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Date Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 14:22:50
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: IRSP: We Know Who The Real Criminals Are!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

21 March 2005
Irish Republican Socialist Party, Derry

We Know Who The Real Criminals Are!

The Irish Republican Socialist Party has condemned attempts by the
British state, through the Northern Ireland Office, to criminalise
welfare recipients by establishing the Financial Investigation Team
(FIT) to recover debts of 33 million pound.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the IRSP in Derry said, "It is all
well and good for John Spellar to be launching yet another crack down
on fraud as the Northern Ireland Office do this type of thing
annually, however this new Financial Investigation Team (FIT) is
unquestionably yet another mischievous election ploy by British
government crooks to point the finger away from what they themselves
have been doing."

"We have already had investigations into recouping over-payments of
benefits such as Working Families Tax Credit, that in itself is
already piling the pressure on working class homes were the vast
majority of people are being forced to cough-up for over-spills of
such payments which was actually designed to assist them. The whole
system is rotten to the core.

"The criminalisation of welfare recipients won't wash in areas of mass
unemployment black spots such as Derry and Strabane. If we could only
scratch beneath the surface it would be more than evident just who the
real criminals are - the British state, its economic policy and the
scrounging politicians that govern our lives.

"We have witnessed in recent weeks, and this is even before an
election date has been set, several election ploys by parties who have
went on the rampage against the weakest in society. We have witnessed
the crack down on migrant workers and then we had the traveller
communities and now the unemployed, this simply doesn't wash with us.

"Let's set the record straight, Blair, like each and every successive
British government are solely to blame. It has been their malignant
economic strategies which has inflicted thousands upon thousands of
our class to endure poverty wages, to endure life on an unemployment
scrap heap, widespread child poverty and social deprivation.

"What we are concerned about ourselves as republican socialists is, by
establishing the FIT to retrieve 33 million, the British state and the
NIO have now cast a cloud of suspicion on everyone who is in receipt
of Jobseekers Allowance, Income Support, Disability Living Allowance
or Housing Benefit, this again comes on the foot of elections and
amounts to what can only be described as the active targeting of the
working class."

Concluding, the spokesperson said, "These developments are now
occurring after we have witnessed billions upon billions of pounds
being spent with ease on Operation Iraqi Liberation, or OIL for short.
This war for oil has been going on while hospitals across both islands
continue to fall from crisis to crisis as waiting lists grow by the
day. They are fooling none of us, they are clutching at straws here
and we know full well who the real criminals are!"

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Irish Republican Socialist Party, Derry
P.O. Box 1981, Derry, BT48 8GX
Tel. No. 02871 262999
http://www.angelfire.com/space/derryirsp/
http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html

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