Is that a spy-cam in your pocket? Or are you just pleased to see me?

"You're nervous about being on your own with police officers?" said one of the men. "Why - what do you think we're going to do?" ('Strathclyde police officer' (open for debate) to Tilly Gifford, Plane Stupid activist, April 2009)
Listen here to the Plane Stupid statement to the press upon exposing our recordings of the 'police' and what this reveals about the state-police-industry complex to continue 'business as usual in the faceof runaway climate change

If climate change is indeed the main concern of our government, then the logic of 'economic growth above all else' must be challenged and the question must be asked, 'who are the real criminals?' Are the criminals the people of this nation clearing up this social and ecological mess to prevent devastation for future generations? Or are the criminals filling their pockets with cash whilst the poor get poorer and our future is snatched from us? We feel it is high time for the tables to turn. For us, this isn't merely about us and the police, it is about exposing 'police' tactics which protect a criminal justice system that defend big business instead of civil liberties.

As people taking action on climate injustice have the public interest at the fore of everything we do and we feel defensible in the tactics we use to halt runaway climate change, the most defining and terrifying issue of our generation. For these reasons, although we are not unaware that the police will be interested in our activity, we nonetheless feel that they have no right to intimidate and attempt to deter us from becoming actively involved in our 'democracy.' We hope that by exposing the police force's and criminal justice system's dirty tactics for policing peaceful protest we can help other people affected by poverty, inequality and climate change and prevent them from being intimidated or deterred.

Nb. If you are approached by the 'guardians' of the law – record them!


Related links

The Guardian 'UK plc can afford more than 20 quid,'
Tape recordings reveal how undercover police tried to recruit environmental activist to network of 'hundreds' of paid informants they have among protest groups
The Guardian with audio 'We don't discuss money, we don't talk salaries'
The Times “We don’t break the law lightly,”
The Herald: Revealed - a web of police bids to infiltrate protest groups
BBC Interview Police 'pay protester informers'
BBC News Television Interview
The Guardian 'People had been following me'
The Herald: 'Police offered me tax-free cash in supermarket.'
Resurgence: Police and Protestors 'We believe it is now time to ask what constitutes the appropriate policing of peaceful protest.'