nikmueller
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Hey everyone,
Macq kids = protestors? Good luck finding any student who will be at the protests this week.
IMG's = greens on campus? Students in Free Enterprise? enviro collective?
ha. what a joke.
by the way, apparently if people are investigated during apec they cannot tell anyone about it, even if they are in prison for the entire week. so if your punk friend with the long hair goes missing for a few days and can't say anything about it, don't freak out. that kid got apec'd.
peace
nik
Police spied on uni student groups, email reveals
Dylan Welch
September 3, 2007
POLICE have spent months secretly monitoring university political groups
in the run-up to this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum,
documents obtained under freedom-of-information laws reveal.
A unit operating in the intelligence section of the NSW Police APEC
Security Command has been in contact with security personnel at Wollongong
University, Macquarie University and the University of Technology, Sydney,
requesting permission to covertly monitor "IMGs", or interest-motivated
groups.
When contacted by the Herald, the universities said they had only
discussed publicly available materials with the unit and at no time
allowed covert surveillance of student groups. However, in one email, sent
from an officer to the UTS security manager on December 7 last year, the
unit's brief was made clear.
"Given that next year holds numerous events including state/federal
elections, APEC and the ongoing war in Iraq, there is a strong possibility
that IMGs will become more active throughout 2007," the officer wrote.
"Our main charter is to monitor these IMG's and identify the current key
members." He said the intelligence unit would like to become "more
accustomed" with UTS and planned to attend "scheduled events" on campus.
A spokesman for UTS confirmed they had been in contact with APEC police
but said they were not aware of any covert monitoring. The unit had never
followed up with the university about the plan to attend on-campus events,
he said. However, he did not deny that intelligence officers had been on
campus.
A spokesman for Wollongong University confirmed that officers from the
unit had twice met university security staff. The university had never
given permission for officers of the unit to monitor students, he said.
One of the 29 student activists excluded from APEC-declared areas, Paddy
Gibson, 24, a UTS tutor, said the monitoring was part of the reason he had
been blacklisted by police.
"I think policing has become in this case very, very politicised… they're
not talking about people who are organising any kind of security threat,
they're talking about, explicitly, organisers of the anti-war movement."
While refusing to confirm the existence of the intelligence unit, the
Commander of the APEC Security Command, Assistant Police Commissioner Dave
Owen, said the use of "intelligence collection" was a legitimate function
of the police.
Macq kids = protestors? Good luck finding any student who will be at the protests this week.
IMG's = greens on campus? Students in Free Enterprise? enviro collective?
ha. what a joke.
by the way, apparently if people are investigated during apec they cannot tell anyone about it, even if they are in prison for the entire week. so if your punk friend with the long hair goes missing for a few days and can't say anything about it, don't freak out. that kid got apec'd.
peace
nik
Police spied on uni student groups, email reveals
Dylan Welch
September 3, 2007
POLICE have spent months secretly monitoring university political groups
in the run-up to this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum,
documents obtained under freedom-of-information laws reveal.
A unit operating in the intelligence section of the NSW Police APEC
Security Command has been in contact with security personnel at Wollongong
University, Macquarie University and the University of Technology, Sydney,
requesting permission to covertly monitor "IMGs", or interest-motivated
groups.
When contacted by the Herald, the universities said they had only
discussed publicly available materials with the unit and at no time
allowed covert surveillance of student groups. However, in one email, sent
from an officer to the UTS security manager on December 7 last year, the
unit's brief was made clear.
"Given that next year holds numerous events including state/federal
elections, APEC and the ongoing war in Iraq, there is a strong possibility
that IMGs will become more active throughout 2007," the officer wrote.
"Our main charter is to monitor these IMG's and identify the current key
members." He said the intelligence unit would like to become "more
accustomed" with UTS and planned to attend "scheduled events" on campus.
A spokesman for UTS confirmed they had been in contact with APEC police
but said they were not aware of any covert monitoring. The unit had never
followed up with the university about the plan to attend on-campus events,
he said. However, he did not deny that intelligence officers had been on
campus.
A spokesman for Wollongong University confirmed that officers from the
unit had twice met university security staff. The university had never
given permission for officers of the unit to monitor students, he said.
One of the 29 student activists excluded from APEC-declared areas, Paddy
Gibson, 24, a UTS tutor, said the monitoring was part of the reason he had
been blacklisted by police.
"I think policing has become in this case very, very politicised… they're
not talking about people who are organising any kind of security threat,
they're talking about, explicitly, organisers of the anti-war movement."
While refusing to confirm the existence of the intelligence unit, the
Commander of the APEC Security Command, Assistant Police Commissioner Dave
Owen, said the use of "intelligence collection" was a legitimate function
of the police.
