Of Sin
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Last week saw involving the misappropriation of public funds.
largesse = in. €41, £800 policemen allegedly injured during the P.D. protest against Ardglass in June.
These claims are totally bogus, suffered by these gallant officers are either self-inflicted, imaginary, or the result of them getting too close to their psychotic colleague, Constable 425, Trevor Lyttle. The P.D. demonstrators were assaulted by some members of the riot squad and arrested for no cause - even the notorious Walmsley acquitted two members and judge Brown acquitted a further one and reduced the sentences in all cases but two.
Chief amongst those police guilty of thuggery and later perjury were 425 Lyttle, who was so out of control that his own colleagues had to drag him off some of his victims and 1307 Walker, the infamous testicle stretcher. Both these veterans received £125! - presumably for services rendered to the state.
Another perjurer to be suitably rewarded (£150) was Edward Cowan of Bessbrook - perhaps in compensation for the fact that the man he tried to jail, Dermot Kelly, was acquitted when judge Brown reluctantly had to accept that Sgt. Ferguson, Finaghy Road South, and constables Cowan and Lyttle were telling lies - 546 Cecil Ferguson also received £100. missing martyr Strangely, the one man who claimed to have been assaulted by no less a criminal abuse The recipients of this were Six cement scabs at and any injuries Lyttle, Walker and Ferguson are the subjects of an official inquiry into their brutality conducted by a senior and impartial officer (of the R.U.C. of course), or to testify that at the first trial none of these officers even claimed to have suffered any injuries or produced any medical evidence at the second trial.
It seems that the law looks after its own - even the incompetent perjurers, and that the wages of sin are good this year - like £800! failure to back the Civil Rights campaign and their total inaction on working-class issues have exposed the sham nature of their 'socialism'. Given even the alternative of the SDLP most of their former supporters deserted the them.
Far from losing the NILP support, McCann's membership has unfortunately tended to persuade some genuine socialists to stay in that rotten organisation in the vain hope of changing it from within. Now that the NILP Executive have shown their disregard for internal democracy by
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