento. Il condizionale è d’obbligo soprattutto se si cerca di far luce sulle cause del decesso.
Fonti della polizia e lo stesso Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson citano tra le ipotesi più fondate, quella del suicidio.
Intanto è stata fissata per lunedì 5 ottobre l’autopsia.
“Il nostro ufficio ha bisogno di condurre un’indagine equa, indipendente e imparziale sulla sua morte.”
“E’ importante in questo momento di dolore che la famiglia del Sig Brady ha il nostro supporto e sicuramente la nostra assicurazione che verrà condotta un’indagine equa e imparziale sulle cause della morte”, ha dichiarato Hutchinson.
John Brady venne accusato nel 2002 di aver piazzato una bomba sotto l’auto di un ex soldato del RIR. La causa sfumò a favore di Brady perchè basata su insufficienti tracce di DNA.
Venne arrestato nel 1989 per l’uccisone di un poliziotto. Nel 1991, si dichiarò colpevole di aver ucciso il Reserve Constable del RUC David Black. Fu inizialmente rilasciato con licenza nel 1998, dopo l’accordo del Venerdì Santo, licenza successivamente revocata e Brady fu costretto a ritornare in carcere nel novembre 2003.
Doherty, Sinn Fein, ha definito la morte di John Brady come “una tragica perdita”.
“Ci sono ovviamente problemi di grave preoccupazione su come John Brady sia morto durante le ore diurne, quando si trovava in custodia della polizia”, ha detto.
“Mentre tutti i dettagli che circondano questa morte non sono chiare, è essenziale che ci sia un’indagine completa e aperta da parte del Police Ombudsman”.
Il mistero sulla morte di John Brady si va ad aggiungere alla notizia dei giorni scorsi della sospensione dal servizio di alcuni membri del personale carcerario di Maghaberry, indagati per la morte di John Anthony Deery, 50 anni, trovato nella sua certa e spirato al Royal Victoria Hospital di Belfast. Su questo caso è stata aperta un’inchiesta dal Police Ombudsman Pauline McCabe.

(*Nota)
Per dovere di cronaca, anche se in assenza di notizie certe e confermate, riteniamo opportuno rilevare le dichiarazioni della famiglia di John Brady, totalmente contraria all’ipotesi di morte per suicidio. Si parla di un alterco avvenuto nel pomeriggio di venerdì tra John e il cognato. Brady è stato poi arrestato con l’accusa di minaccia. L’avvocato difensonre gli ha parlato per l’ultima volta alle 15 circa di sabato ed ha riferito alla famiglia di averlo trovato in gran forma e in attesa di essere liberato dal carcere dopo la conferma della sua versione dei fatti da parte di testimoni. Alle 16 l’avvocato ha richiamato i familiari informandoli della morte del loro caro. E’ dato a sapeere che il corpo sia stato rinvenuto in una ’stanza’ senza specificare se si trattasse della sala interrogatori o della sala di consultazione giuridica.

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Protesta per Terry McCafferty

Ieri a Belfast c'e stato una protesta per Terry McCafferty. Abbiamo anche scoperti che persone dello Sinn Fein hanno cancellati gli scritti sui muri di Free Terry McCafferty, questa fa vedere quanto è cambiato lo Sinn Fein. Invece di sostenire i prigioniere vogliono nascondere la loro esisenza e il fatto che un ragazzo è stato arrestato senza motivi, poco prima di natale, il suo primo natale a casa in 6 anni. Ecco un video della protesta ieri a Belfast.

Terry McCafferty

Il 32 County Sovereignty Movement ha emesso un comunicato datato 22 dicembre richiedendo l’immediata scarcerazione di Terry McCafferty, arrestato a 4 mesi dal suo rilascio senza un’accusa precisa.
Il 32CSM lo ha qualificato come una molestia nei confronti di un repubblicano e della sua famiglia, ipotizzando anche un atto di ripicca contro la liberazione dei Four Derry, avvenuta nei giorni scorsi, dopo che il processo nei loro confronti è miseramente controllato alla Special Criminal Court di Dublino.

E’ in programma una manifestazione per il 24 dicembre alle ore 15 a Dunville Park, Falls Road, Belfast.

