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Activists sent details of child & threatening letters from government/MI5/DWP

Anon Activist | 04.02.2010 15:07 | SOCPA | Animal Liberation | Repression | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

An activist with a child was sent strange letters from the Department of Work & Pensions detailing his child benefit & details of his parents pension. He was then telephoned with the warning "We know everything about you & if we want we can get your parents pension money interfered with at any time". The activist said the person phoning was a woman & that she had " an Australian or New Zealand accent. What's scary is that he did not any time given the DWP his mobile phone number.

The activist, a student who has only recently attended climate, animal rights and anti fascist actions and meetings was sent odd letters with personal details on. One of the letters stated "We are going to change the way in which you are paid back" with his parent's pension details on the letter. He was then sent another letter with details of his child benefit that had, other than a few minor details, the same wording. He is young, new to activism and was understandably freaked out by it. He said that it seems like the government have stooped to a new and frightening low in trying to stop people being activists and admits that this has put him off a bit although he still goes to actions but won't tell people his real name in future or give out his phone number so readily at actions. He said it was really worrying and that he at no time gave the DWP his mobile phone number, can't work out how they got hold of it and he believes that MI5 could have been behind it the intimidation. He doesn't believe that it was a joke played on him by other students who wouldn't have access to National Insurance numbers and other DWP details that were on the letters.

We expect that anti activists will write silly replies with "Oh come on now" or "who is the activist" or "now you are really are losing it / getting paranoid" but we believe that he received the phone calls and the letters are genuinely weird.

Anon Activist

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  1. indymedia link from no borders on surveillance — anon
  2. Private investigators — Tell em to piss off
  3. HLS? — anon
  4. Activists have also been threatened with : "We / they have a tap on your phone" — anon
  5. Whoever this was has access to DWP and campaigns/activists — no logo
  6. Might be worth.. — Lynn Sawyer
  7. Go public? — Media
  8. publicity is your friend — FTP
  9. Record your CallS — xx
  10. Try... — ACOP ECUNT
  11. It is probably MI5 in conjunction with "security" [ bullies] for Big Pharma — anon
  12. Contact your MP. Write to a newspaper. Any Antipodeans working at DWP? — Don't record all your calls via the phone company. Record them yourself.
  13. Be afraid.... — Aktion Direkt
  14. logic — olaf
  15. Has this happened to anyone else? Any Aussie / NZ / SA activists at the DWP? — anon
  16. The REAL terrorists. — Aktion Direkt.
  17. Vile Ms Aussie / New Zealnd / South African is the one playing a sick joke — anon
  18. Danny? — @iccus Finch
  19. to Aktion Direkt : It's not just your phone that acts as a transmittor. — anon
  20. Call Recording — Jason

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