Comments on The Pensive Quill: Unmanned Barricades

I hope this doesn’t post more than twice! Having a...

2011-11-20T13:49:26.474Z

I hope this doesn’t post more than twice! Having a problem with Google! I concur with Alec, an excellent piece. I thought I had ran out of vomit until I seen McGuinness on tv the other night urging young nationalists to become screws! (I’m dry retching now). After Robinsons hissy fit I thought to myself: “I don’t care if they have tricolours on their hats and shoulders”, if they are locking up, abusing, harassing and brutalising Republican prisoners, they are Bastards! To paraphrase Alec: if they are middle class, have a fainne glas and are members of a GAA club, then Robert’s your aunties husband.

GARDA = GERMAN FINANCED POLICE FORCE! TIME FOR A N...

2011-11-20T12:06:51.606Z

GARDA = GERMAN FINANCED POLICE FORCE! TIME FOR A NAME CHANGE.

The checks and balances which were put in place to...

2011-11-20T09:59:04.717Z

The checks and balances which were put in place to hold the new force to account have failed to do the job they were set us to do. On the one hand, the DPPs are merely talking shops which exist to give the appearance of local accountability whilst, on the other hand, the Ombudsman was the subject of a highly critical public report exposing its lack of independence.

Under Patten the Baggott has complete operational control and all matters pertaining to 'national security' are the sole concern of British MI5; again with little or no checks or balances. The more these shortcomings are exposed the greater Sinn Fein's embarrassment at their glaring failure to secure an acceptable threshold.

Good piece, Mackers. You know my views on policing...

2011-11-19T23:17:10.400Z

Good piece, Mackers. You know my views on policing so I will not bore you with long winded comments. Suffice to say that for me the PSNI is the RUC with the rough edges sanded down and polished off in order to appeal to a greater number of people from both tradition. If you hail from a middle class background with a university degree and want a job 'serving the community' then the new police service is the ticket: add to this membership of a GAA club, fluency in the old native tounge up to fainne glas level and Bob's your uncle.

Believe me when I say, I see no evidence of new codes of conduct nor any commitment to human rights whenever I am stopped and put through the mill. It is the political policing of old.