Ecco il testo del comunicato

32 County Sovereignty Movement
22/12/2008

Free Terry McCafferty now
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement call for the immediate release of North Belfast Republican Terry McCafferty who was returned to Maghaberry gaol last night just four weeks after being released having served half of a 12 year sentence for his part in Republican activity in Belfast.
Terry McCafferty was returning from a holiday in Spain with his family when he was arrested and told he was being returned to Maghaberry having had his license revoked by British secretary of state Paul Goggins.
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement view this action as blatant harassment of a Republican and his family just before Christmas. We have little doubt that there is no reason to revoke Terry’s license and we believe it may be a spiteful reaction to the release of the Derry 4 last Friday. It is quite clear that MI5 did not get the result they wanted in the Special Criminal Court in Dublin and they have ordered that Terry be imprisoned due to the fact that he has been recently released and his first Christmas with his family for years is approaching, It was designed to cause maximum misery to Republicans
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement call on all Republicans to unite to ensure that this spiteful action be overturned immediately.

Polizia in irlanda nel nord minacciano un bimbo di 7 sett

La polizia hanno minacciato un bambino di 7 settimane. La madre, moglie di Gary Donnelly un ragazzo arrestato a marzo messo in galera senza prove, senza processo e senza possiblità di uscire finche la polizia decide, ha raccontato come la polizia ha minacciato lei e il figlio in settimana. Ha raccontato come mentre stava uscendo di un negozio con il figlio e sua padre, che e venuta a vivere con lei dopo la nascità del piccolo, la polizia gli han fermati e minacciato di
togliere il figlio del passeggino e di perquisire il bimbo.

"E' successo giovedi" dici Orla Connolly "Il mio padre e arrivato da dublino per aiutarmi con il bambino dopo che è nato e stavamo uscendo di un negozio quando la polizia si è avvicinato"

"Uno dei poliziotti che c'era era coinvolto in un processo legale dove io e Gary erano fermati (dalla polizia) e poi arrestati per un cosiddetto aggressione. Quando il caso e arrivato in tribunale il giudice era molto critica della polizia e ha scartato il caso."

"Questo poliziotto mi si è avvicinato e altri hanno preso il mio padre da parte per perquisirlo. Ha detto che mi stava per perquisire e io gli ho detto che doveva essere presente un ufficiale femminile se mi voleva perquisire. Hanno chiesto via radio per una and mentre aspettavamo lui ha indicato il mio figlio, Fintan Donnelly,che ancora e sotto controllo medico in ospedale, e ha detto che stava per perquisirlo. Io ho detto che in nessun modo lo poteva fare ma lui insisteva che lo stava per perquisirlo."

"A quel punto e arrivata un poliziotta femminile e mi hanno perquisito. Ho detto a una ragazza che conosco di chiamare il mio avvocato e a quel punto la polizia si sono calmati e andati via."

Lei dice: "Sembra che abbiamo un gran cooperazione 'cross border' (sia nord che sud) perche poche mese fa la polizia a Dublino mi hanno fermati e mi hanno attaccato. Mi hanno minacciato di rompere il mio braccio e significante le referenze da loro a Gary quando la polizia a Derry hanno rotto il suo braccio."

"Tutte le famiglie della Derry 4 (4 ragazzi arrestati e messi in galera senza prove ne processo a marzo quest'anno sic) sono sottomesso a molestie con le macchine della polizia fuori alle loro case ed è arrivato al punto che non posso manco andare a fare shopping che corro il rischio di essere fermato e molestata. Ben due volte hanno portato io e Gary in tribunale e entrambe volte i casi son stati scartati e il giudice ha criticato la polizia. Ma sembra che loro pensano che possono farla franca con le molestie. Ho fatto un reclamo con l'Ombudsman (gruppo che controllano la polizia sic) ma mi hanno detto che non potevano far niente."

"Sto chiedendo che le persone come Martina Anderson e Martin Connolly chi entrambe hanno posto su Police Boards (gruppo di politici che controllano la polizia sic) ci dicono perche la PSNI hanno il permesso di continuare la loro campagna di molestie contro le persone ordinari in questa città."

"Ho invitata i politici locali in tribunale con me l'ultima volta ma nessuno di loro è venuta. E' questo cio che loro chiamano 'aiuto per le persone locale'?"

Il padre di Orla ha detto che ciò che è stato sottomesso gli ha ricordato storie della Germania in tempi nazista.

