{"id":1043,"date":"2012-07-27T16:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2012-07-27T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:30:02","slug":"deafening-silence-on-state-collusion-free-state-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Deafening Silence On State Collusion….Free State, That is…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Deafening Silence on Republican Collusion
\n<\/strong>\u00a0This week new evidence emerged during the Smithwick Tribunal\u00a0showing that rather than three Gardai officers passing on information to the IRA in the 1980\u2019s there was actually four\u2014and this one was a high ranking Gardai also based in Dundalk just like the others.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 The ongoing inquiry has already learned that Finbar Hickey, Leo Colton and Owen Corrigan had conspired with the Provisionals and supplied information that led to the ambush and shooting dead in Jonesborough, County Armagh of two RUC detectives in 1989\u2014Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan.\u00a0 The evidence comes from a number of different sources including a former Gardai detective now retired.\u00a0 The same detective also supplied information on the abduction, brutal torture and subsequent murder of Tom Oliver, a County Louth farmer in 1991.\u00a0 Mr. Oliver was of course a Gardai informer who had been taped by the IRA giving information to his handler. Given that for a large number of years now we\u2014the general public\u2014have been force fed a diet of republican propaganda about the amount of collusion between loyalist and security forces isn\u2019t it strange that there hasn\u2019t been a single utterance from the Provisional\/Sinn Fein movement on the increasing number of proven instances of republican\/security force interaction?\u00a0 Nor will there be.\u00a0 For as long as I can remember, sectarianism in this country was a one way street only.\u00a0 When Protestants were attacked by Catholics it wasn\u2019t deemed to be sectarian in nature\u2014but when it was\u2014sorry, is\u2014we got it from all angles.\u00a0 The collusion issue is exactly the same.\u00a0 No other name has been suggested for the practice of nationalists or republicans colluding with security forces from whatever country they choose.\u00a0 Again, the term only applies to loyalists.\u00a0 An invention by the Provisional\/Sinn Fein machine to harden the image already created of the good guy\/bad guy scenario in relation to the conflict here.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t hard to work out which community is perceived as the bad guys.\u00a0 As in the case of Stakenife\u2014Freddie Scappiticci\u2014the silence from the Sinn\u00a0 Fein camp was deafening.\u00a0 Here was a man who\u2014whilst holding a very senior rank within the Provisional IRA\u2014and the leading light, ironically in the squad who looked after internal discipline, including sussing out informers\u2014done over thirty Catholics to their death supposedly in collusion with Army Intelligence and yet it is disregarded by the party.\u00a0 So any thoughts of a statement or even whisper about more of the same are highly unlikely.\u00a0 This of course falls right into line with their overall strategy of tarring individuals or organisations with one brush while in the background\u2014behind the scenes in fact–laying it on thick with their own pitch covered brooms.<\/p>\n

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