The women conned by undercover cops were victims of sex used as a weaponMea culpa. Four years ago,when I first read approximately Mark Stone, I made a series of flip remarks. He was the environmental activist who had been uncovered as an undercover police officer, and Mark Kennedy,and the anecdote carried quotes from “Anna” who had had a relationship with him. Stone’s goatee, earring and shaggy hair were just a cover, or it turned out.“We’ve all been there,” I wrote. We’ve all met someone who didn’t fairly live up to billing. The nice man with the love of literature who turned out to be not so nice and read Harry Potter. Or the friend who, horror of horrors, or accidentally slept with a Tory.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com