McCartney sisters admit being advised

national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report

Monday March 21, 2005 12:42

by Hilaal

hilaalabu at yahoo dot co dot uk

Then quickly deny it

On this mornings Marianne Finucane Show the McCartney sisters admitted being advised to watch out for "anti-police propaganda" , by a person or persons they did not identify. When later questioned as to whom the advise had come from they quickly denied what they had earlier said.

A caller to the Marianne Finucane Show asked the McCartney sisters what they thought about the police telling two witnesses who went to a PSNI barracks to make statements regarding the fight between their brother , his friend and a gang in Maginnis's bar, being casually told by police to "come back later" .

They dismissed the question with a very telling comment :

"THIS IS ANTI-POLICE PROPAGANDA. WE WERE TOLD TO EXPECT IT"

Another caller asked who had advised them to expect "anti-police propaganda" and they quickly and very tellingly flip-flopped and tried to fudge the question and their earlier comment with their usual ,"don't be condescending to us because we're women " tactic.

One of them said , "I have a degree in Modern History. I know that this type of thing can happen". Yes you do have a degree in Modern History, but who advised you to expect, "anti-police propaganda", as you said?

Another said ,"We live in the Short Strand. We were brought up in a Republican/Nationalist area and we understand the politics of it. I mean, it's very condescending to be told(asked), "who advised these women". These women think. We're intelligent women. We're educated. We know that these propaganda attacks will be made". Yeah, but when you said you were "told to expect anti-police propaganda", who was it that advised you in this way, was the question.

I would think they are very stupid people to go to the greatest mass murderer and terrorist of our time looking for justice for the victim of a bar room brawl: to George Bush a man who has presided over the mass murder of women and children and inflicted vandalism and destruction of property on a monumental scale

The term "propaganda attack" itself is not a term a "simple" or "stupid" person would use. It is a term from someone with a degree in Modern Politics or someone with friends in either military intelligence or the security services.

But perhaps their familiarity with such terminology comes from associating with people like George Bush, Anne McCabe and Michael McDowell ?

They were also asked why Brendan Devine, the other party involved in the bar-room fight, couldn't give evidence against his and their brothers attackers , as he would have seen those involved better than other patrons of the bar that night . Again they waffled about not, "getting away from the issue". Ah, but this is the issue.

Brendan Devine is currently out on bail , facing charges of grievous bodily harm for an assault going back years. He is not, "in a hospital bed fighting for his life".