Fenian Notes

National security has been a smokescreen utilised by successive US administrations to manipulate elements of foreign policy, and threats to security to justify new draconian legislation are pure fiction.

Friendly nations spy against the United States and conduct espionage against US citizens, with US collusion.

Some administrations have permitted British, Israeli agents, as well as selective others, to operate freely in the United States.

This is a threat to Americans, a threat fostered in too many instances by their own government. National security can be defined as national protection for the nation and for each and every individual in the nation.

The government shirks its duty when it purposefully permits aliens to endanger a citizen it is charged to protect.

The British realise that in order to maintain their special relations with the United States requires additional work today than in previous times because of the growing influence of the Irish American Community (IAC).

They determined to assist the United States and form a joint US/"UK" national security effort with the British offering the North of Ireland as a live laboratory experiment.

The United States seconded members of the US armed forces to participate with British forces in the North to observe what the British termed the containment of domestic "terrorists"

The US/"UK" governments share information regarding "terrorists" and those they deem to be supporters of the same "terrorists".

The governments consider those individuals to be "terrorists" whom they want to be "terrorists" at any given moment.

When any foreign group is designated as "terrorist" then sympathisers in the US receive special draconian treatment.

British operatives in their embassy and consulates throughout the USA have created a "terrorist scare" to turn Americans against true freedom fighters such as those still engaged in arms against the British over sovereignty in the Six Counties.

All the debasing propaganda against true Republicans in the US is part of the new national security which touches upon the fringes of fascist ideology.

Do I need protection against true Republicans like various US administrations seem to indicate I do? I don't think so. Never has an Irish Republican ever committed any act to threaten US national security.

What I need protection against are British spies in the US under invitation of the United States government. They are the ultimate threat against my security which the US government is pledged to protect and which pledge they have violated by allowing a threat to me and others.

Who supports this "reverse national security"? All those who support the British peace process threaten the security of law-abiding supporters of the true Republican Movement in Ireland, ie Republican Sinn Féin, who fools refer to as Republican dissidents.

Dissidents are those who waver from Republican philosophy and ideals such as the Provos, the true dissidents.

The Provos accept British sovereignty over the Six Countiesand participate in the British Regional Assembly at Stormont. Stormont as a British entity has associated jurisdiction over their police force, the RUC and the prisons and interrogation centres such as Castlereagh.

By signing the surrender and taking their seats in the British Regional Parliament, the Provos accept all of the above.

Those in the States who signed on to Clinton, the "peace process" and ensuing support of the British system support all those things that the Provos support.

Particularly galling are those who have been loud in their condemnation of true Republicans, who refuse to be engaged in the surrender, they have stated publicly that true Republicans who do not support the British peace process will receive no efforts on behalf of prisoners of war or abuse of prisoners.

HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT

Even these converts to the British process should retain a vestige of humanitarian support especially so-called human rights priests.

True Republicans with a conscience and principles should not be judged by surrendered Irishmen, especially priests.

Reverse national security requires the co-operation of former government targets. US government law-enforcement agencies used to routinely monitor political activists in the Irish-American community who were anti-British. They were branded as fellow-travellers of Irish "terrorists".

To justify the investigations an elaborate fiction was created by US and "UK" intelligence operatives and demonising by the US and "UK" governments. Innocent people were put at risk by a government sworn to protect them.

National security protection of American citizens was ignored in favour of assistance to the British tyrant. After all, both were NATO allies.

The British threat in the United States is not new. They were allowed to use their agents before US entry into World War 1 due to pressure by German and Irish Americans to keep the US neutral.

There were mysterious murders that were never solved. The same happened prior to World War II.

Due to their personal alliance, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt carried the threat further.

British agents had White House authority to operate in the United States. They were given titles such as customs or commercial Attaché in the British Embassy in Washington DC.

Each Intelligence Officer, ie commercial Attaché etc has his or her own network in large ethnic enclaves such as Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York among others. They are in British consulates as spies.

One ruse used then and now is to frequent Irish pubs and public events. In Washington DC they were quite open about who they worked for, but attempted to disguise what they were about.

Many Brits would sit in Irish pubs and sing rebel songs and ridicule their own governments. Their story was they had an Irish parent or grandparent or were Scottish or Welsh and sympathised with the Irish, but they worked for a paycheque.

