[from The Guardian]
Fresh evidence has emerged of police efforts to recruit paid spies within environmental groups after the Guardian revealed that police in Scotland are running a network of hundreds of informants inside pressure groups.
Anti-nuclear protesters in Scotland said yesterday that military police had offered them cash in exchange for information.
One protester said he was offered money on top of his jobseeker's allowance - a move sanctioning benefit fraud - if he gave military police the names of people planning environmental action. One activist from Plane Stupid revealed that members had been given £20 by police.
James Woods, 22, an anti-nuclear protester arrested at Faslane, said: "When I was released I was asked by an officer about my income and how I got by ... they said they'd help my financial situation in a way that would not interfere with my dole if I gave them information on people involved in upcoming actions."
Jane Tallents, also an anti-nuclear protester, said she was asked for information by two military police officers. "They wanted to find out what groups worked together ... They said 'if you help us, we will help you'. It was pretty obvious it was about money."
The revelations are likely to increase pressure on the Scottish government to justify actions seen as disproportionate in dealing with peaceful groups.
At the weekend Scotland's justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, said he was satisfied Strathclyde police had "acted proportionately and legitimately" in a case in which officers allegedly offered an activist money for intelligence.
Greenpeace UK yesterday described the tactics as "intrusive and intimidating". The group is already demanding answers from the government after a private investigator claimed he was hired by French energy firm EDF and hacked into Greenpeace computers. He also consulted MI5 about the campaign group's work.
EDF denied it sanctioned such activities. "EDF wholeheartedly condemns any method aimed at obtaining information illegally," said a spokesman for the firm.
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It will End
This type of Tyranny always comes to an End. Eventually the Government squeezes to much and the people slip through the governments hands and then slip a hanging rope around the governments leaders necks.
Their are 70 million British and a handful of British governments officials. If you could get even a quarter of the people to revolt against the government and take it back for themselves, all this madness would end. They British government can not control all the people and that is why they are using the "police yourselfs programs", which is the same thing Hitler did.
Paying people to look through each others trash. Paying environmental spys to spy on people who care about the environment. Putting up posters that tell people "If someone has to much bling, give us a ring", in other words, if someone seems like they have more stuff or more cash then they should then call the police. So now the government wants to make you all accountants and have ESP to detect where someone got their money from.
People do yourself's a big favor and go to an internet cafe or on the web at your home or a friends home and look up ' 'Prision Planet.com' or 'Infowars.com' and find out for yourselfs what is really going on. Slowly but surely the government passess one law at a time to take away your rights so you don't notice and tighten the chains around your necks.
I got news for you New World Order junkys in the governments, 'ANY ONE PERSONS HUMAN RIGHTS ARE GOD GIVEN AND THEY ARE BORN WITH THEM. YOU DON'T TELL US IF WE HAVE RIGHTS OR NOT.'
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