Quando abbiamo contattato la PSNI ci hanno detto che non commentano su casi individuale ma se qualcuno aveva un reclamo dovevano contattare l'ufficio del Police Ombudsman

TATTICHE INTIMIDATORIE DEL “PSNI” CONTRO UN EX OC

Tattiche Intimidatorie Del PSNI Contro un Ex OC

John Connolly, 32 di Newtownbutler ha dichiarato al Fermanagh Herald di essere da qualche tempo bersaglio di atti intimidatori da parte del PSNI, soprattutto nelle aree di Lisnaskea e Enniskillen. Atti nei suoi confronti, ma ancor più grave nei confronti di chi capiti si trovi con lui.
L’ex OC (Officer Commanding n.d.r.) del carcere di Maghaberry (a Lisburn n.d.r.), dove ha scontato una pena detentiva di 7 anni, ha dichiarato come al verificarsi di un attacco repubblicano nella zona, le attenzioni vengano rifersate tutte su di lui.
L’ultimo fatto è avvenuto nella notte di mercoledì 17 settembre quando, imboccando la Holyhill Road nei pressi di Enniskillen si è accorto di essere seguito da un’auto che gli puntava le luce abbaglianti. Temendo si trattasse di lealisti ha proseguito sino a trovarsi attorniato da altre 2 auto. Era la polizia. Gli agenti hanno puntato le armi attraverso i finestrini dell’auto suscitando una reazione isterica di una ragazza di 17 anni, figlia della proprietaria dell’auto in quel frangente guidata da John Connolly.
Ne è seguita la perquisizione sia dell’ex OC, che della ragazza (effettuata da un agente donna) che ne ha riportato un grave shock.
Nel mentre, un ufficiale di polizia ha dichiarato ‘non succede spesso di fermare il capo’.
John Connolly, pur pensado si intedesse fare riferimento alla sua carica di OC ricoperta tra le mura di Maghaberry, ha pretesto di mettere a verbale “Sono stato il capo, ma non ora. Sto cercando di andare avanti con la mia vita, e non voglio dover subire queste molestie “. Ha altresì dichiarato che se il PSNI avesse fatto uso delle sirene si sarebbe fermato, perchè è invece spesso capitato che simili circostanze si siano trasformate in meri attentati.
Il Fermanagh Herald per dover di cronaca ha chiesto spiegazioni al PSNI, il cui portavoce ha placidamente dichiarato di come si sia trattato di un semplice “Stop & search”, all’interno di operazioni previste per la notte di mercoledì in Enniskillen. L’ufficiale ha altresì invitato a chiunque si fosse sentito leso da azioni inadeguate perpetrate da agenti del PSNI, ad inoltrare degli esposti per permettere l’esatta valutazione degli accadimenti.

Unfair tactics by PSNI says former OC

A former officer commanding IRA prisoners in Maghaberry claimed this week that the PSNI were deliberately targeting him, and those with him, at road stops, mainly in the Lisnaskea area but also in Enniskillen.
John Connolly (32) from Newtownbutler served a seven-year sentence from 2000-’07 after being convicted of possessing a barrack buster bomb with intent to kill members of the security forces. He was released in November, 2007 but, now, he claims that every time there is a dissident Republican attack, he comes in for special attention.
His latest run-in with the PSNI, who were wearing body armour and heavily armed, occurred near Enniskillen on Wednesday night, 17th September as he was driving a car belonging to a female friend. The woman’s 17-year old daughter was a front-seat passenger.
The female owner of the car told the ‘Herald’ she is concerned that her daughter was bodily searched despite her name and address having been radioed through to Enniskillen Police Station.
Mr Connolly said he was followed out of town by an unmarked car which then flashed its lights as he headed up Holyhill Road. Fearing it was Loyalists, he drive on until he was eventually hemmed in by two more vehicles.
“It was the Police. They ordered me out of the car. They were pointing their weapons in through the window. My passenger was in hysterics. I calmed her down and told her, ‘it’s me they’re looking to search’.
“The made my put my arms in the air and then on the car roof and they kicked my legs apart. I was then asked by one officer if I had anything sharp that might endanger either him or his colleagues and, when I said No I was asked, ‘where’s the rocket launcher?’ He then went through the whole list, claymore mines, AK 47’s, etc.
“It was general victimisation and harassment, but the more worrying thing was the girl being told, ‘it’s not often we get to stop the boss’. I took this to be a reference to my having been OC of the IRA prisoners in Maghaberry. But, I would like to put it on record, I was the boss but not now. I am trying to get on with my life, and I don’t want this harassment.”
Mr Connolly confirmed that the girl in the car with him was searched by a female Police officer./ As far as I can see, this is political policing at its worst. Is it because I disagree with Sinn Fein.” The girl’s mother said her daughter was distressed and very upset when she came home: “She thought they were going to be arrested and even shot.”
Mr Connolly said he would have stopped had the Police put on their sirens, but never for flashing lights: “I told them many’s a man has been gunned down in those circumstances.”
Mr Connolly and his young passenger were each given a cope of their ‘Stop and Search’ form, on neither of which is a name recorded of the searching officer, just their number and rank. We asked the Police Press Office to explain why a vehicle not belonging to John Connolly was stopped, if it had been followed on its outward journey, and why the young girl as searched despite her personal details having been radioed through.
A PSNI spokesman replied: ‘While we do not comment on named individuals, we can confirm that as part of a proactive policing operation, officers stopped a number of cars in the Enniskillen area on Wednesday. During this operation, the occupants of vehicles were spoken to’. If anyone feels the actions of police officers were inappropriate, we would encourage that individual to come forward to allow the matter to be fully investigated.
It is always open to individuals to make a complaint to the Police Ombudsman’s Office.

