Political Policing . 5th Edition

Fifth Edition

• © Joseph Paul Mc Carroll 2008,2012,2018, 2019,2020,2021,2022,2023

ECONOMIC DAMAGE

The police and military endeavour to inflict economic damage on the individual rebels and radicals. In shops they overcharge the revolutionaries for small change with which they pay waifs and nuisances to cause a disturbance in the early hours of the morning. This is invariably performed by women who are the cast-off mistresses of the soldiers.

Audit checks or calculation of the amount the rebel has in his pocket are commonly carried out by the political police as they tail their quarry from shop to shop. Aware of this practice the republicans informed the police through An Phoblacht of the cost of the rocket attack on 10 Downing Street as the British War Cabinet met, coming to  £13.45.

The lesson is clear. Count your change and ask for a receipt from the cast-off mistresses of the police and military.

DER SPIEL: THE MEDIA

Variations on a theme. Recently while being targeted for street scenes and "overheard conversations",I became aware that the slamming of doors and windows, with great violence during the daytime and early night.The adjacent dwelling’s doors were slammed ,with such great force,as to cause discomfort by all adjoining neighbours.

In 2004, a police arresting officer who took me to a psychiatric hospital for political detention revealed that they were working closely with their Southern colleagues.

For the duration of the targeting by eight political policemen and twelve former soldiers in the pay of the military intelligence rabble the immediate area in the vicinity of my dwelling was ‘frozen’ by police. They never returned to the immediate area while" noise measures " were in progress.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH/ CIVIL SOCIETY

TACTICS. "Shut that door!" Tactical noise (CIA)

In place of banging doors in an adjacent home (or flat in a block of flats),the Northern Irish ex-soldiers and political police have a different tactic.

After long preparation they identify and recruit bible thumpers and demented old women to violently slam car doors and windows shut in the vicinity of the home of their target. This behaviour begins almost episodically and in a minor way but builds up to a symphony of auditory disturbances. The aim is to traumatise and disorientate their political opponents.

In payment for this service they offer employment in nursing homes for unmarried mothers, employment in shops owned by ex-soldiers and employment in NATO countries.

This operates restraint of trade to the extent that Britain is mired in an intractable economic crisis characterised by the reality that vast numbers of people are excluded from the workforce by military and police violence, intimidation and blacklisting.

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HOW? TACTICS: SHOPKEEPERS

The role of newsagents as small business people. The newsagents are a favourite target of policemen and soldiers who aim to recruit police spies. In the style of the CIA cult of mutual agency, the rebel writer is ‘their agent’ for the ‘news’ in return for the newsagent selling them a newspaper.

This is illegal. Breaking in and entering a target's house or dwelling is a criminal offence and the photographing of writing is theft.

The sale of a newspaper is a contract. The target pays cash for the contract. It forms a separate legal relationship.

The newsagent who sells the  dishonestly appropriated intellectual product of a writer is stealing. The money may be paid in a small amount but the "dealer" is liable for the full financial sum at market values.He also runs the risk of punitive damages if he comes before the courts.

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WHO? AGENTS.

HOW? THE ROLE OF ADVERTISING.

Advertising plays a key role in the targeting of radicals. The spies and police and military intelligence agents love contact with their targets to familiarise themselves with their state of mind. On the basis of personal contact, they hope to avoid the consequences of their words and actions. The scriptwriters for those false and misleading radio adverts directed at approximately 285 "targets" in the North of Ireland are usually women. As women, they are prone to hysteria.

In the early 1990’s, I encountered constant advertising on RTE radio advertisements while living in Dublin. It was, “Joe …” and “Joe …” and so on in advertising.

The advertising agencies are owned by the U.S. and English multinationals who performed a confidence trick on their former owners by buying them out with a currency that in reality is worthless. This is the style of the English and American swindlers. The hysterical behaviour in question was apparently the work of Valerie Murphy of Kerry.

Incidentally the former Taoiseach, Robert Ahern, has investments in a media company.

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TACTICS: CIVIL SOCIETY

MAFIA STREET BEHAVIOUR

“I shall protect the man on my right” (Isaiah).

In their behaviour psychotic lunatics in the pay of the police, military and secret police imagine that they can forestall the consequences of their criminal activities. This behaviour was learned from the mafia which has plagued Italy from the Middle Ages. In truth, these madmen and women are in the service of the state and the CIA, a role which schizophrenia suits them to.

To get themselves ‘covered’ for criminal trespass, watching and besetting ‘targets’ houses and property theft, the mafia observe certain ‘rules’. The criminals will pass between their target and the buildings on the street. They will seek to get themselves “covered” by meeting their target on a bridge. They will also endeavour to pass him on a corner. Another favoured method is to get oneself “covered” on a street corner. Such behaviour requires mountains of intelligence. This is gathered by the police.

The military take some time to build up their surveillance operations. They pay the children of drunkards with employment for keeping a watch on the dwellings of targets. Mobile phones are then used to communicate the departures and arrivals of targets from their dwellings. When their quarry is absent,jailbirds can enter the house to photograph the writings of the literate targets.

