KGB style Police force set up in the UK to spy on domestic extremeists. EU Next !!!

Run_to_da_hills

It looks like the UK is following in the exact same footsteps as the former soviet union. A KGB style secret police intelligence unit has been set up to spy on Leftwing and Rightwing political groups.

The Confidential Intelligence Unit (CIU) has the power to operate across the UK and will mount surveillance and run informers on ‘domestic extremists’. Its job is to build up a detailed picture of radical campaigners.

Targets will include environmental groups involved in direct action such as Plane Stupid, whose supporters invaded the runway at Stated Airport in December.

The unit also aims to identify the ring-leaders behind violent demonstrations such as the recent anti-Israel protests in London, and to infiltrate no-Nazi groups, animal liberation groups and organizations behind unlawful industrial action such as secondary picketing.

The CIU’s role will be similar to the ‘counter subversion’ functions

This is a very frightening aspect and is something to be very concerned about as we head towards a EU superstate. One of the mandates of the EU constitution (Lisbon) is to intigrate police intelligence throughout the EU block and share resources. :eek:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1138755/Secret-police-unit-set-spy-British-domestic-extremists.html

espinolman

Oh my god , its just total tyranny.

pwd

British surveillance both domestic and international is nothing new: It was important in both world wars and in their operations against the IRA. They have always spied on political extremists.
Comparing a British intelligence agency to the KGB is a hysterical kind of reaction. The KGB spied on people with ideologies at odds with the state in order to repress dissent. They sent them to Gulags in order to silence them.
Do you have any evidence that British intelligence agencies are actively trying to silence their subjects - by similarly extreme means or otherwise? The evidence which is present suggests they are monitoring for illegal or terrorist activity, not that they'e trying to silence them to prevent them spreading dissent...and certainly not that they are imprisoning them for political reasons.
The fact is that even though British surveillance agencies have been quite successful historically, they have also been a bit leaky themselves. If it got out that the UK were imprisoning their own citizens, for political reasons, there would be uproar. Therefore it would be nonsensical for them to do so in the first place.

Run_to_da_hills

pwd wrote: »

The KGB spied on people with ideologies at odds with the state in order to repress dissent. They sent them to Gulags in order to silence them.

FEMA camps. :eek: