{"id":1028,"date":"2012-07-24T14:10:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T13:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2012-07-24T14:10:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T13:10:19","slug":"leading-dissident-shot-in-derry-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Leading Dissident Shot In Derry Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leading Dissident Shot In Derry Attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The city\u2014or at least certain parts of it— with the double barrelled name is fast\u00a0 turning into the wild west town of Northern Ireland.\u00a0 Dodge City of the North West Frontier.\u00a0 And many of the reasons for this lie with one or other of the shades of dissident republicanism mushrooming across Nationalist Stroke City.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 There used to be an old joke about the number of Loyalist organisations which sprang up over the course of the conflict but even that record is being eclipsed by the advent of new found republicanism.\u00a0 Barely a day goes by now without the mention of a fresh grouping springing up claiming to be representatives of their communities.\u00a0 The reality is that the vast majority of them are in fact pariahs in those communities and only survive for short periods through their bullying tactics and grip of fear imposed on suffering residents.\u00a0 Primarily these groupings are a mish mash of criminal elements and those claiming to be disaffected by the peace process.\u00a0 This too is something of a misnomer.\u00a0 There are many republicans disaffected by the peace process or to be more precise the path now being trodden by their former colleagues in the Provisional\/Sinn Fein movement. \u00a0But the can oppose that stance in an often constructive way rather than use a set of initials to claim allegiance as a smokescreen for their nefarious activities.\u00a0 These activities have been described as anti social\u2014a vast understatement\u2014what they should be described as are anti society.\u00a0 Because the truth is that these dissident groups have nothing to offer to this or any other society.\u00a0 Their vision of a New Ireland is one where they will dictate the agenda, control the working classes and continue to expand their burgeoning drug and criminal empires\u2014and God help anyone who opposes them.\u00a0 Already they seem to have the upper hand on the previous custodians of the nationalist working classes\u2014at least Sinn Fein seem powerless to exert any sort of influence where once they had total authority, and are conspicuous by their absence of opposition.\u00a0 Yesterday a so called leading dissident in one of the branches of this organised crime group\u2014The 32 County Sovereignty Committee\u2014was shot in both legs in the Creggan area.\u00a0 Jimmy Deery was\u2014at least until yesterday\u2014a senior figure in this group and \u201csources\u201d say that the punishment was meted out after some sort of internal dispute.\u00a0 If this is what they do to the leaders of the gangs in an internal dispute, what chance is there for the foot soldiers?\u00a0 Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels according to Samuel Johnson\u2014although James Boswell pointed out that Johnson was referring, not to patriotism in general but in fact false patriotism.\u00a0 In this context perhaps scoundrel isn\u2019t the best choice of noun to describe these low-lifes.\u00a0 Come to think of it, it would be difficult to come up with a suitable term that would portray them in the light they deserve.\u00a0 At the start of the conflict we were regaled with stories of how these revolutionaries studied and spread the word of Marx and Engels and Guevara .\u00a0 Their modern day counterparts heave I feel deserted those former literary heroes in preference of another\u2014George Orwell.\u00a0 And in particular his masterpiece—Animal Farm.<\/p>\n

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