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Government Office Civil Servants Spy On Poor Working Class Communities!

Mike Lane | 04.08.2004 11:35 | Repression | Liverpool | London

After the explanatory text below is an email, which was sent to me by typical condescending indoctrinated senior bourgeoisie Government Office civil servant, who panders to the bourgeoisie senior New Deal administrators who have set themselves up in my community. In the eyes of this bourgeoisie Government Office civil servant, the bourgeoisie senior New Deal administrators can do no wrong. Below Liz Gill’s email is my reply in answer to her.

There is one issue that must always be taken into account and kept in mind when an emancipated (liberated) proletariat (working class person) is dealing with oppressive bourgeoisie (middle class) civil servants who represent the dictates of central government. That issue is the use of the present updated (and made even more draconian by New Labours Jack Straw when he was Home Secretary) “Harassment Laws.” Local government civil servants (council officers) and all the agencies which work with them in poor proletariat communities are now regularly using the these draconian laws. It will only be a matter of time before they start using them to silence and imprison proletariat dissidents. You can now be charged under the harassment laws for just looking at a bourgeoisie the wrong way. The many City Councils, RSL's and other local and central government agencies now have tape recorders fitted to their phone systems so as to entrap the proletariat dissident.


The Government Office for Merseyside (GOM) (Government’s Office is situated in Cunard Buildings, which is situated at the Peirhead) civil servant who is responsible for watching over the Liverpool Kensington £62m New Deal for Communities Initiative is a Lady called Liz Gill. As is always the case these central government civil servants are blind to what goes on in a poor proletariat community. I have spent hours talking with people like Liz to absolutely no avail. Other people from this NDC community have also spent hours talking to people like Liz Gill and like me; they may as well have been talking to themselves.
Government Office civil servants are representatives of a state that represses and spies on working class communities because we still represent a threat to the existence of that state machine, or at least to its smooth running. Civil servants like Liz Gill exemplify the fact that there is a bourgeoisie cultural emergence going on at the moment in this country because New Labour has lost its commitment to the proletariat (which it probably never ever had anyway.

Liz Gill's email sent to me:

Hello Michael

Thank you for your message and the link to Indymedia in the second
e-mail. It is always interesting to have your feedback. Far from
spinning out of control Kensington NDC is still there, still consulting
the residents of Kensington and having the debate in the neighbourhoods.
"Nearly five years....nothing of great relevance has been achieved" is
pretty strong language - clearly the greater part of the work remains to
be done as it should in a long term initiative - but a great deal has
also been achieved already in physical redevelopment, crime reduction,
educational attainment and employment. The Board and the NDC team
should be applauded for their work in partnership with the residents,
businesses and the service providers.

The community board members have all been elected through an
accountable process agreed with the Government Office. Vacancies on the
board are widely publicised in Kensington.

Housing renewal is a priority for Kensington. The plans for each
neighbourhood are being supported by neighbourhood renewal assessments,
one of which has already been published. Inevitably some housing is
beyond repair and should be demolished before it becomes totally unfit.
Each resident affected by demolition will be able to talk through their
options with the Council/NDC team but it is important that residents
take up this offer of discussion.

CCTV cameras were discussed at the Board meeting last week - they are
fully operational, they are repaired quickly and they are being given
additional protection, where needed, from vandalism.

Hope this helps.

My email reply sent to Liz Gill

To the “On Highest” and most “Omnipotent” Liz Gill,

This is a typical answer from a typical member of the bourgeoisie who has been brainwashed by the state into thinking that the state is omnipotent. The cameras are still broken in the Edge Hill area of the NDC zone. Why don't you leave your comfortable Government Office of the state, which spies on communities in Liverpool, and come down here and have a look? Oh, I forgot, bourgeoisie representative of the bourgeoisie run state, especially those bourgeoisie officials who live in the prosperous bourgeoisie suburbs, like you probably do, would not be seen dead around the proletariat Edge Hill. Heaven forbid, you may be accosted by one of our, using you typical bourgeoisie rhetoric, socially excluded proletariat citizens.

There can be no dialogue between you and me, your an oppressor bourgeoisie civil servant who is happy perpetuating the powers of this corrupt state that us proletariat have to live under. But there is one thing that is concrete, you are brainwashed and I am emancipated and as such am not a prisoner to mysticism, as you most defiantly are.

There can be no dialogue between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie civil servant. The bourgeoisie are on the march again and the emancipated proletariat are aware of this. It would seem that class antagonisms are on the increase yet again.

