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According to this BBC Newsnight report, the 10th January trial has collapsed after undercover cop Mark Kennedy changed sides and offered to give evidence on behalf of the defendant's.

Mark Kennedy.
Mark Kennedy.


According to this BBC Newsnight report, the 10th January trial has collapsed after undercover cop Mark Kennedy changed sides and offered to give evidence on behalf of the defendant's.

It says,

"The trial of six green campaigners has collapsed after an undercover policeman who had infiltrated their group offered to give evidence on their behalf.

The six were charged with conspiring to shut down the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottingham in 2009.

The case was due to start on Monday, but was abandoned after Pc Mark Kennedy contacted the defence team to say he would be prepared to help them.

The prosecution subsequently dropped their case."

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R4 coverage and Newsnight tonight

10.01.2011 08:25

This was the 2nd item on Radio 4's 8am news and the coverage earlier in the Today program wasn't as bad as their usual pro-Estalbishmnent properganda. It's also going to be the main stort on Newsnight tonight, hopefully with thingy who used to be in Workers Power will cover the story...

Listner


statement from defendants + Guardian coverage

10.01.2011 09:48

Campaigners expose undercover cop to prove their innocence:  http://ratcliffeontrial.org/collapse/

Mark Kennedy: A journey from undercover cop to 'bona fide' activist:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/10/mark-kennedy-undercover-cop-activist?

Undercover officer spied on green activists:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/09/undercover-office-green-activists?intcmp=239

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5 live

10.01.2011 10:05

it's been mentioned quite a lot of 5 live this morning as well. guess they might do a longer feature later on, most likely on the 4-6 programme...

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Would a police officer tell a lie?

10.01.2011 11:31

Hmm...the aspect of this we may never get to the bottom of is what caused Flash Mark to withdraw his offer to help the defendants and cut off communication with defence lawyers a couple of weeks ago. According to the media he cited "concerns for his own and his family's safety".

I hope those who were clamouring for "more information" and the production of documents when Flash Mark's identity was revealed last year will now desist. It was precisely to protect his family that information was limited as it was. It looks like our circles been doing our best to protect those uninvolved people, while the state threatens them. All our friends in the know can do is their best to keep the media off their backs.

And here was me thinking the police's job was to ensure people's safety, not threaten it. That's what a copper told me, anyway, and would a police officer tell a lie?

Stroppyoldgit


More information

10.01.2011 11:58

Stropyoldgit, is that a tacit admission that a deal was made to protect this fucking cop? There were far more people targetted than the Ratcliffe protesters (none oe whom was ever looking at jail time) and more that could be targetted in future.

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Original link

10.01.2011 12:09

Original link to the BBC report here.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12148753

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GIVE IT A BREAK!!

10.01.2011 12:12

Jesus fucking christ Harry Roberts, what are you on? Where on earth have you got any evidence that there was a deal done??

I knew Mark well, was both politically and personally involved with him, and was also involved with exposing him as an undercover cop. Let me say this one final time very clearly for your thick brain...

THERE WERE NO DEALS DONE WITH HIM ABOUT ANYTHING!

Is that clear enough for you?

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In the thick of it...

10.01.2011 12:30

PC Kennedy locked on to gate at Hartlepool power station in 2006
PC Kennedy locked on to gate at Hartlepool power station in 2006

Last photo on this article
 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/images/2006/08/349453.jpg

Shows Mark D'locked to gate at Hartypool Nuclear power station in 2006
 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/08/349444

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Paranoid shit

10.01.2011 12:43

DOH! Where do you get this paranoid shit, Harry Roberts?

There was simply concern to keep the media off the backs of his uninvolved family, whose existence had just been discovered. What's wrong with that? Everything right with it, I reckon.
The cops may have been threatening his family, but they're scum. You seem to be imputing cop-style motives to principled activists unwilling to dump unknown people in the shit.

Why on earth would anyone have wanted to do a deal with Flash Mark once his identity had been discovered? A deal as two sides. What would the other side have been? He was asked questions about another suspected infiltrator and confirmed the suspicions. (Not as good an act as him, obviously). Since she had by then disappeared, what more was there?

No "information" given by Flash was worth doing a deal for (even if anyone had wanted to) as he was a proven liar and any alleged information would have been uncertain and merely a cause of confusion. In fact, it could have been handing the cops an opportunity to cause disruption by dodgy information.

In case it hasn't sunk in, I'll repeat the last phrase: DISRUPTION BY DODGY INFORMATION.

