This is a direct contratiction to what 'Detective Superintendent Barry O'Brien from the 'Garda National Drugs Unit' told a meeting at the 'British Irish Interparliamentary body on the 29th of April 2008 which I have posted below. The Gardai are obviously following some sort of Agenda in relation to anti-GFA Republicans and Republican socialists which has been no doubt set out by the elites who control 'democracy' and the society we live in.
It is high time that regular people in Ireland realise that RTE is only there for the benefit of the Government so they can demonise anyone who doesn't go along with their plans and the plans of their very good mates in the British and EU Governments. The Government, their propaganda forces in the media and the police are resorting to increasingly desperate attempts to control society by using scare tactics just like the did in the US under Wilson's 'red scare' when they put anyone even resembling a communist in jail.
Communism is beneficial for working people. It is not beneficial to the Government and that is why they will do anything to make you believe that communism is a tyrannical Government one-party dictatorship. It is not it, it is a world without rulers, without Governments.
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www.rte.ie/news/2008/0909/dublin.htmlFive held over 'pipebomb' equipment findwatch listen Tuesday, 9 September 2008 22:27 Five men are being questioned after gardaí raided an apartment in west Dublin in the early hours of this morning and discovered what they believe to be an INLA bomb making facility.
A quantity of components including suspected explosive material were removed for forensic examination.
At around 2am gardaí from the Special Detective Unit raided an apartment in Park West.
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They found components for assembling pipe bombs including pipes, batteries and what they believe is explosive material.
The army bomb disposal team was also called to examine the devices and declared them safe at 3.30am this morning.
The five being held are all in their 20s.
Three of the men are being held in Dún Laoghaire and the other two in Shankill.
They are being detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act and can be held for up to three days.
This is the latest seizure of bomb making components, which gardaí believe was being used by the INLA to manufacture pipe bombs.
The organisation is involved in an ongoing feud with criminals and is detectives say trying to take control of the drugs market in certain areas.
The gardaí also believe that the INLA is supplying improvised explosive devices to criminals.
Detectives believe that individuals were also being trained in the flat in how to make pipe bombs.
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No evidence of paramilitary link to drug trade - gardaTuesday, April 29, 2008THERE WAS no evidence of a structured link between paramilitaries and the drugs trade in the Republic, Det Supt Barry O'Brien from the Garda National Drugs Unit told the meeting here yesterday of the British Irish Interparliamentary Body.
The illegal drugs business, Det Supt O'Brien said, was becoming a very sophisticated organisation which now operated on a global scale. It worked on credit and the drug trafficking groups believed their product was as good as cash and were confident that their customers could pay. But in the end all drugs, like politics, was local and much detection was intelligence based.
The Minister of State for Drugs Strategy, Pat Carey, said at least one garda in each district was now profiling small dealers and this was beginning to show results. The gang warfare indicated that intelligence was catching up with the smaller dealers. Drug use in prison remained an appalling problem, Mr Carey told the conference. The only place where there was any significant progress on tackling the issue was in Cork Prison which was a small place where everyone knew everyone.
Answering questions from the parliamentarians, Mr Carey said that in the fight against drugs the national media had not done itself any favours by glamourising cocaine, at least until there were a few high-profile deaths. He accepted there was need for greater detox and rehabilitation facilities but if he was to wait for the HSE to roll out detox beds, then half the people in the country who needed them would be dead.
Another problem was setting up methadone clinics. There was a difficulty in having them accepted by the local community and mediation was needed.
He continued to be committed to the benefits of an overall substance strategy covering abuse of both drink and drugs.
Mr Carey said he favoured breaking the link between sport and drink advertising. Cheap and below-cost alcohol also had to be addressed, he said.
Earlier, Michael Mates MP said he had recently put it to the two unionist leaders, Peter Robinson and Sir Reg Empey, that the time had come for unionism to be expressed personally at the body rather than by proxy as it had been up to now. They had told him that the terms by which this could come about had to be acceptable to both of them, as they did not want a row between the unionist parties.
Mr Mates said that a formal approach would be made to the unionists inviting them to come to the organisation now that it was going to be relaunched as the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly. He said they accepted the relaunch as this took away the last ghosts of the Anglo Irish Agreement, which was the cause of the unionists boycotting the body from the start.
© 2008 The Irish Times
