17-01-2011, 09:51 PM
Simon Jenkins' article is interesting but I fundamentally disagree with his assertion that:
Call me a cynic, then.
If green activists (or any "terrorist" group for that matter) simply sit round a fire, smoking spliffs and chowing nut roasts, then NPOIU and its SIS partners could not justify their funding.
I strongly suspect that the handlers of the covert agents demanded: i) actionable intelligence; ii) evidence of illegal actions starting with criminal damage to property; and, iii) evidence of protest that could be framed as a risk to national security (eg an attack on a power plant).
Kennedy claims he was told by his handler that some of his "intelligence" went directly to Tony Blair. I bet it was "intelligence" in my category iii) above.
Scare Blair by feeding into his preconceptions about a violent, militant, left that threatened "New Labour values". (To use Mandelson/Blair/Brown speak.)
Kennedy/Stone appears to have both incited acts of aggressive protest, and provided material support (cash, equipment) for such actions.
This is agent provocateur, false flag, territory.
Blair was happy to accept any "secret intelligence" that fed his agenda.
By creating false flag protest actions, NPOIU and the SIS kept themselves in funding and kept the political class in tune with their agenda.
Indeed, they dictated the agenda to the politicians.
There is, of course, a deeper political level here. One which is far more sinister.
Quote:It would be overly cynical to imagine that Acpo was actually sponsoring green activism, to remind ministers of the importance of NPOIU and the terrible things that would happen to power stations if it was cut. But there can be no doubt of the insidious grip that the securocrats' "social terrorism" now has on the public's sense of safety.
Call me a cynic, then.
If green activists (or any "terrorist" group for that matter) simply sit round a fire, smoking spliffs and chowing nut roasts, then NPOIU and its SIS partners could not justify their funding.
I strongly suspect that the handlers of the covert agents demanded: i) actionable intelligence; ii) evidence of illegal actions starting with criminal damage to property; and, iii) evidence of protest that could be framed as a risk to national security (eg an attack on a power plant).
Kennedy claims he was told by his handler that some of his "intelligence" went directly to Tony Blair. I bet it was "intelligence" in my category iii) above.
Scare Blair by feeding into his preconceptions about a violent, militant, left that threatened "New Labour values". (To use Mandelson/Blair/Brown speak.)
Kennedy/Stone appears to have both incited acts of aggressive protest, and provided material support (cash, equipment) for such actions.
This is agent provocateur, false flag, territory.
Blair was happy to accept any "secret intelligence" that fed his agenda.
By creating false flag protest actions, NPOIU and the SIS kept themselves in funding and kept the political class in tune with their agenda.
Indeed, they dictated the agenda to the politicians.
There is, of course, a deeper political level here. One which is far more sinister.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war