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Friday November 08, 2002 23:54

by jenny b

WITCH HUNT against NIO civil servants! NIO civil servants face summary arrest and interrogation, if the state targets them, becos their relatives/friends maybe sympathetic to Sinn fein/SDLP or simply becos they are catholic living in republican areas. There is a pervading climate of fear in northern ireland, where catholic/republican/left wing protestant workers not only face summary execution by the LVF but now also ARREST AND INTERROGATION by the brit state security services on false charges/allegations of spying.

Recent developments in the way the state/authorities/establishment deal with troublesome union representatives. Thats one way NIO bosses get rid of CIVIL SERVICE employees without having to answer charges of UNFAIR DISMISSAL. Just have your civil service employee arrested on bogus spying charges. The recent arrest of an NIO civil servant in belfast by club footed PSNI Special branch , is worrying development and equal opportunities setback for all employees and workers. The NIO civil servant was subsequently released without being charged, only after enduring 2 days of interrogation, humiliated by the arrest and the resulting groundless suspicion generated. If the state and it's security forces can target innocent men/women on an empty whims, then noone is safe, we are next. The politically motivated purges and false arrests of CATHOLIC/REPUBLICAN/left wing NIO civil servants will continue. The recent heavy handed security tactics of the brit state would be more suited to a junta dictatorship in a latin american banana republic or a third world state, not a supposed European democracy. The recent arrests of NIO civil servants on trumpted up allegations of spying, are a clear message to NIO civil servants that they are not entitled to freedom of political expression, if they are suspected of having even the mildest leftwing/republican/nationalist sympathies they will harassed out of the NIO under threats of arrest.

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More republican pap

by Daniel

Sat Nov 09, 2002 16:15

If people are getting hassle from the cops up north perhaps the primary blame rests with Sinn Fein. Despite all their talk of embracing democracy and try to "make the institutions" its their members who have been found with document that they should not have had, and who seem to be using their new found political respectability to contine to gather intelligence for the IRA.

Political Dirty Tricks

by Dave

Sun Nov 10, 2002 12:51

The raid by RUC/PSNI on the SF offices at Stormont is certainly worthy of comment. Just imagine the uproar if the offices of FG or the Labour party offices at the Dail were raided by hundreds of cops. Enda Kenny and/or Pat Rabbitte would raise the roof. The arrest of the civil servant who Trimble immediately found guilty was also at the very least open to question. The police force is the north has very little credibility in the minority community anyway, given the shoot to kill policy, the collusion with loyalist death squads and the murder of Rosemary Nelson who was subjected to a campaign of harassment by the “police” and of course the case of Pat Finucane.

Blame the victims

by pat c

Mon Nov 11, 2002 12:30

"If people are getting hassle from the cops up north perhaps the primary blame rests with Sinn Fein. "

some extraordinary "logic" on indy. the ruc arrest innocent people - therefore sf are responsible.

also the idea that people are due the presumption of innocence (regarding stormint case)seems to be an alien concept to some of the fine imc liberals.
"ant taig will do" seems to be their slogan.

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