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No need for caps auntie

10.01.2011 13:25

Because it's clear that you are talking shit anyway. Who'd get involved with EF/CC after the way you've handled this? Thick? It wasn't me that was duped by a cop for 6 years!

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To Harry Roberts...

10.01.2011 13:34

Not sure if you have mental health, drinking or just unresolved anger issues (or maybe all three) but I suggest you don't wildly make accusations that people have been making deals with cops without any evidence at all.

Also it's in pretty bad taste to accuse those that have been most damaged personally and politically by this infiltrator scum of doing so .

Introduce yourself sometimeat the bookfair or a meeting, we can clear up any more random lunatic ideas you have about this.

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Pics

10.01.2011 13:47

Funny how the Guardian managed 2 get hold of a better pics than you wankers posted 2 IM. Wonder how much they paid 4 it?

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Why protect a cop's family?

10.01.2011 14:03

Cops are quite happy to cause problems for activists' families, so why should we be worried about affecting their families? Their partners at least choose to be with a cop.

Maybe if their families got as much shit from us as activists' families get from the cops, they would be less eager to play snooping Big Brother.

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Vindicated

10.01.2011 14:06

Very sensitively handled and in a careful and principled way, I'd say (not being one of those who handled it). In retrospect, perhaps it could be said (I said it, anyway) that one aspect was arse-about-face, but ain't hindsight great, eh? Everything you've ever done, Harry, was 100% perfect, not 95%, I'm sure.

In fact, in the light of recent developments, even the one thing which might have been done differently (not mentioning Flash's real surname so that redacted copies of a document could be released) looks like it would have gone pear-shaped if it had been done that way. The real name would have come out anyway in the Radcliffe court process. So, though I thought the people concerned had got it only 95% right at the time, hind-hindsight (aka foresight?) now makes it look more like 100%.

I'm glad those who dealt with this are the sensible and thoughtful people they are. The loudmouth / big boots / who gives a fuck who gets damaged approach advocated by Harry Roberts would have made the circles involved look like incompetent, shallow and dangerous arseholes. The way it was actually dealt with does the people concerned, their politics and the wider movement a lot of credit.

The arseholes today are the cops, of course. Please don't join them on the podium of shite, Harry

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@ anon

10.01.2011 14:18

I believe it's an ex-family, and not just an ex-partner, but a child / teenager. Does anyone deserve shit because of who dad is?

Is it OK for us to behave as scummily as the cops and the media do? Not in my book.

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Protecting a cop

10.01.2011 14:26

He'll have moved anyway! They are just being wankers! On another thread they reckoned they had no decent photos of him, which has proved to be a pack of lies.

Grackle


The others

10.01.2011 14:33

Does this mean those already tried and given community orders, fines etc will have those orders removed? Or is this Mark's effort to make himself appear less shit to his old close circle of friends and to hell with the others?

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Also to anon and others who think like that.

10.01.2011 14:44

Thanks to those for being reasonable on this thread, but to Anon and others here's why I think it's important to keep his family out of it...

So, they have nothing to do with it, they didn't infiltrate and try to destroy us, infact to be honest I kinda regard them as people that have been fucked over by the state and cops in this mess too - although of course to a lesser extent than us.

Why should family members be given grief for what Mark did? Justifying it by saying that's what the cops do is really a pretty lame arguement I think, the cops do some fucked up things, should we take what they do as any example of the way to act? Retaining some level of humanity and empathy for the people fucked over by this is something I'm pleased we collectively as a movement have done, and I have no bad feeling towards Mark's family at all, and am pretty gob-smacked by those of us that would wish young kids and a partner of his harm.

Although knowing some of those that bleat on about this, my sneaking suspiscion is that for all the griping, even if the family names became public, all this lot would do about it is crap on down the pub about how they were gonna 'do them' or some such 'I'm so hard' bluster over a pint or twelve. Yeah, it's well tough and radical and anarchist to threaten the family, strewth give me strength...

And Grackle, you fucking idiot. We didn't, just cos some have surfaced now from somewhere else (which are no better IMO anyway), why on earth does that prove we are liars??

Some of you really need some lessons in logical thought, clear thinking and constructing an decent arguement; you're adding 2 and 2 and getting rhubarb... twats.

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vindicated ?

