Political Policing 2nd Edition

 Political Policing

Second Edition

© Joseph Paul McCarroll 2001,2002,2003, 2018, 2019,2020,2021, 2022, 2023,2024,2025,2026

Ergo et idem

Die Staat. Das Vehmgericht. Massnahmen. OkkultIntelligenz.Der Spiel. Rabbat. Razzia. Die Phanomenologie der Recht. Vertriebung.

Les jeus de France.

Con tutti I modi. Gli giocchi d'Italia. Le promenadore.Il promennagio.

Blagairt na Bleachtairi. An Pucan. Nos. Conspoireacht. Idirdhealu. Bolscaireacht. Argoidi. Eachtra. Ri-ra is ruaile buaile. Cruiteoiri luadaithe.

"Street scenes with fascists". Targeting. Surveillance. Psychological operations. Street theatre. Soldiers' games. Points duty. Active measures. Low intensity operations. Manipulation. Racing in the street. Crime and Punishment. A night at the races. Gambling syndicates. Outdoor duties. The chase.

Caramba! Fiesta.

Noh.

Counter-measures (to the police)

1. Risk assessment from telephone conversations, personal contact etc., with suspicious persons. Personal threats.
2. Financial/economic manipulation, to be in debt and have money lent to people/friends etc. at the same time.
3. Political engagement and propriety of ideas.

Content and forms

1. Trade union activity.
2. Voluntary action. Tenant groups, resident groups, community action, unemployed action groups.
3. Health. Physiotherapy, stress self-assessment.
4. Prison.
5. Psychiatric hospitals
6. On the streets." Keep the head down". Avoid confrontation.
7. The neighbourhood. Good fences make good neighbours. Complaints to the NIHE.
8. Political resistance and activity. “Agitate, organise, educate.”
9. At home. Women. Sex.
10. Money. In shops."Check your change".
11. Social security
12. Disease. State medicines countering it. Law.
13. Publication. Exposure. Press.
14. Police Measures.

The rule in Rylands v. Fletcher and the law of nuisance.

The Rule. Nothing may be emitted from the property to another that disturbs the quiet and peaceful enjoyment of the tenancy of another.

European Commission on Human Rights. Human Rights Act 1998. (European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg).

Article 8: “Everyone has the right to respect for his … home.”

See also Article 1 of The First Protocol to the European Convention.

Article 17 prevents a tenant from invoking his rights as a measure to justify invading those of others.

The police response? “It is no defence if the plaintiff came to the nuisance.”

Environmental law stops pollution.

Nuisance. A statutory nuisance e.g. noise

Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Remedies: law punishes violations of rights and offers compensation.

Reading (1) Tort Law, Tony Weir, Oxford University Press, 2002

(2) Understanding Tort Law, Carol Hatton

(3) Law of Torts, Alan J. Dennett, Pearson Professional Ltd, 1995; Pitman Publications 8^th ed. 1997

The Tactics of a Tout/Police Informer

1. Outsourcing. Disowns all foreknowledge of arrests and police blunders by pleading ignorance of foreknowledge of actions (SELF-PRESERVATION)
2. Outsourcing. Using information gained from others to gain personal rewards for himself/herself (PROXY)
3. Building networks in apparent rival organisations to pre-empt a complainant on ‘his’ side of the fence (INSIDER TRADING)
4. Maintaining a history that is self-validating (TELLING TALES/BLUFFS)
5. Promoting a bogus reputation for action. Only he/she promotes this image, everyone who knows him/her knows different (BLUFFING)
6. Trivialise and defusing threats to the state, ‘This is small’, he says (DEFUSING THE SITUATION)
7. Integrating himself with the person he wishes to setup for murder with alcohol, drugs, or money (BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP OF DEPENDENCY)
8. Putting himself/herself forward as an intermediary. He feels that when there are two viewpoints of communication talking the police source tracing back to himself/herself will be impossible (AGENCY).
9. Closeting. He will not allow a witness to his/her treachery and invasive questioning (CONTROL).
10. Malicious information. Character assassination. Degrading, diminishing and denigrating the target severely.(DEFAMATION).

Tactics of a police agent/state functions

1. Inflict economic damage. Steal or borrow property or money with no intent of returning the sum.
2. Where possible, abuse a position of responsibility or power to deny statutory or discretionary awards e.g. social security, housing benefit, redistributing goods etc.
3. Isolate the target by removing his friends and contacts.
4. Sabotage political propaganda by refusing to pay for political
5. propaganda.
6. Intimidate close acquaintances or political allies and democrats. This is the work of a political policeman.
7. Invade legal rights by establishing a precedent e.g. for trespass, assault, murder, theft, burglary. Use family members as proxies.
8. Infer guilt by association. The Accomplice. “A party before the crime, an accomplice after the fall”. Legal analogies by the police lawbreaker.
9. Cite the law in the causes of the mission of law-breaking. Invoke the protection of the law.
10. Objective reasoning (the political risk).
11. Empirical reasoning (eclectic risks).

