Re: MI5 takes over North's 'security' (Ireland)
Quote:
Originally Posted by kimm
MI5 has taken charge of national security in the North for the first time, it was revealed today.
Chief Constable Hugh Orde handed over control to the British intelligence agency, which is opening a new office near Belfast.
|
Meanwhile, some deluded Provo supporters are still celebrating the dismantling of army watchtowers thinking that a withdrawl is imminent.
Quote:
|
But it means that for the first time in the history of the State, MI5 will have the lead role in national security intelligence gathering, which will range from international terrorism to the threat posed by dissident Irish republicans opposed to the peace process.
|
I noticed this, followed by this:-
Quote:
|
The British government has already made it clear that the agency will not have any part in civic policing – a move aimed at reassuring Sinn Féin.
|
Now this is either a contradiction in the space of a paragraph, or it's an unintentional admission that the British do not consider Republican groups to be criminals. The reason being that if they were simply criminals, as they have stated for the past two decades under their policy of Criminalisation, then this would be a matter of civil policing. If they are saying here that it is not, they they consider them something other than mere criminals and their entire policy towards the IRA since the early 80's has been a sham and a lie. Of course, it obviously has been. But this is tacit admission of that fact.
__________________
The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil
- Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922)
The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth.
For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish.
- Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596).
The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation.
- Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature
Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation.
- Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
|