British Political Policing - 460 Political Groups Infiltrated Over 4 Decades

BRITISH POLITICAL POLICING 460 Political Groups Infiltrated Over 4 Decades London police lied about stats to get taxpayer money, probe finds Published time: 21 Jun, 2016 19:52 Edited time: 21 Jun, 2016 19:53 Police officers from London’s Met who ran an intelligence operation that infiltrated hundreds of political groups exaggerated the success of their work, according to a high-level police report. Managers of the secretive Scotland Yard unit, which is known as the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), were found to have exaggerated the validity of intelligence obtained by undercover officers, the internal inquiry found. What’s more, the inquiry also suggested the SDS overemphasized the achievements of the unit in order to get public funding. Although the findings were sent to Metropolitan police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe last year, they were kept secret until now, the Guardian reports. The latest report adds to mounting criticism of the British police after undercover officers infiltrated over 460 political groups spanning over four decades. Many undercover spies were found to have formed long-term relationships with women during operations and officers that gathered intelligence on relatives of the murdered teenager Stephen Laurence and families campaigning for justice, but concealed evidence in court cases. A large percentage of the officers controversially stole the identities of dead children to form their fake identities, without permission from the families of the deceased. READ MORE: Police spies ‘violated human rights’ of women tricked into sexual relationships The behavior of undercover police emerged after 2010 when journalists and political activists led investigations into events, prompting senior police figures to set up an internal inquiry in 2013, led by Derbyshire chief constable Mike Creedon. Last year, Creedon sent a “restricted” report to Hogan-Howe, outlining an update on the inquiry and was released to the Guardian through a Freedom of Information request. Creedon said there was evidence of SDS managers exaggerating their actions and achievements. “Evidence of SDS managers clearly exaggerating the involvement of SDS officers and the value of their intelligence has been discovered and certainly for the first two decades of the unit there was an annual report to the commissioner [of the Metropolitan Police] and the Home Office to ensure continued funding,” he said. Though Creedon did not provide any examples, he added: “This would not be the only occasion where members of a unit embellished their importance and success in order to secure finance.” A hearing is to be held on Wednesday to determine if police should inform parents of the dead children that their identities were stolen. While only a few names of officers who adopted these identities have been revealed, a ruling in favor of releasing the spies’ names could lead to transparency in identifying many others. https://www.rt.com/uk/347671-london-police-lied-taxpayers/ COMMENT Some 'democracy' this is.  No wonder there's never any change.  It's suppressed.

NETHERLANDS - POLICE HARASSMENT, POLITICAL POLICING & POLITICAL SUPPRESSION

Article SOURCE https://www.nordfront.se/polisen-i-nederlanderna-slar-till-mot-medborgare-som-uttryckt-sig-invandringskritiskt-pa-natet.smr NETHERLANDS POLICE HARASSMENT, POLITICAL POLICING & POLITICAL SUPPRESSION Translation from Swedish Police in the Netherlands strike against citizens who expressed themselves critical of immigration online The editorial staff By the editors, 2016-02-01 redaktionen@nordfront.se OPPRESSION. In response to Nederländares [ie Nederlander] migration resistance to police now have established ten intelligence units that monitor what citizen writes on social media. Monitoring is then followed up with home visits to the immigration critics who deemed to have gone too far. As previously reported, has experienced a number of Netherlands loud protests and riots against the planned asylum accommodation, which also resulted in a number of asylum places stopped. At the same time, is now reporting the Dutch daily NRC Trade sheet on how Dutch police recently started cracking down on people who expressed themselves critical of immigration on social media, with several named examples. Mark Jongeneel, 28 years old from the municipality of Sliedrecht, got from his mother know that he tried by two policemen who just knocked on the door and who now was on his way to his place of work. When the police confronted him in the Office where he works as they should according to the Land have expressed something along the lines of: — You tweet a lot. We have ordered to ask you to moderate your tone. Your tweets can be regarded as seditious. What Mark had done was he on Twitter had written a couple of posts that included a new planned refugee accommodation in Sliedrecht. The tone of the posts should have been along the lines of: Sliedrechts City Council will come up with a proposal to receive 250 refugees for the next two years. What a bad idea! Should we let this happen?! In another case, so wrote the 43-year mechanic Johan van Kite from the town of Kaatsheuvel, outraged on Facebook if they advertised plans to place 1200 refugees at the resort: Let these leaders risk going to hell, we're going to all of them. Later that day, he was a 20-minute police visit, in which he describes how the authoritarian police officials pointed out that he was instigating a demonstration, after which they forced him to remove it, he wrote. Since then describes John the feeling that his liberty has been limited, and that he now feels aware that police read when he writes on Facebook. What the newspaper NRC experiences from a police statement, the Dutch police in this purpose set up ten pieces of intelligence units, with Digital detectives that in real time monitoring what is written on Facebook and on Twitter where you are looking for posts as "gone too far" in his criticism of the detention centres. Police gets here its legal support in the ban against so-called hate crimes and sedition, but according to police is the limit [ie definition arbitrary] for what is illegal diffuse and constantly open to new interpretations. After that post that "gone too far" discovered helps the local police with home visits to those individuals identified by the Digital detectives. The police are the last few months have struck against a large number of Dutch people in this way. At least 20 such home visits have taken place in Leeuwarden in October last year. The same thing occurred in Enschede. And in Brabant Kaatsheuvel so have at least three persons received a visit from the police. This makes overall newspaper NRC to talk about a police state, but a police spokesman for the local police in Malden defending the newspaper its actions with that particular tolerate demonstrations, but they have to be tillståndsgivna, and that freedom of expression certainly exists, where threats to Land just been speaking of recommendations. Mark see it all as an attempt to silence him, but attests to the newspaper NRC that he does not intend to let this keep him back. Swedish https://www.nordfront.se/polisen-i-nederlanderna-slar-till-mot-medborgare-som-uttryckt-sig-invandringskritiskt-pa-natet.smr ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Europe is being forcibly invaded and Europeans are being raped by political policing and by the state enforcers of the invasion of Europe policy, pursuant to European Union / NATO member elites' agenda.  The invasion of ancestral European homelands, the state political policing, the police harassment and POLITICAL SUPPRESSION is being PAID FOR by the oppressed taxpayer.

