Who set up the Provisional IRA to railroad the Civil Rights Movement and socialists in August 1969?

 The CIA,Irish Army and the Irish Government,a few retired half -senile geriatrics,country bumpkins and petty criminals anxious to get the loyalists off their 'patch',not forgetting the good and godly Catholic Church. 

These political showmen,street urchins, medically-dependent self-styled' long-haired  friends of Jesus and the truly oppressed, law-abiding  poor engineered a long-running insurrection and appealed to learned philosopher,man of letters and thug and hooligan with simple well-worked mantras and airy-fairy notions about equality and justice which boiled down to a few witty aphorisms about nothing in particular. Little amuses the innocent, some say,as regards a captive audience in a prison colony.

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26.12.2022

It would be a rude idiocy to think that a counter-revolutionary gang could leave any legacy other than murder and ruin but let it be remembered,even Provos attracted intelligent people motivated by high idealism.

In the  early 1970's the Belfast and Derry Provos clearly had the character of a gang,a mafia-style organisation characterised in an American setting by The Godfather film.

The idealists of this paramilitary group were romantic  fools. They did not question those who they were firing up to idle enthusiasm, an idle enthusiasm which alternated with sectarian strife and internecine community violence.

The whole apparatus of terror was lent a high moral idealism by the hunger strikes.

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Attracted to republicanism after the hunger strikes,I built up the whole apparatus of "a routine,killing machine" on the basis of "intelligence-led operations". Those activities were actuated by the simple motto,"Think it out first!" I called my putting my hand to the tiller "building the New Model Army".

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What myself and so many other willing stooges of US imperialism have done has not just ruined our own lives but those around us who lent us succour and offered us support.

The moral idealism of the 1980's? The Late Romantic idealism of the 1970's? 

Two big gusts of wind best combatted by national democracy in the South and,in the North, by cross-community politics, common  decency and anti-sectarianism of either the kind of unionist democratic endeavour or the nationalist striving for equanimity in legal outcomes.

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29.9.2023

"Wherever you find a Provo, particularly one who is well up in that organisation or has been involved in it for many years,you will always have a little bollocks who thinks his own connections to the British Army will stand him in good stead when they inevitably come to blows and Martin Cahill and Owen Carron are two of those who you will have to deal with one day,Joe,if you want to get your health back because both are connected to the police on both sides of the Border as is Sean Lynch and quite a few of the people who you are mixing with. They think they're bigger fish than you and have more clout but the more you know about them,the more you have to laugh at their claims. If you don't deal with them,they will haunt you and scandalise you to your dying day. People like them are never out of pubs and sending people to check up on you. They'd shit themselves if they realised what you had done. The loyalists are absolutely paralysed with fear of you ... that's why they send young people to intimidate you and the UDR are no different. Lynch is only a bollocks who didn't do half the things he said that he did. Other people did those things and they don't want it to be known or talked about. Most of the people who were killed by the Provos were people who moved in beside other Provos or were there before them. They know where to find them and when they'll catch up with them. That's the origin of the expression,long runs the fox till he's trapped and caught since foxes usually have brown hair and most informants have it too whatever you think since people dye their hair to get rid of the stink of a police uniform. Lynch and Carron both tried to get you killed. You know about one of them,do something about the other and a lot of your problems with the police and neighbours will  disappear overnight." (My brother-in-law,John)

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"That's just some oul' story Shan  G. or Harry C. got D. to tell your brother in law to tell you because they didn't want you to know who your real friends are...."(My mother)

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30.7.2025

"The Americans are not remotely interested in the Europeans and try to catch them between two pillars. They think they are Samson because of Europeans prolixity of knowledge and much greater abilities and their own stronger fire power. These days,it is only the Irish who fall for their silly street games because of the importance of US investment and the competing power of the English (in this country). No-one in the US is remotely concerned about Ireland or any European country, they're only interested in money and getting rich and driving around in stink and style. Their food couldn't even be given to the dog it's so full of hormones and steroids and other filth they take themselves. When the Americans pull out of the South,we will have a much better but poorer and less conservative country."

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18.9.2025

It must be emphasised to the weak- and simple-minded that Sinn Fein is not a socialist party.

Sinn Fein is the legacy of US State Department involvement in fomenting violence when reforms were underway.

Reform or proper and lawful conduct is something alien to the US empire. Reform and justice of any type are rejected by those bombing Gaza in association with the Israelis.

America is Terror International,a rogue state created by poverty,greed and ambition. It is and has always been capitalist. Like Israel it is a settler state with many poor immigrants and political adventurers (The Green Book).

We must have done with Americans in our country and send them packing. The businesses they have set up do not serve our needs. They were established for the self-aggrandisement of Reagan and Clinton.

We want the US to disengage from our country and to stop sending bastards like John Doyle and Patrick Murphy to poison our water supply and whores melts such as Gerry Cahill and Tommy O Brien to attack us with knuckledusters and cutthroat razors.

We want a registration of foreign agents act to displace tramps such as Patricia Gallagher and Linda Kowalski (alias 'Patricia Sharkey', Coolnagard Park,Omagh,County Tyrone).

We want you people to take your confetti money currency and GO.

We have had enough of Americans.

GO and GO NOW and don't come back!

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13.11.2025

"The Provos are not a national liberation movement nor do they represent anything progressive. They're vigilantees who try to trap young and idealistic people in a three way bind with self-styled guardians of the peace and hooligans to turn them into murderers and petty criminals and unpaid slaves. Their trademark is beatings in back alleyways. There may be a few genuine people involved but I do not know much about them. They will do a deal with Paisley eventually because he's the same on the Protestant side,a representative of corner-boys and thugs. You will find one day that,in that way, they'll get their hands on big money and big jobs and push their own businessmen in and shove out the Unionists and SDLP ones. They have nothing to recommend them nor do you for associating with them or taking their high-falutin' speeches seriously. They'll replace the SDLP one day, people like that drunken loudmouth, Colton. You would be better off having nothing to do with either of them. They are both only interested in big jobs and getting their hands on what belongs to other people. They must have learned it in Donegal because Northerners are certainly not like that. Your views are on the moderate end of the spectrum like your mother's. You will probably end up joining the SDLP like people join football clubs to beat up people and make it look like sport. They will do nothing for you either,no more than anybody else who has a connection to the Catholic Church. That's who is behind your problems,the priests and a few trusted servants of theirs who you don't know about but will get to know eventually when they're not trying to run you over in their big cars. Leave a message with someone you trust when you are going away any distance from your house and tell Sean Lynch or Mickey Mc Govern or that bollocks who can't keep his trousers on,Mick Mc Manus, nothing."