In one of my first operations to free prisoners,I cited Paddy ("the Creggan white hare") Mc Dermott as someone prepared to smuggle a Browning 9 mm pistol into Long Kesh/The Maze since he had been a lifelong Republican sympathiser and was Chairman of An Cumann Soisialach at Queen's University, Belfast. I was also a member. (The Students Campaign Against Repression was prohibited from the use of Students Union premises).
I believed that we had to takes risks.
Others may have been involved,pleading legal privilege,marching in with thick files in a brusque manner.
38 prisoners broke out and 19 were soon recaptured.
Soon to be cock of the walk were the SAS after they laid a trap for some of them.
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In our times,the IRA have returned to "their hills and their farms" (Mark Knopfler,Dire Straits,Brothers in Arms,1986).
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Sadly,no soldier has a friend in a military policeman other than one in a rival army in time of war. The appointed mediators,the police in Northern Ireland are wild fascist thugs and devious, distraught and deadly "uniforms" ( early military writings and expositions,1983-7) or "Crown Forces personnel" (British Operations Handbook, 1987-88,copyright,The Republican Movement,1987,1988)....or simply "RUC terrorists", (AP/RN, February March 1985, copyright, The Republican Movement 1969 ff.).
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9.3.2023
The "fuel-air" bomb attempt at the 'Camel's Hump' Army checkpoint, September 1983...
I ordered this attack to throw a few tasty morsels to those who wanted to kill British soldiers. I had gone on the record as being solely interested in dealing with UDR officers with "some compromises" and SAS "assassins".
My oral exposition was "The 'target' has come to us, We'll strike them at their weakest point. My instructions from Belfast are that we're not to 'throw away our lives on reckless adventures' whatever that might be,Mick,and I have to stick to the Green Book and what it says about "adventurers" because I reported those eejits from Dublin for promoting Marxist literature to you and Donnelly,if you recall,Mick. What became of that investigation anyway,Mick? Were they not court-martialled? We have to keep in well with the Americans,you know well what they're like particularly with this fellow Reagan in charge.....
"... anyway, that's enough of speeches. Petrol fumes have what's known as 'greater yield'-that's just a fancy word for more strength or power-than TNT when detonated. That's what I've been thinking about lately, Mick. More bang for your buck as the Americans call it. We can use gelignite to detonate it. I'm working on something that will be a middle-of-the-road approach between what you believe in and Thatcherism. It's called commercial fluidity. It just means easing up trade and commerce so that there's less paperwork and things are more up to date than the present system.I'm calling it "Minimise input,maximise output" and business or commercial efficacy. We'll use gelignite to detonate the explosive gases in a fuel tanker. They can stop a lot of our activities but the public wouldn't stand for no petrol in the garage. We'll use that old nonsense from Maggie about the Miners Strike in 1972-74 blocking up supplies and putting people out of work against them.
"That's what I think of their oul' shite-talk about hearts-and-minds. Did you ever read Kitson's book. Th'on buck was within a square a' bein' round..."
But,I digress,...
The bomb did not explode because the explosive primer had to be inserted by v.....-induction.
Since 'Mick' is now dead and our difficulties with 'The Guests of the Nation" are once more coming to a head,I do not wish to be a cause of further death and injury.
The Great Satan(s) will be here in the North along with the 'King', Clinton,and Simon to celebrate the Feast of the Passover along with his wife,"a woman whose hips have never known the pain of childbirth",Hilary Clinton.
Let us shout in our preferred fashion for Ukraine and,those of us who know better who our real friends are,differ sotto voce.
Trouble is coming.
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11.3.2023
On 2 February 1983 I took over the effective running of the IRA because someone who knew I "got stuck in like the rest of us," (Tom Fitzpatrick, Reilly's Woods,Teemore,Leader London Station, Oglaigh na hEireann,1990-1998) liked "the cut of my gib" (Der Spielplan July-August 1988) and remained in position until 7 August 1988 and held decisive sway over the direction of IRA activities until 1993 when I was pushed aside by even more murderous and more naive young bucks than myself....
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Death to the Great Whore of Babylon,she of the flaxen hair
I devised the idea of a three-month electronic delay timer having seen the circuit board at the rear of a Sharp 8080 radio recorder made in Malaysia which I had bought in Main Radio in Kaiserstr. Ffm. with earnings from my first job ...
...I decided to "pay Thatcher back in her own cain (G.,tax,levy) for wanton thuggery and cruelty at the top"...
The electronic timer which was built by Gilbert Mc Namee was based on a three month-delay electronic timer ("imput-output,no more difficult than that Mick...what goes in must come out..")
Power was by a batch of watch batteries...
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Sanguine?
Ein grosser Erfolg fur das Heer!
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1983. Armagh operations
In 1983 Edgar Graham was shot by the Belfast Provos without my sanction as Director of Operations (Northern Command).
It seems to have been the work of Danny Morrison,Brian Mc Cartney and Kieran Traynor.
I liked Edgar and had pleaded with him in tutorials to cease and desist from public advocacy of the informer system. I had little time for IRA loudmouths in my circle of associates.
On the day of his funeral,I ordered Kieran Traynor to destroy the buses at the Ulster bus depot in Armagh City and to plant a number of blast incendiaries in a textile factory in Armagh. Both were discriminating against Catholics, something ignored by old frauds in the Catholic clergy and charlatans in the so-called Workers Party,SDLP and nationalist parties.
The bus depot was attacked under cover of darkness as was the textile factory. Both targets were destroyed.
Since those dramatic events,the Provos have been led by frontmen. Now they are consigned to the scrapheap of progressive politics by virtue of having fallen for the games of old whores and "beauty queens" with Botox.
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Why such brutality and indiscriminate acts of violence,I hear you say?
I was misled by older,shrewder people styling themselves IRA men when,in actual fact,they were petty criminals.
Thatcher's fall from the fifth floor to be saved by her knicker elastic catching on the rafters of the Grand Hotel,why?
It was abundantly clear that she had set a course to perdition and ruin and social chaos first in the periphery and was making her way to the very epicentre of a country going through a deep moral and political crisis.
She HAD to be punished for her reckless behaviour.
I have no regrets about what I did at the Grand Hotel to curtail the descent into social chaos and economic ruin.
