Illegally Handing Over Workers’ Details for Blacklisting, Covering up for Murder and Raping Women by Deception - the Met is Above the Law and Institutionally Corrupt
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In 1990
Boris Johnson, then a Telegraph reporter in Brussels, agreed
to supply his friend Darius Guppy with the details of a journalist, Stuart
Collier, in order that he could have him beaten up. Guppy was later jailed for
a jewellery heist. The conversation was recorded. Suffice to say if you or me
had been party to a conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, the Police would
have prosecuted. But Johnson was cut from different cloth.
Darren Copeland caught on CCTV
From the
1960’s onwards the Met formed a secretive Special Demonstration Squad whose
task was to infiltrate left-wing, environmental and other radical groups. What the
Met have never done is to infiltrate fascist groups. In 1999 three bombs planted
by neo-Nazi, Darren Copeland exploded in
Brick Lane, Brixton and the Admiral Duncan, a gay pub in Soho. Three people were
killed and 79 injured.
The Police
had no prior intelligence because fascist groups have never been a target for
the Police or Special Branch, despite their gospel of hatred and racism. After
all many in the Police share much the same views. Fascists aren’t a threat to
capitalism, they are the last resort of the system.
The film above
shows one particular
specimen Mark Stone aka Mark Kennedy, who formed a relationship with a female
activist based on deceit and lies. What he and other officers had done was commit
rape by deception. There was no informed consent. But of course the Police don’t
prosecute their own unless they are forced to.
In the case
of Wayne
Couzens, whose affectionate name
from fellow officers was ‘the rapist’,
police were left with no option but to prosecute as he had both raped murdered
Sarah Everard and left a trail of clues that even the most stupid police
officer could not ignore.
However the
Police got their revenge when they physically
attacked a peaceful womens’ vigil at Clapham Common. All of this presided
over by lesbian Commissioner, the appropriately named Cressida Dick. The
seething anger of the Met at the humiliation they had suffered, with the murder
by a serving officer, was visited on the women at the vigil. The Police have
absolute discretion as to how they enforce the law and in this case they used
the COVID regulations as a pretext for an unprovoked attack.
In
2009 ICO investigators from the Information Commissioner's Office raided
the offices of the Consulting Association in Droitwich, Worcestershire. The
nature of the information in them could only have been supplied by the police
or security services. The information was for the purposes of a blacklist funded by eight of the
country's major construction firms. It resulted in thousands of people being unable
to get work for decades. Although Ian Kerr, who ran the Consulting Agency was
fined £5,000 the construction firms who financed the operation, such as Balfour
Beatty, and Robert McCalpine, escaped any penalty.
The workers concerned had committed no crime apart
from standing up for their rights. But in the eyes of the Met this was a crime.
The Met refused
to name those they had spied on. Operation Reuben found an officer called Mark
Jenner had collected information after he infiltrated the construction union
UCATT between 1995 and 2000.
The report says that Jenner, who used the alias
Cassidy, provided information on 300 people - and 16 of those appeared in the
illegal blacklist database.
Roy Bentham, joint secretary of Blacklist Support
Group, said
‘The police
are supposed to uphold law and order, not spy on perfectly democratic
organisations such as trade unions,’.
‘Blacklisting is a national
scandal and confirmation that the police colluded with this shameful and
unlawful activity is beyond the pale.’
What all of the above demonstrates is that the Police,
in particular the Met, which also functions as a national police force, are a
highly political force. That is why its Commissioner, Cressida Dick, is
appointed by the Home Secretary.
In short the Met is not only institutionally corrupt
but it is racist, sexist and anti-working class. This should not be any surprise
as the function of the Police is to preserve and uphold the existing political
order which is a society where a tiny but rich elite preside over poverty and
deprivation.
That is the function of the Police in all societies.
The last institution to fall in any popular uprising or revolution is the
Police which is why those on the left who consider them ‘workers in uniform’
rather than agents of the State are wrong.
It is no
surprise that Keir Starmer reacted with fury
to the suggestion of Black Lives Matter that the Police should be defunded. Instead he turned on BLM describing it as a ‘moment’.
At the 2021 Labour Party Conference we were treated to the spectacle of armed
police patrolling
aisles and intimidating delegates (including removing one heckler) during
Starmer’s one and half hour speech about his family.
The
Police are an integral part of the British state. The state is there to defend
the existing class inequalities in society and that is why it targets the left,
not the right. However friendly individual officers might be they are there to
serve the interests of our enemies. That is why, when the Miners went on strike
in 1984-5 the Police acted as Thatcher’s cavalry.
Hence why
it is so absurd that a party that calls itself a party of labour should have formed
a Friends of the Police group to sit
aside Labour Friends of Apartheid Israel. MPs Jessica Morden, Holly Lynch and
Liz Kendall who fronted this pathetic organisation can be considered Labour Traitors
of the Year, or more succinctly scabs.
All of
this is the backdrop to a new raft of repressive legislation from Boris Johnson
from the Spycops
to the Police,
Crime and Sentencing Acts and Nationality
and Borders Bill which Starmer has barely opposed. As the economic crisis
develops, exacerbated by the COVID crisis – which itself is a crisis of
capitalism – we shall see an ever more repressive police force with the
pretence of ‘community policing’ dropped. There is no doubt whatsoever which
side of the class struggle Starmer and his Zionist friends will stand.
We should also not forget the Nuala
O’Loan Inquiry into the murder of Daniel Morgan which found the Metropolitan
police was “institutionally corrupt”.
Cressida Dick was personally censured
for obstruction by an independent inquiry set up to review the murder of the
private detective Daniel Morgan.
The findings of into Morgan’s killing in 1987 triggered calls
for Dick to resign. His brother, Alastair, denounced the actions of Britain’s
biggest police force.
The panel’s findings were a victory
for the 34-year long struggle for justice by the Morgan family during which
they said they endured being “lied to,
fobbed off, bullied [and] degraded” by the Met.
Within hours the Met rejected the report’s key findings, and dismissed
Morgan’s call for Dick to step down. The two people who could oust Dick – the Home
Secretary and Mayor Sadiq Khan instead gave
her their ‘full confidence’.
Corrupt officers shielded the killers and the panel said a murder inquiry
that was probably “solvable” was undermined, perhaps fatally.
Concerns about police wrongdoing, and links between corrupt officers and
sections of the tabloid media, led the government to order an inquiry in 2013. Dick,
instead of cooperating with the panel obstructed it. The panel accused the Met of
placing concerns about its reputation above fighting corruption in its ranks.
We should remember the lack of accountability of the police when we hear
talk of the ‘rule of law’. The law is a
class instrument used by the rich and powerful to cement their rule. As the old
saying went:
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose off the
common
But leaves the greater
villain loose
Who steals the common from
the goose.
The law demands that we
atone
When we take things we do
not own
But leaves
the lords and ladies fine
Who takes things that are
yours and mine.
The poor and wretched don’t
escape
If they conspire the law to
break;
This must be so but they
endure
Those who conspire to make the
law.
The law locks up the man or
woman
Who steals the goose from
off the common
And geese will still a
common lack
Till they go and steal it
back.
Tony Greenstein