10.01.2011 14:49

The people trying to suppress the publication of information about this policeman’s activities were insisting on a previous thread that the secrecy was about protecting activists and activist networks that might have been caught up in Stone/Kennedy’s web . For instance:

“Combined with the deep hurt and sense of betrayal many people feel, this could rip apart several important networks and activist scenes -if we let it” stroppyoldgit

“ In this case, I've been speaking to people who have been caught up in this and right now the concern is for protecting them as much as possible” FTP

But now stroppy seems to be saying that it was all to protect the family of an agent provocateur. Why didn't he mention these concerns at the time ?

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re: The others

10.01.2011 14:50

"Does this mean those already tried and given community orders, fines etc will have those orders removed?"

I doubt it -- AFAIK their plea was guilty where as in the cases that have been dropped the plea was innocent.

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10.01.2011 15:03

Democracy is being destroyed by agents, informers and other collaborators working for states and for corporations against the common people . This is unacceptable and it will be stopped.

We are developing novel sources that will be used to identify and prosecute this immoral behaviour, for our own safety without reference to the victims wishes. We already have access to police and corporate intelligence and are evaluating what we have learned. Regretfully we do not have access to any jurisprudence or proportional punishment but we will deal with individuals not families. We will not sink to your level but we will use minimal force to deter future betrayal.

In the spirit of truth and reconciliation we are announcing a sixty day period of leniency from this date. Collaborators can confess their deeds and apologise to their victims in any public forum to protect themselves from serious repercussions. Simply include our group name in your statement and we will find it and remove you from our investigation once we verify it's authenticity. Failure to do so will be taken into account when we catch up with you. We will not be in a position to extend this offer once retribution begins so we recommend that you do not wait to see what happens to others.

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I think it's an ex family

10.01.2011 15:17

Cos that's what he told his girlfriends in the movement.

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comments suck

10.01.2011 15:43

sort it out

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Photos - a bare-faced lie

10.01.2011 15:44

There have ALWAYS been LOADS of photos available to Mark Stone/Kennedy's inner circle.

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@tomeile

10.01.2011 15:50

Nobody has tried to suppress any information about Flash's activities whatsoever. If you know anything at all about his activities which hasn't been publicised, please publicise it now.

All that's been been kept under wraps is a single piece of information, supported by a document, about his family background. THAT'S ALL. Nothing to do with "activities". Please try to think straight.

Fortunately, there are enough sensible people around to ensure that networks he was involved in haven't fallen apart. Not yet, anyway, or in the future, I hope. If this miasma of half-truths, imagination, paranoia and made-up crap was allowed to prevail, it might have that effect.

What is the cops' aim? Disruption. Don't do their dirty work for them, please.

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About the photos...

10.01.2011 16:11

I just don't understand what you and others are saying 'I know'...

The ones we put up were the best out of hundreds that we had access to. Are you saying we went to all the work, trouble and risk of exposing an undercover cop and then purposefully put rubbish (and I'd dispute that they were bad anyway) photos on the web to identify him?

Why on earth would we do that after having exposed him? FFS think about it before you open your gob, your arguement makes no sense at all.

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This is the indy media

10.01.2011 17:18

""According to this BBC Newsnight report, the 10th January trial has collapsed after undercover cop Mark Kennedy changed sides and offered to give evidence on behalf of the defendant's.

It says, ""

INDY MEDIA not mainstream when it suits you!!

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This is about more than Radcliffe

10.01.2011 17:23

I was asking for better pics on another Indymedia thread a few weeks back. I was told there weren't any. Then I open The Guardian and there's a cracker of the bastard, plus 2 others better than have previously appeared. So where did they come from? Incidentally the attempts to rehabilitate this cop, with which some activists are collaborating, really are sickening.

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About the photos... again...

10.01.2011 17:51

Errr... maybe someone else came forward with them? Is that so hard to understand? Read my above post, think about it for a while and digest it.

We put up the best photos we had. Just cos other folks have now given others in, it doesn't mean we were involved in some mad conspiracy hiding them.

FFS, grow up.

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Don't slander the movement while protecting a cop

10.01.2011 18:38

It really is appalling that to cover their treachery the cop-protectors are prepared to slander the entire movement by suggesting that people within would harm a child if their protection were removed. Why can they not at least say which town or country Kennedy resides in so that people can be forwarned? It appears that they were prepared to give information aplenty to bourgeois journalists.

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Please stop telling lies

10.01.2011 18:58

Please stop lying about the photos, it's embarrassing. I know for a fact that at least 3 of those involved in 'confronting' Kennedy/Stone have access to scores of photos of him. I don't unfortunately, but I have seen them.

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Can it get any worse?!

