East Germany had the Stasi.
UK have the #spycops.
Key points in utterly staggering submissions to #spycops inquiry in opening statements last week on behalf of a wide range of core participants that show the sheer scale of secret political policing in UK have gone unreported.
UK have the #spycops.
Key points in utterly staggering submissions to #spycops inquiry in opening statements last week on behalf of a wide range of core participants that show the sheer scale of secret political policing in UK have gone unreported.
For example, James Scobie, barrister for several CPs, said on Day 5 of undercover policing inquiry on Friday, that #spycop Rick Gibson helped run the Troops Out Movement in 1974-76 by becoming its London organiser and ultimately joint national secretary. ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
Lord (John) Hendy, representing Fire Brigades Union and Unite the Union, and other unions that were REFUSED core-participant status, spoke also on Day 5 (same link as above) of their deep concern about use of #spycops intelligence for “blacklisting” of trade unionists from work.
And Lord Hendy made an alarming point to #spycops inquiry on behalf of one of the several trade unions refused core-participant status – namely my own union, the National Union of Journalists...
And, yet again, not a word of media coverage…
And, yet again, not a word of media coverage…
The NUJ, Lord Hendy told #spycops inquiry, “considers that undercover policing has sought clandestinely to glean from journalists information as to their sources for published material: a serious incursion into another fundamental aspect of democracy and equally unjustifiable.”
As Rajiv Menon pointed out on Day 3 on behalf of many CPs, victims of Stasi spies have a huge advantage over victims of #spycops.
The former, unlike the latter, “have been able to see all the documents held on them since the Stasi was disbanded in 1990.” ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
The former, unlike the latter, “have been able to see all the documents held on them since the Stasi was disbanded in 1990.” ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
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