Anti social behaviour a pretext for British Policing

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Wednesday July 25, 2007 16:45

by Kevin Murphy - 32 County Sovereignty Movement

sarmagh32csm at hotmail dot com

Anti-Social Behaviour in South Armagh is being used as a Pretext to introduce British Policing.

PRESS RELEASE: 32 County Sovereignty Movement.
25/07/2007.

Anti-Social Behaviour a Pretext for British Policing.

Provisional Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy has today led a delegation to meet with
the RUC/PSNI in Newry to "discuss anti social behaviour" in the South Armagh
area. This is part of a choreographed move on the part of Sinn Fein to bring
the British Police force into the South Armagh area and anti social
behaviour is being used as a convenient vehicle to do so.

During this past week it was seen as "necessary" to invite the RUC to a
residents meeting in the village of Meigh to deal with anti social behaviour
yet the 32 County Sovereignty Movement has been assured by several local
residents that the village is quieter than it has been in many years. With
this in mind it can only be concluded that this whole move by Sinn Féin is
politically motivated rather than being done in the intrests of or driven by
any genuine concern for local people.

In relation to today’s meeting in Newry Conor Murphy himself has stated that
it is "essential that communities get the policing service that they are
entitled to" adding that "a critical engagement between republican
communities and the PSNI can help bring this about".

As members of the South Armagh community we would like to ask Conor Murphy
the following. As part of this process will he demand that the community
which he speaks for be urged to inform on republican separatists alleged to
have been behind the planting of bombs in his constituency last week and
will any further acts of resistance against the occupying forces be seen as
acts of criminality? Sinn Féin needs to make their position on this clear to
the people.

Murphy also stated that Sinn Féin wanted "to see the local community and
criminal justice agencies, especially the PSNI, working together to ensure
that people could live in peace and safety, free from intimidation, threat
or violence."

As republicans the contradiction in the above quote is glaringly obvious.
The RUC is the armed wing of the 6 county state and for many years has used
intimidation threat and violence to maintain the illegal British presence in
Ireland. Its primary function is to defend the status quo and it will no
doubt continue to use such means in future against those who challenge this.
As this challenge will inevitably come from republican separatists how is it
possible that the RUC can offer any republican community "peace and safety,
free from intimidation, threat or violence"?

Hopefully Conor Murphy can show the republicans in his constituency the same
respect he now shows to the crown forces and address these concerns.

Kevin Murphy
PRO
32 County Sovereignty Movement
South Armagh
www.southarmagh32.blogspot.com

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Chuig: Des

by Seaicilín F

Tue Jul 31, 2007 21:58

Des,

I advocate a few steps that I have witnessed work to tackle ‘anti-social behaviour’, although I’ve only seen them work effectively in smaller communities:

First step being, a surprise close encounter with the offender from the group representing the local community (and nominated by them) to confront the ‘anti-social behaviour’ offender about his/her wrongdoing and a reading out of offences (this is only to be done when the offender is alone and away from his/her 'anti-social behaviour support group') with a warning to desist from this behaviour in future in the interests of his/her own betterment and that of the whole community’s;

Second step, would be to 'Meet the Parents' and find out what the hell is going on that they are permitting their teenagers/young adults to persecute the community. If the 'Meet the Parents' meeting fails to be productive then;

the Third step would be that, everyone in the community assembles at the offender's house, preferably when s/he is there, and the community publicly announces over a loudspeaker (every victim in turn) their grievances and how the community is suffering at his/her hands and what the community would like the offender to do to resolve the situation.

Fourthly, the traditional boycott & ostracisation policy could be enforced, which would mean local shopkeepers, garages, pubs and other community service outlets agree to refuse to serve the offender until s/he puts a halt to the anti-social behaviour - this is very effective in a small community (I’ve witnessed this work some years back when I lived in my home village, and in Brittany), but it could be unrealistic/difficult in a city centre environment.

Fifthly, and as a last resort, if all the above steps fail and the messages of condemnation does not hit its target, stronger measures would be employed to force the offender to cease his/her ‘anti-social behaviour’, such as a reinforced promise of serious detrimental consequences for the offender should the offender continue attacking his/her own community.

D’fhear cogaidh comhaltar síocháin.

Question to Seaicilín F

by Des

Tue Jul 31, 2007 14:03

Seaicilín
When you say "and collectively putting sufficient pressure on those guilty of ‘anti-social behaviour’ to quit it", what type of pressure are you suggesting? Do you mean protests outside their homes and such or something more sinister like punishment beatings or threats?

Get real

by moi aussi

Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:30

The PSNI are not the "police force of all the people" of Northern Ireland, no more than the Garda are the police force of Joe and Joan Soap in the south. They are the police force of the STATE and a tool of the political elite. You think the PSNI is a workers' militia or summit?

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by moi

Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:16

the PSNI are the police force of all the people of Northern Ireland, and as such are entitled to support?

PSNI contribute to Anti-Social Behaviour by their very existence!

Tue Jul 31, 2007 01:59

The PSNI (the “British Military Police”) are hardly the organisation to be approaching to tackle ‘anti-social behaviour’, when they are guilty of it themselves - worse still, they have a long track record of killing and torturing and spying on people in the nationalist and republican communities - this must never be forgotten!

I believe anti-social behaviour could be tackled by people in that community coming together and organising effectively, listening to young people in the community, and collectively putting sufficient pressure on those guilty of ‘anti-social behaviour’ to quit it, while at the same time suggesting more advantageous activities they could engage in.

I believe also by investing more money in community centres and activities of interest to young teenagers/adults such as, for example: skateboarding parks, car racing tracks, graffiti art galleries, creative music centres, youth clubs with boxing/karate clubs, shooting galleries (of the legal variety), and internet/games cafés, and other types of adventure centres, to alleviate the boredom and thus significantly reduce anti-social behaviour in young adults. More green space would be an immense help also, as many young people live in much built up areas which are lacking in interesting facilities for them, and with no where to escape from the mundane unimaginative concrete environment that surrounds them, making it all too easy for them to drift into anti-social mode.

Police forces are the wrong people to approach to tackle ‘anti-social behaviour’, as their only contribution is to lock young people up, and that’s not much of a solution is it? - when young people come out of prison more angry and bitter than when they went in.

PSNI not even wanted

by Mother of three - Former SF

Thu Jul 26, 2007 02:28

The fact is there is no organization as unsuited to tackling anti social behaviour as the police. Even if they wanted to stop it they couldnt, no conventional police force in the world has ever stopped it . I know who is breaking into my neighbours houses at night and will probably break into mine some night. So do the PSNI, in all likelyhood they are paying him / them. Yet what will they do? The provos are telling us we have to put all our faith in the PSNI, they have condemned us to a lifetime of misery. The hoods run west Belfast, the war was for nothing.

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