British Terrorists

2009 - The culture of "death" as witnessed during the Irish Holocaust where millions died, including pregnant women and young children remains with the British government to this very day. Discrimination based on religious beliefs remains in NI. British attack USA talk show personality.

2008 - Do you think Injustice has stopped in Northern Ireland? You be the judge!

2007 - The Orangemen still march in Irish Neighborhoods. The DUP still holds a prominent position in the NI government and policing. Less Police and Military but still marching!!

British Terrorists aka Loyalists * Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) * Ulster Defense Association (UDA) * Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) * Orange Volunteers * Red Hand Defenders *UVF * LVF. Paisley's (DUP). How long will America continue ignore the British Governments support of Terrorists groups in Ireland?

Not Ancient History - 2005 - Catholic neighborhoods still being harassed in 2005. More British troops in Northern Ireland than in Iraq (2005)

As mourners packed the funeral of murdered Irish investigative journalist Martin O'Hagan on Monday, an official declaration of the end of the pro-British Loyalist ceasefire - a ceasefire Loyalists unofficially dumped years ago - seemed inevitable and imminent as the Irish People went to press.

Despite more than two years of relentless Loyalist pipe-bombings, shootings, arsons, random murders of Catholics, and the more recent attacks on schoolgirls en route to class at Holy Cross Catholic Primary School, sniper attack threats against Catholic parents, and the injuring of 50 RUC men in last week's Loyalist riots, the British government has been loathe to recognize Loyalist violence as a violation of ceasefire.

The RUC reports "officially" more than 400 pipe-bomb attacks by the Loyalists against Catholics in 2002, as of August of 2002.

In 2005 Fox News filmed Catholics throwing articles at the Orangemen as they marched into their communities - however "failed to be fair and balanced " by providing the background to the US public (think about the KKK marching in an all Black area)

RUC marching Loyalist Orangemen into Nationalist areas. (picture)

But the bold and brazen murder of O'Hagan, coming just hours after yet another phony promise by Loyalists that their years of murder and violence would end, may have sealed their fate, at least politically if not legally.

O'Hagan, 51, a reporter for the Sunday World newspaper and author of many articles about paramilitaries' activities, was gunned down just steps from his Lurgan, Co. Armagh home, on Friday night by men identified as member of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) and its parent organization, the Ulster Defense Association (UDA).

O'Hagan was also a key source to and witness for Sean McPhilemy, author of the expose, "The Committee: Political Assassination in Northern Ireland" and a British television production of the same name.

"The Committee" revealed collusion among a high-level group of Unionist and Loyalist businessmen, politicians, Protestant ministers, and members of the discredited Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) who planned, funded and executed political assassinations of Irish Republicans and nationalists.

McPhilemy recently won £145,000 in a libel action against the Times of London, which claimed "The Committee" was a hoax. O'Hagan was a chief witness for McPhilemy during that trial.

O'Hagan's revelations about official police collusion with Loyalist death squads echoed eerily in an Irish News editorial Monday which suggested the journalist was killed for speaking the truth in his coverage of Loyalist activities.

"If some individuals believe the best way to respond to this coverage is to kill journalists, then they are plainly under the confident impression that they cannot be touched by the law," the editorial noted.

O'Hagan most recently incurred Loyalist wrath by exposing Loyalist involvement in drug dealing and political/sectarian assassinations. Investigators are following up on a threat made to O'Hagan by a known member of the LVF who told him last week, "We know your route. We have clocked you walking home."

O'Hagan's shocking, bold murder - carried out under the UDA/LVF's nom de guerre, Red Hand Defenders -- apparently accomplished what years of attacks on Catholics could not do. And his murder is a huge embarrassment for John Reid, British pro-consul in Ireland, who was only minutes away from declaring the ceasefire over on Friday, after weeks of Loyalist violence, blast bombs and shootings left the Catholic enclave of Ardoyne in north Belfast in terror and tatters.

Reid backed down after receiving assurance from Loyalists that their violence was over, and by Monday, Oct. 1, still had made no comment on either the Loyalist links to the Ardoyne violence, or the O'Hagan murder. RUC chief constable Ronnie Flanagan, however, told reporters Monday that he was certain of the UDA/LVF's responsibility for the O'Hagan murder. Flanagan and Reid were to meet Monday to discuss the matter.

