Kate Wilson won a legal battle against the Metropolitan Police after discovering her long-term boyfriend was an undercover officer

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    I had a deadbeat housemate once who claimed to have been visited by two special branch cops who offered to arrange him a sexual partner in return for spying on the local anti-war group he was in. This seemed ludicrous at the time, as the group would gather outside the town hall in small numbers and sing “No More Blood For Oil” all in different keys, but in the light of this story (which had been known for quite a while now) it absolutely tracks with the tactics it turned out they’d been using.

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      I mean like… how do you even react to when the cops offer to pimp for you?

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    Less than £300k for a year of repeated rape by fraud? And no charges for the officer? Sounds like imperialism to me.

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    Believe it or not, Mark Kennedy is my brother in law.

    He’s a bit full of himself, and it’s weird when this comes up in the news cycle.

    He wrote a book about his experiences, but it wasn’t taken up with the publisher because he essentially didn’t express regret.

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    Incels just need to pretend to be leftists and then they’ll get their government mandated GF.

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      Have you seen them try and talk to women it’s embarrassing. They usually last about 15 minutes and then they call somebody “female”, or something and they can’t work out what went wrong.

      They would be amusingly crap spies. You could probably keep them in your midst and just talk coded language, and they probably wouldn’t pick up on it.

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    This is one of my fears. I can’t imagine the betrayal and lack of ethics. I can’t imagine a person who would sell their souls to date someone they hate like this. Just thinking about it ugh! I’m in a community with a bunch of degenerates and sometimes I’ve dated guys who just seem to be lying through their teeth that they like me. I stopped frequenting their bars. Doesn’t help when the photographer at events is an undercover cop. I’m not the one in biker gangs but I stopped going because of all the fake suspicion. Still I’d need soooooo much therapy. I hope she got a huuuuge settlement.

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      “This is one of my fears”

      I’m so sorry that this is actually a concern that someone legitimately feels. It’s unbelievable to me that anyone could date someone they don’t like, for whatever reason…

      sends hug

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        Kennedy, who resigned from the Met in 2010, had sexual relationships with as many as 10 other women while undercover.

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      Maybe not as huge as it should be but

      In 2021, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ordered the Met Police and NPCC to pay a total of £229,471 to Ms Wilson “by way of just satisfaction for the breaches of her human rights”

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          They were required to apologise also, although sincerity cannot be ensured.

          Edit: Or rather, the Met police and NPCC have apologised, it seems like the officer has not and generally shows no remorse.

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    I remember that happening in Orphan Black. But she stayed married to Donnie and he just became part of the clone gang.

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      Weren’t they already together when they approached Donnie, and he thought it was part of a study he couldn’t tell her about? I think it was Paul who was fully in the know about what he was doing to Beth Childs.

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        It was more a comment on analog regimes that inspire household level paranoia.

        What I had really wanted to say was “What in the Enver Hoxha?” But I expected that reference to Europe’s most North Korean-style regime to miss.

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          The fact that you see this kind of thing as “North Korean style” is the issue. Essentially treating it like its a natural part of the oriental nature but foreign to the western one, and it showing up in the West is the West degenerating to be like Asians.

          Europeans have been doing this kind of shit long, long before North Korea ever existed.

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            I understand what you’re saying. To be fair, my anchor point is oppressive socialist regimes writ large circa 1944-1990. Kim Il Sung predated Enver Hoxha in terms of models and tactics. Hoxha’s governance style changed over about a decade or two to distance Albania from Yugoslavia and the USSR and emulate North Korea.

            By no means do I think it’s an “Asian” thing. Honestly, that’s a silly premise when I’m talking about a single country of 26 million out of 4.7 billion people. NK might barely round up to 1% of the population of Asia, so how is that exactly painting the whole continent? But between Hoxha-era Albania and North Korea, North Korea still exists in largely the same state. So it’s easier to reference as a standard right now.

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    That’s truly awful, ACAB.

    However, I do want to let any of our new glowies know I personally give prior consent to be honeypotted by cuties who buy me nice things.

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      might wanna look up what “glowie” means and how it started buddy. it’s not something you wanna be throwing around

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        Looked it up… idk this doesn’t feel like a problem? Yeah, the related term is absolutely a problem, but this seems like a sanitized version that’s meant to portray the same core meaning without the racial slur?

        I could very well be wrong of course, I don’t have much more context than an extremely quick search so please correct me if I’m wrong.

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        Davis addressed concerns about his language on his website, stating that “when I fight Satan, I use the sharpest knives I can find.”

        I’m not saying I approve of his slur usage, but hot damn is that a quote.

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    All I need to do is join a bunch of leftist organizations and the state will assign me a sexual partner?

    Incels hate this one simple trick!

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    Happens a lot in Spain.

    There has been a lot cases of police officers infiltrating left and social movements, male and female, and “failing in love” with people inside them. Just off the top of my head, there is a case of female cop that was caught by her partner after 4 years of relationship and before getting married; an another one where a male cop infiltrated different associations and literally fucked his way up to the intel, tricking women and having them have (consent) sex with him. This one his awaiting trial because after finding out the girls sued him for sexual abuse, but i doubt it will go anywhere knowing how justice works here.

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        Speaking only about the legal sense here, most places do not recognize that. If you are of sound mind and body, not under the influence of drugs, extortion, etc, then the consent is valid.

        Part of the problem is that everyone is at least a little deceitful, and these have been used in courts to claim rape. I remember a case about the use of makeup (deceiving about her actual looks and genetics), and another about being the “wrong” ethnicity. Where is the line for the courts to be involved?