Gardai Harrassment

Its with total disgust that Republicans find ourselves having to highlight another case of harrassment carried out by the Free State Special Branch.

On Monday night the partner of Gary Donnelly (Orla) who has just given birth in the last few weeks was followed and then visiously assaulted by the Garda and Special Branch, this sustained attack has left Orla with severe bruising to her neck and arms.
During this vicious assault a female Garda officer whilst raining down blows on Orla was constantly referring to her partner Gary, she kept threating to break Orla's arm just like the RUC/PSNI had done to Gary. This unprovoked attack must have been well planed in advance.
Yet to make an already bad situation worse the Garda went into their well rehearsed cover up mode by arresting and charging Orla with assault.
As the people of Dublin and Ireland know the framing of a suspect in this way is a daily occurence, it is the most crudest and disgusting abuse of the law and the puppet judges know this but to their shame do nothing.
Orla was then remanded in custody until the bail of 600 Euro was found.
The only reason Orla found herself in this position was everytime Gary went for bail to see his new born child, the bail conditions where so strict (a huge cash amount to be left with the court, not allowed into Donegal where visiting by Orla would be alot easier, having to report to Garda twice a day, therefore limiting his travel arrangements, not allowed to asscoiate with Republicans and more. If you are in any doubt check the court records.)
This is why we believe this was nothing more than an ambush, they knew in advance that Orla and Gary's new born child where travelling to Dublin on a visit.
This harrasment of visitors and Prisoners is unacceptable and must not be tolerated, this case and the case of an other prisoner who was refused compassionate parole when the mother of his two children died suddenly leaving them in total distress. Who would deny the Father a right to be with his son's in such times?
This is what Republican prisoners and the families are now facing, we must stand with them and show the Irish Government and their masters Britain that as before they will not be allowed to treat our families and prisoners like this.

WOULD THE GARDA AND SPECIAL BRANCH LIKE THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS TO BE TREATED LIKE THIS?

Sinister Twist in ongoing harassment of 32CSM Member

32 County Sovereignty Movement
20/08/2008

Sovereign_nation@hotmail.com
Sinister Twist in ongoing harassment of 32CSM Member

A sustained campaign of harassment against a member of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement has taken a sinister and serious twist in Derry with agents of the British administration in Ireland deliberately putting his life in Danger.
On Wednesday 14^th August members of the RUC/PSNI waited outside his home until his partner left for work then kicked his door through and arrested him for a series of unpaid parking fines which the man was contesting. The man was minding his child at the time and no one else was available to do so, something the RUC/PSNI were obviously aware of when they waited until his partner left.
A neighbour then intervened and took the distressed child from the house.
The previous Monday 12the August, heavily armed RUC/PSNI members forced the door of his house when this mans eldest daughter was home alone and in the bath, they then proceeded to force open the bathroom door, to the obvious distress and embarrassment of this young girl.
Once arrested a member of the British security services, disguised as a RUC/PSNI man made an attempt to recruit the 32CSM member as an informer and placed £30,000 on the mans lap, telling him that was all they had in the safe at that time, they also told him that they would set him up in a bogus business as a cover for any payments they would make to him.
The 32CSM member refused to accept their offer at which stage the carrot turned into the stick and they MI5/Special Branch member became abusive and threatened to raid his parents home on a regular basis to cause distress and fear, the British security operative also threatened the mans partner and children and stated that they would do all they could to break up his family.
In another sinister twist the Branch man threatened to set him up with the gardai and mentioned the draconian legislation under which 4 Derry men are currently being held without evidence in Portlaoise.
The 32CSM member was then taken to Maghaberry prison and , because of his non cooperation with the British forces he was transferred the next day from a relatively safe area of the prison to the notorious Erin house which houses Loyalist criminals and drug dealers. The 32CSM member was palced on the same wing as the Shoukri brothers and other well known Loyalists and his cell door was left unlocked.
Our member became aware of a number of Loyalist prisoners walking by his door repeatedly and making a point of staring in at him. This caused our member to fear that these Loyalists had been informed that he was a Republican and he feared for his life.
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement deplore this campaign of harassment against this man, who is after all a member of a legal political movement, and we demand to know why the Prison Service is acting to punish this man for refusing to cooperate with the British police in Ireland.
Further to this we are seeking an immediate meeting with the Prison governor and are demanding that this man be transferred to a safe area of the prison for the duration of his term.
Our members will not be deflected from challenging Britain’s illegal claim to sovereignty in Ireland by threats or bribes nor will we cease to oppose the organs of the British state acting in such a concerted and political manner.

