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muriel_volestrangler

(101,161 posts)
Sat Jun 22, 2013, 09:45 AM Jun 2013

McLibel leaflet was co-written by undercover police officer Bob Lambert

Exclusive: McDonald's sued green activists in long-running David v Goliath legal battle, but police role only now exposed

An undercover police officer posing for years as an environmental activist co-wrote a libellous leaflet that was highly critical of McDonald's, and which led to the longest civil trial in English history, costing the fast-food chain millions of pounds in fees.

McDonald's famously sued green campaigners over the roughly typed leaflet, in a landmark three-year high court case, that was widely believed to have been a public relations disaster for the corporation. Ultimately the company won a libel battle in which it spent millions on lawyers.
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Lambert, who rose through the ranks to become a spymaster in the SDS, is also under investigation for sexual relationships he had with four women while undercover, one of whom he fathered a child with before vanishing from their lives. The woman and her son only discovered that Lambert was a police spy last year.

The internal police inquiry is also investigating claims raised in parliament that Lambert ignited an incendiary device at a branch of Debenhams when infiltrating animal rights campaigners. The incident occurred in 1987 and the explosion inflicted £300,000 worth of damage to the branch in Harrow, north London. Lambert has previously strongly denied he planted the incendiary device in the Debenhams store.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/mclibel-leaflet-police-bob-lambert-mcdonalds


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/20/undercover-police-children-activists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/21/anatomy-of-betrayal-undercover-police
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McLibel leaflet was co-written by undercover police officer Bob Lambert (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2013 OP
Pay attention, activists... hunter Jun 2013 #1
I read a book by an Earth First! Infiltrator AnotherDreamWeaver Jun 2013 #2

hunter

(38,264 posts)
1. Pay attention, activists...
Sat Jun 22, 2013, 11:42 AM
Jun 2013

... it's not simply the police, it's giant corporations too and in many cases they are one and the same.

That doesn't mean you should allow your activist group to lose focus in a fog of suspicion, just be careful.

Every time I get involved in edgy stuff I have experiences that are not quite right. Part of it is me, my "real world" self is somewhere on the autistic spectrum and a bit paranoid, but I've often been surprised when dynamic members of an activist group get absorbed into the system they were fighting. I don't think it's "selling out" as is often claimed, or people lying to themselves caught up in the romance of their activism. I think many were always on the other side but profiting somehow from their participation in the activist group.

My first experiences were with peace groups, environmental groups, and anti-nuclear groups. It is a little unsettling to see some of the same people I knew back then working for defense contractors, fossil fuel companies, so-called "mainstream media," real estate developers, and yes, in a few cases, law enforcement.

Sure. people "grow up" and join the "real world," but I think that concept is in itself propaganda fed to us by the oligarchs and plutocrats controlling this society. Our society is a very sophisticated kind of feudalism and this becomes more and more apparent as we run up against the limits of the earth's natural environment and our own human nature.

The yokes we serfs wear did not chafe so badly when fossil fuels were cheap and nature absorbed our environmental assaults without pushing back. But now nature is pushing back and we are about to suffer the same consequences any innovative species that experiences exponential growth does. We might avoid the worst of the storm by voluntarily limiting our growth, by voluntarily limiting our use of natural resources, but we won't. Nature is going to smack us down the old fashioned way and humans will accelerate this process of population collapse by tribalistic wars and oppression.

That's what all this stuff is about; the NSA stuff, the infiltration of activist groups, the absurd levels of "defense" spending. The people in control now want to be in control when the dust of the collapse settles. They won't be, of course, because they have no fundamental understanding of the problem, they think they "know" people, they are masters at manipulating people, but they don't understand the natural environment, they don't understand that we all live and die by the same rules of life that are as old as life itself.





AnotherDreamWeaver

(2,846 posts)
2. I read a book by an Earth First! Infiltrator
Sat Jun 22, 2013, 12:57 PM
Jun 2013

"How I Infiltrated Earth First!" was the title. He was paid to do this by a group of Mining, Cattle and Logging interests. Sounded like a conspiracy to me...

He had more damaging information about our government smuggling drugs into the country than any bad news about Earth First!

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