Kate Wilson won a legal battle against the Metropolitan Police after discovering her long-term boyfriend was an undercover officer

  • @Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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    987 days ago

    All I need to do is join a bunch of leftist organizations and the state will assign me a sexual partner?

    Incels hate this one simple trick!

  • @iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
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    296 days ago

    “It is important to note that since Mark Kennedy’s deployment there has been enormous change in undercover policing, both in the Met and nationally, and I want to be clear that this case in no way reflects modern-day undercover policing.”

    Press X to doubt.

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    I had a deadbeat housemate once who claimed to have been visited by two special branch cops who offered to arrange him a sexual partner in return for spying on the local anti-war group he was in. This seemed ludicrous at the time, as the group would gather outside the town hall in small numbers and sing “No More Blood For Oil” all in different keys, but in the light of this story (which had been known for quite a while now) it absolutely tracks with the tactics it turned out they’d been using.

  • @LordGimp@lemm.ee
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    145 days ago

    Less than £300k for a year of repeated rape by fraud? And no charges for the officer? Sounds like imperialism to me.

  • @hatsa122@lemmy.world
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    Happens a lot in Spain.

    There has been a lot cases of police officers infiltrating left and social movements, male and female, and “failing in love” with people inside them. Just off the top of my head, there is a case of female cop that was caught by her partner after 4 years of relationship and before getting married; an another one where a male cop infiltrated different associations and literally fucked his way up to the intel, tricking women and having them have (consent) sex with him. This one his awaiting trial because after finding out the girls sued him for sexual abuse, but i doubt it will go anywhere knowing how justice works here.

  • @Rumbelows@lemmy.world
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    367 days ago

    Believe it or not, Mark Kennedy is my brother in law.

    He’s a bit full of himself, and it’s weird when this comes up in the news cycle.

    He wrote a book about his experiences, but it wasn’t taken up with the publisher because he essentially didn’t express regret.

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      96 days ago

      He should have been charged. The fact that none of the legal avenues have involved him is obscene.

  • @courval@lemmy.world
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    Wtf is this? The British version of Gestapo’s joy division? Fucking disgusting. Intelligence agencies shouldn’t exist outside war scenarios or valid EXTERNAL threats.

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      7/7 and 21/7 were committed by an internal threat. As was the Manchester Arena bombing, the assassinations of Jo Cox and David Amess and attempted assassination of Stephen Timms, the Streatham stabbings, the London Bridge attacks in 2017 and 2019, the Westminster car attack, Finsbury Park attack, 2017 Westminster attack, murder and attempted beheading of Lee Rigby, Glasgow Airport attack, London nail bombings, Exeter bombing attempt……

      But sure, we don’t need internal intelligence agencies at all.

      After all, why would we want them to have thwarted the 2006 transatlantic airline bombing plot, Talbot Street bomb factory, 2007 London car bombs, Theresa May assassination plot, Exiled 393, attempted hospital bombing in Leeds, and many more that aren’t made public…

    • @blackn1ght@feddit.uk
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      36 days ago

      Most countries have intelligence agencies for internal threats. How would you detect and prevent terrorist attacks without them?

    • @bier@feddit.nl
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      I get your point but there have been many cases of terrorism that was done by someone that already lived (usually legally) in a coutry. Like those assholes that steal a car or truck and just drive it into a busy street. Unfortunately intelligence agencies are a necessary evil.

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    This is awful, but I wonder what is technically illegal about it. It is a misleading and manipulative lie, but it’s not illegal to lie about personal topics, I don’t think.

  • Overkrill
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    45 days ago

    holy shit its british Point Break

    (no surfing of course because england)

  • @hedhoncho@lemm.ee
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    887 days ago

    This is one of my fears. I can’t imagine the betrayal and lack of ethics. I can’t imagine a person who would sell their souls to date someone they hate like this. Just thinking about it ugh! I’m in a community with a bunch of degenerates and sometimes I’ve dated guys who just seem to be lying through their teeth that they like me. I stopped frequenting their bars. Doesn’t help when the photographer at events is an undercover cop. I’m not the one in biker gangs but I stopped going because of all the fake suspicion. Still I’d need soooooo much therapy. I hope she got a huuuuge settlement.

      • @hansolo@lemm.ee
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        87 days ago

        It was more a comment on analog regimes that inspire household level paranoia.

        What I had really wanted to say was “What in the Enver Hoxha?” But I expected that reference to Europe’s most North Korean-style regime to miss.

        • @BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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          The fact that you see this kind of thing as “North Korean style” is the issue. Essentially treating it like its a natural part of the oriental nature but foreign to the western one, and it showing up in the West is the West degenerating to be like Asians.

          Europeans have been doing this kind of shit long, long before North Korea ever existed.

          • @hansolo@lemm.ee
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            26 days ago

            I understand what you’re saying. To be fair, my anchor point is oppressive socialist regimes writ large circa 1944-1990. Kim Il Sung predated Enver Hoxha in terms of models and tactics. Hoxha’s governance style changed over about a decade or two to distance Albania from Yugoslavia and the USSR and emulate North Korea.

            By no means do I think it’s an “Asian” thing. Honestly, that’s a silly premise when I’m talking about a single country of 26 million out of 4.7 billion people. NK might barely round up to 1% of the population of Asia, so how is that exactly painting the whole continent? But between Hoxha-era Albania and North Korea, North Korea still exists in largely the same state. So it’s easier to reference as a standard right now.