Tactics of an agent of influence

1. Sow political disinformation and middle-class prejudice in a brazen fashion.
2. Inflict economic damage on the social democratic party and circles.
3. Portray the social democrat as an idiot or madman.
4. Gather (operational) information of political, personal (sexual) and financial indiscretion i.e. strong points and weak points.
5. Make an ostentatious display of ceaseless activity whilst doing nothing.
6. Filibuster. Talk at length with the aim of saying nothing .
7. Engage activists in "missions of no hope".
8. Promote endless formal generic meetings." Talking them down".
9. Do absolutely nothing of any significance.
10. Report members’ views, places of employment and addresses to the Special Branch for intimidation, sacking and targeting
11. Retaliate with all one’s ‘authority’ when facing exposure.
12. Deals in others’ works and actions, not his/her own actions.

Networking and Informers

1. The FBI/MI5 use the civil administration, police, army, post office, telecommunications, public services and civil services to mobilise all those in  the employment of the state or related individuals with police against insurgents, rebels and the intelligentsia. The intelligentsia are singers, writers, poets, journalists, authors, scientists, artists and teachers.
2. The endeavour to police all aspects of civil, military and intellectual life from within.
3. An informer prepares his/her defence before he puts his reputation /welfare in jeopardy. He will when reproved or accused attempt to brazen it out. Cover stories are prepared (corpore sana). He will say his views and intent are private matters that did not influence his actions – schizophrenia.
4. Friendly Societies of workers’ co-operatives and political parties are set at each other’s throats by police agents within those organisations. Touts draw targets out with their ideas.

Mind Yourself in the North

1. Hit the organisation in the pockets. Let them patronise their own shops, they perform no productive labour. Commerce is their sole talent.
2. Do not set up house in Orange or, worse again, ‘mixed’ areas. Find a Catholic area. Loyalists are drug-dependent hooligans and suave shop-boys.
3. Do not talk to policemen inside or outside their custody.
4. Avoid state medicine.  Arab medicine abuses.Avoid  those who lend trust and reputation to them after their productive life as wage – labourers has come to an end.
5. In a workplace always join a union. FIGHTBACK
6. Join the strike when one is called. Go slow when this action suits yourself and others.
7. Never perform unpaid labour. Slavery is trying to make a comeback. Avoid dangerous work.
8. Caution regarding trade union officials in league with professional politicians. They are rarely working class.
9. There is no such thing as a loyalist working class. This is a contradiction in terms. Their loyalty is to the capitalist.

Countermeasures. General

1. Never isolate yourself.Associate, socialise, talk to friends, communicate regularly.
2. Avoid confrontation. Defence before offence.
3. Keep the head down on the streets. Talk to 25 people a day(Fenians).
4. When arrested, say nothing, Never talk to the police, former policemen or soldiers.
5. Assess others' associates objectively and critically.  Do this regularly and monitor the consequences of engagements.
6. Join a trade union, unemployed action group,tenants' association, residents' association or participate in another form of community action. Stay in productive employment.
7. Do not trust some priests, doctors, monks or lawyers. Find a good lawyer. Know your rights.
8. Tell your wife or girlfriend nothing you do not want the police to know. Respect women. No contraception, no abortion, etc.
9. Avoid state medicine at all costs. Pay for a good physiotherapist service. Have nothing to do with state dentists. Drink plenty of water if on drugs or antibiotics. BNF.
10. Do not trust shopkeepers or newsagents. Check your change.
11. Avoid debt unless threatened with psychiatric imprisonment.
12. Avoid stress. Assess and mind yourself.
13. Rest and recuperation. Regular breaks.

Counter measures at work

1. Mind the back. A malign employer will try to damage you permanently through irreparable back injury.
2. Mind the head on building sites. Bricks fall. Observe safety precautions.
3. Keep the head down when sent to work on scaffolding. An informer beforehand may drive nails through scaffolding planks. Check scaffolding is secure.
4. Avoid talk of politics unless with proven colleagues.
5. Never expose yourself to accusations of sexual immaturity or promiscuity by talking about sexual matters. It will be “cast up” to you later.
6. Do not discuss religion.

Up close and Personal

One of the most insidious and subtle activities of the police and military in a revolutionary crisis is to arrange “street scenes” with socialists. Since the late 1930’s, the old communists have protested at these “street scenes with fascists”. The aim is to deceive, confuse and neutralise the socialist workers. This “targeting” of “key players” is accompanied by sleep deprivation inside and outside of jail and physical attacks on socialists in and beyond the workplace.The socialist revolution 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 eighties 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 thirties, violent fascist thugs were sent by the Irish police and military to confront the nationalist-socialist party.

