Monday edition! And Squinter really has outshone the other police loving papers today with no fewer than three articles dedicated to forcing the PSNI (not the RUC, repeat NOT the RUC) into the minds of West Belfast readers. The local DPP, who have no actual power but are allowed to ask questions and suggest things, are praised as being 'one of the most proactive'. ???
Other articles mention 'policing stats' and surveys and a contain a litany of the usual buzzwards such as; 'consultation', 'prioritising', 'engagement', all generously sprinkled around the banner head line 'Anti-Social behaviour is the biggest issue facing residents'.
Now a 'vodka swilling dissident slob' - as he once referred to them - would think Squinter was on an agenda here to convince people that when it comes to tackling Anti-Social behaviour, there is nobody out there up to the job but the PSNI. Absolutely nobody, especially not O.N.H, currently Squinters favourate dissidents to hate.
And why would one think Squinter was playing to a political agenda here? well lets look at the vey next headline, directly underneath the three PSNI endorsing headlines.
'O.N.H are running protection rackets', a coincidence surely?, given that O.N.H didnt recently route a bunch of PSNI backed hoods from the St Jame's area, gaining them the respect of local residents and to the exclusion of Squinters beloved new policing 'service'???
Now i know that Squinter has no time for 'Unamed sources', i know this because when he defended Steaknife to the hilt in 2003, he repeatedly poured scorn on the 'Sunday rags' who relied on them and assured us that his paper would never be reduced to that sort of thing. Alot of water has passed under the bridge since then tho (Barnsey has gone to the Sunday Life for example), and now the bold Squinter has no problem using 'Unamed sources' to push his own - or rather Gerry's own - political agenda onto the headlines.
Oglaigh na hEireann (ONH) are being accused of putting jobs at risk in West Belfast. A basic rehash of Barnesys old CIRA Storey (gleaned from 'Unamed republican source') is then laid out in unsigned Squinter like fashion, getting in every possible shocking anti-social angle, and finishing off with a cracker quote from Cllr Paul Maskey "ONH should get off the backs of the contractors" .
Thank God the Provos never extorted anybody Paul eh? otherwise you would look stupid.
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