Update on the NI Bombing.

No-one has yet stood up and admitted that they carried out Saturday's (2/4/11) bombing which killed a 25 year old Catholic police officer in Omagh, Northern Ireland. However if they did they would probably claim that they had carried out the attack as a warning to any Catholic traitors who were considering joining the police force of the British oppressors or some similar rhetoric.

Between Irish independence and the Northern Irish peace process policing in Northern Ireland was carried out by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). This organisation was over 90% Protestant and was little more then a Loyalist paramilitary gang dedicated to fitting up and beating up Catholics. Obviously as part of the peace process it had to go and was renamed the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)*. As part of the change a rule was imposed that for every Protestant the PSNI recruited it also had to recruit a Catholic to increase it's neutrality and as a result the PSNI is now only about 70% Protestant.

Very recently, like in the past week, this neutrality rule was scrapped meaning that the PSNI can go and recruit as many Protestants as it likes. As Protestants are culturally more likely to join the PSNI this move is likely to tip the religious balance of the force back towards RUC levels. Also in response to Saturday's bomb attack the British government in London authorised an extra £235million in funding for the soon to become more Protestant PSNI.

So whoever carried out Saturday's attack was enforcing the official British government policy of bringing back the RUC which is not a particularly Republican thing to do.






*They were going to call it the Northern Irish Police Service but then they decided that no-one likes getting caught by the NIPS.