In the nineties, the leaders of the socialist workers met the same caricatures of comrades, republican heroes, British soldiers, sporting heroes, former republican prisoners and activists in such circumstance as to imply a “resonance” for themselves. 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 cut-throats).

Sleep deprivation can only be practised under these conditions with the assistance of bribed gutter proletarians and thieves. Everywhere in the Free State the Neighbourhood Watch mobilised the eager householders to slam shut their doors as the ‘targets’ approached.

The art of targeting developed in Germany after 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 the 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 mind of something else) sums up these phenomena perfectly.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation exploiting the decline of the Northern physical force party perfectly in 1984 to employ more subtle yet brutal methods of drug disorientation. Fortnight magazine 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 revolutionaries as the movement went ‘political’. The U.S authorities have been publicly shown to have experimented with LSD on prisoners and soldiers in the 1950’s.The 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, 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 American songwriters may plead “Stay away from  my window, leave at your own chosen pace …” the friends of the socialist movement argue “Keep your head down!"  and “The rush-ons are coming! The rush-ons are coming!”. On the streets during the months of targeting, one is privy to “overhearing conversations” and estimates of the numerical strength of the socialists. In the workplace, one is the butt of malicious investigations from ne’er-do-wells. 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 not avail then when the cell-door finally closes behind them.

Marx’s Casual Dismissal

Philistines and revisionists insist on serious treatment of their bourgeois prejudices and mysticism. They often are the subject of lengthy objective studies but rarely achieve more than brief, clear characterisations from scientific socialists because they are not to be indulged, in general. In times of radicalisation and theoretical confusion, it is necessary to contradict ostentatious displays of ceaseless (mental)activity and feigned admiration which amount to nothing with concrete truths.

Marx stressed in the Theses on Feuerbach (1844) that people are a product of upbringing and society and change it by revolutionary or practical, critical activity. No socialist needs two days to explain that this is the destination of dialectical materialism.

Bookish German doctors and Professors of Philosophy refuted materialism to their own satisfaction. In 1860, Marx read of the attempt by one A. Bastian “to present psychology in terms of natural science and history in terms of psychology”. The young German doctor had written three short volumes, Marx wrote to Engels. Marx was tired of his struggle with "an ordinary mouchard"  called,Dr. Karl Vogt.Marx wrote that this attempt was "bad, muddled and amorphous”. He approved of Darwin’s Natural Selection with reservations as “the basis of our views”. Politics is about survival of the fittest and only leaders who fulfil their duty to study are leaders of the real movement.

Rest and Recuperation

Psychiatry represents the reflection in medicine of idealist philosophy or classical German philosophy which finds its highest expression in Freud. At bottom the individual is observed in isolation from society and viewed in an entirely subjective manner by the examiner. Feuerbach rejected idealism for materialism, but Marx put things in a dialectical fashion which is not at all at odds with Christianity - man is the product of upbringing and conditions an, in truth, "changes his conditions by practical- critical activity" (Theses on Feuerbach 3, 1845). These are the subjective (or idealist), objective and scientific approaches.

For the persons poisoned by alcohol, opium and heavy metals a strict regime of detoxification is necessary. White fillings   replace mercury amalgam in children and adults alike. No new amalgam fillings should be fitted to avoid heavy metal poisoning. Chinese medicine must take the place of Arab medicine. Stop smoking, rest and recuperation is required in taking the waters under medical supervision.

Orangeism and Disease

Cultivating drug addiction, alcoholism and gambling addictions are the three prongs of the imperialist in the home environment. When they fail, the British soldier and the Englishman resort to the infection of the targets with the famine diseases – dysentery, cholera, typhus, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever and so on. All require a working knowledge of medical practice. The infestation with tape worms is a particular favourite of   British famine tactics when they have gained the confidence of the rebel and invited him into their home.

Orangeism is the colour of dysentery, an easily curable ailment. The doctors in state employment are trusted by the Catholic poor repay trust with treachery. They tell the sick “treat yourself”, lest they fall victim to the same plagues of illness and vilification themselves.

These diseases were learned in India from the proto-English novice rajah. Without them, there would have been no English dominance of many second-rate powers. Famine starts the cull with them as in Ireland 1845-1849. One million died between 1846 and 1847; one and a half million emigrated. (Over half a million died in earlier famines in the nineteenth century). Between 1850 and 1855, over one million more emigrated. Between 1855 and 1870 one million more migrated. Between 1870 and 1914, one million more took flight. Ireland today has a population of less souls than lived in the country in 1841. Fear of hunger and disease stalked the land. The factories and slums of England were replenished by labour freed up by the Irish migration. Construction flourished with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Irish labourers.

