Police agent provocateur?
We marched. The whole family. But if we marched then for everyone who was there we knew at least ten people each who would have liked to have been at the march but were in Leeds, Manchester or had a serious prior commitment.
That means for the five of us there were another 40 people who we knew well, not including colleagues or schoolmates or classmates or people you just socialise with, who would have come.
Those 500 thousand people were marching for at least an additional two million people they knew personally who would have liked to have been there.
The best slogan for the march was
: We are the Coalition for resistance
And that is the truth. There was no overarching single issue. Everyone was there because they were being affected in some way individually, but what was very strange about the march was this:
There were very many members of the intelligentsia on the march. Lecturers, journalists, people from the media, students, doctors (the BMA opposes the restructuring) in addition to all the public service workers from the front line services and civil servants.
Why is is that when the majority of the intelligentsia of a country are against the government strategy and argue cogently and decisively against it, the impression we get from all media outlets except the Guardian, is that the intelligentsia is not facing up to the 'reality' of the deficit problem.
Of course it's real. But we know, for example, that we had to bailout the banking system and that the very same banking system makes mega profits and that a company like Barclay's pays less than 2% in corporation tax and that a bank like RBS pays approximately the same amount in bonuses that they made in profit?
The point is not that we oppose economics. The Economist, that vile rag, is wrong. The point is that the right in the UK is on the attack. It is not a matter of deficit reduction:
The priorities of the people making the cuts are wrong.
The taxation policy of the people making the cuts is wrong.
The ideology behind turning the state into a for profit organisation is wrong
Finally, just as there were police agent provocateurs in the climate change movement, the Guardian has chronicled this, there are clearly police agent provocateurs in
UK UNcut and that little groupustule
Black Block.
UK Uncut should purge its ranks of these people. Right now on LBC a right wing presenter is arguing for banning demonstrations in central London and former coppers are being wheeled out to say what happened is terrible.
According to the Guardian, the agent provocateurs themselves were the initiators of a lot of the actions. This tactic is as old as the history of popular demonstrations itself.
The Guardian published an article in December explaining how undercover policemen and women were monitoring UK UNcut. Given the developments since then it is crystal clear that they are not only monitoring but shaping the UK UNcut agenda.
If the Guardian is aware of this police action and if the Guardian has lead the field in exposing the role of agent provocateurs in the climate change movement then it needs to add 2 plus 2 to make 4 NOW.
I would suggest that
the Observer and
the Guardian investigate UK Uncut and Black Block using some of its existing sources - the undercover policemen and women who penetrated the climate change movement - and find out who the government agent provocateurs are, before the propaganda machine rolls on.
The irony, of course, is that there must be a lot of sympathy for the coalition of resistance among the police as they themselves have been subject to swingeing and unfair cuts just to put money back into the pockets of the bankers. The infiltration of organisations like UK UNcut and Black Block is clearly a top down government initiative. Get ready to listen to Clegg and Cameron's 'outrage' and condemnation of a riot during a huge peaceful march that could possibly have been inspired by one of their own government provocateurs.
What was the modus operandi of the undercover police officers who penetrated the climate change movement and why should it be any different for the undercover penetration of UK Uncut and Black Block? Presumably
the same police intelligence unit controls both actions.
The
modus operandi will be the same.
'The Guardian can reveal just how successful – and controversial – the operation was.
From that day Kennedy would live a remarkable double life lasting more than seven years. So embedded in the protest community did he become that about 200 people turned up for a joint celebration of his 40th birthday, described as a "three-day bender" on a farm.
All were, of course, oblivious that Kennedy was feeding back detailed reports to his police commanders as he participated in, and sometimes even organised, some of the most high-profile demonstrations of the past decade.
He took part in almost every major environmental protest in the UK from 2003, and also managed to infiltrate groups of anti-racists, anarchists and animal rights protesters.
Using a fake passport, Kennedy visited more than 22 countries, taking part in protests against the building of a dam in Iceland, touring Spain with eco-activists, and penetrating anarchist networks in Germany and Italy.
It was a career that involved breaking into power stations, invading airports and – according to legal papers – concluded in an operation in which he now stands accused of crossing the boundary from spy to agent provocateur.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/10/mark-kennedy-undercover-cop-activist
I've speculated now you investigate.
We marched. The whole family. But if we marched then for everyone who was there we knew at least ten people each who would have liked to have been at the march but were in Leeds, Manchester or had a serious prior commitment.
That means for the five of us there were another 40 people who we knew well, not including colleagues or schoolmates or classmates or people you just socialise with, who would have come.
Those 500 thousand people were marching for at least an additional two million people they knew personally who would have liked to have been there.
The best slogan for the march was: We are the Coalition for resistance
And that is the truth. There was no overarching single issue. Everyone was there because they were being affected in some way individually, but what was very strange about the march was this:
There were very many members of the intelligentsia on the march. Lecturers, journalists, people from the media, students, doctors (the BMA opposes the restructuring) in addition to all the public service workers from the front line services and civil servants.
Why is is that when the majority of the intelligentsia of a country are against the government strategy and argue cogently and decisively against it, the impression we get from all media outlets except the Guardian, is that the intelligentsia is not facing up to the 'reality' of the deficit problem.
Of course it's real. But we know, for example, that we had to bailout the banking system and that the very same banking system makes mega profits and that a company like Barclay's pays less than 2% in corporation tax and that a bank like RBS pays approximately the same amount in bonuses that they made in profit?
The point is not that we oppose economics. The Economist, that vile rag, is wrong. The point is that the right in the UK is on the attack. It is not a matter of deficit reduction:
The priorities of the people making the cuts are wrong.
The taxation policy of the people making the cuts is wrong.
The ideology behind turning the state into a for profit organisation is wrong
Finally, just as there were police agent provocateurs in the climate change movement, the Guardian has chronicled this, there are clearly police agent provocateurs in UK UNcut and that little groupustule Black Block.
UK Uncut should purge its ranks of these people. Right now on LBC a right wing presenter is arguing for banning demonstrations in central London and former coppers are being wheeled out to say what happened is terrible.
According to the Guardian, the agent provocateurs themselves were the initiators of a lot of the actions. This tactic is as old as the history of popular demonstrations itself. The Guardian published an article in December explaining how undercover policemen and women were monitoring UK UNcut. Given the developments since then it is crystal clear that they are not only monitoring but shaping the UK UNcut agenda.
If the Guardian is aware of this police action and if the Guardian has lead the field in exposing the role of agent provocateurs in the climate change movement then it needs to add 2 plus 2 to make 4 NOW.
I would suggest that the Observer and the Guardian investigate UK Uncut and Black Block using some of its existing sources - the undercover policemen and women who penetrated the climate change movement - and find out who the government agent provocateurs are, before the propaganda machine rolls on.
The irony, of course, is that there must be a lot of sympathy for the coalition of resistance among the police as they themselves have been subject to swingeing and unfair cuts just to put money back into the pockets of the bankers. The infiltration of organisations like UK UNcut and Black Block is clearly a top down government initiative. Get ready to listen to Clegg and Cameron's 'outrage' and condemnation of a riot during a huge peaceful march that could possibly have been inspired by one of their own government provocateurs.
What was the modus operandi of the undercover police officers who penetrated the climate change movement and why should it be any different for the undercover penetration of UK Uncut and Black Block? Presumably the same police intelligence unit controls both actions.
The modus operandi will be the same.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/10/mark-kennedy-undercover-cop-activist
I've speculated now you investigate.