Reject the 'NEW' RUC

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Republican Socialist Youth Movement
McCann / Gallagher Cumann, Belfast.
15/3/06

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

The Stormont elections are over once more, to us the exercise is
entirely cosmetic and bears little relevance to those in opposition to
the cementing of British rule in Ireland – following the results we are
calling upon youth to reject the unreformable RUC.

Speaking after the election Republican Socialist Youth Movement
spokesperson Chris Duffy said

“It is clear from the election results that both Nationalists and
Unionists are voting for the two parties they believe will guarantee two
polar opposites through the same structures and agreements – on one hand
a United Ireland the other for the strengthening of the connection with
Britain

“In light of the election results, especially the poor results that many
anti-Good Friday Agreement candidates yielded, we are calling upon young
people in particular to reject the RUC as an unreformable bastion of
Unionism

Mr. Duffy continued “Sinn Féin has adopted the positions of the SDLP and
have consistently moved in on respectable areas that were once SDLP
strongholds but this is to be expected. We cannot expect change through
parliamentary politics, the British will not give an inch to any genuine
Republican that challenges their system”

“The RUC in its present form of the PSNI will always be unreformable,
this was reinforced by the videoing of recent pickets and the arrest of
Gerry McGeough

“More worrying has been the firing of shots in north Belfast in relation
to what is called ‘dissident’ activity, children were out playing at the
time of the shots being fired by the PSNI and one narrowly missed a
woman as she stood just inches from where the bullet was to penetrate
her door.”

In conclusion Mr. Duffy said “It is our view that policing will always
be political. The PSNI will still be hauling Republicans to prison for
their activities even with a detachment of MI5 from civic policing, the
policing board does not contain any mechanisms to prevent the arrest or
detainment of Republicans.”

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PRESS RELEASE-BRITISH POLICING IS POLITICAL POLICING

The recent announcement of the recruitment of 50 part time PSNI officers for the Newry and Mourne area (and despite the medias portrayal of it as a bold step forward) is nothing more than an extension of the British governments normalization policy in Ireland.

These people who will take up their positions in July of this year will be no different than any other member of the RUC in that their principle aim will be to maintain the status quo and defend Britain's illegal claim to sovereignty in the six occupied counties.

The recent claims which have been made by the constitutional political parties that policing has now changed were exposed for what they were, when only the day after the recent assembly elections independent republican Gerry McGeough was arrested leaving a polling station in Omagh. This arrest was clearly politically motivated and was intended as a message to all republicans that nothing has changed and that those who oppose the British presence in Ireland will be removed and silenced.

The fact is that as long as there is a dispute over the constitutional status of the six counties British policing will remain political policing as it is there to carry out the will and enforce the laws of one of the main protagonists in the conflict.

We in the 32 County Sovereignty Movement fully recognize that people need civic policing, but civic policing can only come from a police force that is neutral on the constitutional issue. With this in mind we have been calling for an international police force as outlined in our documents "No other law" and "The Necessity of Policing and The Necessity for Constitutional Change " and we would urge all people who really do seek non-political policing to read and comment on these documents.

It has also been brought to our attention that several teachers and others with influence over young people in the South Armagh area have been urging them to consider a career in the PSNI. We would ask them to carefully think about how they use their influence as they are asking these young people to put themselves in the firing line, something which could have fatal consequences.

We would also call on the people of South Armagh to reject British Policing as they have always done and give their full support to those who seek to end the occupation of our country.

Kevin Murphy
P.R.O.
32 County Sovereignty Movement
South Armagh