This intellectual property is then passed on to a small businessman for photograhic development. The next stage is that of the analyst, also a member of the syndicate and drawn from the ranks of former revolutionaries.

At this stage, the professional and paid intelligence officer steps into the frame. He will distribute the intellectual property to those whom he seeks to influence and to whom he has access. In the case of this author’s ideas for a revival of the Irish economy, these ideas were passed onto Michael O’Leary, a multi-millionaire chief executive of Ryanair and publicised in part in The Sunday Independent on 17^th August 2008.

A complaint was immediately made by this author to his solicitor. Asserting legal rights drives away the thieves but only invites further commentary by the soldiers of the Irish and British Army.

A business front had been established by MI5 in Forthill Street, Enniskillen to trade in the intellectual property of the ‘target’. The police ignored this business front organisation since they were already aware of the government's policy of theft and breach of intellectual property. They acquiesced in hoards of criminal and illegal actions.

On Sunday 24^th of August 2008, after having approached my solicitor during the previous week to assert intellectual property rights over the stolen material, I was asked for directions by a MI5 two-man team. These gangsters imagined that this would make me their “agent in the theft and publication” of my ideas on the Irish economy. Perhaps these lunatics and agents of the British would derive comfort from a proper psychiatric examination.

In 1991, after ‘covering the ass’ of the FBI agent Patricia  Martin at the bottom of Harcourt Street, Dublin I was subjected to 5 months of sleep deprivation by their agents, heroin addicts and drunkards. Eventually I was attacked by a “madman with a cutthroat razor in his hand”. The FBI and CIA exploited full spectrum dominance in the Free State to deploy violence against the target. The sleep deprivation activities came to an end after a report to the Gardai at Kevin Street, Dublin. A false prosecution followed in March 1992.

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TACTICS: CIVIL SOCIETY

Die Panikmache

The police attempt to create unease and insecurity with the street ‘racing’ of spies and provocateurs, particularly women. Accompanying this tactic is the new tactic of utilising ambulances to inspire fear, insecurity and panic.

On the basis of movements and intelligence gathered by the neighbourhood watch, the police mobilise surveillance on their targets by following them through the streets. They are accompanied in these days of political psychiatry by ambulance drivers often with sirens blaring to inspire fear of psychiatric hospitals. The ambulance drivers openly boast that “It is better than working” as they deliver political suspects to psychiatric hospitals.

When ambulances start their street scenes with sirens blaring there is, in fact, little danger of psychiatric detention because, in my experience, they are aware that their terror has been superseded by the prospect of imminent legal action. As employees of the state and collaborators with the British police and military, they fear exposure and retribution.

In law, their actions amount to intimidation and are actionable Because the police gather information for the prosecution of criminal activities and are collaborating in a campaign of intimidation, these criminals are allowed to escape scot-free.

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HOW? TACTICS?

Entrapment: Agents Provocateur

It is a well-established practice of the political police and secret police to recruit informers by entrapment. This practice is illegal in the United States and leads to acquittal. The state also offers various other forms of enticement to informers.

Recent cause celebres of provocateurs included arms deals in Slovakia, a so-called sting operation arranged by the Secret Intelligence Service in collaboration with NATO agents. Three Real IRA arms-buyers were lured into a trap with a bogus Iraqi "arms dealer". In fact, no crime was committed since no crime was possible.The trap was a police deception.

Another form of entrapment i.e. the honeypot was practised on Denis Donaldson. He was "compromised" by a sexual entrapment ploy by Special Branch and MI5 in 1985. (After 1980 the spy recruitment drive was launched on Thatcher’s initiative). Nubile young women were recruited and an encounter with such a femme fatale embarrassed Donaldson to the extent that he turned informer to prevent blackmail by exposure to his wife.

Money or financial enticement is another ploy used by the Special Branch. During the Troubles informers were paid by the amount of arms and explosives recovered. They were also paid by the head for volunteers murdered by state assassins. Their role was to provide notice of insurgent’s movements to the Free State and Northern political police.

Informers and wasters are also recruited by the offer of state employment. This employment is provided through those who collaborate with the police and military in return for cession of legal actions,usually Freemasons.

Other agents are paid with promotion in their careers and invested with political influence. Their promotion is in the private sector and can be arranged by other police agents.

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TACTICS: MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

Intelligence – censorship, suppression, control and manipulation of the media.

In news management, the police and military intelligence agencies attempt to exercise full spectrum dominance. This is the public doctrine of U.S. Military Intelligence and Central Intelligence Agency. In Britain the Government Communications Headquarters employs ten to twelve thousand people whereas the National Security Agency in the United States employs two hundred thousand.Figures for the GCHQ compare to three thousand Security Service employees. The press, television, radio and internet communications are monitored. The aim is to impress, manipulate and damage psychologically.

In dissenting publications, the main aim of the spies is to steal the thunder of the less radical writers by passing their best ideas on to politicians and pundits. The spies endeavour to postpone to the Greek calends exposures to avoid embarrassment to serving politicians.

The censorship of independent publications and the internet is largely aimed at the destruction of the writings and rewards. This is the practice of the Special Branch, the Security Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. These agencies endeavour to isolate the target from his confederates and his natural milieu.

