Voices From the Grave

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Voices From The Grave, this video will take a few minutes to load, this is the full programme :

In his own words Brendan Darkie Hughes talks about Gerry Adams and his involvement in the Provisional IRA. I don't need to say any more, just watch the video.

Norman Baxter "Breach of the official secrets act".

Kevin Fulton is to make a complaint to police over Norman Baxter, former RUC / PSNI officer, for "Breach of the official secrets act". Kevin Fulton has already put on record with the British Parliament about Norman Baxters lies to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, Norman lied in his evidence to the committee in regard to the Omagh Bombing. Norman Baxter has been challenged by Kevin Fulton to repeat his statement to Parliament outside the Parliament building, Norman Baxter has refused to do so.


Norman Baxter is a retired detective chief superintendent, was head of the Serious Crime Branch of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.


Dr Norman Baxter Director of Doctrine, Standards, Audit and Training with New Century.

Kevin Fulton challenges Norman Baxter, If you believe I am defaming you, sue me.

Kevin Fulton challenges Norman: "If you believe I am defaming you in any way, you can always Sue Me".

Norman Baxter, the so called Top Cop is no stranger to breaking the law, Norman should be charged with misconduct in public office and breach of the official secrets act.

Norman you have broken the law, so you are no better than any of the people you have brought before the courts, so don't set your self above any of those people.

1. Misconduct In Public Office.


The elements of misconduct in public office are:

a) A public officer acting as such.

b) Wilfully neglects to perform his duty and/or wilfully misconducts himself.

c) To such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public's trust in the office holder.

d) Without reasonable excuse or justification.

Rules On Giving Evidence In Parliament
Giving oral evidence to a select committee
• If you know that matters which may arise during oral evidence are currently before
a court of law, or court proceedings are imminent. If you anticipate such issues
arising, you should discuss with the clerk of the committee how this might affect the
oral evidence you can give.


The Official Secrets Act 1889

1.2
The Official Secrets Act 1889
The first Official Secrets Act was passed with very little debate or opposition in 1889. Section 1 was concerned with espionage and the notion of unlawful disclosure of information; Section 2 with the concept of breach of official trust. As introduced, the Bill included no public interest defence. However, the Government amended the legislation in response to objections the fact that the Bill would penalise the disclosure of information contrary to the interests not only of the state but also any part of government; criticism of a government department which might in many instances be for the benefit of the state would become a crime. 2 The bill was changed to include a public interest defence.
Section 2(1) laid down that:

Where a person, by means of his holding or having held an office under Her Majesty the Queen, has lawfully or unlawfully either obtained possession of or control over any document, sketch, plan, or model or acquired any information and at any time corruptly or contrary to his official duty communicates or attempts to communicate that document, sketch, plan or information to any person to whom the same ought not, in the interest of the state, or otherwise in the public interest, to be communicated at that time, he shall be guilty of a breach of official trust.

Former Top Cop Norman Baxter

Former Top Cop Norman Baxter, RUC / PSNI has joined the many criminals he once chased as a police officer, Norman broke the official secrets act and committed a number of criminal offences, so far Norman has not been brought to justice, but that might change in the very near future, watch this space.

Collateral damage : SN 7

Collateral damage : SN 7
Informants involved in murder.

A TELEVISION programme about the IRA killing of two tourists in Holland in 1990 has provoked a strong response in Australia following its screening last Sunday.
London-based Australian lawyers Stephen Melrose, 24, and Nicholas Spanos, 28, were gunned down in the Dutch border town of Roermond after being mistaken for off-duty British soldiers.

Channel 7 producers had travelled to Northern Ireland via Holland last month, along with the family of one of the victims, to make a documentary about the Melrose family's difficulty in coming to terms with the murder.

One of the show's producers, who accompanied the still-grieving family, said the documentary "rated very well" with around 1.5 million viewers on the night.

Mick O'Donnell said: "There was a strong response from the audience in letters and calls – you can see a mix of comments on the website.

"Others have contacted us offering more information, so this is a subject we're likely to revisit."

Stephen Melrose's parents Roy and Beverley Melrose made the trip along with their two daughters in the hope of finding "closure".

One of their daughters, Helen Jackson, told the News Letter: "My dad is almost 80 years of age and felt he had to make the trip this year or he might never be able to do it."

Ms Jackson said meeting IRA victims in Northern Ireland was "a source of great comfort" but added: "It's so frustrating to realise that so many others, as well as my family, have never seen anyone face justice for murder."

The gang responsible for the Roermond murders were armed with a Kalashnikov rifle – and a handgun used in a string of terrorist attacks in both Northern Ireland and mainland Europe.

At one point during the trip the TV crew approached a suspected IRA member who was tried and acquitted of the murders, along with three others, in 1991.

The confrontation took place last month when the documentary makers approached Donna Maguire as she sat in her car in Newry.

Writing on the TV company's website, producer Ross Coulthart said: "When I finally tap on Donna Maguire's car window and ask her to offer some sympathy to the Australian family of Stephen Melrose, there is a microsecond before Donna realises that her past has caught up with her.

"Her face initially has a friendly greeting, and she then flashes recognition and turns her head away from our camera.

"Twenty years on, is it shame? We hope so."

One typical comment of support emailed to the Channel 7 website after the screening read: "It has taken an Australian TV company to ask the hard questions and to confront the suspects. Well done Ross and crew."