10.01.2011 19:13

Is it true that one of the environmental movement's inveterate parasites was so scared of having his career fucked-up by a conviction in the Ratcliffe trial that he initiated contact with this cop? And that his posh-as-fuck girlfriend is due to appear on Newsnight tonight?

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Ain't we great?

10.01.2011 19:50

A cop bought us all beers for 6 years. When we found out he was a cop we had a chat about it. Yeah he blubbed a bit. We blubbed even more. We sent him on his way with a clean handkerchief and a promise to look after his boat and put in a good word with the papers. Didn't we do great?

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Various fantasies

10.01.2011 20:17

@ antifascist Where and by who is this supposed attempt to "rehabilitate" this cop? I see no evidence of it. Unless you can give details it is pure fantasy. Some of the Defendants hoped he might be persuaded to give evidence to help them (always a forlorn hope, I think) but that fizzled out, with him complaining about concerns for his safety.

@ olaf Who has suggested anyone in our movement would harm a child? I certainly haven't. Another fantasy. But THE MEDIA would have no compunction. They don't give a shit. It would help if you read what people you criticise have actually said instead of making it up. If the details people were clamouring to have published earlier had been produced, the media would have descended on a child who was crucial in confirming Flash's true identity for reasons I'm not going to mention here. That's why it wasn't produced -because people REFUSED to subject a child to that sort of harassment and likely trauma.

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Flash

10.01.2011 21:25

So in amongst all this Bradley shared a van and drunk beer, now we pretend we all knew. I would still have done the action cop or not because I belive in what we do. Instead of climate change the media concentrate on the rogue cop, so who gave the weasel Day the right to represent the movement on TV and not talk about the effects of F F pollution and effect on the planet. As for the rest of this crap you lot are talking about the scum family then well done on follhowing the media circus. Trolls.

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support

10.01.2011 21:35

Stuff you Ben S. Bradley speaks well and you know nothing.

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FAO Stroppyoldgit

10.01.2011 21:56

I was referring to the Guardian piece - and the wankers who collaborated with it.

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R4

10.01.2011 22:16

R4 have just played part of a tape of a recording with MS and one of his protectors! How come it went to the BBC and not indymedia? What is going on?

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fun for all the family

10.01.2011 22:25

Maybe people should calm down a bit.

Whatever function an undercover like flash has in reporting on or provoking actions, another role for narks has often been to spread a bit of havoc, paranoia and suspicion. Its kill two birds with one stone really, as they can do it while still in cover, but their exposure will only double and redouble the shit flying around. This thread and how its falling into acrimony will be the one thing bringing a smile to mark's bosses faces today. I suggest keeping this kind of mud slinging out of indymedia, its just food for the cops and the journo scum who trawl looking for stories. Real useful discussions about this issue could be had in more sensible places.

Johann Neve


Cop Protectors?

10.01.2011 22:34

What's all this about people "protecting" Flash?
Who is doing it?
What are they protecting him from? Us? His erstwhile cop pals?
How are they doing it?

I'm pissed off a few people have gone against the general concensus that we weren't going to talk to the media about any of this and have seen several (ignored) emails from the BBC. There is a bit of an excuse for the Defendants, but they should have left it to their solicitor.

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Newsnight

10.01.2011 23:10

How fucking sickening to see the BBC were trusted with documents and evidence withheld from the movement.

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They should have left it to their solicitors?

10.01.2011 23:32

And miss a career opportunity? Sophie Nobody paid £5,000 for that suit!

Activist


BBC misuse of resources.

10.01.2011 23:39

"How fucking sickening to see the BBC were trusted with documents and evidence withheld from the movement."

Withheld you say? Are you quite sure about that!

For instance, can we be absolutely sure that the BBC didn't know Mark Kennedy was a police officer way before Mark was outed as a cop. For instance, could it be possible that Mark was, in fact, passing information to the BBC on a whole range of actions as-well as his handlers at NSY as far back as 2005...for instance!

Can we be absolutely sure...of the BBC's independence?

A none moose.


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Telling tales out of school

10.01.2011 23:47

In my opinion ALL of the loose-lipped cunts talking to the media (eg  http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/10/activist-undercover-officer-mark-kennedy?cat=environment&type=article) deserve a good fucking slap. Most of them barely knew Mark Stone.

