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Thread #15998   Message #146606
Posted By: InOBU
08-Dec-99 - 12:50 PM
Thread Name: Today in Ireland's History
Subject: RE: Today in Irelands History
PS I dropped a letter two posts back, that should read wonder at the political perspectives of those who DO NOT live in countries with political censorship. Mbo... we have an obligation to help break throgh a wall of lies and censorship and to do so, we have to acknowlege that people of good faith may dissagree and not have the knowlege we do. For GeorgeH, let me pass on a story of political censorship, of a kind. I had the pleasure of spending some time with Frank Holroid, when I was in law school. He was a defector from either MI 5 or 6, I get the two mixed up, I must admit. His job in Ireland was to put spin on Rueters news. An example was the reporting on the death of Patrick Campbell. Campbell was the head of the Shankill Butchers. They would take Catholics, indiscriminately chosen, and torture them in a back room of a pub refered to as the rumpus room. A Loyalist, who informed on them was publicly tortured to death by them. For decades no action was taken against him, so one day he was killed by Irish Republicans. The Rueters story ran as follows. Today in Belfast, Patrick Campbell, a Butcher, was killed in a sectarian murder. It is hard in such an invironment to know what is going on, and being done with the indorcement of your vote.
Peace and understanding
Larry