Dissident tag gives 'status to terror groups'

Dissident tag gives 'status to terror groups'

GERRY MORIARTY, Northern Editor

THE BRITISH and Irish governments are seeking to strip groups such as the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA of the term dissident republican because they argue it does a “disservice” to the term republican and dissident.

Northern Secretary Owen Paterson, following up on recent similar classification by the Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin, has taken to calling dissidents “residual terrorist groups”, a term he used in the House of Commons yesterday during Northern Ireland question time.

Mr Paterson has also urged the PSNI and British government departments and other British state bodies to use the new phrase, residual terrorist groups, or RTGs because, he contended, the term dissident bestowed on these groups an undeserved status.

“Dissident is a term we would use for such people as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who challenged the system in the Soviet Union,” he added. “It is not a term we are comfortable applying to a terrorist group which has chosen to be left behind.”

He made his comments on a day when PSNI detectives arrested eight people in the greater Belfast area on suspicion of involvement with the groups.

Seven men aged between 18 and 45 and a 23-year-old woman were arrested by detectives from the PSNI’s serious crime branch following searches in north and west Belfast, Newtownabbey and Dunmurry. A “large quantity” of ammunition was found, police said. They were being questioned last night in Antrim police station.

The Irish Times.

The Dissident Republicans Are In Government

The Dissident Republicans Are In Government.

Every day I read in the media dissident republicans did this attack and dissident republicans did that, it's time to stop the bull shit, the real dissident republicans are in government they are Sinn Fein / IRA, the phrase dissident republicans has been spewed out by Sinn Fein and the British Government it's a great catch phrase and all the media have been repeating it, so lets say it as it is. Republican terrorists are day and daily planing and attacking targets in Northern Ireland, and the Government wants us to believe it's all rosy in the garden, is not, on the mainland editors in the media are not reporting the stories, I have heard a lot of press people saying " oh we don't want to upset the peace process", that's a load of crap ! I spoke to a very senior military officer and he is of the same opinion as myself, at some stage in the very near future we will have the uniformed army back into Northern Ireland, the politicians are not holding it together, the police are not fit for the purpose of fighting terrorism in Northern Ireland, it is not a normal society. So let's all say it the way it is, Republican terrorists are still in the playing field, they never went away.

The Crystal Ball: My Enemies Enemy Is My Friend

The Crystal Ball.

I see dark days ahead for a relationship, I see a journalist turning over his source,a "Richard", he has done this many times in the past, he and others have an agenda, he is owned. Today he is your friend because it suites him and others, nothing else, he will burn you in the near future, he has done this on many occasions to his sources, he will say that he is a balanced reporter, on the surface it will look like this,but he has a dark dark secret, people talk about his dark dark secret, but he is smart and writes about the accusations on a regular basis and brushes it off. he will let you tell him secrets "off the record" but be warned, he will write about them at a later date, be warned, he records all his phone calls and will lead you into a false sense of security, many of his old sources do not talk to him now, he broke their trust and turned them over. My advice to the "Richard" is tell him nothing,he is a Machiavellian Manipulator, my advice to the "Richard" is, go find another journalist, there are plenty of good ones out there.

SF leaders 'helped cover up hunger strike offer'

SF leaders 'helped cover up hunger strike offer'

Suzanne Breen, Northern Editor

Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness must have the decency to finally come clean and tell the truth about a British government offer which might have saved the lives of six hunger strikers, an-ex IRA prisoner has said.



Richard O'Rawe, the former public relations officer for the H-block hunger strikers, has launched a new book which contains fresh evidence that a deal was possible after just four hunger strikers had died.



"When I wrote my first book five years ago, I was a lone voice in the wilderness," he said. "Since then, the evidence has piled up and many former republican prisoners have rallied to support my position.



"The facts are irrefutable. The offer the British made to the Sinn Féin leadership in July 1981 wasn't relayed to the hunger strikers or their families. The reason is clear: to have Owen Carron elected Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP and to kick off the move into electoral politics.



"Those who kept the offer secret didn't really care if the hunger strikers lived or died. That isn't a conclusion I wanted to reach but it's the only one possible when the evidence is put together."



O'Rawe's 2005 book, Blanketmen (Lilliput, €11.99), caused controversy when he revealed that Bik McFarlane, the IRA's commander in the jail, told him of a secret British offer which effectively granted the prisoners' five demands, except free association.



O'Rawe said he and McFarlane were delighted and McFarlane wrote to Gerry Adams accepting the offer. However, word came back from Adams that the Army Council thought the proposal inadequate and advised the prisoners to await a second offer – which never came.



"When my book was published Bik vehemently denied there had been an offer and that we had any such conversation. Last year, Bik found his memory. He admitted there was an offer and we had talked about it," O'Rawe said.



"Another IRA prisoner, Gerard 'Cleaky' Clarke, has revealed that he heard our conversation, as has another blanketman who has told this to the families of three hunger strikers.



"Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and other Sinn Féin figures hid the document containing the British offer from the hunger strikers. But it was uncovered through a Freedom of Information request."



Two sources at IRA Army Council level told O'Rawe that Adams had never even informed the Army Council of the British offer.



O'Rawe said those Sinn Féin leaders who knew of the offer must apologise to the hunger strikers' families for "what may well be the biggest cover-up in the history of republicanism".



November 7, 2010

The Sunday Tribune.