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Agents Provocateurs

Craig Murray | 21.07.2011 09:12 | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield | World

The insurmountable problem for those who categorise any accusation of the state acting deliberately wrongly as a “conspiracy theory”, is truth. There is, beyond any doubt, a police operation to infiltrate left wing groups in the UK with spies.


The case of the extraordinary Ratcliffe Power Stations convictions shows how very wrong this can go. The courts have ruled not only that the police acted as agent provocateur, but that police colluded with our supposedly independent prosecutorial service to withhold vital information from the court.

The lord chief justice was among the appeal court judges who published this yesterday:

“It is a case which has given rise to a great deal of justifiable public disquiet, which we share. Something went seriously wrong with the trial. The prosecution’s duties in relation to disclosure were not fulfilled. The result was that the appellants were convicted following a trial in which elementary principles which underpin the fairness of our trial procedures were ignored. The jury were ignorant of evidence, helpful to the defence, which was in the possession of the prosecution but which was never revealed. As a result justice miscarried.”

The court here is making a stand against the contempt for political liberty that emanated from the very top of the Blair government and spread to affect the policy and operations of all governmental institutions in the UK. The mindset that made it OK for the government to set up young environmental activists, was no different from the mindset in which MI5 agents thought it was OK to collude in the torture of Binyam Mohammed.

But here lies the rub. The appeal court is trying to right the wrongs done to middle class white people. The amount of infiltration and agent provocatuer activity against “Muslim extremists” has been of a much higher order. The “fertiliser bomb plot” is one example of an attempted crime by deluded people who had been penetrated and very probably egged on from the start. The “airline bomb plots” and “Manchester Easter bomb plots” both involved the shadowy double agent Rashid Rauf.

Furthermore, precisely that openness by the prosecution the appeal court demands is deliberately denied to Muslim defendants on terrorist charges, who are frequently not allowed to see and thus to challenge the provenance of “Evidence” against them by the security services.

There has, thankfully, been a steady stream of overturning of crazy “terrorist” judgements on appeal, including the truly appalling conviction of the woman for writing “terrorist poems”. But it nonetheless remains true that we are yet to recover sufficiently from the Blair poison to give the full benefit of law to Muslims in the way we have just done to middle class white people.

Craig Murray
- Homepage: http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/07/agents-provocateurs/

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cointelpro

21.07.2011 09:20

all over again

x


How the cops do it

21.07.2011 10:23

One way for the cops to put agent provocateurs into the radical movement is to employ physical infiltrators - it's expensive, time-consuming and politically risky.

The easiest way to achieve the same effect is for cop trolls to post loose-cannon, pro-terrorist shit on Indymedia, using names like "Insurrectionary Anarchist", and hope at least one or two "real" radicals will be naive, stupid and gullible enough to go out and do their dirty work for them - it's cheap, it takes minutes, and for the state there's zero political risk

Show Time


@ showtime

21.07.2011 11:33

actually show time, i dont think thats a fair or any where near balanced comment, in relation to what names people use on here. people can use whatever name they want and just because someone says they are 'insurrectionary anarchist' does not mean at all that they are not.or that they are pigs just because they say pro-insurrectionary stuff.

here, here's something pro insurrectionary: i think there should be an insurrection in this country to attack and destabilise the state infrastructure. ive 'thought' and 'said' that a number of times...

now, that point is shared by hundreds and thousands of militant anarchists around the world, does that make me a pig? dont be ridiculous. if you are saying that particular users are pigs, like the 'gateway 303' users that were identified as being indymedia provocateurs by sheffield IM, then show the evidence, like sheffield IM did, don't just say 'anyone who uses a particular name is a cop' because, well, you make yourself look and sound ill-informed.

and, finally, 'insurrectionary anarchist' is a genuinely accepted 'type' of anarchist within the movement, if you studied anarchism today, you'd already know that.....

francesca


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