Letters are a long-established method of communication. A postmaster everywhere in the world is chosen on the basis of his reliability to the police. In cases of political dissidents who are in the grasp of the psychiatrists,mail is intercepted. Notice of appointment of the postmaster is engineered to precipitate a crisis and establish a pretext for incarceration.

Assassination represents the ultimate form of suppression of dissident opinion.

Mobile telephones provide a means by  way of the bipolar radio signal interception method to monitor the movements of police targets.

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TACTICS: THE MILITARY

The Role of Drugs in Warfare Part 1

1. Illegal Drugs. MI6 Cannabis

British Army – Afghanistan,opium;Colombia – cocaine,SAS, American Army.

MI6 operating out of Holland used cannabis to recruit and control agents in the 1980's.

Glock pistols and submachine guns and Brian Meehan gang/ Gilmartin – UVF/UDA Belfast plus threats to S.F. in Fermanagh before guns seized along with drugs.Dutch police seized third part of consignment.

1. Opium

Since the time of Alexander, the path to Afghanistan has been taken by all armies. Drugs are given to soldiers to make them fight harder. U.S. in Afghanistan. Dutch traders. British in India.

2. Prescription drugs

The doctors as agents of the police sedate some.

The doctors as evil-doers in their own right drugging the criminals, soldiers and proxy groups as well as freelance agents to make them attack republicans.

Income of doctors. Pharmacists. Labour Party rewards doctors heavily as it relies on their services and proselyting for votes. British intelligence services perceive a need for their services due to poor education and tradition of uncritical acceptance of their superiors.

Numbers employed in NHS greatly outnumber those in the Army.

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CASE STUDY

Doctors and cases of double jeopardy (Belfast)

1985. Dr John Egan prescribes a tranquiliser which induced sleep for twelve hours a day. This had the effect of making it almost impossible for a republican law student to complete his study and to graduate. The secondary impact of this narcotic was its well-known side effect which was to cause colon cancer.

A colonoscopy was refused by Dr Leo O Morain at the Meath Hospital in Dublin is September 1988 to prevent medical intervention. Five segments of a clove of garlic dislodged the polyps in 1991-1992.

Harland and McClean

Typhus and Tapeworms

1980-85 accusations of "hypochondria". 1981 infected with typhus

Arrest for depression.End of legal career.

Radiologists

Lung cancer 1984-5

Colon cancer 1991-2

Cody anaesthetist. Colonoscopy at Erne Hospital in early 1992. Cover-up by Cody and Mulhern.

Bronchitis. Mulhern late 1990’s

1989/1992 Harris, Harrington St., Dublin

Reported fever. He said “Treat yourself”

1991-2 Dr Sheila Murnaghan Ballyfermot TCD Out Patients Department. First encounter with an MI6 doctor

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TACTICS: POLICING

Movements intelligence – the key to escalating police and military intimidation. Lookalikes quickly appear.

Set-up by those one puts trust in as a choice of location for living

Observation posts in line of sight to target’s house, flat or dwelling.

e.g. Morning Lane estate 1987-1988

358 St Teresa’s Gardens December 1989-April 1992

Comings and goings monitoring leads to entry by thief with camera and examination of documents and illegal searches for guns and explosives

3-shift system. 24 hours a day 7 days a week surveillance. The establishment of 3 members of the same family with ADT back-up and regular police supervision.

Document to Mil. Int front business. Shops.Trading in illicit publications

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MILITARY: MATCHLESS

When a police target or someone labelled as a political dissident by politicians or police leaves their home the thief who enters through an open window will leave a reminder of their presence.

This consists of a live match left lying on the floor where a social democratic writer is a resident. Small items are often taken and replaced at various intervals by the thief to sow confusion. This practice encouraged by Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act which is operated by local councils.

• It is a provocation,in institutional social democratic words;talented agitators  are derailed.                                                                                                                                        

Political Policing.Special Measures and Extra-Judicial Executions

Political Policing 

Special Measures and Extra-Judicial Executions 


Fourth Edition

(Adapted from the Third Edition with additional material from 1998,1999, 2000,2001, 2002 and 2003)

©Joseph Paul McCarroll L.L.B 2001,2002, 2003, 2014,2018,2019,2020,2021, 2022,2023

Who are the ‘Players’?

“Recruit those to whom life has been unkind”, (General Sudplatov quoted in The KGB by Brian Barron, Pan,1978)

Up Close and Personal

One of the most insidious and subtle activities of the police and military in a crisis is to arrange “street scenes” with the socialists. Since the late 1930s the old Communists have protested at these “street scenes with fascists”. The name is to deceive, confuse and neutralize the radical workers. This “targeting” of “key players” is accompanied by sleep deprivation inside and outside jail and physical attacks on radicals in and beyond the workplace. Radical sentiment is, by and large, not the product of the isolated socialist cells or of leading individuals -  it is more often the outcome of a crisis in the accumulation of capital which can only be understood by linking the national economy to the world market.

On the streets, the militant labour activists of the 1980's met the freaks of nature in such a brilliant array of extremes and opposites that they called it “Barnum and Baileys” after the famous American circus troupe. In the 1930s, violent fascist thugs were sent by the political police and military to confront the nationalist-socialist party.

