“[T]he British attempted to lay the ground for depriving the Nationalists of the management of social, cultural or recreational activities.”

Roger Faligot, ‘Britain’s Military Strategy in lreland’, 1983, ‘Control of Population’, Pg 123 [ Archived here ]

“The result of all this has been that a whole generation of teenagers have grown up deprived of the normal social outlets that kids can expect elsewhere. And that’s why it’s so important that some kind of entertainment survives.

Well, right now many dance halls may have to close down and that’s because of what happened to the most popular group in Ireland.

That group could fill any hall North or South of the border.

It was called the ‘Miami Showband’.”

Narrator from TV Footage, ‘ReMastered: The Miami Showband Massacre’ Netflix Documentary, 22nd March 2019, 1m:30s – 2m:04s [ Archived here ]

Unity was apparently not in the interests of the UK establishment, as is proven through collusion and their infiltration of both sides, in an apparent effort to leverage ‘strategic tension’.

“The strategy of tension is a method of social control involving a series of covert attacks upon a population, intended to promote stress and fear amongst them. The purpose is, by inducing a mistrust of one another and of the world at large, to increase child-like dependence upon perceived authority figures […]

The methods used are most obviously illegal and violent i.e. assassinations, kidnapping, paramilitary operations but also include propaganda, economic sanctions, support of civil unrest, fake grassroots movements, promotion of disruptive memes or technologies and the escalation of formerly peaceful protests by use of agents provocateurs. These are typically carried out under a false flag and combined with disinformation…”

‘Strategy of Tension’, WikiSpooks, last edited 30th October 2023 [ Archived here ]

Thus it seems clear that the British state’s desire was for the opposing factions to continue in their hostilities at this time.

Therefore to have the two sides coming together through culture was antithetical to their apparent agenda:

“Music is a common language, it’s something that is appreciated and loved by everybody regardless of what their political or religious views are or whatever. We were bringing communities together. When we played, sectarianism was left outside the door, that’s the power of music and the people who do these type of things, they are afraid of beauty, they are afraid of all the goodness that’s in society.”

Stephen Travers, ‘ReMastered: The Miami Showband Massacre’ Netflix Documentary, 22nd March 2019, 1h:08m:32s – 1h:09m:09s

To have protestants and Catholics united through music, was apparently against their intentions, for such interaction inevitably personalises the ‘other-side’, so they apparently employed the tried and tested colonial policy of ‘Divide and Conquer’ enabling enforced segregation to complement the mass killings enabled by state collusion with loyalist paramilitaries and to contribute to the aggravation of sectarian division.

“There was terrible, terrible atrocities being committed, but through the middle of all of this murder and mayhem we were equally popular both sides of the border, north and south, to a mixed audience. You looked down at an audience and, you know, you can’t pick out the catholics and the protestants, they all looked the same and spoke the same. Back then I actually didn’t know what religion anybody was in the band. Ray Miller and Brian McCoy were from the North and were protestants, the rest were Catholics. There was never a question of religion or politics. The only currency in our band was how well can this guy play. That was it, yeah, that was the religion for us, music.

Like all of the other bands on the circuit we were criss-crossing the border into the north on a weekly basis. I bought into this idea that musicians were immune.”

Ibid. 10m:09s – 11m:13s

The popularity of the Showbands worked against the apparent aims of collusion, wholesale murder and destruction building resentment on both sides:

“None of the bands were ever affected by the problems of Northern Ireland so what happened to us on the 31^st July came as an absolute shock.”

Ibid. Des McAlea, 11m:14s – 11m:20s

However it came into being as an apparent part of official policy through a de-facto death-squad with the intent to kill at least two birds with one ‘stone’.

Thus the point of the attack, to close down the border, to ‘Ban’ the ‘Bridge’ (not only a social bridge between the two sides, but a literal bridge, the border), relied on the ‘framing’ intent to frame the Showband as IRA terrorists is proven by the press release ‘Ulster Central Intelligence Agency – Miami Showband Incident Report’: sent out within 12 hours of the massacre, by the UK’s proxy army of terrorists the UVF, apparently before they realised (or perhaps they had been deliberately ‘kept in the dark’ to the fact) that members of the Miami Showband had survived the massacre and could detail the truth of what happened, thus destroying the hopes for the required narrative.

It read:

“A UVF patrol led by Major Boyle was suspicious of two vehicles, a minibus and a car parked near the border. Major Boyle ordered his patrol to apprehend the occupants for questioning. As they were being questioned, Major Boyle and Lieutenant Somerville began to search the minibus. As they began to enter the vehicle, a bomb was detonated and both men were killed outright. At the precise moment of the explosion, the patrol came under intense automatic fire from the occupants of the other vehicle. The patrol sergeant immediately ordered the patrol to shoot back. Using self-loading rifles and sub-machine guns, the patrol shot back, killing three of their attackers and wounding another. The patrol later recovered two Armalite rifles and a pistol. The UVF maintains regular border patrols due to the continued activity of the Provisional IRA. The Mid-Ulster Battalion has been assisting the South Down-South Armagh units since the IRA Forkhill boobytrap which killed four British soldiers. Three UVF members are being treated for gunshot wounds after last night but not in hospital.

It would appear that the UVF patrol surprised members of a terrorist organisation transferring weapons to the Miami Showband minibus and that an explosive device of some description was being carried by the Showband for an unlawful purpose. It is obvious, therefore, that the UVF patrol was justified in taking the action it did and that the killing of the three Showband members should be regarded as justifiable homicide. The Officers and Agents of the Ulster Central Intelligence Agency commend the UVF on their actions and tender their deepest sympathy to the relatives of the two Officers who died while attempting to remove the bomb from the minibus.”

UVF Press Release reproduced in the 1975 edition of Combat [ Archived here ]

This inaccuracy (perhaps through deliberate withholding of information from the paramilitaries by their state sponsors) helped further the illusion that there was no collusion occurring between the state and the outlawed Protestant paramilitaries who wanted to keep the North of Ireland, as a part of the UK.

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