Unfortunately, too many people got lubricated and gave names to the Brits so they knew all the activists, groups and planned activities and protests. So many people became unwitting informers and the Brits had the pulse of the IAC.

With the "peace process", the Brits are welcomed by these very uncommitted Irish Americans and in fact are allies in maintaining British control of the North and Partition. Irish Americans with this philosophy have jumped off the Republican ship.

National security concerns to protect Americans from a terrorist threat and action is real and a right of the government to pursue. There is no Irish group or entity that is a security threat to the United States, and there never has been.

Any allusion to that effect is pure fiction, and any pursuit of any Irish person in the US on behalf of the Brits is for pure harassment purposes rather a threat to security.

Turning to terrorism, the British government has sponsored state terrorism in Ireland, and the United States by its tactics. There is still a threat against those of us who oppose Partition and the British peace process.

Irish Republicanism in its pure practice cannot be diluted by apologists in the form of former Republicans and former Republican organisations.

True Republicans must be vigilant toward those assisting in reverse national security which is nothing more than state terrorism.

We activists are the targets of state terrorists and the British are engaged in such practice here and are a more serious threat to us than Libya, Iran or Iraq.

During the past 30 years many of us have been targets of the FBI and have been visited by them and many times they have had in their company an RUC man, an MI5 man or other British operatives.

The United States government does not offer us security, national or domestic and in fact assists in the threat against us. It is appalling that the "peace" process itself is a threat to any that oppose it.

It galls me to see former Republicans on both sides of the Atlantic treating with the enemy and in fact allying themselves with the enemies of Ireland.

It is essential for those in the IAC who have not sold out Republicanism to support Republican Sinn Féin, the unsurrendered party. The Provos, SDLP, DUP and UUP all have one thing in common -- they support Partition and the Union with England.

When Stormont and its Executive fell this past February, those protesting the loudest for its return were the Provos. Is that Republicanism?

In the States many former Republican-oriented groups back the Clinton, Free State, British "peace" process. Is that Republicanism?

True Republicans are denied visas to the US as a national security threat when it is the British who are the real threat, but they are allowed to commit illegal acts in the US against Irish people.

The US government refuses to really guarantee the security of its citizens. If it really protected us, British agents threatening Irish American citizens would have been captured and deported or shot dead.

When spies or agents are killed, it is an embarrassment to their government. Think if British agents were caught and disposed of.

There are legions of British operatives in the US and they have allies in high places who assist them. There are low-key people in the State Department and other US agencies who are involved in the intelligence war against the IAC. They liaison with the British Embassy.

There are those such as Senators Richard Lugar and Orrin Hatch who have regular contact with the British and trade confidential information. Senator Hatch took a brief sojourn into IAC politics in the nineteen-eighties, but this Thatcherite was exposed for what he was, the consummate Brit-lover.

VIGILANT

True Republicans must be vigilant because of the threat upon them for opposing the "peace" process. If suspicious characters stalk you or are too inquisitive, seek the assistance of local police whom you may know and who may be involved with you in Irish activity. They will be sensitive to your concerns rather than Federal agents.

If a British spy could be exposed, it would cause them immense harm. It would also enhance our security and it would stop the process of reverse national security which distorts and destroys the intent of protecting citizens from harm.

Any British operative in the US is a threat. They come in the forms we have discussed. Watch for them at pubs, clubs and events. They will be there. If you find a Brit, you have the right to make a citizen's arrest.

True Republicans are challenged to be on guard for inevitable British snoops and they may be assisted by self-deprecating Irish Americans. We can create our own national security; we do not need the government.

If you live in a large city there are British spies operating our of Consulates and British business interests. The shame of it is the US government allows it.

True Republicans from Ireland are no threat to the US in any way, but every Brit at the Embassy and Consulates are a blatant national security threat to those of us supporting true Republicans.

The US is considering the use of the military to combat "terrorists" and have passed draconian laws. They have been well educated by the Brits.

The British want to make sure Irish supporters of true Republicans are lumped in with all other "terrorist" supporters. Real national security is a joke; it's all politics.
-- Peadar Mac Fhínín