In the 1990s  the leaders of the socialist workers in Dublin met the same caricatures of comrades, republican heroes, British soldiers, sporting celebrities, former republican prisoners and activists in such circumstances as to imply a “resonance” for themselves. Sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller, sometimes heavier, sometimes thinner -  the authorities drew on their wide pick of personnel and associates to create these captivating impressions, reminders of the past and portents of the future.

To achieve a result and the proper impression, revolutionaries were isolated beforehand and afterwards subjected to violent assault by the Dublin “gougers” (the cutthroats). Sleep deprivation can only be practiced under these conditions with the assistance of the bribed gutter proletarians and thieves. Everywhere in the south, the Neighbourhood Watch mobilized the eager householders to slam shut their doors as the ‘target’ approached.

The art of ‘targeting’ developed in Germany before socialism was put on a scientific basis using old police tricks learned from the anti-Semites who hated the Jews with a vengeance. The soundalikes, lookalikes etc.are identified by Military Intelligence and political police from their files and intelligence gathering. They call this, in total, “all kinds of sensory information”.  The term “Erkenntnisse” ("things that put one in the mind of something else", German) sums up these phenomena perfectly.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation exploited the decline of the Northern physical force party in 1984 to employ more subtle yet brutal methods of drug disorientation. Fortnight magazine (January 1985, Belfast) recorded their assistance to the northern police. This magazine omitted to describe the use of lysergic acid (LSD) as a matter of routine to incapacitate the Northern radicals as the movement went political (William Sargent, Battle for The Mind, Penguin, 1972). The US authorities have been publicly shown to have experimented with LSD on prisoners and soldiers in the 1950s.Tthe United States government agencies are the main exponents of psychological operations (“psyops”) and have gathered in the accumulated experience of many countries. The FBI hounds musicians, writers, actors, playwrights, producers and political activists of every conceivable hue when it judges them to be “communists”. The English military authorities ‘target’ those whom they believe are “a threat to the security of the state”, a geometrically expanding multitude.

While the American songwriters may plead “Stay away from my window, leave at your own chosen pace …”  the friends of the socialist movement warn “Keep your head down!” and “The rush-ons are coming! The rush-ons are coming!”. On the street during the months of targeting, one is privy to “overheard conversations” and estimates of the numerical strength of the socialists. Likewise, in shared accommodation, De te fabula narratur, Marx said of such allegorical tales.

One thing is certain: these riff-raff are not productive workers, they exist at the expense of society. Throwing shapes will never avail them.

“Unauthorised Publishers” - A Problem for Socialists

“He fell victim to a shot, his agency was soon forgot” (Christy Moore, The Ballad of Farmer Michael Hayes, 1978)

Ever since the retreat of socialism in the 1930s, revolutionary socialists have been at the receiving end of the attention of the police and the military intelligence - informer rabble who attempt to combat the influence and spread of socialist organisation.

From the Smith Act trials in the 1920s and 1950s in the United States to the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Communists in Indonesia in 1965 an unrelenting campaign of vilification, harassment and intimidation has been pursued by the United States /NATO leadership.

In quieter times and in backwaters such as Ireland, more subtle (yet, paradoxically brutal) methods have been put in place by the state. The agency of repression is carried out by the unproductive classes: house-breakers,  thieves, billyboys, cutthroats, pimps, former male prostitutes, former policemen, vagrants, registered “aliens”, ambitious psychiatric nurses, bankrupts, promoters, Catholic school managers, millionaire state narcotics dispensers, dealers in prescribed drugs on the street, waifs, newsagents, the cast-off mistresses of the aristocracy, penniless daughters of the landlords and unemployed ‘actors’ and ‘actresses’. This riff-raff are organised by the police to give the “news” to the socialists.

In their “Spiel”, movements of waves, colours, lights and sensations give way to violent attacks when their “moral pressure” to censor, isolate and “neutralise” socialists no longer avail.

As the number of the Church faithful has steadily waned and the forces of manufacture and Industry grown, so has the quantity and quality of these “players”. When met with resistance, these  riff-raff have shrunk away and the uniformed (and armed) police have stepped into their station. When pressure of the mob proved too much for the police, the soldiery has been sent in by the politicians in aid to the civil power.

Socialists endeavour not to respond to provocation but, truth be told, the attempts to disperse the rabble has dissuaded their police masters from running any police 'play' in the North of Ireland for more than three decades.

The drone of helicopters, the hum of taxi engines and the blight of constant police surveillance has taken the place of what radicals loosely call “informers”. In the south, the old methods are still practiced against those who have traditionally inspired opposition to the state censorship and private property.

Of late, international socialists have been hauled before the courts as the mask of mutual agency has slipped off in the south.

 (In 1986, this author maintained a meticulous record of daily and weekly expenditure in a notebook, which he left his London lodgings. I never published this notebook - it was for personal calculations only. The authorities had, however, taking an interest in matters. In late 1986, the Catholic Chaplaincy in Camden Town - known as the Irish Hostel - published their estimate of the weekly expenses of living in London. These living expenses amounted to  £96 per week. This was the exact amount calculated by the author in his notebook.

