German WWI propaganda: French Dum-Dum bullets (c. 1916). Source Public Domain. Available from: Wikipedia [ Archived here ]

The coincidences apparently gets more outrageous, if that is possible, for the Miami Showband, and duly ALL the showbands. were silenced with ‘dum-dum’ bullets!

dum-dum

dum sounds identical to ‘dumb’.

Definition:

“1. adjective Someone who is dumb is completely unable to speak. [offensive] …[…]

2. adjective […] If someone is dumb on a particular occasion, they cannot speak because they are angry, shocked, or surprised . [literary] We were all struck dumb….

The ‘dumdum’ was a British military bullet developed for use in India at the Dum-Dum Ammunition factory near Calcutta in India, in the late 1890s, originally intended for local colonial incursions including into Afghanistan, it is amongst the most damaging bullets ever contrived due to its soft lead core being exposed, meaning upon bodily impact it expands massively, destroying tissue, leading to questions in Parliament such as the below:

“I will ask the noble Lord whether the specific quality of the Dum-Dum bullets supplied to the British troops to be used against the Afridis consists in crushing and pulverising the bone so as to defy all surgical skill employed in setting…to inflict incurable injury; and, what is the authority for the statement that the Dum-Dum bullets are consonant with international law or the usages of civilised warfare?””

House of Commons Sitting – Questions – Mr Swift McNeil to the Secretary of State for India, 1st March 1898 [ Archived here ]

The below article from the British Medical Journal describes the reason for its invention:

Author: Unknown. The British Medical Journal, Naval and Military, ‘The Military Bullet’, Composite image merged from two columns. December 19, 1896. Source: CC BY 3.0. Available from: Wikipedia [ Archived here ]

While originally referring to the location of the factory where they were made, the term ‘dumdum’ now tends to be a generic way of describing any expanding munitions and thus includes all expanding bullets within its remit, either soft nosed, hollow pointed, composite, or home made by being gouged or incised with a cross, as all have either been manufactured or:

“…adapted to inflict maximum injury”

Rosie Cowan, Ireland Correspondent, The Guardian Newspaper, 6th December 2001 [ Archived here ]

…due to the fact that they all open out upon impact with human tissue, thus they all have similar effect, one calculated to render the most atrocious damage. The Hague Convention of 1899 outlawed their use during warfare.

Cross-section of female corpse used to test the effects of expanding bullets at the time of the 1899 Hague Convention. The points marked ‘a’ and ‘b’ show the entry-wound of the Dum Dum bullet, the size of which was about 7×7 mm. The bullet expanded inside the body and left an exit-wound 10×20 mm. Stippled areas show destroyed tissue. Dr A Keith and Mr H. M. Rigby, ‘Modern Military Bullets’, Lancet, 2 Dec. 1899, p. 1,50. Source: Fair Use. Available from: Inverse Journal [ Archived here ]

While The Conflict Archive on the Internet calculates there were over 3,500 people murdered by all sides in the sectarian ‘Troubles’ in Ireland between 1969-2001, and while the with many of them were killed by the most atrocious methods, in all those atrocities apart from at the Miami Showband Massacre there appear to have only been comparatively few alleged usages of such illegal dumdum-type expanding bullets reported, which we could find despite extensive research.

Their first alleged use was in the Bloody Sunday massacre in which British soldiers from the Parachute Regiment shot 26 unarmed Catholic civilians at a protest in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland:

Father Edward Daly, waving a blood-stained white handkerchief as he escorts a mortally-wounded protester to safety during the events of Bloody Sunday (1972) in Derry, Northern Ireland. Source: Photo by BBC journalist John Bierman. Source: Fair Use. Available from: Wikipedia [ Archived here ]

…in which injuries suggested the use of illegal ‘dumdum’, or generic ‘expanding’ bullets in certain victims, such as the 40 pieces of metal which were found in the skull of Mr Barney McGuigan who, like Father Edward Daly pictured above was waving a white handkerchief in an attempt to assist an injured, and apparently entirely innocent party.

Cpl. Malcolm Mackay, a British soldier was shot in the back and wounded critically in 1971 at an observation post in the Foyle Road area of Londonderry/Derry by what the army said was a dumdum bullet.

An army spokesman said:

“It is most definitely a lethal turn ing [sic] in operations when the dumdum is actually used.”

