[SOC] more tidbits

[Paul Bartlett]

Don't get me started again...

I have the dubious honour of having witnessed the results one of the IRA's
'statements' in the early seventies in Caterham, Surrey, England (where I
was brought up) on Sunday 28 September 1975. They exploded a bomb in a
popular local pub that had the misfortune to lie a few hundred yards from a
local Army barracks. Not much security in a pub. Any pub.

As far as the IRA apologist Devlin is concerned, I have no sympathy
whatsoever.

Paul :-(

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd Lachow" <llachow@yahoo.com>
To: "SOC AList" <SOC@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:13 PM
Subject: [SOC] more tidbits


>
>
> Boy, it just gets better and better.  Here are a
> couple of other nuggets pulled off of website news
> sources.  The second one is particularly interesting,
> since Bernadette Devlin is somewhat well-known, and a
> formermember of the British Parliament:
>
>
> *--- Andrew J. O'Conner, a former public defender from
> Santa Fe, New Mexico, was arrested in a public library
> and interrogated by Secret Service agents for five
> hours on February 13th.  His crime? He said "Bush is
> out of control" on an internet chat room, and was
> arrested for threatening the President.
>
>
> *--- Bernadette Devlin McAliskey of Ireland was
> recently passing through Chicago from Dublin, where
> she passed security, when she heard her name called
> over a loudspeaker. When she went up to the ticket
> counter, three men and one woman surrounded her and
> grabbed her passport. McAliskey was informed that she
> had been reported to be a "potential or real threat to
> the United States."McAliskey has spent the better part
> of her life struggling for the Irish Nationalist
> cause. She did not lob Molotov cocktails at police.
> Instead, she became a member of British Parliament at
> age 21, the youngest person ever elected to that post.
> In 1981, she and her husband were shot by a loyalist
> death squad in their home. She has traveled to America
> on a regular basis for the last thirty years, and has
> been given the keys to the cities of San Francisco and
> New York. Upon her detention in Chicago last month,
> McAliskey was fingerprinted and photographed. One of
> the men holding her told her that he was going to
> throw her in prison. When she snapped back that she
> had rights, she was told not to make the boss angry,
> because he shoots people. "After 9/11," said one
> officer, "nobody has any rights." "You've evaded us
> before," said the officer before McAliskey was
> deported back to Ireland, "but you're not going to do
> it now." She never found out for sure how she was a
> threat to the United States, and is currently filing a
> formal complaint with the U.S. consulate in Dublin.
>
>
>
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