The Battle for Orgreave. Striking miners were beaten mercilessly.

noun Definition of police state : a political unit characterised by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures(1)

Secret police have infiltrated almost every facet of British society. More than 1,000 political groups have been spied upon since 1968.(2) Such is the fear of the British ruling classes they feel the need to install secret police in a variety of environmental or anti-capitalist groups. These secret police have slept with women, formed relationships with activists and even fathered children with them. They have ruined peoples lives.

The predominant targets for this spying are left wing groups and environmental groups with only 3 far right groups under surveillance.(check this)

Threats To The State: Grieving Families Murdered By The Police

The police used their powers to spy on such malign threats to UK society as the case of the a grieving family who’s teenage son had been murdered by a gang of racists.(3)

Raped By The State: Animal Rights Activists

In the case of ‘Jacqui’, an animal rights activist who was duped into a long term relationship with a British spy who fathered a child with her. All the while this spy, Bob Lambert, returned home to his wife and 2 children throughout the relationship.

Jacqui had this to say:

“When I spoke to him I was saying, ‘Why me?’” she said. “I gave out a few leaflets, went on a few demos, but I wasn’t a bad person.” “I feel like I’ve got no foundations in my life,” she said. “It was all built on sand — your first serious relationship, your first child, the first time you give birth — they’re all significant, but for me they’re gone, ruined, spoiled … “I was not consenting to sleeping with Bob Lambert, I didn’t know who Bob Lambert was. I had a spy living with me, sleeping with me, making a family with me, and I didn’t do anything to deserve that.” “We [the women bringing cases] are psychologically damaged; it is like being raped by the state. We feel that we were sexually abused because none of us gave consent.”(4)

After the first few years of the childs life Bob then disappeared from ‘Jacquis’ life claiming he was “on the run”.

Incredibly, Jacqui only found out the father of her child was still alive when she his picture in the paper a few years later.

Looking at the Guardians database on infiltrated groups in the UK you’ll see environmental groups, left wing groups and trade unionists.

Hell, even Badger culling groups have been infiltrated.

What you will not see is the National Front or English Defence League. Despite the murderer of Jo Cox having had contact with National Front & attending a variety of English Defence League demos.(5)

For context you’d have to go back to the years of 1970–72 to find examples of left wing terrorism by the Angry Brigades. And even then the bombings that group caused were all property damage except for one which caused an injury.

Whilst the far-right have the Finsbury mosque attack of driving a van into a group of people in 2017, the killing of MP Jo Cox in 2016 and the 2013 stabbing and bomb attacks of 2013 to their belt in this decade alone.

The Close Alliance Of The Media, The Police & The State

The close alliance between the media, police and state can be seen in it’s most blatantly corrupt form when the conservative government under Thatcher covered up the Hillsborough disaster as a “thank you” to the police for suppressing the miners in Yorkshire.(6)

Sheila Coleman, spokesperson for the Hillsborough Justice Campaign:

Coleman “Margaret Thatcher got off very lightly [over Hillsborough] and the government of the day got off undoubtedly. “We are of the firm opinion that the cover-up came from the top, so that’s a very disappointing aspect. “It’s always been our argument that it [the cover-up] was payback time, Margaret Thatcher’s way of thanking South Yorkshire Police for how they managed the miners’ strike.”(Ibid)

The police altered witness statements of the Hillsborough disaster in which 96 people were killed due to police negligence.(Ibid)

The media painted both the football fans and miners as aggressive and antagonistic when in reality they were neither. The battle of Orgreave saw miners respond ferociously to being charged by police horses and beaten. However the press filmed the miners reacting to the attacks by the police and then presented them as savages to the wider public. Of the 90 arrested

Sir Irvine Patnick was a conservative politician that died in 2012 with his knighthood intact.

He was one of the key figures feeding false information to the Sun regarding Hillsborough (then MP of Sheffield).

Shortly before his death in a statement issued through the Conservative Party, Sir Irvine Patnick said:

I would like to put on the record how appalled and shocked I was to discover the extent of the deceit and cover-up surrounding these events. It is now clear that the information I received from some police officers at the time was wholly inaccurate, misleading and plain wrong. However, I totally accept responsibility for passing such information on without asking further questions. So, many years after this tragic event, I am deeply and sincerely sorry for the part I played in adding to the pain and suffering of the victims’ families.(7)

Decades after the fact where the victims families have had to deal with their loved ones being portrayed as riotous drunks. This incredible collusion between media, police and state seems to have an incredible way of washing each others hands in turn.

The Sun reporter (a paper which churns out pure shite & lies on the regular), Kelvin MacKenzie, had this to say:

“It was a fundamental mistake. The mistake was I believed what an MP said”. (8)

Whilst the MP who said it gets to blame the police. Like a game of hot potato.

In the west we’re taught how oppressive other regimes were. Mostly of a socialist persuasion to dissuade the populace from entertaining the idea that humanity can do better than the horribly corrupt oligarchic system that now reigns supreme in each western country. But if you scratch the surface you find the police as willing henchmen of the ruling classes and elected officials hoping to do their stints in public office before taking a high paying job with a private company.

Corrupt and rotten to the core we get a glimpse behind the curtain of rotten bourgeois “freedom”.

References

(1)Dictionary; Merriam-Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/police%20state

(2)https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2018/oct/15/uk-political-groups-spied-on-undercover-police-list

(3)https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/17/stephen-lawrence-police-officer-allegedly-spied-family-identified-david-hagan

(4)https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/24/undercover-police-spy-girlfriend-child

(5)https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/23/thomas-mair-slow-burning-hatred-led-to-jo-cox-murder

(6)https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hillsborough-south-yorkshire-police-cover-disaster-384044

(7)https://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-09-13/sir-irvine-patnick-i-totally-accept-responsibility-for-passing-information/

(8)https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/jul/07/pressandpublishing.football1

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