Harrison died on the 6th.October. :)

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Ex-gunrunner Fights Ban on Rebel Sinn Fein

Last week Republican Sinn Fein became the only Irish
party to be placed on the State Department's foreign
terrorist list since George Bush began his war on
terror.

By Guardian Newspapers, 7/17/2004


George Harrison's only regret in life is that he
didn't smuggle more guns from the United States to
armed republicans in Ireland.

At 89, the veteran gunrunner should be putting his
feet up in his Brooklyn flat rather than championing
the dissident republican cause across the Atlantic.

He has even vowed to defy the new State Department ban
on Republican Sinn Fein in the US, which bans the
anti-peace process party from raising funds in
America.

Last week RSF became the only Irish party to be placed
on the State Department's foreign terrorist list since
George Bush began his war on terror. 'I'm going to
increase the donations I give to Republican Sinn Fein
every month from now on,' said Harrison from his
Brooklyn home.

'Every month I buy a large amount of RSF's newspaper
Saoirse and then distribute them around New York. I'm
going to ask the party to send more papers and get
more money over to them. If the Bush administration
wants to jail me, I'm ready.'

Harrison was the man who armed the Provisional IRA
with Armalites and M60 machine guns in the 1970s and
went to jail in 1981 after being snared in an FBI
'sting' operation. The former IRA man switched his
allegiance five years later to Continuity IRA and RSF
because Sinn Fein recognised the Irish parliament.

Asked, despite the new State Department ban, if he
would send guns to dissident republicans today,
Harrison replied: 'Absolutely. If I could get my hands
on weapons I would send them to Ireland.'

Harrison said he didn't believe that the new ban on
RSF fundraising would stop dissident republican
supporters sending money back to Ireland: 'If they
want to lock me up, so be it, but I will continue to
support RSF regardless of what Bush and his cohorts
try to do.'

Between 1971 until his arrest 10 years later, Harrison
was a prized asset for the Provisional IRA in the US.
Leading republicans, including Martin McGuinness,
stayed at his home in Brooklyn. From the mid-1970s,
Harrison's arms network was dispatching 200 to 300
weapons a year to the Provos. The gunrunning operation
ended in 1981, after CIA agent George de Meo, an arms
smuggler, betrayed Harrison to the FBI. Five years
later, Harrison denounced Gerry Adams and McGuinness
for lifting Sinn Fein's ban on entering the Dail and
backed Ruairi O'Bradaigh's breakaway Republican Sinn
Fein.

The State Department's new ban faced its first
challenge last night, after a New York radio station
interviewed O'Bradaigh, who is banned from entering
the US. John McDonagh, the Radio Free Eireann
presenter who interviewed O'Bradaigh, described the
ban as 'totally absurd'.

McDonagh said: 'RSF is a legally registered political
party not only in Ireland but the occupied Six
Counties. Even in Britain, RSF organises openly and
legally and raises finance in cities like London and
Glasgow.'

He said that the State Department ban would make it
impossible even for RSF members to visit the US on
holiday, adding that RSF's support group, the Irish
Freedom Committee, would host a fundraising concert
later this year for CIRA prisoners' families. The
guest speaker, McDonagh said, would be Ruairi
O'Bradaigh, who will speak to supporters in America
from a live television feed in Ireland.

The State Department says on its website that RSF is
an 'alias' for Continuity IRA and labels the party as
a foreign terrorist organisation under section 219 of
the Immigration and Nationality Act. The ban prohibits
anyone under US jurisdiction from funding the party or
giving it any material support.

Yeah I read another article on this spineless cretin. I hope wherever he is - he rots...very slowly!

One should never call the dead. But some deserve that honour of being slagged off.

http://www.upmj.co.uk/upban2.jpg

View the flash-movie taken from the above banners web-site, posted by Intrepid.

www.upmj.co.uk/2002movie.htm


May many more Provo bastards follow this scum 6 ft under.....

ULSTER: Eternally~White. Eternally~British.

Here's a good link on these Irish-Americans who send gifts back home to kill members of my racial heritage.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/inac/main.html

Makes one want to brew-up a Mick bar. Of course, only one that enjoys political discussions, that is. ;)

Seems he was a Communist to boot :rolleyes:
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>>>>>> Feature: George Harrison


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George Harrison, patron of Republican Sinn Fein and celebrated
veteran Irish Republican, died on October 6th at his home in
New York.

