Collusion is no illusion !!

national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Tuesday July 26, 2005 12:39 by By Any Means Necessary.

A turning point in the policing debate ?

As the unionist paramilitary feud gathers momentum, several sectarian attacks on chapels in Ballymena and medical facilities in Belfast adds to the feeling of isolation felt by nationalists in the six counties.

The myth of fair policing has been finally dispelled by the filming of UVF and UDA foot soldiers, mixing with the PSNI and British Army, as LVF linked families were cleared from a Belfast estate.

This "community action" was condoned by the PSNI and the eight years of public relations, trying to make the former storm troopers of the RUC acceptable to all of the community suddenly became a complete waste of money.

Policing has been at the heart of the pro-N.Ireland lobby and the SDLP have treated its supporters to a firm support law and order / the PSNI are just doing their job line. This is rhetoric is now even more irrelevant to the reality of the situation in the six counties.

The forces of "law and order" are once again seen as partisan and in showing the viewing public on prime time television what republicans have been saying for decades, that collusion is no illusion.

No nationalist politician, can now seek to be an apologist for the PSNI and the securocrats who judge the UVF / UDA as "community activists".

The future of policing in the six counties have reached another significant stage.

Just as pictures of B-Specials and RUC men enjoying themselves beating civil rights activists in Derry, opened people's eyes to the reality of the aparthied state of ulster unionist northern ireland in the early 70's. The images of UVF / UDA activists openly intimitdating families with PSNI and British Army support has opened the eyes of the world to the reality of policing in post GFA n.ireland..