Why no Real IRA clampdown?

Madam, – On the one hand we can send 10,000 British troops half way across the world to fight in Afghanistan in an attempt to…

Madam, – On the one hand we can send 10,000 British troops half way across the world to fight in Afghanistan in an attempt to deter international terrorism and to help to prevent terrorism at home, we are told, yet seven masked Real IRA personnel in full paramilitary uniform in broad daylight can hold an Easter Day rally in a Londonderry cemetery, inciting violence and terrorism, and threatening to kill British police officers and the British security forces don’t arrest them.

Two hundred to 300 people attended this rally and a police helicopter was monitoring the event, so it’s not as if the police didn’t know about it. Why, in 2005, can an 80-year-old, John Catt, be arrested by police under the Terrorism Act in Brighton for wearing an “offensive” T-shirt which suggested that Bush and Blair be tried for war crimes and these Real IRA men are left alone? Why can Maya Evans, in the same year, be arrested and convicted of breaching the new Serious Organised Crime and Police Act by reading aloud at the Cenotaph the names of 97 British soldiers killed in Iraq; and these seven men can’t be arrested and charged?

Something just doesn’t tie in. I don’t buy this story line we’re being fed. They may be called the Real IRA, but what part is real and what part is false flag? – Yours, etc,

LOUIS SHAWCROSS,

Inns Court,

Hillsborough,

Co Down.