@process 406931 wrote:
spoke to someone who told me a bit more about what happened with this guy. he had been going out with some girl for 6 years before he was discovered! :hopeless: that is fucking wrong. this girl is obviously in pieces now. what a total cunt. surely he can not have been paid that much to make it worth while.
Perhaps being able to do stuff like that – to get deep inside the enemy camp and infiltrate them to the point of getting that level of trust was what made it worthwhile for him? TBH for actions of this level I think it goes deeper than money.
I think he isn’t going to get paid that much more than a normal detective – and suspect something must have happened in that man’s life what made him hate eco-protestors so much that he got his revenge in this manner – rather than just even becoming a normal cop or rentaguard or joining a racist knuckledragger type group which would have given him as much chance to have a pop at lefties..
I’m not a doctor but I do wonder if his squint (which I would have thought would otherwise invalid him out of the constabulary) might have been caused as a long term result of injuries, maybe being beaten up by a “leftie protestor type” early in his career? That would give someone motivation to do such a thing for revenge, especially if he had wanted to become a firearms officer as whoever hit him obviously fucked up his career there.
On a much less devious note I have encountered folk what used to be ravers/party heads and have since become coppers. I haven’t always been able to find out why in all cases – but I know at least some of them have had such negative experiences in the drugs/party counterculture they feel wholly justified in fighting against that.
Even a lot of feds/MI5/journos when they finally divulge their actions defend them to the last and have rationalised the betrayal as they genuinely feel their enemy poses a threat of some sort or other. many are not particularly
Espionage is far from an easy job compared even to being a normal adversary in a battle..
Incidentally one of the indymedia commenters made a really good point about a culture of machismo existing within the left-wing activist movement and how it was this what led to them being infiltrated.