RUC PSNI Harassment

32 COUNTY SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT
01/08/2008


RUC/PSNI Harassment of Political Activists Continues

On Thursday the 31st of July two member of the Derry 32CSM were travelling to a local Cumann meeting when the car that they where travelling in was halted by heavily armed RUC/PSNI officers who pointed machine guns at their heads and ordered them to stand in the road with their hands in the air, in full view of the passing public.
The RUC then seized two cars and raided the homes of several members of the 32CSM who rely the cars to travel to work in what appeared to be a massive operation involving officers from outside the city. One of the members whose car had been seized immediately phoned his partner to alert her that the house was getting raided. His partner had been lured to Strand Rd RUC station under the false pretence that she was to voluntarily attend an identity parade concerning the murder of her friend Jean Quigley, whilst she was in an interview room a friend who accompanied her to the barracks was contacted in relation to the raid. The RUC refused to allow the friend to alert the Cumann member’s partner and held her against her will in the interview room.
As harassment continues the RUC have stepped to a new low, this chain of events was obviously a pre-planed operation and the use of the murder to lure people out of a house so that it could be searched unhindered is very concerning and exposes the true nature of the RUC/PSNI and where their priorities lie.
The 32CSM would like to thank the people Cornshell Fields who came out onto the streets in protest at the raid; this is the very same street in which Jean Quigley was murdered last week. We would call on our activists and supporters to stand firm against this latest wave of intimidation.

32CSM member attacked by Provos in Derry.

A member of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement has been the victim of an unprovoked assault by members of the Provisional IRA in a Derry bar on Sunday 27th July. The victim received serious head and facial injuries and the entire attack by the four man gang has been captured on the Bar’s CCTV system.
Verbal attacks against members of the 32CSM and their partners have been on the increase in the last number of weeks as has intimidation against new younger members.

These verbal and physical attacks are the work of a small but dangerous group of Provisional movement hangers on who seem intent on creating a civil war mentality between the Provisionals and members of the Republican movement. We ask the Provisionals to keep their members in check before the situation gets out of control and we would ask whose agenda this is and whose it serves?

Finally we would urge members of the 32CSM and the Republican movement to remain disciplined and not to fall into the trap that this group is attempting to set.

Republican separatism is on the rise in Derry and across the nation and we would urge our members not to react to what appears to be the last kicks of a wounded animal. It is our opinion that these attacks are occurring because these gangs know that for Republicans to seek retribution is counter productive.
The Republican project will not be dragged into the gutter by these people and we will stand firm behind the Republican position.

Republican POW’s will not be criminalised

Republican POW’s will not be criminalised

The IRPWA are becoming increasingly concerned at recent events in Portlaoise gaol whereby attempts have been made by some within the Free State establishment to cause unnecessary friction between POW’s and the prison administration.

On Friday 25th July, shortly after lock up at 8pm seven members of the prison staff entered the cell of Derry republican Gary Donnelly and told him that they had been contacted by the gardai at 7.30pm and informed that he had a mobile phone and that they had been told to search the cell and strip search Gary. In turn the prison staff were told that they could search the cell but that he would be refusing to be strip searched. The prison staff relayed this message to the assistant governor who became highly agitated roaring through the radio to strip search Gary.

Gary Donnelly again refused and asked for his officer commanding who was duly sent for and arrived at Gary’s cell. The OC again informed the prison staff that they could search the cell but that as they had a metal detector they had no need to strip search Gary and that under no circumstances would it be tolerated. The prison staff searched the cell and needless to say found nothing.

The OC also demanded to see the assistant governor to whom he insisted that Republican POW’s and political prisoners would not be criminalised nor victimised. He also demanded a meeting with the Governor for the following day.

On Saturday 26th the Officer Commanding Republican POW’s on E3 and his adjutant met with the Governor and reiterated their position and also informed him that the Republican prisoners would be refusing to be locked up that day. The OC insisted that as political prisoners the men under his command would reuse to be treated like common criminals and told him if it was criminals he was looking for to search E1 where they were housed. The Republican prisoners then refused orders from the prison administration to lock up for head counts and stayed out of their cells until 9.30 that night.

The IRPWA are convinced that this political directive from the Free State elite is aimed at creating conflict within the prison by criminalising and victimising Republicans. It is undoubtedly intended to interrupt the organisation and smooth running of E3 wing that has no doubt caused concern among some. We are also extremely concerned at the attempts to victimise and target Gary Donnelly. In recent weeks the media have been attempting to link Gary to various things with which he has no connection whatsoever. The IRPWA also fear that as Gary is effectively being interned on a charge with no evidence that an attempt may be made to plant a mobile phone in his cell which is a criminal offence thereby bolstering their capability to hold him.

The IRPWA also are concerned at the increased incidents of petty harassment of visitors to the prison by prison staff, particularly female visitors. On a number of occasions females visitors have told of whistling and offensive remarks from both criminal prisoners and staff. In another incident visitors from Cork and Derry were refused entry at the front desk for not having photo ID, when a complaint was made to the governor he replied “ The fella on the desk must have been in bad form” clearly this is unacceptable.

The IRA POW’s and other political prisoners housed on E3 have worked hard to build a tolerable regime on that wing as befits their political status and they will not allow faceless figures from the Free State establishment, no doubt at the behest of their British allies, to create an atmosphere of conflict, friction and criminalisation. The IRPWA will support the prisoners in whatever action the deem necessary to undertake to protect themselves and their status.

Dirty Tricks Campaign in Derry City

32 COUNTY SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT
Press Release
30/05/2008

Anti-republican elements seek to discredit Sovereignty Movement

It has come to the attention of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement in Derry city that a number of leaflets have been circulated in the area warning individuals, that the leaflet claims are drug dealers, that the 32CSM will take action against them. These leaflets are purporting to come from the 32 County Sovereignty Movement which is clearly not the case. Members of the 32CSM in the city believe that there is a dirty tricks element to this episode. The leaflet in question not only gets the name of the movement wrong but is littered with quite deliberate spelling mistakes and basic grammatical errors, this is clearly pre-empting a denial by ourselves, the sinister elements involved in distributing these leaflets can then claim that it is the work of an idiot with a grudge.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement believe that this dirty tricks campaign is directly aimed at an initiative put forward by our activists in Derry to name and shame drug dealers and to pickets homes of known drug dealers and anti social elements if necessary. The leaflet finishes with a bizarre claim that should the recipient of this leaflet fail to mend their ways, then this case will be passed on to the 32CSM’s ‘Army Council’ in the city.

The 32CSM are convinced this is a deliberate attempt to undermine the republican separatist movement and to scupper any community initiatives we have planned. We are confident that the republican community will see through this pathetic attempt by elements loyal to Stormont to bring our movement into disrepute and we would urge anyone who receives leaflets or literature that they are not sure about to contact the 32 County Sovereignty Movement immediately.

Statement ends.

Bugging Device Found

A sophisticated bugging and tracking device has been unearthed in the vehicle of a member of the Dublin 32 County Sovereignty Movement. The device was secreted internally into the dashboard of the vehicle and was equipped with its own self contained power supply. The manner by which the device was installed strongly suggests that those who planted it took considerable time to effect this and was obviously professionally done. The device bears English Manufacturing Labels but as of yet it is uncertain whether it originates from a British, Irish or joint British/Irish intelligence source. Suffice to say that the unearthing of yet another intelligence gathering device clearly illustrates that the war against those who articulate the right of the Irish people to National Sovereignty continues in government(s)circles. The individual 32CSM member involved has sought legal advice on the matter. The 32CSM reiterates our call for all republicans to be diligent in the face of these insidious attempts to undermine the republican struggle. British Parliamentary activity in Ireland takes many forms.

Truth & Lies

Truth & Lies
32 County Sovereignty Movement

address by Francie Mackey

Whereas terms such as truth and lies can be relative, when they are applied to an occupation scenario they become relative to political expediency and ideological revisionism. British occupation is a truth maintained by lies. The politics of British occupation is primarily concerned with securing an Irish endorsement for its presence here and undermining by whatever means Irish efforts to remove it. And the lie that its Irish practitioners peddle is that British politics in Ireland has a democratic basis. Nothing could be further from the truth as eight hundred years of resistance testifies to. A true democracy would never give birth to such tenacious resistance. A true democracy would have no need to employ repression, sectarian division and state assassination. And a true democracy would have no need to foster political and social divisions amongst its own people in order to maintain itself. These are the history of the truth and lies of British occupation in our country.

In a conflict situation however the nobility of truth alone is not sufficient to overcome the deceitful apparatus of the occupation. Because within the melting pot of lies and counter lies the truth is invariably revised beyond any tangible recognition. Historical truth is poisoned. Contemporary truth is fabricated to convenience. Political truth is subordinated to populism and legal truth serves political expediency. And those who struggle most against this disease are those who are most maligned by fine tuned engines of lies.

For the republican struggle to properly utilise the concept of truth we must first translate it into political fact. For that political fact to be effective it must be made relevant to our people because there is no truth without people. This is the new language which present day republicans need to employ if our struggle against the deceit of the occupation is to succeed. We need to translate our history into contemporary relevance. We need to teach our people through the medium of a republican language that demonstrates the occupation is a denial of real rights and not some abstract concepts of such. And above all, as a compass for our struggle, we need to convince the people that all the many lies of British occupation are but aspects of one singular lie and that is that the Irish people are not a sovereign people and therefore not entitled to our own inalienable right to freedom.
If as a struggle we can base our politics on an immutable fact such as our right to sovereignty we can denude the British occupation to this immutable fact also. In such a case all the lies become one lie. If the case for Irish sovereignty is proven the case against all British lies denying it are proven also. And this is where the 32CSM speaks of translating the issue of national sovereignty into the language of relevance to the lives of our people.

Westminster is a lie in our country. Stormont is a lie for Westminster. The Assembly is a lie for Stormont and partition is a lie against Irish democracy. This circle of deceit goes back as far as the republican struggle can go. The manifestations of this deceit go equally as far back. MI5 is a lie in our country. The RUC is a lie for MI5. The PSNI is a lie for the RUC and the British judiciary is a lie against Irish justice. The British and Irish governments however have managed to translate these truths into the political lie that it is the behaviour alone of these entities which are the source of conflict and not their very presence in our country.

Everybody here can cite specific incidents against these agencies from Bloody Sunday to the Hunger Strikes to the recent debacle of the Sean Hoey case. Thousands of families have been affected by their activities but to confine our political resistance against them to their behaviour, as the politics of the Good Friday Agreement now does, is to fall headlong into the British trap of not directing our political resistance against their very existence. We cannot resolve political problems with the same political thinking which created them. British inquiries into British behaviour in Ireland are pointless. Home Rule politics will not remove partition. Sectarian headcounts will not democratise the statelet. Partitionist politics will not alter the mindset of the current body politic. Those who malign us by shouting loudest of their perceived achievements are only achieving what the British government allowed them to achieve. The political price for signing the GFA is best demonstrated by the price paid for cosmetic changes to the agencies of the state. The price for Provisional Sinn Fein is the calling for informers to be activated against republicans. It’s the calling for people to actively support the RUC in cases such as the Sean Hoey case. It’s the calling for people in the occupied area to look upon those who resist that occupation as criminals. For those doing this calling the circle of deceit alluded to earlier is now complete. For those who signed the GFA the constitutional question is suitably Ulsterised, suitably Normalised and suitably criminalized.

As we speak those who orchestrated the show trials and fabricated the evidence are constructing a modern, state of the art premises on Irish soil. They are beyond the reach of political scrutiny from any Irish quarter yet play a pivotal role in the political process here. Who could argue to any degree of credibility that the Policing Issue is resolved because they are now deemed accountable? What sort of accountability accepts that questions can be asked but that answers need not be given? Who here believes that toothless District Police Boards are anything more than a cosmetic sop to those who are now obliged to call us criminals? Political Policing has been ultimately achieved because politically PSF must support them. That politics now involves the insidious practice of felon setting, the practice of calling for informers and ultimately the justifying of the incarceration and or killing of Irish republicans. Cumman Na Gael stooped to this after they signed the 1922 Treaty. DeValera called in the English Hangman and allowed Irish republicans die on hunger strike in his prisons when he adopted the same politics. And Provisional Sinn Fein will follow suit. Already we can see a systematic campaign emanating from that party criminalizing those republicans who do not share their analysis. And we can also see patterns emerging within certain media publications propping up the Provisional line with wild and vexatious reports on republican activity.