Yes, that definitely includes you Alessio


Exit strategies

10.01.2011 23:52

A huge amount of money went into Mark's role as an undercover shit. I'm sure he was very well-trained in exit strategies or, what to do if he got found out. One of these might be to tearfully implicate others to sow dissent, another might be to continue the contact, to keep the rifts open and the sense of hurt and betrayal alive. He could keep the damaging effect of his betrayal going for years (He'll write a book next and then there will be the film). If we let him.
While we are still discussing him, we are arguing among ourselves. We're all going to have slightly differing opinions on how things might have been done differently but surely we are strongly united in knowing he is a lying, worthless nothing. Don't let's play into his manipulative hands any further.

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IMC done up like a kipper...again!

10.01.2011 23:53

Hope your all feeling fucking awful about this.

Next time you campaign on "government policy" and call it environmentalism you'll know what lengths the US and UK will go to to deflect attention away from the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

Not only have you been campaigning on policy the US and UK have actively encouraged as a tactic to distract attention away from its wars, but you have also been fucked over by a one-eyed tinker toy met copper while you were doing it!

God help us all if the planet is relying on you lot to save it, but of course the planet doesn't need saving does it, not while the US/UK is killing the "non-aligned" by the metric fucking tonne!

Environmentalist's...blind as fucking bats the lot of yer!

anon


Cops for garters!

11.01.2011 00:03

"We're all going to have slightly differing opinions on how things might have been done differently but surely we are strongly united in knowing he is a lying, worthless nothing."

And then there are, of course, those who had nothing to do with it and were busy campaigning against the wars instead of titting about chasing non-existent windmills!

War, cuts, nepotism, globalism, resource wars and mass murder. Is there something in these subjects that isn't worthy of your attention? I.E is the fact we are facing savage poverty while the wars continue not something that is important to ya?

Learn lessons, get over it and return to the matter at hand. Leave the hysterics to the elite.

anonymous


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Attn Notts

11.01.2011 00:14

Since it's now clear that you were prepared to allow BBC journalists to view the documents you have relating to Kennedy, would you be so kind as to post up jpegs of them so that your lowly comrades can view them also?

Gary Baldy


Clarity...

11.01.2011 00:30

The people that exposed him had nothing whatsoever to do with the recent media storm. They agreed not to talk to the media and none of them have talked to him or the media since the story broke.

The people that have are the people involved in the climate trial (which is their choice as it's their case) and it's nothing to do with us. All recordings and documents seen have been ones they've got.

Stop speculating, and stop with the mad fantasies that people are hiding important things from you.

Harry Robert's aunt


Enough!

11.01.2011 00:37

Regardless of what we might think about the way people have handled the whole thing, genuine and serious activists wouldn't be throwing hissy fits and slagging off other activists like some of the people on this thread have.

Those people must either be fucking stupid, unaware of the damage it can cause and the pleasure it inevitably gives the filfth, or they're coppers or other trollsters trying to shit stir.

Like someone's already said, discuss it through the appropriate communication channels.

Too much of this kind of shit. This site is for news. Get it sorted!

anon


?????

11.01.2011 00:42

NOBODY in the press (including IMC) have been shown any documents...they have just heard about their existence and the reasons why they can't be disclosed, as was told to the anarchist bookfair meeting. They imply they've seen them to make themselves look good. They haven't.

He admitted it. The met admitted it. Nobody needs any fucking documents!!!!!

Confused


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You're right anon but

11.01.2011 01:01

Having seen all the flapping, back-pedalling, and self-interested double-dealing displayed by this lot when faced with the prospect of a fine or suspended sentence, who the fuck would want to do anything serious with them?

Anarchist


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@ Anarchist

11.01.2011 09:45

"Having seen all the flapping, back-pedalling, and self-interested double-dealing displayed by this lot when faced with the prospect of a fine or suspended sentence, who the fuck would want to do anything serious with them?"
Exactly the elitist, excluding and divisive attitude I'm talking about. First time arrestees are tomorrow's more radical and determined activists. Unless completely ground down and ridiculed by the likes of you. Mark would be grateful..

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coming denouncement

11.01.2011 10:14

>>Like someone's already said, discuss it through the appropriate communication channels.

What are the 'appropriate communication channels'? Please provide them. Because soon there will be a text denouncing how this has been handled by the core group and the 6 Ratcliffe deniers and we want clarifications. The continuing protection affording to one of the enemy is disgusting, as is collaborating with mainstream media.

UK Activism - The joke of Europe.

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It IS disgusting

11.01.2011 10:44

I agree with Atamansha, there's much surrounding the Stone-Kennedy affair that is disgusting. The middle-class always look after themselves and will sell out everyone else. Their behaviour reflects upon the entire UK movement.

