20 years on....
The latest attempt to whittle a BIG stick with which to beat
the MET gathers apace and is currently keeping a large amount of airtime and
print space in the ‘meeja’
An Ex officer has stated he was tasked to infiltrate groups linked
to the Lawrence family campaign. He is suggesting that at least part of the
reasoning was to ‘smear’ the Lawrence family.
This was the tragic death of a young man 20 years ago.
The ex-officer has now come forward to ‘spill the beans’
about his involvement in the subsequent investigation into this
Reason for this?
Perhaps he couldn’t live with himself anymore about what he
was tasked to do. Although it seems it is vague as to what he thought the Met
would do with the information he received.
Smear, smear, smear seems to be the key word but maybe that’s
the view taken by the Guardian and those behind this.
Does the officer have another reason for coming forward after
20 years with this? Who knows…yet?
It seems reasonably clear that a number of other politically
active groups would seek to take advantage of the issues around the death of
this young man.
I do not think it unreasonable to assume if this was the
case then the MET would attempt to try and monitor who was latching on the family’s
campaign and use it as some form of political issue to further their aims.
The Ex officer was used to target groups believed linked to
this aims. His spin is that this was part of some overall attempt to discredit the
family ( or perhaps that is what the media has interpreted as being the case )
It reminds me of the old adage ...’ if you lie with dogs do not be surprised
if you get fleas’.
The investigation into the death of Stephen Lawrence was, in
short, frankly inadequate. The thrust of everything since is it was because of
the colour of the victim.
We had the media circus at the Elephant and Castle centre
Macpherson himself could not find any officer involved in
the matter to be deemed racist
He eventually came up with the concept of Institutional Racism.
A hitherto unheard of phrase but was used in subsequent years to bring any organisation
to account in its dealing with issue of race.
If any Senior member of staff at that time (and this could
only have come from the top)
SPECIFICALLY targeted the
Lawrence family with undercover officers to
‘dish the dirt’ on them bearing in mind the circumstances of their son’s
death then the weight of opprobrium should fall on them.
If some 20 years down the line the intent was to ascertain
who was using the family to further their own cause then that should be judged
in the context of what was happening in those times and not as is now , a notion that the MET is as it was 20
years ago…
We have always been, certainly at grass roots level, a
hardworking bunch of officer trying to do a job in difficult and ever
scrutinised circumstances.
Let the SMT then and now explain themselves and keep the
officers THEY directed out of it.