A strange coincidence, perhaps?)

Economic Damage

It is a well-known truth that the police regard radical labour activists as a collection of individual lawbreakers. They never see, an economic or social crisis developing and see the socialist party as an aggregate of ‘malcontents’ and “terrorists”. They often send in to the socialist movement the cast-off mistresses of the old rulers of society to wear out the ‘key’ organisers with their constant carping and attention seeking. When a radical movement is “getting too big to handle” they also endeavour to cause it “economic damage” i.e. force it into bankruptcy. The taste for tittle tattle, gossip and bankruptcy proceedings display no scientific appraisal of the socialists as products of objective (economic) and subjective (political) conditions.

Experienced radicals must therefore verify the claims of “spouters” by investigation.

In terms of finance - the radical labour party has to avoid running up liabilities. This is the task of the party as a whole and, in particular, of the servants of the party who mann telephones and officers - the party officials (or secretariat).

Intellectual Property Rights

Speaking on RTE Radio One’s series on globalisation on the 11th of November 2001, the head of the World Trade Organisation, Sutherland, claimed that the production of cheap generic anti-AIDS drugs was “extremely dangerous” for the profits of the billionaire drugs monopolies. Generic drugs are those medicines which are produced in dependent countries to the same chemical formulae of the drugs giant without a payment for the use of the formulae to the patent holders. The World Trade Organisation organises the world market for the capitalists and its warnings are to be taken seriously - as threats. China recently joined the WTO to boost its exports of commodities.

The recognition of “intellectual property rights” is being forced onto the dependent and weak economic nations by the United States, Japan and western European powers through the WTO. The term “intellectual property rights” has sinister connotations for socialists.

In the early 1980s and early 1990s, the audio recording of copyright music performances was used as a pretext to incite the filthy, greasy, drug-crazed criminals, smackheads and heroin dealers against radical socialists and revolutionary socialists and communists in Dublin. Violent attacks and sensory deprivation, including sleep deprivation were carried out under the auspices of the Musical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS), a front for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The pretext for the attacks of cutthroats and criminal scum was the innocent recording of charity concerts.

Firstly, no recording of copyright auditory material which bears the stamp of the MCPS. Secondly, no purchase of material, which bears this impress and thirdly, a boycott of all music and video shops which sell material bearing the MCPS impress!

The price of production of a compact disc is about 25 pence.

Die Spiel

Aberglauben und Pest,

Volle Strassen, Leere Strassen,

Ruhe und, Larm und Streit,

Staub und Schrott,

Hunger und Not, Not und Armut, Armut und Elend

The military “targeting” of revolutionaries (or “occult intelligence”, as Marx put it, Capital, Volume 1, Introduction) has been a feature of state repression since the emergence of socialism in the 19th century. Where terrorism, arrests, imprisonment and fear of assassination or fatal “accidents” fail to deter, the army steps in with more subtle, more brutal methods (Massnahmen, Measures, German Abwehr).

The role of a military intelligence officer is to gather “all types of sensory information” about revolutionaries. This means visual appearances, traits, mannerisms, features, manner of speech, verbal cognates and so on. Then the search begins for lookalikes, soundalikes etc. from the ranks of the soldiers, their families and those compromised by the police, namely, criminals and the lumpen proletariat.

After a process of selection and acquisition of clothing such as worn by the revolutionaries (and vehicles of the same mark and colour where the ‘target’ is mobile), the ‘racing’ of soldiers and police through the streets when their ‘target’ appears in the morning can begin. Speed-up (or “The rush-ons are coming!" as  Irish military intelligence calls it) is followed by frosty responses from barmen, shop assistants and public officials.Plays on words i.e. semiotics, semantics or semiology is practiced by these reprobates and numerology is used to make an impression on the visual faculties of those rendered suspicious by constant aggravation and attrition.

When the rebel keeps his head down he is met by dog dirt and obstructions on pavements near his home.

This too, may not have a sufficient deterrent effect on the police “target”. Then, constant auditory disturbances during the night are deployed. Steel lamp posts are tapped with a small, metal-working hammer in the immediate vicinity and taxi drivers are enlisted to run their engines underneath the target’s flat or make a ‘drop’ during the early hours of sleep. Where there are heavy steel doors on a shop or office in the vicinity, these doors are noisily slammed shut at regular intervals with military precision (sleep deprivation).

The offal of society are enlisted by the army for the purpose of these “plays” of waves of sensations, lights, colours and movements. To punish the more resilient radicals when months of “targeting” have not had the desired effect, Irish lazzaroni are paid with alcohol to attack them with cut-throat razors or to throw rocks through their windows. In the end, after the police are called, the culprit is arraigned and cautioned since the military and political police are oath bound (under the Official Secrets Act) not to disclose their activities to their colleagues. Juridical cannon-fodder compliment the activities of the police.

What is to be done?

