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The Van and The Man On The Van

StudentA | 25.11.2010 20:26

The 'abandoned' van.

Ok.

So I think by now (if not at the time) the majority of us have realised the van was a ploy to give the police the right to kettle but I had my suspicions yesterday about the man in light blue jeans and the blue hoody who quite early and systematically attacked the van.

I don't want to come on all para but do people think there is a chance this was a police agitator? has been done before (Toronto etc)

Anyway opinions on this and how we as a movement can avoid being kettled in future.

The mobs don't march they run.

StudentA

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Evidence gathering - bigger picture

25.11.2010 20:42

I don't think it was about a pretext to kettle you, they would do that anyway.

It was probably done to identify the more 'up for it' members, and catch them on camera. At the moment the police have not identified the individuals within your movement who are actually going to cause them problems in the next 2-5 years. This is one way they can gather that intelligence.

Once they know who the key people are it is just a question of a couple of requests to facebook  http://dtto.net/docs/facebook-manual.pdf and they have a handy map of all the key organisers.

1) Mask up
2) Don't use Facebook

Agent x