PSNI need buffer to combat riots

By AM Friday, September 13, 2013

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John Coulter with a piece arguing that A Bible-bashing God squad could bring calm to the North. It initially featured in the Irish Daily Star 0n 19 August 2013 

The PSNI need a buffer organization between themselves and the North's rioting communities to bring peace back to our streets. The cop union's call for a six-month ban on all parades to restore order has fallen in deaf ears.

Top Cop Matt Baggott is reported to be a born again Christian, and the clerics needs to get out of their pulpits and into the parishes if Baggie's calls for calm are to be heeded.

In reality, the only group which can breach the gap between the police leadership and the two communities is the Christian Police Association of Northern Ireland.

This is one occasion when the Bible could be a source of calming stormy waters rather than being misquoted to stir sectarian tensions.

I've already been told a new dissident loyalist terror movement of three-man cells is being formed to attack the police, Sinn Féin, and Parades Commission members.

The key loyalist strategist revealed the cells also planned to attack a future republican parade – preferably a dissident one – with snipers.

In an equally chilling warning, the loyalist strategist behind the planned movement said that some DUP politicians "who have let the loyalist people down" would also be targets.

In an exclusive interview, he told me:

Unionism needs strong leadership at this time from the top. We are not getting this from either the DUP or UUP. We need a traditional unionist from the old school of Unionism to lead us. 

We cannot see the point of attacking the Irish Republic as the battle will be in Northern Ireland. There is no point in adopting the republican view that one bomb in London is worth 100 in Belfast. We will get no support if we target places in Great Britain.

The DUP is heading for a downfall because it has lost the discipline at grassroots level. The PSNI cannot live in Protestant areas without the support of the Unionist people.

This is not like the early Drumcree standoffs where many of the police officers were locals and known to people. Many of these riot cops used against the loyalists are from outside Northern Ireland, so we won't be shooting our own.

The loyalist strategist's chilling warning sparked memories that the first police officer to die in the past Troubles was 29-year-old Protestant Victor Arbuckle who was shot dead by the UVF in the loyalist Shankill during serious rioting.

My source claimed the key pulses of the new loyalist dissident movement would be East Belfast, the Shankill, Whiterock, Carrickfergus and Coleraine:

Sinn Féin is trying to create a situation whereby dissident republicans fall into line behind the mainstream republican  movement. The effect of our campaign will be to bring British troops back onto the streets of Ulster – which is what Sinn Féin certainly doesn't want.

But the gamble we are taking is that if the Army does come back, would they start shooting at us loyalists?We have to be very careful how we organise as loyalism – like the dissident republicans – has been totally infiltrated by MI5 and MI6.

The dissident republicans use cells of five members, but these can be infiltrated by the security forces, so we will use cells of three. MI5 and MI6 are now so sophisticated that you can no longer use conventional electronic devices.

It's like the honeycomb effect – just because you empty one comb doesn't mean the whole honeycomb is emptied. The smaller the cell, the more effective we become. The weakness will always be on how we train a cell.

There are people in loyalism who would sell themselves for a pint of beer. The lone wolf tactic of a single terrorist acting alone, which isfavour by the extreme Right, is no use as people are not fully trained.

Once an overall training network is set up, that's when it becomes infiltrated by MI5 and MI6.