I didn't write up any reflections of yesterday's #spycopsinquiry hearing because after five days of live tweeting I was in urgent need of a big bag of cans. But I think it's fair to say that the submissions highlighted some of the worst ways in which #spycops undermined...
... not only the lives of the people they targeted, the causes those people campaigned for, but also for the very society we live in today. The opening statement on behalf of the NUM highlighted the way that the 84/85 strike was subject to the most unrelenting attack not just...
... on the miners, their families and their communities but on the entire working class. It is just one of the moments of British political history fundamentally disrupted by undercover infiltration. Whilst there has been much said about how this person or that group were...
... the most damaged by the undercover police, we have to face up to that fact that the United Kingdom has had it's social and economic order shaped by the invisible hand of #spycops. As heinous the individual crimes of stealing dead babies idenitites or even the state...
... sanctioned rape undoubtably are, they just the top of the iceberg. The #spycops didn't just destroy the lives of the people they targeted, they stole a better world from all of us.
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