FBI Caught Pants-Down - FBI Illegal Practices 1970s - the 'Hacktivists' of Yesteryear

ꕤ FBI Caught Pants-Down FBI Illegal Practices 1970s - the 'Hacktivists' of Yesteryear 1971 FBI Illegal Tactics Program Exposed city:  Media, Pennsylvania, USA Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI ('CCIF') -- leftist activist group USA early 1970s -- breaks into 2-man FBI office Media, Pennsylvania -- theft of over 1,000 classified documents -- documents mailed anonymously to several USA newspapers -- some news outlets refused to publish info Stock rationale: -- related to ongoing 'operations' -- disclosure might 'threaten lives' of agents or informants Complete collection published for first time 1972 -- publisher WIN Magazine -- WIN mag associated w. War Resisters League FBI COINTELPRO op revealed (ie counter intelligence program) EXTENSIVE list of FBI POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE  etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO Led to: 1.  Church Committee inquiry 2.  FBI cessation of op Noam Chomsky statement re analysis of FBI docs: -- 1% re organised crime (gambling) -- 30% manuals, forms etc -- 40% POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE     - x2 right-wing groups     - x10 immigrants     - x200 left or liberal groups -- 14% draft resistance -- 15% serious crime: murder, rape, robbery etc FBI documents self-incriminating: use of postal worker snitches use of switchboard operator snitches use of like civilian services snitches to spy on: -- black college students -- various non-violent black activist groups Statement to media: EXTRACT "These files will now be studied to determine: one, the nature and extent of surveillance and intimidation carried on by this office of the FBI, particularly against groups and individuals working for a more just, humane and peaceful society. Two, to determine how much of the FBI's efforts are spent on relatively minor crimes by the poor and the powerless against whom they can get a more glamorous conviction rate. Instead of investigating truly serious crimes by those with money and influence which cause great damage to the lives of many people—crimes such as war profiteering, monopolistic practices, institutional racism, organized crime, and the mass distribution of lethal drugs. Finally, three, the extent of illegal practices by the FBI, such as eavesdropping, entrapment, and the use of provocateurs and informers." FBI Fail: -- 200 FBI agents investigation followed -- investigation was closed when 5-year statute of limitations ran out -- unsolved *Members of group revealed IDs recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Commission_to_Investigate_the_FBI ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Don't think anything's changed since the early 1970s. Take a look at UK political policing and New Zealand political policing, also.  It's much the same thing, even today. The leftist activist groups of the early 1970s are a lot like the 'hacktivist' & whistleblower groups of today:  only difference is technology. It looks like the American agencies that serve plutocracy may regard the left as the most dangerous threat to maintenance of power by the American elites ... going by the 1970s. Mainstream Western media has a long history of failing to go to print and of  unreliability as far as whistleblowers are concerned.   So how is this any different to the suppressive techniques of the governments that are maligned as 'repressive regimes' by the US and West, the hypocrites? ꕤ

