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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.
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.
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.
It's fucking rape.
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.
It's sex under false pretences and deception. That's a legally defined rape.
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.
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.
I'm in a few local orgs and this is fucking nightmare fuel!
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? 🤔
This makes me feel sick
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!"
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.
"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
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”
Not nearly enough.
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.
I remember that happening in Orphan Black. But she stayed married to Donnie and he just became part of the clone gang.
Weren't they already together when they approached Donnie, and he thought it was part of a study he couldn't tell her about? I think it was Paul who was fully in the know about what he was doing to Beth Childs.
Maybe you might have it there
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.
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.