Firstly, avoid unnatural sensory information by “keeping the head down”. Secondly, change the radio stations one listens to, the pubs and shops one frequents, buy a different daily newspaper, turn off the television for the duration of the ‘targeting’, count your money at the local shop so as not to provide the pennies given to the waifs to cause annoyance and keep in credit with the banks. Thirdly, listen to your friends and socialise positively. Those who fight alone, fall alone. Do not take servants of the state into your confidence.

The Devil is Good to his Own

On the 4th of October 2002, Irish workers demonstrated for better redundancy payments. 6 to 7000 members of SIPTU and the craft unions assembled at Smithfield, Dublin. Thousands more demonstrated in the Midlands.

Statutory redundancy payments are calculated at half of a week's pay per year of service in the south and from half a week to 1 and a 1/2 weeks’ pay per year of service for northern workers. (The payments for northern workers vary in accordance with the age of those paid off). The media - apart from the socialist press - ignored the protests.

In the case of Irish Glass Bottle workers, the employers, Ardagh, offered £42,500 to each redundant worker after a sit-in and demonstrations. This offer was rejected. The Ardagh Group owns 5 or 6 glass factories in Europe and grew up as “a protected industry” in the 1930s under Fianna Fail tariffs. IGB had - as its name suggests -a  monopoly of Irish glass production and recycling until 4 years ago.

Let us move on to the 200 redundancies at RTE in December 2002. these cost the state broadcaster over IR£100 million in redundancy pay-outs. the minister with responsibility for RTE, Dermot Ahern, approved these payments of in excess of £500,000 for each employee made redundant and immediately increased the television licence fee - a proportionate rather than progressive tax which is levied on the unemployed workers with an income of €118 per week (2002) at the same rate as the billionaires - by €43 from €107 to €150 per annum.

These southern place-seekers and sinecure-holders are drawn exclusively from the privileged class. They disseminate government press releases and blacklist radicals and their activities.

 A productive worker is worth less than 1/10 of a functionary when it comes to a redundancy payment.

  

Grins, Grimaces and Menaces

The call up of troops and their Irish auxiliaries has taken the ‘players’ in the street scenes with the socialists to faraway climes.

On the streets, this class of ne’er-do-wells with time on their hands frown, smirk, grimace and attempt to menace the socialists. When these ‘plays’ no longer availed the Irish military, they organised gangs in Dublin and Cork in the 1930s and 1940s. These reprobates went by the name of Catholic Action and the Army Comrades Association. (For a time, they drew the most degraded and oppressed elements of the poor into their circles). They attacked and savagely beat Palmer and burned Connolly House.The Irish Catholic led the chorus of disapproval of ‘a Communist’s wedding to a Catholic girl’!

Events have moved on. Social democrats must expose agent provocateurs to the workers.

On the street ‘overheard’ remarks (“street commentaries”) are directed at the radicals to project an image of an all-knowing state apparatus. These ‘captivating impressions’ are false sensations. The state is neither all-knowing, quick-off-the-back-foot nor indestructible.

Of Maggots and Parasitic Excrescences

The dark world of the military and police must be eliminated by those who seek a fundamental reconstruction of society. Two of the most common devices employed by those who have wormed their way into the circles of radical politics is to play on  personal friendships to ‘draw out’ the ‘key players’. The more educated political police read the nationalist histories of the 19th century about ‘race’ history (as well as the vast array of detective novellas).

Charles Singer identifies the mystical belief in the worm, the number 9 and the ‘elf shoot’ in the history of Anglo-Saxon folk medicine.

Agents provocateur have since the 1860s been given to placing the eggs of tapeworms in the food and beverages of the radicals, having insinuated themselves into their confidence or gained access by the usual police methods to their apartments. The practice of occult intelligence goes back to the enlistment of swathes of lumpen proletarians into the armies of Europe. These reprobates are the mainstay of the right-wing extremists on the streets and in politics.

There would be little harm caused if the doctors treated the revolutionaries as the Hippocratic Oath requires i.e. “Do no harm”.

We all must learn again t6hat there is no such thing as ‘free’ medicine. Unless one pays hard cash, one is given the status of a mendicant.

Playlists and Producers

It is a truism that a state will mobilise all its social base in a political and military crisis to neutralise the radical movement whether it be democratic or socialist. The permanent military and political crisis in the North offers ample proof of this phenomenon. All civil servants must gain the approval of the police to the effect that they are politically “vetted” and leading public figures in television broadcasting, radio communications and executives in the civil service must be positively approved by the police as ‘safe’ (‘positive vetting’). Any taint of radical or terrorist attitudes means instant disqualification.

In public and ‘private’ broadcasting the producers, news readers and presenters are positively vetted by the authorities. All functionaries must perform ‘safely’.

In the ‘targeting’ of socialists and democrats, radio and television play an important role in “getting at” the revolutionary and insurgent just as news editors ‘manage’ the latest sayings and doings of government  ministers. The targeting of individuals goes hand in hand with police surveillance and ‘active measures’.

A musical playlist of even the most innocent nature is occasionally chosen on the ground that it will have a “resonance” for the police target. Non-conformists are likewise forced to live a precarious and unsettled existence. The heavy hand of police government pervades all areas of civil society in a political and military crisis and it's often followed by attempts to injure the police target financially, socially etc.

