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It also allows civilian police informers (e.g. actual criminals) to kill on their orders too.
by thinkingemote 6y ago
It also allows civilian police informers (e.g. actual criminals) to kill on their orders too.
- pjc50 6y agoThis was, in effect, always the case in Northern Ireland. The overlap between the UVF, the RUC, Special Branch, and the armed forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings and Pat Finucane, for example. At the end of the war in the late 90s the Blair government issued effectively blanket pardons for a lot of crime from both sides.