If they criminalize one of us, they criminalize all of us that is why we must unite against this policy. There will be more Martin Brogan’s, more Seamus Doherty’s and more Sean Hoey’s because that is the nature of the beast.

The 32CSM offer our analysis in tandem with our strategic view as to how republicans can advance our position. We hold true to a number of political realities;

1. The Sovereignty of the Irish people is inalienable and indefeasible.

2. We can only realistically address the problems republicanism now faces if we realistically recognise that such problems exist.

3. We can ultimately achieve more for Irish republicanism if we act united under democratic principles.

The 32CSM has approached the struggle from a singular perspective which allows for the many aspects of the struggle to be politically expressed toward the root cause of the conflict, the British occupation and the denial of Irish National sovereignty. Our perspective is not dependent on historical events but is augmented by them. We argue against the status quo by challenging the status quo using a politics which is not born of the status quo. We believe in political engagement. We believe this struggle cannot be won by viewing our people as a tangent to that struggle. The struggle is not a contest between what our people chose in the past as opposed to what they choose now. That the vast majority of people on the island voted in favour of the GFA needs to be politically addressed by republicans and not just historically dismissed. This vote represents the strategic out workings of the British government securing an Irish endorsement for its illegal claim to sovereignty over part of our country. Not recognising that vote as an act of self determination by the Irish people is only the starting point for developing republican strategies against it. British Parliamentary activity in Ireland continues to strengthen its foothold whilst constitutional nationalism engages in All Ireland rhetoric to secure its partitionist electoral base. Republican truths require a contemporary political analysis if their broad ethos are to secure acceptance amongst the Irish people.

The 32CSM has sought to create such an analysis via an incremental and structured approach. We first chose to define the root cause of the conflict by challenging the British government to defend theirs in an international forum. We equally challenged all those who signed the GFA to defend their actions against our interpretation of them. That they refused to do so had less to do with the veracity of their argument and more to do with our lack of political strength to drive home ours. This was the reality we had to address. Republicanism is not politically strong enough to impact our argument on the current status quo.

To this end the 32CSM sought engagement with other republican and socialist groupings to find common ground around which that political strength could be attained. We knew that how we go about finding such common ground was as important as the actual grounds unity could be founded on. The Republican Unity Initiative was thus presented as an initiative which could only succeed on the basis of democratic parity and agreement. This remains the case and we in the 32CSM urge all republican and socialist groupings to engage with each other as themselves, for themselves and by themselves. We cannot move this struggle forward by truth alone, we face too many lies for that.

Anti Criminalisation/censorship protest

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement urge all republicans to support a protest against criminalisation planned for Saturday 26th January at the offices of The Irish News 113-117 Donegal Street Belfast at 3pm.

A dangerous new trend has developed in recent weeks whereby some elements within the media have attempted to criminalise those republicans who have rejected the British administration in Stormont. The Irish News has been particularly active in this new role as MI5 mouthpieces rather than an impartial representative of nationalist opinion. The editorial team in this once credible paper have taken to their new role with great relish to the point of publishing outlandish stories supposedly taken from unnamed and unsubstantiated ‘sources’ and then refusing Irish Republican Separatists any print space in order to counter these ludicrous creations.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement believe that it is imperative that the actions of The Irish News do not go unchallenged as it is our opinion that such attempts at criminalisation are a pre cursor to a new crackdown on anti agreement republicanism.
This crackdown has been called for by the main nationalist parties through the pages of this paper and this line has been faithfully parroted by Irish News editorials.
As it is clear that no republican in Ireland can receive a fair trial and that the British intelligence services and their agents are up to their necks in attempting to frame republican separatists we would ask the Irish News how exactly republicans should be dealt with?

The Irish News has put itself firmly on the side of the British political administration in Ireland, not alone by attempting to recruit young nationalists in to the British army and police through their situations vacant pages but also by putting themselves and some of their staff at the disposal of the British security services.
The Irish News must be in a position to prove the veracity of their stories and we call on them to do so. We also call on them to cease their practise of adopting a partisan political position in defence of the British administration in Ireland and to give republican separatism a right to reply to criminalisation attempts emanating from MI5.

These are issues which impact upon all republicans not just those within the 32 County Sovereignty Movement as it is not just our organisations that are being criminalised but the whole republican separatist position.

Fight criminalisation
Fight censorship