9
Jan

The National Domestic Extremism Team may be watching you

Bishop Hill recently contacted the Norfolk (UK) Constabulary to see if they had yet concluded if the breach of the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU) data was a leak or a hack job. Here was the response he received, which has introduced a new Orwellian term into our vocabulary.

Norfolk Constabulary continues its investigations into criminal offences in relation to a data breach at the University of East Anglia.  During the enquiry officers have been working in liaison with the Office of the Information Commissioner and with officers from the National Domestic Extremism Team. The UEA continues to co-operate with the enquiry however major investigations of this nature are of necessity very detailed and as a consequence can take time to reach a conclusion. It would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.

The National Domestic Extremism Team? WTF is that? A quick search brought us to their website, www.netcu.org.uk — The National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit. NETCU is a national policing unit set up by ACPO to respond to the threat of domestic extremism in England and Wales. The unit made up of police officers and support staff, overseen by a National Coordinator for Domestic Extremism who reports to ACPO’s Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee.

What do they do?

NETCU is not an operational unit, meaning that we do not actively investigate criminal activity. Our role is to support others to prevent, reduce and disrupt criminal activity associated with domestic extremism and single issue campaigning.

To do this, we work with police forces across the country to provide tactical advice and guidance in order to promote a coordinated and consistent approach to tackling domestic extremism.

We support industry, academia and other organisations that have been targeted or could be targeted by extremists, providing security advice, risk assessments and information that can help minimise disruption and keep their employees safe.

And then there is this:

The policing of domestic extremism focuses on criminal activity or potential crime and disorder sometimes associated with single-issue campaigns.

NETCU fully supports people’s right to demonstrate lawfully and we recognise that most protest campaigns are conducted peacefully and legally.

However, we also recognise that within some campaigns there are a small minority of individuals with extreme views and who are prepared to break the law in order to further their cause. These individuals sometimes try to hide their illegal activities by associating themselves with otherwise lawful campaign groups. Our work focuses on that criminal minority and not the majority of peaceful and lawful campaigners.

So. let’s see if we’ve got this right…

  1. Bishop Hill asked the Norfolk Constabulary about the CRU data compromise.
  2. The Constabulary would only be interested in determining if the a crime was committed.
  3. The Constabulary is working with the National Domestic Extremism Team.
  4. The National Domestic Extremism Team’s job in this case would be to see if there was involvement by “individuals with extreme views and who are prepared to break the law in order to further their cause.”

So…

They must be checking to see if someone with extreme views may have hacked into the CRU computer to “further their cause.” That group would, of course, have to be against the work of the CRU, which is the belief in and the promotion of Anthropogenic Global Warming.

Therefore, dear Brits…

Your government believes that Climate Change “Deniers” are extremists, and the NETCU, who reports to ACPO’s Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee, is watching them.

Have a nice day.

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6 Responses to “The National Domestic Extremism Team may be watching you”

  1. ADE says:

    It’s a deranged country we live in now,Lies are held as truth,the scammers and liers are “protected by the police”.
    The Scammers and Liers are paid by us to scam and lie to us.
    The government [s] who we pay for scam us for taxes on none existant mann made warming,would not know the truth if it fell on them from the sky.The little brown hen would run clucking to his hand picked morons that the sky was falling down and they most bankrupt everyone to stop the poison gas CO2 ruining everything.
    Lets hope Cameroons lot are brighter than browns toadies or we[Britain] is SUNK.
    Hope to be arround to see 10-20 years of lower sun irradience

  2. ADE says:

    Just an afterthought,was it not the IPCC crowd ,Angia and Hadley who threatened other scientists,some quite forcefully,and did they not “gang up to prevent others with differing views being heard.
    In my book thet IS EXTREMISM with threats and conspiracy.

  3. What the police response is saying is, that an extention of the UK Labour Government, it must view the ‘politically correct line’ as made by their master,Prime Minister Gordon Brown; it is he who has declared all opposing views to (the now discredited) East Anglia Uni CRU as “flat earthers”. So…. the plods have declared said ‘heratics’ as ‘Extremists’, a cosy way of showing that they remain of the faith and that Gordon Brown and his pal Al Gore should rest easy.
    But, as public opinion sways away from this view, they can after the next general election say with hand on heart ‘just following orders gov.’ Conservative Members of Parliament are now asking very searching questions :
    http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2010/01/08/not-such-a-silly-question/
    “Why can’t the global warmists participate in an intelligent debate about when weather becomes climate, instead of making offensive remarks and seeking to close down the topic?”

  4. Monty says:

    It is no wonder the National Domestic Extremism Unit was brought in, the environmental extremists scientists at CRU and other locations around the world worked as a group to skew data and hide the decline in temperature. The national interests of many countries and governments have as a result been compromised. The CRU is probably being investigated to find the link between the extremist scientists and the money trail.

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