A British government spokesman told reporters that Reid is "in constant contact with the RUC and if the evidence is there that a (Loyalist) ceasefire has been broken, he has made clear he will specify them."

In a statement claiming his murder, the Loyalists said O'Hagan had been murdered "for crimes against the Loyalist people."

O'Hagan was forced to flee the North with his family in 1993 after a 1992 speech in the British House of Commons by member of Parliament and former First Minister David Trimble smeared O'Hagan and tried to discredit a television production of "The Committee" when he publicly accused O'Hagan of being "a person who is known to have a Republican political background." That tag is often a code-phrase used to alert Loyalist death squads to Irish activists targeted for assassination.

When O'Hagan received the official death-threat from Loyalists, he took his family to the South. He returned to the North after the declaration of the Loyalist ceasefire but revealed as recently as last Monday that he had again received Loyalist threats on his life.

An official acknowledgement of the end of the Loyalist ceasefire could compel the re-jailing of Loyalist prisoners released under terms of the floundering Good Friday Agreement.

According to reports, among the key suspects in O'Hagan's murder is the man suspected of carrying out the 1998 assassination of Lurgan solicitor Rosemary Nelson.

The murder of investigative journalist Martin O'Hagan this past weekend gave the world a gruesome glimpse of the loyalist violence that has been occurring in the six counties over the past year, despite the peace process.

The loyalist ceasefire is no longer in tact and hasn't been for a long, long time. Maybe Mr. O'Hagan's colleagues in the media will stop turning a blind eye to loyalist violence now that one of their own has been murdered.

Just how foolish John Reid felt when he received the phone call about Martin O'Hagan being gunned down we'll never know. Reid had just issued a "one more chance" ultimatum to the Ulster Defense Association on the status of their ceasefire.

Doesn't this Scotsman realize yet, that he is dealing in the murky and contaminated waters of the six counties? Not much is ever as it appears to be. The loyalists couldn't find, or fight, their way out of their own neighborhoods without the assistance, passive or active, of the security forces who have run the place for thirty years using every dirty tactic in their manuals.

How can Reid attempt to dismantle the loyalist groups, while there remain elements in his government, the RUC and in the British security forces that continue to aid and abet these organizations?

The alphabet soup that comprises the many factious sections of loyalism, the UDA, UVF, LVF, the Orange Volunteers and the Red Hand Defenders are all part of an inextricable web of state sanctioned terrorism designed at keeping Catholics, nationalists and republicans down. Their actions seemingly can stop and go like water from a faucet. Who's turning the faucet on and off? That's the question John Reid should be asking and answering.

The LVF in its 2001 New Year's statement pledge to bring down the Good Friday Agreement. They said their war was not over and that all Catholics or nationalists were legitimate targets.

This past summer the UDA withdrew its support for the Good Friday Agreement. There have been over 250 pipe, blast and firebombs directed at nationalists this year. Two teenagers were killed indiscriminately to strike fear into the hearts of Catholics and nationalists. A girl's primary school has been the target of loathsome sectarian abuse and intimidation.

North Belfast has seen some of the worst sectarian violence in years. Loyalist mobs, three to six hundred strong, have been attempting to break through into a nationalist neighborhood. If they get through, will we see a replay of the pogroms of 1969 when loyalists burned down Catholic areas of Belfast and Derry?

Maybe the recent election results and changing demographics have them running scared.

Town after town, and constituency after constituency, witness the ascension of nationalist majorities, despite the continued gerrymandering to ensure that the nationalist vote has minimal influence.

Here's a news flash for Tony Blair and John Reid - the loyalist ceasefire has been over for some time. By their refusal to stand up to the rejectionists in Unionism, they have contributed substantially to the three recent murders and the rampaging violence perpetrated by loyalists.

How many more deaths will there be? How many more school children will be intimidated? How long will the indiscriminate violence be allowed to go unchecked? How long will those who terrorize the population go unpunished by the RUC. How long will Tony Blair and John Reid ignore the vote of the people of NI in regards to the GFA peace plan and the full recognition of those elected by the people.

The majority of the people in Northern Ireland and England are good people. However, Power corrupts and total power corrupts totally. The British Government by its acts and lack of action to support the people of NI reveals to developed nations that the British Government is corrupt to the core and an enemy of Peace.