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I hate groups like Plane Stupid [Apr. 27th, 2009|04:37 pm]
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News story about how police pay informants within direct action anti-air travel group Plane Stupid -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8017896.stm

And the Guardian is predictably incensed and has the tapes here -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/audio/2009/apr/24/police-surveillance-intelligence-1

I ACTUALLY KNOW THE PERSON IN THE STORY AND ON THE TELLY THERE. Well I used to anyway. She's IMMENSELY POSH. Very very very loaded. I met her through the charity group I worked with in Nepal so I know for a cast iron fact that she's been on very many long haul flights to India and other far flung places, ostensibly to help the kiddies, but probably mainly to 'find herself' and pretend to be cool with non white people and stuff.

The story itself angers me in that hand-wringing hypocritical Guardian-reading cunts feel it's notable at all. Protesting the G20 (what does that even mean? Protesting against the existence of rich countries?), smashing up a wonderful, nurturing McDonalds franchise...and illegally delaying the flights of poor cunts who just want to go to Spain to get wasted and lobstery are all forms of Good crime it seems. The police ought not to pursue criminality pursued for reasons of middle class poserdom. Go after the real criminals. The ones that actually take drugs and enjoy them, or steal when they feel they actually need to.

Anyway. I don't speak to Tilly anymore. I fancied her a bit and escorted her to gay clubs when she was keen on becoming a lesbian but I don't think that worked out.
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[User Picture]From: [info]elaine4queen
2009-04-27 04:30 pm (UTC)

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poor tilly.

poor you.
[User Picture]From: [info]stylishbastard
2009-04-27 05:35 pm (UTC)

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Poor. You.
[User Picture]From: [info]elaine4queen
2009-04-27 05:37 pm (UTC)

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hahahahaha

yeah.
[User Picture]From: [info]davidmcn
2009-04-27 05:20 pm (UTC)

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Yeah, I don't really understand why "police pay informers" is considered news.

I was intrigued by this quote from Geraint Bevan of NO2ID: "people have the right to choose to break the law and take the punishment which comes with that."

Sorry, the right to do what?
[User Picture]From: [info]stylishbastard
2009-04-27 05:24 pm (UTC)

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It's not as if they're paying informers within something truly innocuous...Plane Stupid are pretty much dedicated to criminal action. 'Non-violent protest' is cold fucking comfort to the kiddies who can't go to Disneyland because some student cunts want to fight the power for a weekend.

Cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts
[User Picture]From: [info]thebustocrookes
2009-04-27 07:04 pm (UTC)

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I like you when you're angry
[User Picture]From: [info]stylishbastard
2009-04-27 08:33 pm (UTC)

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I'll try and be angry more often.
[User Picture]From: [info]lazy_hoor
2009-04-28 11:28 am (UTC)

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Amazing: http://www.planestupid.com/10reasons/cheap

I always feel incredibly privileged when I fly Ryanair.
[User Picture]From: [info]stylishbastard
2009-04-28 02:57 pm (UTC)

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I despise this stuff so much. Particularly since there is little more privileged in terms of the wet liberal hierarchy than being employed by a fight-the-power NGO.
[User Picture]From: [info]slooshkomsok
2009-04-28 08:34 pm (UTC)

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I'll give you 'Guardian-reading cunt'. Comic-reading cunt. :-p