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Comments on here are becoming destructive and should be removed

11.01.2011 10:47

I don't know how many times this has to be said for it to sink into the small brains of people here. The 'core' group, who risked themselves exposing him, have ARE NOT PROTECTING MARK, NOR HAVE DONE ANY DEALS, NOR HAVE THEY TALKED TO THE MEDIA.

How hard is it to understand that? Denouncing people, including his long term girlfriend who helped expose him, is fucking unbelievably stupid and has no basis in reality. Think about it. And introduce yourself to the 'core' group (a label they'd laugh at and reject as they have not met as a 'group' since this happened) sometime and say you'd like to denounce them, I'd like to see their reaction...

Aaaarrgghhh!!!


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Hiding the debate

11.01.2011 11:04

This issue could hardly be more important. Yet no less than 30 comments have been selectively 'hidden' fro this thread (see  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/471795.html?c=all). Where are we (the disenfranshised majority of activists) SUPPOSED to discuss it, if there's a secret chatroom somewhere, I've never been given a password?

Shameful


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Hiding the debate

11.01.2011 11:05

This issue could hardly be more important. Yet no less than 30 comments have been selectively 'hidden' fro this thread (see  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/471795.html?c=all). Where are we (the disenfranshised majority of activists) SUPPOSED to discuss it, if there's a secret chatroom somewhere, I've never been given a password?

Shameful


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@ Shameful

11.01.2011 11:17

"Where are we (the disenfranshised majority of activists) SUPPOSED to discuss it, if there's a secret chatroom somewhere, I've never been given a password?"

There is abolutely nothing to be gained from a debate on the newswire. No-one has any idea who 'shameful' is and for all we know you could be a journo looking for information, or a cop looking for a conviction.

The newswire is for news, not for debate and a bunch of anonymous comments do not make a debate.

Try libcom if you want a debating forum:  http://libcom.org/forums/news/trial-collapses-after-undercover-officer-changes-sides-10012011

shameless


Yeah, sickening

11.01.2011 11:38

"How fucking sickening to see the BBC were trusted with documents and evidence withheld from the movement."

Simple answer: THEY WEREN'T. I have heard a rumour the BBC have a staff of more than three and may have a couple of quid in the piggy bank. They just might be able to get hold of a document such as police-generated fake passport without any of us giving it to them. Hard to believe, I know, but it just might be achievable, you know.

As for "continuing protection". I asked above WHO is protecting him, WHAT FROM and HOW?. No answer. Just more destructive smears and bullshit based on no facts at all.

What are you trying to achieve? You seem determined to provide the consolation of "disruption" to the cops in what is otherwise a hefty and satisfying kick up their blue serged arse.

P.S. My previous criticism of people agreeing to go on Newsnight was reinforced by the actual event. Dire and unrepresentative. Did us no good at all. The issues raised and political points made should have been left to lawyers and uninvolved (probably liberal) campaigners about policing and state power.

Stroppyoldgit


Please watch what you say

11.01.2011 12:19

This site is where most of the information in the mainstream media is coming from. The right wing press and tabloids especially are taking quotes straight from here...watch what you give away. Don't talk shit here because it's giving tabloids juicy info to follow up and research, which they are doing with vigour!!! by talking shit on here YOU are talking to the press..stop it.

carefull


NewsShite

11.01.2011 12:32

There were moments on Newsnight when the cops seemed to be about to say something interesting but Kirsty Wark cut them off. She always does that, she doesn't listen to the people she interviews and wants to do most of the talking in interviews to appear more intelligent than she is. She's an establishment tool, a family friend of former Scottish First Minister Jack McConnell who holidays with him. The activist wasn't too bad imo, she appeared soft and harmless and upperclass which is ideal to appeal to the the establishment viewers, but yeah, you would've been better off with a lawyer or someone from Liberty prepared to ask serious questions. I cringed when she couldn't differentiate between Kennedy as either a 'camp follower' or an agent provacteur.

Danny


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@stroppyoldgit

11.01.2011 13:33

"What are you trying to achieve? You seem determined to provide the consolation of "disruption" to the cops in what is otherwise a hefty and satisfying kick up their blue serged arse. "

you are an idiot. i am smoking weed in the riviera and writing my book. my experience taught me that the movement in the UK is crap but the girls are cute and the drugs are cheap, and i should know i was selling them. holidays were on me! i wish i was back in nottingham, call me a waaaaaambulance.

long live dr simon lewis.and thanks for finding that great photo. shit, i'm hot!

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Good German article plus pics

14.01.2011 02:02

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