TECHNIQUES OF REPRESSION Lessons from Ireland.

[Matthew X]

http://www.greenanarchist.org.uk/Nire.htm
For 17 years now Northern Ireland has been the training ground for the 
British State's counter insurgency techniques.
On a recent visit to Ireland Arthur Scargill told an audience of Irish 
people that the miners' strike of 1984 had shown Britain for what it really 
is, a vicious police state. Roars of laughter greeted the spectacle of an 
English person coming to Ireland to tell the Irish that they live in a 
police state. For 17 years now Northern Ireland has been the training 
ground and the Irish working class the guinea pigs for the British state's 
counter insurgency techniques.
.... Since 1972 the British state has been able to erect the full apparatus 
of a totalitarian state here in Northern Ireland in the name of 'a war 
against terrorism', ie a war against the catholic working class. 
'Totalitarian' is no exaggeration. The typical catholic housing estate here 
has an army barracks / fortress in the middle of it, keeping a close 
surveillance of everyone on the estate with close circuit TV cameras, infra 
red cameras for night vision and a radar system which can detect anyone 
moving out of sight of electronic eyes in cameras. Helicopters hover 
overhead for most of the day with zoom in cameras, and telephone of anyone 
'discontented' is tapped and their mail opened.
Now working class housing estates are built according to a British army 
architect's specification. They are designed to give minimum room for civil 
disobedience and maximum room for the British army to step in to crush any 
outbreaks. Housing estates are built with only one exit / entrance so 
anyone causing trouble can be easily trapped inside; each block is a 
different colour or shade, and army helicopters have a special colour code 
of the estate so that any block or single house can be quickly and easily 
pin pointed from the air.
Etc.
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