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Tout exposed Mark 'Stone/Kennedy' exposed as undercover police officer
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ironically under Licensing laws... it is illegal to serve drunk people, known prostitutes or police on duty...
discokermit
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it's a legitimate complaint. they don't spend all of their time hating people, they spend at least half of it stuffing their lazy greedy faces and hating people.
I clocked a cop having a sneaky ciggy down an alley last year. I considered taking a photo but then got distracted by something or couldn't be arsed or something.
That investigation wouldn't have involved taking at face value "intelligence" "shared" by any of the multifarious and nefarious Italian police forces - would it?
Are you sure? Whilst the Licensing Act 2003 retained an offence in relation to drunkenness it did not, so far as I recall, include offences in relation to prostitutes or police officers on duty.
That sounds like they were demonstrating that they were just an ordinary person, with ordinary frailties. Something that I thought that you wanted them to be ...
Whilst I would expect a supervising officer to give them a bollocking, I wouldn't expect members of the public (except the really sad, no-life moaners who see kids kicking a football in the park as "anti-social behaviour" and who tend to take over consultative meetings) to make an official complaint about it.
It would certainly involve consideration of intelligence received from foreign police forces, yes. Whether it was taken at face value or not I do not know. It certainly shouldn't have been if intelligence handling guidelines had been applied but, as I have said before, I wasn't involved in the actual investigation so I don't know.
Well I didn't. So put your nob back in your pants.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
The Black Hand
Unclean
Sorry to hear that Kaka... its interesting to hear from experienced people who have known these sorts of people...
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
that's waaay too vague and insubstantial for 'serious crime' tho'. Mugging, burglary, GH - that's 'serious crime', IMO.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
what a fucking cuntCunt even looks like bono
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
in case anyone missed this fucking cunt at all?
don't invite him round for dinnner at the very least......
cunt!!!!!
don't invite him round for dinnner at the very least......
cunt!!!!!
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
piss in their helmets and they have to give you a lift home.
fact.
fact.
Maybe. But other people have other opinions.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
I hope he kept his nob out the way.
I wouldn't like to find out I've been shagging undercover plod.
I wouldn't like to find out I've been shagging undercover plod.
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
I thought the Yanks encouraged that when loons started going postal in burger kings etc.
winjer
holocene death beat
The Sunday Times has an article about him today, doesn't add anything to what's already been written that I can see.
Here, but paywalled:
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Society/article484345.ece
Here, but paywalled:
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Society/article484345.ece
Thora
Differently Ethical
A police officer spent seven years undercover living as a hippie and environmental activist to infiltrate peaceful protest groups
He drank with them, he climbed with them, he even seemed to love them and was loved in return. But Mark “Flash” Stone was living a double life as perhaps the most deeply embedded undercover police officer in Britain.
Questions are being asked this weekend as to what the police officer achieved in seven years, living at the taxpayers’ expense as a hippie and environmental activist. He infiltrated protest groups that were mainly peaceful in nature, moved in with them and travelled to Iceland and all over Europe.
His double existence ended when friends discovered documents showing his true identity, leaving a trail of emotional wreckage and a sense of bewilderment that the authorities should invest so much time for a seemingly modest reward.
Stone — real name Mark Kennedy — was among 114 people arrested last year on the eve of a planned invasion of a power station. The aim was to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire for a week, preventing the release of 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide from one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in Europe.
He drove the car on the initial reconnaissance and even hired a 7½-ton truck for the main event. But charges against him were dropped, leaving 20 others to be convicted last week of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass.
With his long hair, tattoos and body piercings, nobody suspected that their comrade in saving the planet was a detective. But Stone is thought to be a member of the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), a secret unit known as “the Hairies” because officers can wear their hair as they please.
According to one former member, only married officers are accepted into the unit, as they are less likely to “go native” if they have families to return to.
Called “Flash” because he had more money than other activists, Stone became a familiar face in Nottingham, hanging about at the Sumac centre, a vegan cafe and social club for people concerned with human and animal rights, the environment and pacifism. He lived with activists in the city.
His former friends say he was vehemently anti-police, a pose slightly at odds with a community more inclined to organise workshops on what they perceive as “bad policing” than to fight about it.
For the takeover of the power station, the protesters drew up health-and-safety plans and a rule that there would be no violence. They were to stop the conveyor carrying coal into the boilers, climb the 653ft chimney and unfurl protest banners.
The workers would be given leaflets reassuring them that jobs could be created by greener energy, while costlier but cleaner gas-fired stations would come on line to supply the National Grid, keeping the nation’s lights on.
Eon, the owner of the station, knew about the action five days beforehand and could have sought an injunction. Instead, the protesters were allowed to assemble and were then arrested.
Stone was unmasked as a suspected police officer 18 months later, just before the trial. Confronted by six friends with paperwork showing his real name, he admitted being in the Metropolitan police. The six published a short account of his confession in the green media, to general disbelief.
“Look at the bloke,” said one activist. “What did they do, send him from Hendon [police training centre] to spend five years smoking rollies and living in a tent? It boggles the mind that he’s spent so long doing basically f***-all, expending so much effort in terms of debate, slow, dull legwork and campaigning — and still be thinking, ‘Aha, fooling these oh-so-dangerous activists brilliantly’.”
Last week two police forces confirmed Stone’s status to The Sunday Times. “The individual is a Met officer,” said Nottinghamshire police. “He’s an undercover officer,” said the Metropolitan police. “We can’t say more.”
Scotland Yard refused requests for information about the SDS, a unit of the Met with a remit to prevent disorder. It was set up in 1968 after violence at anti-Vietnam war protests.
An insight into its methods came this year, when an SDS officer from the 1990s described his work. For four years the officer, Peter Daley, spent one day a week with his wife and family and six as a hate-filled Trotskyist on the wrong side of a riot shield. He was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and won an out-of-court settlement.
Stone has disappeared from Nottingham, leaving friends in shock. One said: “Whatever else Mark is, I do believe he had genuine feelings for those he had meaningful relationships with in the last seven years.”
The friend added: “I don’t believe he could be with such beautiful, wonderful people and not feel love.”
The protesters will be sentenced next month.
He drank with them, he climbed with them, he even seemed to love them and was loved in return. But Mark “Flash” Stone was living a double life as perhaps the most deeply embedded undercover police officer in Britain.
Questions are being asked this weekend as to what the police officer achieved in seven years, living at the taxpayers’ expense as a hippie and environmental activist. He infiltrated protest groups that were mainly peaceful in nature, moved in with them and travelled to Iceland and all over Europe.
His double existence ended when friends discovered documents showing his true identity, leaving a trail of emotional wreckage and a sense of bewilderment that the authorities should invest so much time for a seemingly modest reward.
Stone — real name Mark Kennedy — was among 114 people arrested last year on the eve of a planned invasion of a power station. The aim was to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire for a week, preventing the release of 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide from one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in Europe.
He drove the car on the initial reconnaissance and even hired a 7½-ton truck for the main event. But charges against him were dropped, leaving 20 others to be convicted last week of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass.
With his long hair, tattoos and body piercings, nobody suspected that their comrade in saving the planet was a detective. But Stone is thought to be a member of the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), a secret unit known as “the Hairies” because officers can wear their hair as they please.
According to one former member, only married officers are accepted into the unit, as they are less likely to “go native” if they have families to return to.
Called “Flash” because he had more money than other activists, Stone became a familiar face in Nottingham, hanging about at the Sumac centre, a vegan cafe and social club for people concerned with human and animal rights, the environment and pacifism. He lived with activists in the city.
His former friends say he was vehemently anti-police, a pose slightly at odds with a community more inclined to organise workshops on what they perceive as “bad policing” than to fight about it.
For the takeover of the power station, the protesters drew up health-and-safety plans and a rule that there would be no violence. They were to stop the conveyor carrying coal into the boilers, climb the 653ft chimney and unfurl protest banners.
The workers would be given leaflets reassuring them that jobs could be created by greener energy, while costlier but cleaner gas-fired stations would come on line to supply the National Grid, keeping the nation’s lights on.
Eon, the owner of the station, knew about the action five days beforehand and could have sought an injunction. Instead, the protesters were allowed to assemble and were then arrested.
Stone was unmasked as a suspected police officer 18 months later, just before the trial. Confronted by six friends with paperwork showing his real name, he admitted being in the Metropolitan police. The six published a short account of his confession in the green media, to general disbelief.
“Look at the bloke,” said one activist. “What did they do, send him from Hendon [police training centre] to spend five years smoking rollies and living in a tent? It boggles the mind that he’s spent so long doing basically f***-all, expending so much effort in terms of debate, slow, dull legwork and campaigning — and still be thinking, ‘Aha, fooling these oh-so-dangerous activists brilliantly’.”
Last week two police forces confirmed Stone’s status to The Sunday Times. “The individual is a Met officer,” said Nottinghamshire police. “He’s an undercover officer,” said the Metropolitan police. “We can’t say more.”
Scotland Yard refused requests for information about the SDS, a unit of the Met with a remit to prevent disorder. It was set up in 1968 after violence at anti-Vietnam war protests.
An insight into its methods came this year, when an SDS officer from the 1990s described his work. For four years the officer, Peter Daley, spent one day a week with his wife and family and six as a hate-filled Trotskyist on the wrong side of a riot shield. He was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and won an out-of-court settlement.
Stone has disappeared from Nottingham, leaving friends in shock. One said: “Whatever else Mark is, I do believe he had genuine feelings for those he had meaningful relationships with in the last seven years.”
The friend added: “I don’t believe he could be with such beautiful, wonderful people and not feel love.”
The protesters will be sentenced next month.
Yep, quality journalism as always.
This week, following a step-up in leftwing political activity and confrontations with the police? After Millbank, when the police were widely acknowledged to have been caught off guard? Can't imagine for the life of me what message they'd be trying to send.
Anyone have a photo of this Daley cunt?
winjer
holocene death beat
No need to get all wikileaks about it, it's also the week the Ratcliffe trial ended, which Kennedy was involved in.
Less widely acknowledged was the Met saying that Millbank wasn't down to activists, and undermining the case others had made for greater surveillance.
Superdupastupor
fun to funky
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I'm not sure you could really quantify such a thing - is the Sunday Times more spook-receptive than its daily sister paper, or one of the Telegraph group papers, or The Guardian, or The Independent or IoS, or the Observer? Each has been more than comfortable passing off uncorroborated off-the-record tittle-tattle or 'briefings' or word-in-your-shell-like 'tip-offs' as genuine, journalistically-obtained scoops.
Samurai swords, 'eco-terrorist' tree spiking, packed lunches & expenses for protesting rentamob, Class War is full of fascists, the EVIL WOMBLES are behind everything, and plenty more spring to mind from recent years, and not just confined to one paper.
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