Undercover British Political Police: RAPE WOMEN POLITICAL CAMPAIGNERS

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2015/12/09/undercover-policing-how-women-forced-the-police-to-own-up UNDERCOVER BRITISH POLITICAL POLICE:  RAPE WOMEN POLITICAL CAMPAIGNERS Undercover police: How women forced the Met to own up Wednesday, 9 December 2015 9:18 AM By Jenny Jones When the inquiry into undercover policing re-opens today we should congratulate several strong women. First, there are the innocent women who had their lives torn apart by police officers who deceived their way into their beds and their family lives. These women pursued a brave civil action against the Metropolitan Police and after many years forced a much-delayed and reluctant apology. Secondly, there is Doreen Lawrence, the mother of Stephen Lawrence, whose equally dogged campaign for justice was subject to police spying. And thirdly we should congratulate Theresa May, the Home Secretary, who has made some very wise decisions about policing issues within the UK, since taking on the job. The Met's apology is not only an important vindication of all these women’s hard work in identifying the officers, it exposes how it institutionally supported those officers and their behaviour for so many years. The Met financed the lies. It refused to confirm or deny the existence of these police officers. And it spent hundreds of thousands of pounds fighting the court case against the women. No disciplinary action has been taken against the senior officers who authorised this huge waste of public funds and police time and resources. So will the Met continue to spin these acts as those of a few rogue officers who formed casual sexual relationships using their undercover identities? The truth is the taxpayer funded officers to form long term emotional bonds with these women as a deliberate tactic to gain access to the network of campaigners whom they wanted to spy upon. I'm curious as to how the Met will try to justify their policy of Neither Confirm Nor Deny (NCND), as this was the brick wall which the women faced when they initially brought forward their allegations and it was this policy which forced them into taking a civil action. How could any of these women have faith in a police investigation into undercover officers where the Met wouldn’t even acknowledge that they exist? My own questions to the Mayor of London on this highlighted this inconsistency. The Met has maintained a blanket policy and has defended that position in court, but they also claim to regularly carry out risk assessments about the danger faced should officers have their identities exposed. If it does revisit risk assessments on undercover operatives, do they always find the officers would be 'placed in significant danger as a result of their identities being revealed'? If that's the case, why bother doing the risk assessments in the first place? One of the big things missing from this inquiry is what UK undercover officers were doing while working in continental Europe. This has already been raised in the German Parliament. We know that some of them operated abroad and the inquiry should assure itself that the rule- breaking which went on in the UK stopped at the English Channel. The refusal of the inquiry to look at this, despite my appeals to the Home Secretary, will leave an air of suspicion about what our police got up to on foreign soil. The Met has maintained that the Special Demonstration Squad was an aberration, which functioned outside the normal channels of accountability within New Scotland Yard. But if it was an aberration, it was an aberration that was allowed to continue for 40 years. While I would support much of the Met’s undercover work which is short term and aimed at serious crime, it’s clear it sees spying on thousands of innocent people who are involved in perfectly legitimate campaigns as a regular part of their work. I say this as someone who was labelled a domestic extremist and was on the Met database for 10 years. This was not only a waste of public funds, but damaging to the democratic process, especially when the Met Police are spying on people who are trying to hold them to account for their failures, as I was. It crosses a line to pry into the lives of campaigners who are taking court cases against them, or organising public meetings criticising their actions. There may sometimes be legitimate reasons for the Met Police to do so, but they should have to justify every action, to ensure that it isn't simply about saving themselves from public embarrassment. Baroness Jenny Jones is a Green Party peer and London Assembly member. http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2015/12/09/undercover-policing-how-women-forced-the-police-to-own-up UNDERCOVER BRITISH POLITICAL POLICE:  RAPE WOMEN POLITICAL CAMPAIGNERS Undercover police had children with activists Disclosure likely to intensify controversy over long-running police operation to infiltrate and sabotage protest groups Rob Evans and Paul Lewis Saturday 21 January 2012 07.15 AEDT Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy on and later disappeared completely from the lives of their offspring, the Guardian can reveal. In both cases, the children have grown up not knowing that their biological fathers – whom they have not seen in decades – were police officers who had adopted fake identities to infiltrate activist groups. Both men have concealed their true identities from the children's mothers for many years. One of the spies was Bob Lambert, who has already admitted that he tricked a second woman into having a long-term relationship with him, as part of an intricate attempt to bolster his credibility as a committed campaigner. The second police spy followed the progress of his child and the child's mother by reading confidential police reports which tracked the mother's political activities and life. [ ... ] EXTRACT - CONTINUED AT SOURCE http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jan/20/undercover-police-children-activists