The New York Times, ‘British Say Dumdum Bullet Hit Soldier in Ulster’, September 21, 1971 [ Archived here ]

It was the first time a dum-dum bullet had hit a soldier in the North, and preceded their use on Bloody Sunday by four months, which would appear that their use could have ben an act of ‘Collective Punishment’:

“International law posits that no person may be punished for acts that he or she did not commit. It ensures that the collective punishment of a group of persons for a crime committed by an individual is forbidden…This is one of the fundamental guarantees established by the Geneva Conventions and their protocols. This guarantee is applicable not only to protected persons but to all individuals, no matter what their status, or to what category of persons they belong…”

Larry Catá Backer, “The Führer Principle of International Law: Individual Responsibility and Collective Punishment”, Penn State International Law Review quoting Médecins Sans Frontières [ Archived here ]

The only other apparent recorded use of ‘dum-dum’ bullets I could find, apart from at the Miami Showband Massacre, was in the murder of former UDR member Norman Hanna:

Pte Norman Hanna, 3 UDR, 11th March 1982. Source: Fair Use. Available from: The Official Website of The Regimental Association of The Ulster Defence Regiment CGC [ Archived here ]

…who was no longer even a member, supposedly no longer rendering him a military target:

“Norman left the Regiment in 1976. He was the 29th UDR Veteran killed. He was shot by the IRA as he arrived at the Department of Environment Vehicle Testing Centre, Rathfriland Road, Newry where he worked. He had just left his car when he was shot by a motorcycle pillion passenger. His wife and four year old daughter who were in his car witnessed his death. The IRA subsequently repeated a warning that those leaving the UDR should make their position known to the IRA through an intermediary such as a priest. He was 28 years old and married at the time of his death.”

The Regimental Association of The Ulster Defence Regiment CGC [ Archived here ]

However this attack was also carried out using dumdum bullets according to the murders organiser, ex-IRA intelligence officer and member of the ‘Nutting Squad’ ‘Internal Security Group’ – turned Mi5 supergrass, Eamon Collins. The (now murdered by the IRA) ex-volunteer stated in a documentary:

“I arranged for two guns..[for the murder].a 9mm Browning and a Smith and Wesson revolver with dumdum bullets…”

Interview with Eamon Collins, ‘Confession’, ITV Network First series television documentary, 1995, 30m.26s

While there were likely other uses of such dreadful ammunition in The Troubles, during research we have only discovered the aforementioned four records of their use.

Given the apparently encrypted ‘coincidences’ apparently woven through every element of the Miami Showband Massacre it is surely reasonable to assume that the extremely rare use of such munitions in this context may have a ritual purpose, for traditionally in such rituals:

“[…s]acrificial weapons…serve sacred or symbolic purposes; their construction, forms, dimensions, and styles have been, from earliest times, codified.”

‘Ceremonial and Ritual Objects’, Britannica [ Archived here ]

…and we can find that again, very likely, in the further use of Masonic ‘Twilight Language’ in which:

““Every word is often an enigma; and to him who reads in haste, the whole may seem absurd. […but…] they must conceal their meaning and deceive all but the initiates.” [Pike, p. 792].”

J. Edward Decker, ‘Freemasonry: The Doctrines of Darkness’, Pg 95 [ Archived here ]

…in which the Miami Showband massacre appears to be a:

“…brilliantly orchestrated ritual whose ceremonial aspects were as precise and detailed as the internal workings of a clock.”

Michael A. Hoffman II, ‘Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare’, Page 78 (1992 Edition) referring to the ‘Son of Sam’ murders [ Archived here ]

This was effective in the silencing of the Miami Showband, and all the other showbands who previously had brought some sense of non-sectarian normality to Ireland.

And the Modus Operandi of the massacre of the Miami Showband at Banbridge also informs us of the apparent purpose of the attack, the sadistic glee in mutilation and overkill, for with apparent:

“[…s]acrificial weapons…[they may] vary according to the nature of the sacrifice.[…but…] … a flow of blood is always necessary…”

‘Ceremonial and Ritual Objects’, Britannica

The following quote, from British Agent and 33^rd Degree Knight of Malta Freemason Aleister Crowley’s ‘The Book of Law’, a publication which the O.T.O. endorsed as:

“…a perfect transmission of the divine and a luminous vehicle of Truth that can serve as an infallible guide to human conduct.”

Via Sacred Geometry International [ Archived here ]

…and which gives the reader an idea of the apparent opinion held by such entities on human sacrifice and the use of sacrificial weapons, for it also states:

“Worship me with fire & blood; worship me with swords & with spears… let blood flow to my name. … The best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what. … There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.”

Ibid.

…and thus the Miami Showband, as other victims, were struck ‘dumb’ with ‘dum-dum’ bullets!

THE MATHEMATICAL ODDS OF THESE ANOMALIES BEING COINCIDENTAL LESSEN WITH EACH CHAPTER…

READ ON THEN YOU DECIDE.