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Since when is a 12-month relationship considered "long term"? Let's save that label for 5+ year relationships.
Edit: I digress. I'd gladly date an undercover cop for a year in exchange for ~£230K. Hey police, I'm a leftist. HMU
All I need to do is join a bunch of leftist organizations and the state will assign me a sexual partner?
Incels hate this one simple trick!
Happens a lot in Spain.
There has been a lot cases of police officers infiltrating left and social movements, male and female, and "failing in love" with people inside them. Just off the top of my head, there is a case of female cop that was caught by her partner after 4 years of relationship and before getting married; an another one where a male cop infiltrated different associations and literally fucked his way up to the intel, tricking women and having them have (consent) sex with him. This one his awaiting trial because after finding out the girls sued him for sexual abuse, but i doubt it will go anywhere knowing how justice works here.
You cannot obtain consent by deceit. That's rape.
Believe it or not, Mark Kennedy is my brother in law.
He’s a bit full of himself, and it’s weird when this comes up in the news cycle.
He wrote a book about his experiences, but it wasn’t taken up with the publisher because he essentially didn’t express regret.
Of course he didn't regret anything. ACAB
Wtf is this? The British version of Gestapo's joy division? Fucking disgusting. Intelligence agencies shouldn't exist outside war scenarios or valid EXTERNAL threats.
You see, that's the difference between US and UK - the so called "Gestapo's joy division" stops a lot of extremist plots. That's why you have Trump and we don't.
7/7 and 21/7 were committed by an internal threat. As was the Manchester Arena bombing, the assassinations of Jo Cox and David Amess and attempted assassination of Stephen Timms, the Streatham stabbings, the London Bridge attacks in 2017 and 2019, the Westminster car attack, Finsbury Park attack, 2017 Westminster attack, murder and attempted beheading of Lee Rigby, Glasgow Airport attack, London nail bombings, Exeter bombing attempt…..
But sure, we don’t need internal intelligence agencies at all.
After all, why would we want them to have thwarted the 2006 transatlantic airline bombing plot, Talbot Street bomb factory, 2007 London car bombs, Theresa May assassination plot, Exiled 393, attempted hospital bombing in Leeds, and many more that aren’t made public…
I get your point but there have been many cases of terrorism that was done by someone that already lived (usually legally) in a coutry. Like those assholes that steal a car or truck and just drive it into a busy street. Unfortunately intelligence agencies are a necessary evil.
That's truly awful, ACAB.
However, I do want to let any of our new glowies know I personally give prior consent to be honeypotted by cuties who buy me nice things.
might wanna look up what "glowie" means and how it started buddy. it's not something you wanna be throwing around
Davis addressed concerns about his language on his website, stating that "when I fight Satan, I use the sharpest knives I can find."
I'm not saying I approve of his slur usage, but hot damn is that a quote.
This is awful, but I wonder what is technically illegal about it. It is a misleading and manipulative lie, but it's not illegal to lie about personal topics, I don't think.
The legal battle was a civil suit, based more on the violations of Kate Wilson's human rights, than on the legality of actions
That makes sense, I agree with that.
It's fucking rape.
If a woman has sex with me (hypothetically) because she saw me wearing expensive clothes, but later it turns out they were cheap imitations, that would be misleading, but not rape.
Maybe, when you start arguing that an immoral act is not technically rape, you should simply not do that.
Rape by deception is rape, plain and clear. Why did you pick a scenario where you didn't lie, and try to compare it to someone who spun up an entirely new person out of thin air?
As horrible this is (as owl said) how do you figure out it is rape?
Edit: fucking sorry for asking a question, that's too much for you it seems. "Everything is rape" isn't the answer ffs.
I agree with you. If being misleading is equal to rape, then this rule can easily be abused.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_deception
False name, false life story, false reason for having sex with her. He had sex with her in order to spy on her.
It's sex under false pretences and deception. That's a legally defined rape.
This is one of my fears. I can’t imagine the betrayal and lack of ethics. I can’t imagine a person who would sell their souls to date someone they hate like this. Just thinking about it ugh! I’m in a community with a bunch of degenerates and sometimes I’ve dated guys who just seem to be lying through their teeth that they like me. I stopped frequenting their bars. Doesn’t help when the photographer at events is an undercover cop. I’m not the one in biker gangs but I stopped going because of all the fake suspicion. Still I’d need soooooo much therapy. I hope she got a huuuuge settlement.
Maybe not as huge as it should be but
In 2021, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ordered the Met Police and NPCC to pay a total of £229,471 to Ms Wilson “by way of just satisfaction for the breaches of her human rights”
I hope a sincere apology was included in that as well.
Not nearly enough.
"This is one of my fears"
I'm so sorry that this is actually a concern that someone legitimately feels. It's unbelievable to me that anyone could date someone they don't like, for whatever reason...
sends hug
If they slept together he raped her with government backing
Kennedy, who resigned from the Met in 2010, had sexual relationships with as many as 10 other women while undercover.
This makes me feel sick
I'm in a few local orgs and this is fucking nightmare fuel!
It's been years since I saw a burning cop car, I'm fucking irritated
One of my favorite memories is a comrade being interviewed during the LA Watt's Rebellion. A TV reporter asked him why they were burning police cars. His reply, "Because it's fun!"
I scrolled on All/Top-6-Hours and I see this horror story on my front page.
Are we gonna play Among Us IRL now?
Are my parents even real? Or just government agents? 🤔
What in the Pyong Yang?
Insert UK for America, but you get the idea.
It was more a comment on analog regimes that inspire household level paranoia.
What I had really wanted to say was "What in the Enver Hoxha?" But I expected that reference to Europe's most North Korean-style regime to miss.
The fact that you see this kind of thing as "North Korean style" is the issue. Essentially treating it like its a natural part of the oriental nature but foreign to the western one, and it showing up in the West is the West degenerating to be like Asians.
Europeans have been doing this kind of shit long, long before North Korea ever existed.
I understand what you're saying. To be fair, my anchor point is oppressive socialist regimes writ large circa 1944-1990. Kim Il Sung predated Enver Hoxha in terms of models and tactics. Hoxha's governance style changed over about a decade or two to distance Albania from Yugoslavia and the USSR and emulate North Korea.
By no means do I think it's an "Asian" thing. Honestly, that's a silly premise when I'm talking about a single country of 26 million out of 4.7 billion people. NK might barely round up to 1% of the population of Asia, so how is that exactly painting the whole continent? But between Hoxha-era Albania and North Korea, North Korea still exists in largely the same state. So it's easier to reference as a standard right now.
If this sort of thing happened in Korea we'd be hearing of it every day for years. Unfortunately this is a UK/US Phenomenon.