Undercover policing enquiry

[DaveCinzano]

hmm... not sure this bit's wholly accurate

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M2589 presumably "andy bryant". but cw didn't collapse with his departure: there was a split around 1992 which saw the ephemeral class war organisation exist briefly alongside the federation, and of course the 1997 split. but class war existed continuously until at least 2008, 2009, and not always in a moribund state. conclusion: don't get your information from annie machon - or rather david shayler writing as annie machon.

Hark at him - who does he think he is, Philip Parsons of the Times?



BTW Bonino is one of Lambert's few remaining public cheerleaders. He is not a fan of the likes of COPS, PSOOL or URG, and is a likely candidate for one of those blocking applications by these groups for funding through academic channels.

 

[butchersapron]

Full pdf if anyone wants.

 

[Smoking kills]

hmm... not sure this bit's wholly accurate


If M2589 presumably "andy bryant" "was most likely able to supply information on the planning of the Poll Tax riots that would hit London in 1990" he clearly didn't pass that information on to Class War. My impression, from talking to people who were there, was that the riot was a spontaneous response to a brutal police riot, not the work of "around 200 anarchist individuals".

 

[Pickman's model]

Smoking kills - yeh, that too. it was clear on the day that something was going to happen, but what and where? that was more difficult to predict. and a lot of people never made it up north of the river, the march was so large that people were still in kennington park when stuff was kicking off in whitehall.

 

[ska invita]

Crowdfunder for legal + campaigning expenses nears target in last few days, last few quid needed
Support Victims of Police Spying Get Access to Justice

 

[teqniq]

Police Self-Investigators are Doorstepping #Spycops Victims ~ Undercover Research Group

 

[teqniq]

Publish Spycops Names, Says Ex-Undercover Cop - Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance

 

[elbows]

Woman reveals police spy tricked her into relationship in 1970s

A woman has disclosed how she has discovered after 40 years that she was deceived into a sexual relationship by a police spy.

The woman, known as Mary, said the discovery was “very embarrassing and upsetting”. “I feel very used by him, and by the state, invading my privacy and my body,” she added.

She was a young leftwing student in the 1970s when she was tricked by the undercover officer, who had adopted the fake identity of Rick Gibson.

The woman made the discovery last month after a public inquiry, led by a judge, Sir John Mitting, confirmed in August that Gibson had infiltrated leftwing groups between 1974 and 1976.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Another big hit for the Undercover Research Group - it's running rings around the official investigations (Herne, HMIC/S et al) when it comes to evidence gathering, and defeating every attempt by the Met to keep its secrets hidden

Meanwhile, Mitting shows his true colours with this note released on behalf of the inquiry's counsel today - full of self-serving self-congratulation, and ever ready to decry the dastardly, unspecified ‘researchers’ (whom, it should be noted, are the ones who kicked all of this off in the first place).

 

[teqniq]

From today's court session

 

[ddraig]

fucks sake some twisting there!

 

[teqniq]

This happened the other day. The whitewash continues apace.

Scottish Government Refuses Spycops Inquiry - Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance

 

[DaveCinzano]

This happened the other day. The whitewash continues apace.

Scottish Government Refuses Spycops Inquiry - Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance

A definite 'hold my beer' moment from Michael Matheson in the wake of Mitting's crackpipe burblings

 

[teqniq]

A recap of the last hearing.

Spycops Inquiry: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall - Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance

 

[GarveyLives]

Related:

"Two police officers accused of spying on the sister of a former paratrooper who was unlawfully killed in police custody have been cleared by a disciplinary panel ..."

Officers accused of spying on sister of man who died in police custody cleared

 

[TruXta]

A recap of the last hearing.

Spycops Inquiry: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall - Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance

Just read that now, thanks for the link. Had I not been inured to this shit already I'd have been lost for words to describe the attitude and actions of the inquiry chair. Hard to overstate the tenacity and character of the victims.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Stay tuned - it's about to go off the chain

 

[SpookyFrank]

Stay tuned - it's about to go off the chain

Every time someone posts something like this it ends in disappointment

 

[Artaxerxes]

Something from the Lib Dems Ed Davey for you to enjoy.

“It should be obvious that a party that is a defender of freedom should be the party of the police, because they protect our freedoms,” he told the Guardian

 

[SpookyFrank]

“It should be obvious that a party that is a defender of freedom should be the party of the police, because they protect our freedoms,” he told the Guardian

Except that the entire concept of qualified freedoms within the framework of a social contract overseen by representative democratic institutions and an impartial judiciary is based on philosophical foundations dating from a time long before the concept of a modern police force was even thought of. In actual fact the existence of an armed force which is empowered to punish transgressors before they are shown to have broken any law and to act in ways which would be forbidden to any other citizen under the law precludes the very existence of a functioning social contract, an impartial judiciary or benevolent democratic insitutions.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Worth watching this - MPS has been stonewalling on Operation Riverwood, which came about after the parents of a dead child, Rod Richardson, complained about his identity being stolen by an undercover officer. It's now with the ICO.

The police has set and breached numerous deadlines for its response. Entirely without irony, it is running with the excuse that it's taking so long because...Wait for it...

“...the requested information also contains personal data...”!

Publication of Operation Riverwood report - a Freedom of Information request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)

 

[DaveCinzano]

Stay tuned - it's about to go off the chain

This morning the non state non police core participants denounced Mitting, his handling of the inquiry and his acquiescence to the Met, called for him to step down and be replaced by a panel, and then walked out

Mitting described as being very flustered and embarrassed.

 

[ddraig]

Undercover police inquiry head urged to go

 

[SpookyFrank]

Credit to those who walked out, Mitting is a fucking joke.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Stay tuned - it's about to go off the chain

... And here's part two of the double-whammy: the Met admits its spycops conspired with industrial blacklisting.

Officers likely to have passed personal files to blacklisters, says Met

Police admit role in blacklisting workers

 

[teqniq]

That has to be a criminal offence, surely?

 

[Pickman's model]

... And here's part two of the double-whammy: the Met admits its spycops conspired with industrial blacklisting.

Officers likely to have passed personal files to blacklisters, says Met

Police admit role in blacklisting workers

Cue class action against the met no doubt

 

[DaveCinzano]

That has to be a criminal offence, surely?

I'm sure the Met has an opinion on whether what the Met has done is a criminal offence or not

 

[teqniq]

Well, yes turkeys, Christmas etc; in which case the only recourse is the class action lawsuit as suggested by Pickman's.

 

[SpookyFrank]

That has to be a criminal offence, surely?

Yeah, someone call the...call the...shit