Mike Lane







Mike Lane
- e-mail: mickjlane@btinternet.com
- Homepage: http://www.whistleblower.nstemp.com

Comments

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their reply

04.08.2004 13:33

>>Hello Michael

patronising from the get go then

>>The plans for each neighbourhood are being supported by neighbourhood renewal assessments, one of which has already been published.

can you post a copy of this up on the site?

>>Inevitably some housing is beyond repair and should be demolished before it becomes totally unfit.

why inevitably? you'd be amazed at some of the derelict rubble that is getting made into luxury flats.

>>Each resident affected by demolition will be able to talk through their options with the Council/NDC team but it is important that residents take up this offer of discussion.

there is no mention in the reply of the planned change to community demographics, ie. increase number of owners / reduce number of tenants. this to me looks like a policy. show us the plan.




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Comment

04.08.2004 18:34

Mike - i mean this in the most constructively critical way: while i applaud your commitment, may i suggest you try and sound a little less hysterical in your posts. No offence - but the public could perceive some of your stuff as the rantings of a loony lefty.

Ian


You're not helping

04.08.2004 22:34

Mike, sending "look how socialist I am" style emails not only makes your views less likely to be heard, but also impacts on the rest of us who are essentially arguing for the same thing. Please, please find another hobby.

Jodn


An attack on one is an attack on all!

05.08.2004 08:34

Regarding Ian's comments:

"Comment
04.08.2004 19:34

Mike - i mean this in the most constructively critical way: while i applaud your commitment, may i suggest you try and sound a little less hysterical in your posts. No offence - but the public could perceive some of your stuff as the rantings of a loony lefty.
Ian"

Hysterical? I'd suggest it's more a passionate and committed opposition to injustice, the guy has been out and about in the community of Liverpool 7, Kensington on a regular basis, as a campaigner for social justice he like a few other committed activists is concerned about the massively engineered housing crisis here in Liverpool, it has a bigger political purpose than merely transferring housing to the private sector or increasingly the homeless numbers, the Lib-Dems (Richard Kemp, Flow Clueless) and Labour (Peter Coventry) parties are actively implementing Thatcher's free market capitalist dream of the supremecy of the private rented housing sector that the Tories weren't able to finally implement.

Regarding Jodn comments:

"You're not helping
04.08.2004 23:34

Mike, sending "look how socialist I am" style emails not only makes your views less likely to be heard, but also impacts on the rest of us who are essentially arguing for the same thing. Please, please find another hobby.
Jodn"

His views are already heard far and wide, so don't think because he doesn't use ever so polite middle class political methods that he's to be so easily bushed aside.

We need to understand why the working class here in Liverpool are in the disempowered situation we're in and why the middle class are as happy as pigs in mud like they were in the 1930's.

I know a wide range of working class people here in Liverpool, they're not the 'organised labour' ie the Trade Unionists they're the unorganised and widely dispersed working class, some are politically aware, some are well read and high level thinkers many have suffered family breakups due to economic pressures, tug-of-love heartbreaks over getting to see their children, lost their homes, face losing their homes, lost their jobs, can't get decent employment etc. Something is changing perceptibly for the better that would be the growing and collective political consciousness of our position not only here in Liverpool but in this capitalist society in general.

In regard to your throw away comment "You're not helping" tell that to the McKay family formerly of Needham Road, who Mike along with another activist helped to rehouse, while that is just one family, it's one family who's life has been positively transformed and who turned to socialists and community activists for help as their last call when the local press and media didn't want to know, when the housing associations made up pathetic excuses for not helping them, when the leader of the city council effectively turned his back on the family's plea for help. Those community activists didn't let them down - even their story has been blanked out.

What we need now more than ever before is more outspoken members of the community with more radical ideas and real determination to end the downward spiral of attacks on working class people collectively and individually, if some of the middle class are also under attack then fall in behind the working class, you're not going to lead us this time because we're going to lead ourselves forward not up another middle class led blind alleyway.

Whatever people might think of Mike Lane at least he's speaking out against injustice here in Liverpool and making his stand, we need to support people like Mike against personal and petty attacks, additionally we need to be speaking out ourselves and making our own stand on issues effecting our families and communities only then can we make the next step forward which is from defending our 'collective' conditions to then fighting to improve our 'collective' conditions.

In the end you're either with us or you're against us.

Forward >> to socialism

community socialist


Who to Believe????

