Anna Smith - NOTW Republican Rheptile

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Sunday's NOTW proudly announced that the putrid cockroach Anna Smith is to join their team. This should ring alarm bells for all friends of The Rangers.

 

During her time with the Daily Record, Smith was twice present on dawn raids. Both provided her with anti-Rangers front pages.

 

1. After the Sunderland friendly, she campaigned non-stop for the pub slasher to be caught and punished. The police were anxious for a result due to the pressure being exerted by the her at the Record. On information provided by Smith (her claim), she was present when the police raided and arrested four Rangers supporters in the Cambuslang area. The front page carried pictures of the raid and anecdotal stories about the Bears detained. A tremendous piece of demonisation.

 

A few days later, the arrested Bears were released. The police revealed that they weren't even in Sunderland. Smith did not re-address this, no mention was ever made.

 

2. The night before a Scottish Cup Final, Smith was to be found with Glasgow City Council workmen (protected by the police) who are repainting lampposts and kerb stones in Bridgeton. She heralds this as an anti-sectarian drive and praises the Councils quick involvement. Pictures and anecdotal stories are on the front page of the Daily Record the next morning.

 

Her take on the Royston Street Party consisted of four paragraphs. She did not mention the murder, the numerous stabbings, the heart attack victim that died in the ambulance that couldn't get through cut-off roads, the gang battles, the dozens of arrests, the Councils grant of �£25,000, etc etc.

 

Smith is both a season ticket holder and share holder at Celtic Park. Her involvement with Cardinal Winning's media committee, and overt work and support of militant Irish republicanism are well documented. She used to regularly lecture young seminarists on the pitfalls of the big bad Proddy world.

 

Her family still live in Chapelhall. A big ââ?¬Å?Sellick-mindedââ?¬Â family one might say. Her mother's old house in Arranview Street was regularly draped with republican flags every old firm game.

 

She started reporting in the Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser at the same time as Graham Isdale. She sold Mr. Isdale down the river big time to get the job with the Record.

 

Formerly a regular at Airdrie and Coatbridge Labour Council functions, she could also regularly be found drinking in Airdrie. She is unmistakable. Bucked-toothed with wiry unkempt ginger hair, it is claimed she has slept with everybody and anybody to get where she is.

 

Anna Smith hates Rangers. Anna Smith hates Protestants. Anna Smith is a twisted bigot. Please boycott this newspaper from now on - better still, write to the editor and tell him why you are boycotting and urging everyone else to do so as well. If we don't fight back, these bastards will run all over us.

Thanks

[Bluedell 5,329]

I already boycott it, but even less chance of me buying it now.

[Norris Cole 0]

Not bought a copy of that comic in my life.

[Frankie 8,150]

Yeah, 26th of Foot had mentioned this the other day...

 

A dangerous piece of work and no mistake.

[26th of foot 5,829]

Where to start with Anna Smith?

 

In the early nineties, the Mirror Group decided they had had enough of the Daily Record being habitually referred to as, 'the Daily Ranger' by BBC Scotland's Comedy Unit team. A number of radio shows were transferred to TV, a Kick up the Eighties being the most successful. All the usual characters were present, Phil Differ, Elaine C Smith, Peter Capaldi, Elaine Collins, ......................etc Every script was lifted from the Sellik fanzine, 'Not the View'.

 

The perception, and that is exactly what it was, a perception held by a number of denominational school teachers at a fanzine, grew to the point that Mirror Group activated divorce proceedings by appointing Anna Smith as Chief Reporter at the Daily Record. She brought a side kick along, Brian McCartney. Anna had been with the Coatbridge and Airdrie Advertisor, she worked for various Irish Republican papers under various guises, and was a member of Cardinal Winning's Media Advisory group. She lectured to seminarians on the dangers of the big, bad, proddy world.

 

Her first big story was the Sunderland Riot, a true work of fiction, 16 arrests in a 15,000 travelling support. She filled the Record's front page with lies, including a timetable of violence that extended to vandalism to cars in towns over 20 miles away from Sunderland. It was a real scattergun approach determined to demonise and marginalise the Rangers support. Anna had one source, a local copper, a Chief Inspector who blamed the 'riot' on a group of Rangers supporting casuals called the ICS. Nope, I had never heard of them either, the Polis further articulated on TV that these three letters stood for 'Inter City Scots'. Yep, truly laughable, but the Record ran with it, and the on message Politicians had a hook to hang their prejudice.

 

Anna had close contacts with another Chief Inspector, this time in Strathclyde, his name, Kevin Smith. Today, he is Chief Constable of Central region. Now, Kevin and Anna are NOT related, they do share common interests. Kevin's old man formed the Catholic Police Officers Guild. Anna received a few tips and was invited on to a number of police dawn raids. Thus, the Record's front page screamed four Rangers supporters had been arrested at 5am in Cambuslang, they were the Sunderland slashers. The next day, Sunderland Polis released these four unfortunates, without charge. The reasoning, none of them had ever been in Sunderland. Anna and the Record failed to mention their release, let alone put it on the front page.

 

Another police tip, this time from Strathaven, hinted at the solving of the notorious Bible John murders. Anna took up the cause, front page of the Record showed the picture of a Stonehouse man, replete in Scots Guard uniform. We were informed that DNA would like this deceased chap to the Barrowland murders in the mid sixties. Of course, the Army picture was deliberate, the 'British' army being sinister and pejorative. After a few months of front page campaigning to have this poor chap's remains disinterred(against his surviving families' wishes), he was dug up, samples were taken, and sent for analysis. The front pages continued, always accompanied by that army photo. The tests proved negative, the Record told it's readership on page 7 in a couple of paragraphs, no front page splash, and the family quietly reburied their innocent relative.

 

Kevin Smith moved to E Division and became Match Commander at Sellik Park. Anna was on another dawn operation, this time our brave Polis were protecting Glasgow City Council workies as they repainted Brigton kerb stones black. It was the morning of the 1999 Scottish Cup final and dem nasty Rangers supporters in Brigton had intimidated their non-Rangers supporting neighbours, by painting the kerb stones at the cross, red, white, and blue. Seriously, this was the Record front page!

 

Finally, I should mention Anna's interest in the Orkney child sex abuse investigation. I had a mate who was a senior Solicitor involved in this, he flew from Edinburgh every Monday morning, returning Friday evening, for several months. He flagged up Anna and Brian McCartney arriving in situ'. Their particular interest was a child's testimony that her alleged abuser wore a cloak. It was pointed out a local Minister habitually wore a cloak around town. Front page splashes ensued, insider social workers wondering if this child had been the subject of ritual abuse, and a picture of a Minister wearing a cloak. After two weeks, said Minister was fully cleared of any involvement and Anna left the islands. It would appear the horror suffered by these children was not important, well not as important as nailing a Church of Scotland Minister during years of revelations about RC priests.

 

After attempting to take on drug dealers and failing, Anna left the Record fearing for her personal safety. She bought a white walled cottage on the coast of Donegal and wrote a semi-biographical tome entitled, 'Spit in the Wind'. This was her second book, her first, an unofficial biography of Martin O'Neill bombed after MON slated it as lazy journalism of the worst example. There you go, we can all agree with MON, put it on the front page.