The following article by Jimmy Breslin for Newsday recounts a
life in struggle against British colonialism, oppression, racism
and inequality.
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At the "Maid of Dunloe" pageant in bleak Donegal, in Ireland,
the young women had good milk-white Irish skin that could last
about 15 minutes in a weak sun. Now into the contest came Ms.
Felicia McLean, who was of color. A young, shimmering, beautiful
black.

Immediately, the BBC crew covering the event rushed up to her.
"Are you from somewhere in the musician's family?" one of them
asked.

"No. I was sent here from Brooklyn by Mr. George Harrison of the
IRA. He doesn't like the British."

He sure did not, did George Harrison. He was a stocky man with a
full head of black hair. Once, he could run far and fast. His
motto was "Brits Out!" He sent guns to Northern Ireland. On so
many Saturdays, he picketed the British office building on Third
Avenue. If it rained, George found it easy. Wasn't he from
Shammer, outside of Kilkelly, in County Mayo, where there was as
much rain as there was air? He walked without noticing the
coldest of days. He had his dislike of the British to keep him
hot.

He lived on Prospect Park Southwest in Brooklyn and spent his
days at political protests. Once, he rounded up 35 Irish
republicans to parade in front of the South African mission to
the United Nations, protesting racism. They held an Irish flag.
There was not a black.

"What in the name of the Lord did we do to Ireland?" a South
African complained to the newspapers.

At a protest in Foley Square over the police firing 41 bullets into
an unarmed Amadou Diallo in his vestibule in the Bronx, only one
white face could be seen - George Harrison.

In the late '70s, he bought guns from a Mafia gun runner named
George DeMeo. George bought submachine guns from DeMeo and shipped
them to the north of Ireland by freighters leaving the Brooklyn
docks. Then DeMeo was arrested for being a gangster. He gave up
Harrison. The FBI was jubilant. The American administration at that
time ran errands for the British.

One day in 1981, George bought 50 submachine guns and one artillery
piece from a man DeMeo recommended. The man was an agent.

In speaking about the piece over the phone, trying to fool anybody
listening, Harrison's partners said, "We have to feed the animal.
The animal is hungry."

The FBI arrested George and a couple of others in October of 1981.
The lawyers practiced opening statements to a room of students at
Cardozo Law School. One young woman said that, "I'm wondering if
you are in a CIA exercise."

George Harrison got up in a fury. He would not stand for a defense
that left him looking like a CIA agent. They finally calmed him
down the next day and the case went on in federal court in
Brooklyn.

The prosecutor told the jury that George had been running guns out
of this city for the last six months.

George Harrison was outraged. His lawyer, Frank Durkan, rose and
told the judge, "Your honor, the prosecutor has just charged my
client with running guns for six months. My client is deeply
insulted. Mr. Harrison has been running guns for the last 25 years
at least." Harrison was acquitted.

He was the last of the Irish who base all behavior on the 1916
uprising against the British. George was 89 when he gave it up on
Wednesday, as he sat in one of his two apartments on Prospect Park
Southwest. He was talking to Priscilla McLean, the contestant's
mother. She was a nurse for George through so many long months.
George sent her and her daughter on a vacation in Ireland.

He was a ceaseless pamphlet man. Almost every day, a letter arrived
for many people from George Harrison dealing with British
atrocities against the Irish, and American politics. "Bush and his
people intend to turn this republic into an imperialist power."

If the politics of a person was far enough to the left, George
Harrison regarded them as a relative. "Take something for me," he
told Frank Durkan, who was going over to Ireland. It was a bottle
of whiskey for Owen Patton of Mayo, whose brother died in the
battle of Madrid in the Spanish Civil War. Durkan found Owen in a
small cottage. Owen walked backwards to get away from the bottle.

"Harrison is trying to make an alcoholic out of me. Everybody who
has come to this house has brought me a bottle. I can't take it."

He grieved for so many people, and ran more funerals for them, and
helped more Catholic priests and their church buildings that his
record seems that of a deeply religious person.

He was. But it was his own religion. His will states that there was
to be no funeral service.

"Are we going to get George buried out of a church?" somebody asked
Mike Dowd, one of the lawyers at George's big trial.

"If you tried it, he'd come out of the casket with a bat in his
hand," Dowd said.


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