05.08.2004 14:26

To some, the Capital of Culture and Regeneration are wonderful things, to others they are just more of the same tired old capitalist shenagins we have always had in Britain. Like most people, I am not sure of anyone's motivations, and on hearing one who is scathing about it all, and another who is enthusiastic, I don't know who to believe.

It is certainly true that Liverpool people, the majority being working class in terms of job opportunities, life chances, housing and so on, have been poor and pushed to one side, whilst relative handfuls of people have made absolute fortunes. Historically, The North West of England, and Liverpool plays one of the key roles in the North West, has been the second wealthiest area in the UK. Most of the wealth however, has always been in few hands.

Are we heading towards a Socialist Utopia, or what? Does anyone have any decent answers to this question?

It is, I believe, for working class people to reach out themselves for better lives, and not wait for any political party to give them better lives; that's what we all did waiting for Tony Blair, and look what happened there!

I think politics is part of the problem, and ultimately solves nothing, or very little! People hide behind politics, and use it as an excuse to attack people, and to polarise against each other. Whatever party we have in Liverpool, very little seems to change for the ordinary person; even this New Deal, Regeneration, Capital of Culture et al, seems little more than cosmetic, to clean up the city for those with money. Perhaps to change things, we all need to change ourselves and our outlook on lives. For far too long, working class people have expected only negative things, and we have received negative realities! We drink ourselves into the ground, and then wonder why we are poor, without work, and have no real purpose in life. A change is needed all around, and I know this for certain, no one is going to hand you or I anything on a plate; we need to reach out ourselves for better lives, and try to help others in our position to do the same.

Why shouldn't a working class person have a better job, better life, better education? These things are there, if we only have the balls to reach out for them! Why allow those who are already money and privileged to continue in that privilege? When we challenge that privilege, by reaching out for better lives ourselves, we do ourselves and even the privileged a favour. For too long, wealth has gone to wealth; when you challenge that even on a very personal and individual basis, things slowly begin to change. Reach out for the opportunities all around, and make those you cannot find.

Timbo


doing a good job

05.08.2004 14:32

Mike Lane's doing a good job, arguements over style shouldn't detract from seeing what good effect is done by this work. To call it a hobby is without support and a bit silly.

v h


Point taken

05.08.2004 17:42

Okay - point taken, this shouldn't be a forum for "silly" digs at people. I was tired. However, I stand by my main feeling that presentation/style whatever does matter. So is a sense of realism in setting specific and achievable targets. To progress we don't need to preach to the converted - we need to get the others off the fence....

Jodn


culture

06.08.2004 14:13

>>To some, the Capital of Culture and Regeneration are wonderful things, to others they are just more of the same tired old capitalist shenagins we have always had in Britain. Like most people, I am not sure of anyone's motivations, and on hearing one who is scathing about it all, and another who is enthusiastic, I don't know who to believe.

our entire culture is based on lies, distortions and distractions from anything of importance. a key part of any culture is sources of news and analysis about what is happening in the world and in your community. what is your source of news? if you are immersed in popular british culture, you have almost zero chance of understanding what is going on and what to do about it. our national newspapers are all conservative. that's not mild harmless conservative. that's real world destructive conservative. next time the mirror tells you about celebrities, footy scandals and tory vs labour bickering, ask if it's radical or conservative. our tv and radio news are the same. there are big unasked questions and the population has no idea how to understand them. one look at a school syllabus will tell you why. no mention that training for a job in a free market consumer economy isn't the only way to live a life and of the damage to the rest of the world that our behaviour is doing. you need to start rejecting what the free market world tells you to want and start re-prioritising. get better informed about alternatives. not just socialist alternatives, but ways of non-hierarchical organising which stop democracy getting hijacked. a good beginning would be to stop reading corporate news and start reading something else.

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Same old, same old

09.08.2004 16:11

Sending a reply to one of these officers using "bourgeoisie" as a term of abuse will get you nowhere. I suspect that the woman took one look at your rant and laughed her head off. Talk about stereotypical leftie stuff!
And who would blame her? Who says she is what you accuse her of? You know little about her yet feel it appropriate to have a go at her.

And as for saying one person shouldn´t have a go at Mike is ridiculous. If someone sets themselves up as a "crusader" for socialism and justice for the people of Kensington then they should be able to accept that others see them as an irrelevance. Whenever anyone asks what ML has done in Kensington, the answers become very cagey, stating "campaigned for" or similar etc etc, without any real items of change.

Des