BRITISH POLICE TACTICS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION ... IS *ENDORSED* BY EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (2012) KETTLED BY BRITISH POLICE: Baroness Jenny Jones is a Green Party peer and London Assembly member  - Wikipedia. Kettling -- aka 'containment' -- aka 'corralling' -- fm German 'kessel' - 'cauldron' or 'kettle' -- term used to describe encircled army about to be annihilated -- thus a MILITARY TACTIC Kettling - Police Military Tactic -- in protest terms, aim is to prevent splintering of protesters -- to prevent forced splintering of police -- kettle formed by large cordons of police surrounding protesters -- once kettle formed (ie once protesters are surrounded) -- police cordon is tightened, incl. use of baton charges -- to restrict territory occupied by protesters -- police deny protesters access to food, water, and toilet facilities -- for arbitrary period determined by police -- protesters & bystanders therefore harassed & assaulted before being arbitrarily held captive -- protesters imprisoned by cordon for several hours, 'cooling' -- and left with one choice of exit: controlled by the police CRITICISMS Kettling - Police Military Tactic -- indiscriminate -- results in detention of law-abiding citizens & bystanders -- denied food, water & toilet facilities for excessively long periods, in some cases -- tactic used to foment disorder to change focus of public debate 2012 European Court of Human Rights -- following legal challenge -- ruled kettling lawful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettling ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb was kettled at demonstration against student fees in December 2010 Zain Sardar, from the Young Greens: "People have been kettled for up to nine hours without food and without medical assistance ..." "Kettling is an infringement of the fundamental right to peaceful protest." http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-12293394 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- European court says 'kettling' tactics in 2001 lawful 15 March 2012 "Kettling" tactics used by the Metropolitan Police to contain crowds in 2001 were lawful, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The controversial method was used during anti-globalisation demonstrations in London on 1 May 2001. The court said there had been no violation of Article 5 - the right to liberty and security - of the European Convention on Human Rights. Three people - George Black, a Greek national from Australia; Bronwyn Lowenthal and Peter O'Shea - who had nothing to do with the demonstration, took the case to Europe claiming they were "deprived of their liberty". They were joined by Lois Austin, from Basildon, Essex, who had been taking part in the protest. 'Volatile conditions' The court said: "The police had imposed the cordon to isolate and contain a large crowd in dangerous and volatile conditions. "This had been the least intrusive and most effective means to protect the public from violence. Although the police tried to start dispersing the crowd throughout the afternoon, they had been unable to do so as the danger had persisted." It was the first time the court in Strasbourg had been asked to rule on kettling. [...] The European Court's Grand Chamber of 17 judges, presided over by Belgium's Francoise Tulkens, said: "Even by 2001, advances in communications technology had made it possible to mobilise protesters rapidly and covertly on a hitherto unknown scale. "Article 5 did not have to be construed in such a way as to make it impracticable for the police to fulfil their duties of maintaining order and protecting the public." The judges ruled that the convention also placed a duty on the police "to protect individuals from violence and physical injury". Earlier this year, in a separate case, the Met won its appeal against a High Court ruling over kettling tactics used during G20 demonstrations in 2009. [ ...] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-17378700 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT What the British political police have done to these women political campaigners, for the sake of British authorities infiltrating and spying on Britons exercising their lawful and democratic political rights, is depraved and worse than being killed (in my view). Doing a quickie check on Baroness Jenny Jones, I came across 'kettling' and it drew my attention. The term most likely arises from the military tactic of surrounding opposing forces. So now I know what kettling is and what those references 'cauldron' were, when I was following the self-defence action in Novorossiya without a clue what they were talking about.  Maybe I've read about kettling since and have forgotten, which is possible.  Apologies in advance if I'm repeat posting.  lol While I can understand the reluctance of courts to prevent police being able to do their work (which does, indeed, involve maintenance of order and protection of  the public),  indiscriminate and aggressive policing (such as kettling) which can (and has) been misused and is illegitimate as a police tactic (see 9-hour kettling reference above). In upholding the tactic of kettling protesters and bystanders (ie indiscriminately assault, imprisonment & protracted cruelty meted out by law enforcement authorities), the European Court of Human Rights has proven itself to be as illegitimate as the law enforcement authorities it has backed. The ECHR is another joke institution.  Don't expect much of this 17-judge farce. ------------ Protesters need to read military manuals (or even historic information about Roman battle formations etc), to figure how to circumvent the cauldron thingy.   Pre-planned protester splinters might be the go. Can't believe I've flipped sides.  Usually I side with the authorities whenever I see what looks like a violent rabble that needs hosing down or something. I'm bound to flip and do a 360 ... I'm not much of a rebel.  lol ꕤ

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