On 10 Apr, 00:57, "Colin Peters" wrote:
> I find it hard to believe that the police force, an entire gardai, could be
> afraid of a solitary individual
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Apart from terrorising anyone who 'crossed' him, Billy Tracey had a
talent for writing plausible letters of complaint against police
officers, to set cop against cop. By the 1980s, it was rare for anyone
to have the courage to testify against him.
Apart from that, as Noel O'Gara said to me back in 1996: "The police
exist to benefit themselves; the media exist to benefit themselves."
I blinked when I read that statement. But then I saw how true it is.
I used to work in "public sector employment," and I was horrifed by
the general attitude of so-called "public servants." For the most part
it's just a job creation scheme, a *staff social club* in disguise,
where people do as little work as possible and milk the system for
what they can get out of it, with only a few honourable exceptions. In
short, people in "public sector employment" are for the most part
*welfare claimants in disguise* who pretend to be employed in return
for voting for the political party that gave them their *non-job* and
also for the purpose of disguising the true unemployment statistics.
Seen in that context, the Irish police regarded Billy Tracey as being
*more trouble than he's worth* .
Meanwhile, in England, the myth that Peter Sutcliffe is the Yorkshire
Ripper had to be kept on track, so the English police wanted nothing
to do with Billy Tracey, partly because Tracey had signed a confession
admitting the Yorkshire Ripper killings, but not the four killings
Peter Sutcliffe is guilty of. |