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How
many of the Blanket's readers have heard of
the Civilian Administration Department?
Not too many I wouldn't imagine and with a name like
that you could be forgiven for thinking that it was
a division of Belfast City Council, but I'm afraid
it isn't. It is the name given by the PIRA to the
gentlemen who last week decided to rearrange Bobby
Tohill's hairstyle and take him for a wee hurl in
their van afterwards. Just to blow some of the affects
of the drink out of his obviously fuzzy head, you
understand. You can kill people with kindness you
know.
Would you believe that some of the units of the aforementioned
department actually operate from local Sinn Fein offices
and are publicly funded?
Hard to believe, right, but because Sinn Fein and
the PIRA are against the policing of republican/nationalist
areas by the RUC/PSNI, this is seen by their leadership
as a form of Provo Police and for some inexplicable
reason the recognised police force do not seem to
have a problem with it, as was demonstrated as far
back as 2002 in the Ardoyne.
How do they work? Well, much like the RUC or PSNI,
if you have a problem with any of the local youth
or dissident republican elements, you go and report
it to these people and they perform in basically the
same manner in which the RUC/PSNI have always done
with regard to dissident republicans, as Bobby Tohill,
much to his chagrin, found out.
I am reliably informed that on certain occasions,
there is even a form of judicial hearing which takes
place before sentence is passed and the poor unfortunate
is taken away to have his hairstyle rearranged or
the way that he or she walks is altered in some way.
Ah, at last some community judgement, you might think,
but I'm afraid that isn't the way it works, although
that is the way that these people would like it to
be seen.
What about the drug dealers, the extortionists, the
housebreakers and the muggers, surely anything that
removes or deters these people from operating in our
community, can only be for our own good? You may well
ask.
Well,
you can report them but only if they do not kick back,
or are related in some way, to the members of this
group, in which case, you may find that you are the
one receiving the privilege of a wee hurl in their
van.
I can remember the time when Sinn Fein was a republican
socialist movement but I'm afraid that is not the
case now, it has become everything that was fought
against and is closer aligned to the Britain of Thatcher
than the Ireland of Connolly.
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