There’s a short piece by Kevin Blowe here regarding the Met’s suggestion that anarchists should be reported to the police:
‘the suggestion that “any information relating to anarchists should be reported to your local Police” is another example of the attempted criminalisation of ideas.’
The Guardian reported the story here:
‘”It unfairly implies that anyone involved in anarchism should be known to the police and is involved in an dangerous activity,” said Jason Sands, an anarchist from South London. “There is nothing inherently criminal about political philosophy whatever it is. The police work under the convention on human rights which disallows discrimination against people because of their political beliefs and even the request for information would seem to be in breach of that. It also seems to be a bit useless as a way of gathering intelligence. It isn’t focused on anything specific and they are just asking for general information. Imagine calling up and saying ‘there’s an anarchist in my building. What should I do?’ It doesn’t make sense.”‘
