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 == British Killing Machine == 

 My uncle was ""butchered"" by these animals and I lived through that evil period. It was obvious to us (people in the republican areas) at the time that these people where brought into the areas and and brought out again. They could drive anywhere in Belfast (areas where black taxis did not go - the New Lodge for example) pick up a Catholic, drive across Belfast (drunk out of their minds) and committ their murders (in front of crowd no less)!!  

 As soon as it would get dark, the helicopters would dissappear, the army foot patrols stopped, the RUC landrovers would not be seen and they (the Butchers) would be allowed in to cruise the streets. They where a killing machine under British control - special branch, army intelligence, UDR, RUC - take your pick as regards who they worked for. It was the apex of a general policy to terrorize, humiliate and punish the republican areas that has never been thoroughly exposed or studied - rubbish was left for weeks on end uncollected in the summer, fine old Victorian houses where bulldozed to be replaced by army designed hovels, the M1 was driven through the middle of Catholic areas creating an urban hellhole, the most innocent and harmless (old and young) where treated like filth and scum in their own homes and areas etc. 

 Its a comic irony that the same people had the IRA execute Murphy. It was common knowledge in Belfast the morning he was shot that Murphy was going to get whacked that day!! The common British soldier on the street was openly talking about it hours before. 

 On top of that Martin Dillon was conned in to writing a complete whitewash of a book. The plucky, under-resourced cops finally exposing the truth!?  A complete travesty. Those famous Belfast ""dogs in the street"" knew exactly who was involved in this at the time.  

 Once upon a time all these notions would have been easily dismissed as the rantings of an aggrieved relative. But with ongoing hard evidence on collusion, Stakeknife, Denis Donaldson, etc. it all seems pretty straightforward and obvious.  

 The extent of the corruption that Northern Ireland is mired in is simply staggering. The Shankill Butchers were an eruption of that smouldering pit of hatred. Thank God I'm out of it."