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The Irish police and army use sensory deprivation and sleep deprivation to ‘neutralise’ their ‘targets’. These practices are long established and entirely unwritten. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the main training and organising centre of Irish (and world) reaction. This ‘dead knowledge’ is supplemented by the recognised methods of arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. The South African regime's Interior Minister once remarked that he would swap all his arsenal of repressive laws for the Special Powers Act (Northern Ireland) 1922.In the south, the testimony of a Chief Superintendent of police that a person is a member of a terrorist organisation is sufficient proof to secure a conviction on that charge.

The favoured methods of the Southern police have been practiced without the interruption of those acts of terror caused by the insurgency and revolutionary violence in the North. As was documented in The Guinea Pigs by John McGuffin (Penguin, 1972) sleep deprivation is a standard method of weakening a prisoner’s resolve and extracting valuable information. This practice was used against suspects in Girdwood army barracks in East Belfast in the very earliest years of the military crisis in the North when the state was put to the test. Assassinations by Special Branch and Military Intelligence agents directly and through “pseudo gangs” (Kitson) followed internment curfews and State provocations; loyalist gutter proletarians proved to be willing helpers.

Outside the North, internal exile to the habitats of the gutter proletariat of Dublin is one of the most favoured tactics of Southern police and military who make repression a livelihood. In these dens, a couple of hundred army provocateurs in Dublin disturb the sleep of the police ‘target’. This involves constant auditory disturbances. These begin 10 minutes after the ‘target’ retires for the night. They follow a standard pattern and proceed with military timing. Targeting lasts from 3 to 6 months.

Doctors are the first to step forward with an explanation - these auditory disturbances are sensed by the ‘target’ alone and are ‘symptoms’ of mental illness. ‘Schizophrenia’ or manic depression are ‘diagnosed’. After all, the doctors, police and soldiers have the same paymaster - the state. Police surveillance is replaced by coercive medicine. The inmate of a sanatorium has no right to be brought before a court or a right to habeas corpus or examine the ‘evidence’ against him.

Constant displacement by the police sergeant acting together with the landlord - rentier class (Vertriebung) is likewise practiced in Dublin. A call to an uninformed officer of the Constabulary or a visit to a desk officer should usually result in the recovery of the ‘target’s’ property.

The main preparation for these “active measures” (Massnahmen) is the impoverishment of the rebel. From the professions, the Irish universities and civil bureaucracy the word goes out to potential employers (Berufsverbot). A ban on salaried employment for the revolutionary operates in all the leading countries. Only menial or manual employment for a definite period it's permitted. The ‘target’ is forced back onto his own reserves or on his family. Often, he must take the road out of his native country as an asylum seeker.

There is one defence! Show the attacker of that you are not isolated. In the 1870s, the French military bureaucratic caste did the bidding of the landowners and capitalists by shooting down 30 000 Communards. However, just a few years later the authorities admitted defeat in the struggle against the working class because they were organised in their trade unions.

When the chill winds of Irish state terror blow, a union represent the best (often only) defence.

Some Common Illusions about the Spy System

Three decades of insurgency have given rise to widespread illusions about the ‘omniscience’ of the police. In fact, the police know little about the socialist movement except when they are told explicitly what is going on and, then, they have no interest in politics. Police surveillance focuses on individual socialists, their movements and activities. The police are unable to see beyond trivial concerns to the social and economic system. They imagine that there will always be a need for the police and army “countermeasures” and never foresee their downfall from their position above society. Their main activity is to project an image of omniscience - an all knowing, ever vigilant armed body of men - to deter the radicals and to punish them individually when they act.

In the Anglo-Saxon countries, the police represent “the best” of the state can throw at the radical and trade union movement in the service of private property. The army is drawn from the riffraff or the strata which overlaps with the “dangerous class”.

At a practical level, the Irish political police attempt to spread misinformation e.g. the “terrorist” nature of political activity and strikes. The shopkeepers, tradesmen and big farmers provide the personnel of the police and shape its illusions. Against wrong-headed fancies and attitudes, the radical party tries to educate the thinking worker to reflect so onhis position in society and prepare him for action - not premature or terrorist outbursts.

For their part, the Irish political police and military endeavour to pre-empt the workers. The stoke up “unreal fears” on the general climate of fear through malicious insinuations and provocation. In their service they draw in the ex-soldiers, literary boheme, thieves etc. and pay them from small change and benefits in kind e.g. cheap loan rescheduling, tax avoidance measures, ‘doing the double’, running a small business, advice on government deals and so on .the Irish criminal lawyers vainly tried to classify the “helpers” of the elitists as political agents of influence (who tried to discredit the movement in the eyes of the working class), agent provocateurs, paid informers and casual informants. Political ‘authority’ figures, managers, civil servants, foremen, chargehands, paedophiles and layabouts are expected to play their part.

The Paris Commune of 1871 but on its banner “Morts aux Voleurs” and shot the thieves who were in the service of the State.

In the North of Ireland, we have long seen the more subtle yet more brutal methods of the police. This is the reflection of the police's greater experience in organising show trials and judicial executions of the national democrats and the most courageous and determined radicals. And yet, they still failed to strike a mortal blow at the democratic movement.

