Video - State Repression | Political Policing | Undercover Tactics | Surveillance | Mark Kennedy, Police & Private Spy

State Repression | Political Policing  Undercover Tactics - #surveillance  Resisting Surveillance: it's is not just about the metadata [cccamp15] "Infiltrators have been uncovered within political mobilisations in the UK, Germany, the USA, New Zealand, Spain etc., showing us that understanding offline security is just as vital as making our hardware and software secure. No matter how many layers of encryption we use, if our closest companions are infiltrators, sharing our homes, our lives, and our computers, there is nowhere to hide." SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eOmj-EUXfU&feature=youtu.be ---------------------- ꕤ ----------------------   Notes More intense version of state surveillance of the metadata kind is: Targeted Undercover Policing entering most intimate sphere of life Undercover Policing = not a new phenomenon Victor Serge What everyone should know about repression (1926) https://www.marxists.org/archive/serge/1926/repression/ Undercover policing tactics go back  at least to the 1890s Book (above) is re Czarist Russia / efforts to neutralise threats to power / Czarist tactics are same as tactics we see today, eg going into a social movement dividing & conquering spreading lies causing diversion to neutralise threats to power Use of undercover police is POLITICAL & PROJECT POLICING Outing of British Undercover Cop:  Mark Kennedy - 2011 see  book: Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police Paperback (2013) http://www.amazon.com/Undercover-Story-Britains-Secret-Police/dp/0571302173 Film 'Spied Upon' in the making | financing leads appreciated Link | here Various relevant books worth reading mentioned in video FBI Undercover Op THERMCON | here selling LSD to gain trust sex with activists EMETIC protester group chair lift damage + two other attacks against targets causing ecological damage 1987 to 1989 Undercover FBI Michael Fain {undercover name, Mike Tait} recruitment Ron Fraizer {friend of those to be arrested} as informant Result:  multiple arrests Other purpose:  discrediting associated group Entrapment FOI files documented: 1996 - FBI agents provocateurs associated with THERMCON spent 2 years winning trust of Prescott group actively encouraging them to sabotage powerlines attempting - unsuccessfully - to convince group to use (& even offering to buy) explosives FBI agents also selected the site, purchased & transported cutting equipment prior to  power line sabotage attempt on 1989 USA - FBI  efforts range from 1960s to present day efforts to smash/silence radical environmental movements Germany see Book:  Spitzel   |  here Germany Private cops unregulated Believe the video also refers to 'Verfassungsschutz' Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) English: Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Rather a misleading name, given this is Germany's domestic 'security agency': "tasked with intelligence-gathering on threats concerning the democratic order, the existence and security"  and, by the sound of it, is in fact a state police tasked with the maintaining the power of the corporate-controlled state, one would think. Source | here Social Network Infiltration Map social network Target 'top influencer' see Stratfor (Occupy Oakland) - thanks, Jeremy Hammond Placement on Watch Lists (along with those known to person) US:  File for a Lawyer Obtain FOI docs FBI - B6 & B7C exclusions [result:  targets do not know FBI talking to associates] Associates = under severe pressure from secret police (FBI) UK  Harassment of Teachers / School Friends harassed at travel points / questioned Snitch-jacketing (paranoia, calling people police & destabilising / attacking own movement; thus doing the work of the police) Placement on Terrorist Lists Problems at border crossings National Security Exemption results from seeking remedy re placement on Lists / state of exception / application of law is completely arbitrary / anyone can be called 'terrorist' at any time UK National security exemptions used to legitimise undercover political policing & information refusal Targets want RIPA & IPT gone / smash them whenever you get the chance Pervasive Surveillance = results in targeted surveillance Myth Myth that back-doors might be needed by police the point of mass surveillance is targeted surveillance / targets people who are activists / targeted analysis can target anyone at any time Resist / must be 100% against what results in targeted surveillance  & undercover police, as this prevents protesting for change  {laws difficult to change once in place} Germany Address / apply pressure at: EU  Parliament help get rid of Germany's political police Detection If you think someone is an undercover operative, do not whisper about it:  find out.   Check background Usually, not the weirdo in the group that makes you feel uncomfortable.  These are 'close friends' (from target's experience) Recommended BOOK War at Home: Covert action against U.S. activists and what we can do about it (South End Press Pamphlet Series) | here UK Police Having sex with activists is seen a 'perk of the job' Decades of undercover police in political movement in UK Long-term relationships used as part of cover story by undercover cops *only happened to women Undercover actions considered: embedded in institutionalised sexism British legal system & other Effects of Surveillance  / creates a culture of fear and paranoia / large-scale social suicide / damaging to entire society / creation of police state is responsible for this damage ꕤ