The targetting of Irish republicans leads to the contamination of water supplies with intestinal parasites and fungal culture. Sanitation and drainage are not the response of the English – there is no law on the introduction of impurities into the water supply.

The Orange drug- hasslers practice similar infamies when allowed and ordered in the North. The U.S. interventions introduce lysergic acid into the domestic and public water supply. Reaction triumphs on the basis of a weakened population.

The United Sates Air Force and the Royal Air Force bombed Iraq’s water supplies constantly before the assault on Baghdad. The resistance crumbled (but arms were widely dispersed in advance). Making life intolerable for resistance is now the first priority of these “undivided unions” (Bush).

Tactics. Medical Activities

Psychiatry – the first step on the escalator...

The abuse of human rights is facilitated by the very nature of Western and Arab medicine. Counter posed to it is natural (or Chinese) medicine. The basis of medical fraud is learned through institutional indoctrination with idealistic philosophy and the drugging of the dupe. Thuggery is always resorted to by the “distinguished” doctors when traps are sprung. The police are invariably involved in all psychiatric detentions and the ' keepers' are always on hand to smash in the heads of the non-compliant.

In the aftermath of World War Two, the British Security Service came up with Room 022 where psychiatrists interrogated the German prisoners of war, most of them communists or social democrats. The philosophy of medical charlatans was based on Austrian idealist philosophy of the Freud school that utopia was possible and man divine or potentially divine. The smashing of heads was necessary to get the divine man into their draft.

The breakdown of agricultural small-holding in Ireland furnished ever more common fodder for lunatic asylums. The problem of a soldiery intoxicated with opiates goes back to the Crusades. Access to the lands of Palestine and Syria entailed control of the trade in opium from present day Afghanistan. The slaughters of the military class follow irrefutably from the brown concentrate. Today its place has been taken by synthetic or purple/lilac opiates produced in the hotbed of early fascism (Alcohol is another Arab invention as the name suggests).

Getting the police target and soldier into the custody of the doctor requires clever manipulation. No such testamentarylaw prevails in other countries, notably Germany, where to be born into a family is to inherit. In the English-speaking countries, we find the ‘play’ and the disinheriting of the legal heir. A violent, psychopathic frame of mind is cultivated in the younger siblings.Gambling invariably results No offspring are born to the family without police permission so as to disinherit the whole family. Abortion, contraception, separation and divorce are the outcomes of all relationships. The soldier can rely on the strong support of the doctors, police, soldiers and the non-productive classes. A ‘friendly’ solicitor suggests a trust when the father is unhappy at the disinheritance and the ploy is forced onto him. The  solicitor on £2000 a week charges for his services at once, twice  the weekly value of the widow with the aim of recouping more from trust administration fees.

The ploy of the doctors is to convince the target of the police and soldier that he had an ‘unhappy childhood’ and is ‘depressed’ or worse. Then brute force is applied by the alcoholic and the first step is made on the escalator. Poisoning with Class B drugs keeps the doctors and ‘agents’ content, money is made.

When all else fails – as it often does – the airhead police step in under order of the law. The law is rarely obeyed. With open contempt.

G2 in the South

Southern military intelligence operates through the sergeants and officers in the military barracks particularly around the border. Fianna Fail believed itself to have created the republican movement in 1969.It set about destroying it in 1983. The U.S. CIA joined the fray in giving information to British military intelligence. G2 “ran” agents in the North in its own investigations.

One such encounter between G2 agents and Northern Republicans was facilitated by O’Donnell (Lifts) Ltd. in Dublin between September 1990 and November 1990.

Attempts were made to exhaust muscle and nerve with unnecessary back-breaking labour best performed by teleporter or hoist in the construction of lifts at Team Aer Lingus, the aircraft maintenance company. “Get him in the back or legs” was the motto of the charge hand who denied all authority, Liam Hayes. This carpenter-turned-electrician-without-training drove six inch nails through scaffolding planks and sent the young ‘target’ out to work without a warning. After a complaint was made to the trade union, Hayes played for time and removed the nails from the planks in association with a bricklayer’s labourer and cut them up. They were subsequently disposed of.

The trade union official of SIPTU, Brendan Donnelly could do nothing. Political targeting, forget it. A new target back from the United States of Kerry origin was already in Hayes sights.

Hayes doubled up as a stage performer.

Such are the scum and riff-raff drawn into the work of the military intelligence gang in the Free State under the orders of the Taoiseach and the upper-class officers invariably vote Fine Gael.

Other joint operatives with the British led to the shootings in ambushes of Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde at Kesh in 1983. The source of the problem was a master sergeant. Police and soldiers in County Monaghan set up the murder of Seamus Mc Elwaine.