Pernicious doctrinaires would have us believe that radicals have nothing in common with national democrats.

The radical movement is in an international movement against capitalism.It holds no illusions about the ‘Politics of Irish Freedom’ or the ‘National Road to Socialism’. There are no appeals to the ‘British people’ or to the ‘Irish people’. Sober reflection on the old revolutionary outburst in Ireland and the international movement has removed the scales.

Police do not know everything radicals say, every movement or everyone they talk to or greet. The movement is too numerous to count by tele camera, the agents are not even known to them and they have no need to fear the police or the thieves. Parting with illusions is a step out of the shadows and into the crowd.

Political Discrimination in the Universities

As a part of its reform capitalism, government introduced free, universal education to third level in Britain in 1948. in 1964, The Stormont administration introduced grants for workers’ children at third level. In the North, grants were capped in 1986. Only the poorest students qualify for the full grant from the Education and Library boards. In 1997, Blair introduced tuition fees for all students which were set at the level charged by the individual universities. The Student Loans Corporation offers low interest loans to students for their subsistence expenses at university. Recently Blair has been trying to sell this corporation to the banks, but no bidders have come forward.

Since  1982 the student population of Queen’s University Belfast has doubled. Clashes with armed police have become a feature of the spring in Belfast’s university quarter.

In the 1980s, the Republican magazine, Iris, published a survey of the religion and national background of the professors at Queen's. Over 90% were English or Protestant.In the Law Faculty, there was no employment for a single Irish Catholic of a staff of professors and tutors of 50. This practice was in keeping with the core philosophy of the University Commission of 1848 which ordered that Queen's would be a Presbyterian university, Trinity College Dublin an Anglican university and the Irish Catholics would have University College Dublin. In 1908 University College Cork and University College Galway were established as small Catholic universities. In the 1980s, only the Department of Celtic Studies and the Chair of Scholastic Philosophy at Queen's were held by Catholics. The latter position was funded by the Catholic diocese of Down and Connor. In the 1980s a majority of the students were Catholic. Their strength was manifested in the elections to the Students Union. In 1980 to 1981, the hatred of the Catholic student for the University authorities and police government was manifested in well attended meetings organised by the Student Campaign Against Repression and hundreds strong marches against the brutalization of Republican prisoners in the H blocks. Some of the students took up arms against the state and were jailed. An academic-cum-politician was short for his advocacy of the supergrass system.

Before this assassination, The Faculty of Law professors and tutors had proven their loyalty to the authorities by baiting and casting out republican students. Four students of the 1980 intake were not allowed to graduate before 1986 and 1987. The course was  of 4 years duration in those days.

12 to 14 hours of studying per day earned the democratic students only third-rate degrees from the Faculty of Law. This measure crippled them in their search for employment and places as Bar students or in The Institute of Professional Legal Studies as trainee solicitors. Third rate degrees were thrown at students who intended to go overseas since the authorities were resolved that international mobility and languages ability would not allow the Northern radicals to escape the ‘eternal damnation’ of police government. There was to be no escape from the long reach of the political police.

Dialectical reasoning in examinations i.e. the characterisation of legal points in their interconnection and inter-relation earned students a ‘failure’.

The Faculty of Law was dominated by the sons and daughters of the unionist nomenklatura.

The mechanics’ and workers’ siblings were sent limping back to the building site from whence they had arrived.

Outside the universities, these graduates from the lower orders were faced with the big guns of the police  as soon as they stepped out of the relative safety of the students’ milieu. What little hope for a career their degrees had inspired was quickly blown away by the chill winds of police bans on anything other than casual, manual labour (Berufsverbot). The Irish Republicans inspired such hatred and fear that Hurd and Thatcher drew the Western European countries into the web of international policing with the Schengen Pact. The Tories determined that there should be no escape for those who inspired resistance. There was no respite for the graduates deemed to be a threat to the “security of the state”. They were met with traps (“accidents”) on the building site of London, psychological warfare and constant surveillance wherever they went. Finally, they were given directions to Dublin from whence 60 000 of the 120 000 young people coming onto the labour market every year were emigrating to escape unemployment. There they remained before the political thaw initiated by the Hume-Adams dialogue.

The experience of students’ lives were a preparation for the ‘real’ world of capitalist social relations. (It is also the task of the police to vet and, if necessary, ‘weed out’ the academics). On occasion, the military “contractors “will even ‘set up’ students for assassination by the loyalist lumpen proletariat. After the introduction of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation for the deployment of ‘active measures’ against radicals soon began. In 1984 the police were the targets for a campaign of assassination.

Today the steadfast belief in the use of force has been replaced by the demoralization of the Republican militants. The international movement has taken off from the ground. It is proceeding steadily and irreversibly “onward and upward” and it is in this movement that the hopes and dreams of national liberation and democratic revolution for Irish students and workers alike are carried. No number of ‘agents of influence’ in the intelligentsia and in the universities or acid-eating FBI agents can halt the relentless progress of the anti-capitalist, democratic movement. The secret diplomacy of England and the United States will avail their rulers naught when they fall within the sights of the armed workers.