EAST BELFAST UVF SHOULD HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAME

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Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)

Loyalist museum cuRATOR IN ASTONISHING ATTACK ON on east BELFAST UVF AS COPS LAUNCH DRUG RAIDS ON CRIMINAL gang

EAST Belfast UVF have been branded coke-dealing thugs i an astonishing attack by the boss of a UVF museum in the area.

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He hit out as specialist cops busted a suspected drugs ring linked to the gang. Loyalist community worker William McCaughey, curator of a museum dedicated to the UVF, laid into the current paramilitary goons for “torturing” the Protestant people. He accused them of criminality and cocaine dealing saying they should “hang their heads in shame”.  

UVF HISTORIAN SLAMS SECTARIAN TERROR GROUP FOR THE TORTURE OF PROTESTANTS AND TELLS THEM: YOU’RE COKE DEALING THUGS’ 

EAST Belfast UVF has been accused of “torturing the Protestant population” in the heart of East Belfast.

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Respected community worker and UVF historian William McCaughey laid into the current UVF mob who were targeted in yet another anti-drugs sting the weekend last. McCaughey is the curator of the Ballymac Museum which is smack in the heart of what has for years been the heartland of the East Belfast UVF  – making the outspoken dressing down even more unusual. And his brave outburst came as police revealed on Saturday 20th June they had busted a suspected East Belfast UVF drug gang. Officers from the Paramilitary Crime Task Force announced they had searched properties in Dundonald and believe drugs and cash found were linked to the East Belfast UVF. A 40-year-old man has been charged with drug offences and two women were reported to the PPS. The Sunday World understands the raid is highly significant and is closely linked to one of the terror group’s top bosses. A top cop said afterwards the local community “utterly supports” their efforts to disrupt East Belfast UVF. Detective Inspector Hamilton said: “Paramilitaries are not defenders of their communities, instead they are criminals who pretty on vulnerable people and exploit any circumstances they can for their own gain.”

PRISONERS 

And during a five-minute video posted on the Ballymac Friendship Centre’s Facebook page this week, William McCaughey (49) describes the current East Belfast UVF in less flattering terms. The clip entitled ‘Ballymac Museum Tour Part 3’ sees William, who’s listed in the credits as curator of the museum, complete his tour of the museum which largely includes artefacts collected from the Troubles. Having shown us various weapons and trinkets made in Long Kesh prison by UVF prisoners like David Ervine and Gusty Spence, he out-of-the-blue lets rip at the present day UVF. While a music box, made in Long Kesh, plays in the background he says: “It’s usually at this stage of the tour people ask me what has the East Belfast UVF got to do with the museum and my answer has to be, absolutely nothing. “Why? What has cocaine [word inedible], criminality, hiking of bills and general torture of the Protestant population, what’s that got to do with all this rich history?”

Snorting cocaine

But he doesn’t stop his impassioned speech there and even tells the current East Belfast UVF criminal element they should be ashamed. He continues: “Why use them three letters [UVF] and live on the backs of the people in this museum  – the Ulstermen who have defended their wee part of Ulster for hundreds of years? “Hang your heads in shame!” The video was uploaded to the museum’s Facebook page on Monday 15th June and seems to have been done to coincide with the 22nd anniversary of the murder of local UVF hero Robert ‘Squeak’ Seymour. McCaughey adds: “And from a time when East Belfast UVF were the ‘People’s Army’ – Volunteer Robert Squeak Seymour 15th June 1988.” Seymour became a UVF legend during the Troubles for murdering senior IRA man James ‘Skipper’ Burns, for which he was convicted of killing in 1981, though he was later cleared on appeal as he’d been convicted on ‘supergrass’ testimony. Until 2011, Seymour’s image featured on a mural on a gable in the nearby Ballymacarrett Road.

A late 2011 UVF mural, on Ballymacarrett Road in East Belfast. The four members named are Robert Seymour, shot dead by the PIRA; James Cordner and Joseph Long, who were both killed in a premature explosion, and Robert Bennett, killed by the British Army during a riot. These same four are commemorated in the controversial 2013 mural featured in: Follow this link to find out more: https://extramuralactivity.com/2013/12/23/years-of-sacrifice/

Until 2011, Seymour’s image featured on a mural on a gable wall in the nearby Ballymacarrett Road

McCaughey’s sideswipe is being supported by many loyalists. This paper has written extensively about paramilitary drug lords in East Belfast UVF. Many of the old UVF guard have been reported to be ashamed of the actions of the current crop of paramilitary leaders. The Sunday World asked Mr McCaughey for a comment on his statement but we were told by the centre: “Unfortunately at this time William is unavailable for comment.” Sources in East Belfast say the outburst from the community worker, who was until recently was listed as a director of the Ballymac Friendship Centre, shows how sections of East Belfast have turned on the current UVF.

FEEDBACK 

And the positive feedback left by supporters of the museum show many people are fed up with East Belfast UVF. The video clip has been viewed over 7,000 times and been shared 83 times and attracted completely positive comments. One person wrote: “Brilliant William, well said and very well concluded.” Another supporter wrote: “Well said you can’t be a true loyalist and a drug dealer.” Another fan commented: “Thank God someone has had the courage to speak out x.” Things have been going wrong for the East Belfast UVF for a few years but those problems have accelerated following the murder of popular community worker Ian Ogle last year. The Ballymac Museum was started after loyalists got fed up with ‘their’ history being told through the eyes of republicans. In 2015 it received just over £200,000 in public funding to have the centre refurbished.

Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)

A year later Mr McCaughey was quoted in a number of newspaper articles as he gave tours round the new museum, though he was never pictured himself. He said of the UVF memorabilia: “It’s not about glorifying anything, but it’s about the fact you shouldn’t forget about it either, it’s a part of our history here, a part of the history of this area that’s being kept alive. “There’s been Americans in and once they started to realise the conflict here was more complicated that the Irish against British, they were absolutely fasinacinated. It’s also been great for young people in the area who maybe label themselves as loyalist or whatever, but don’t really know what that means. “The history in here helps them understand what their history is. Loyalism, the term, it’s often seen in a bad light, but this is helping show there’s more to it than just the Troubles. It’s a social history and it’s important it’s not forgotten.”

TRYING TO FOOL US: One of the threatening UVF murals in East Belfast. Jamie Bryson unmasked!

A police spokesman said on Saturday June 2oth 2020 of the latest raids targeting the East Belfast UVF: “Following this proactive policing operation a quantity of suspected class A, B and C controlled drugs, cutting agent, bags and scales and a significant amount of cash were seized. “Two women are to be reported to the PPS on suspicion of drugs offences.” Detective Inspector Hamilton said: “We know that the communities most affected utterly support our ongoing efforts and want to work with us to end the harm caused by the criminal activity of paramilitaries.

If Jamie Bryson was not a member of the UVF then why is he pictured here? Reading a statement out on behalf of the East Belfast UVF

” And late on Saturday June 20th 2020, the police confirmed the 40-year-old had been charged “with possession of a class A controlled drug, with intent to supply, possession of a Class B controlled drug, possession of a class C controlled drug and firearms licensing offences,” said a spokesperson. “He is due to appear at Newtownardes Magistrates Court via vidolink on Thursday July 16th 2020. As is normal procedure, all charges are reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).”

.With many thanks to the: Sunday World and Steven Moore for the EXCLUSIVE original story  – steven.moore@sundayworld.com 

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New UVF ‘identity’ mural is simply a Mask-querade

GHOULS WITH GUNS WHO TAKE THE PISS

IT was just over 50 years ago that the ‘F’ word was used on national TV for the first time.

TRYING TO FOOL US: One of the threatening UVF murals in East Belfast

The utterance, which occurred on November 13th, 1965, and consequently sparked outrage, came from drama critic and controversial journalist Ken Tynan. And, of course, it happened on the dear old Beeb during a satirical spoof. No wonder Mary Whitehouse got her pearly white hose in a twist. Now, what put this in my baldy head is that new UVF mural over in Belvoir Street in East Belfast which has sparked yet another political row back home here. There were two things that struck me here. First, a throwback to Tynan and his very public use of the ‘F’ word. I’ll come back to that. The second was that at first I thought the message on the mural was also a satirical spoof. A kind of UVF ‘take the piss’ paramilitary masquerade.

Why? Well, consider the wording on one of the many new murals. In capital letters it reads: THE PREVENTION OF THE EROSION OF OUR IDENTITY IS NOW OUR PRIORITY. Well, everybody in East Belfast, and elsewhere, knows EXACTLY what the identity of the Ballymacarrett UVF mob is. Criminality. Extortion. The drugs rackets. Intimidation. Punishment beatings – or worse, like sending a gunman to shoot a woman at her own front door on the Godfather’s own orders. That’s where the satire should bite, bitter as it may be. For those criminal activities by a still illegal terror gang is the sole ‘identity’ they are now espousing, and vowing to ‘prevent the erosion of’.

MESSAGE 

That, in the capital letter words of the mural’s main message, is their ‘priority’. Have no doubt about that. But it goes deeper than that. Have another duke at the mural pictured above. And then have a laugh. Albeit a belly-clava laugh. Look at the message of the gunmen flanking the message. They’re wearing masks! Black balaclavas! Is the UVF mastermind behind this mural really taking the all-time paramilitary piss? To talk about ‘identity’ and then post images of ghouls with guns, their faces hidden. It’s like walking into Santa’s grotto and finding Frankenstein wearing a false white beard.

Of course, their underlying, and lying, subtext is that it’s all about BoJo’s Brexit and the ‘identity’ of loyalists remaining within the UK. If they think ordinary Joe in the street believes that, their faces should glow red in embarrassment as Rudolph the reindeer’s nose. Once they boasted that their only crime was loyalty. The rest of us knew then, and still do, that their only loyalty is crime. Now there’s this latest black balaclava propaganda ploy: our only crime is ‘identity’.

Please, give us all a break. And preferably not with a baseball bat. Which is where Kenneth Tynan and his ground-breaking use of the ‘F’ word comes back in. Perhaps the UVF should change their name to the UVFF. Because folk are fed up with them trying to take us all for fucking Fools’. The men in masks in their latest mural underpins that. The dictionary definition of masquerade is ‘a false show of pretence, deception, pose, act, front, facade’. Apply any, or all, of those definitions to the UVF, and their latest mural, and one word sums up them, and it. The word, again in capital letters, is MASK-QUERADE.