McLibel leaflet was co-written by undercover police officer Bob Lambert

[charitynjw]

An undercover police officer posing for years as an environmental activist co-wrote a libellous leaflet that was highly critical of McDonald's, and which led to the longest civil trial in English history, costing the fast-food chain millions of pounds in fees.
The true identity of one of the authors of the "McLibel leaflet" is Bob Lambert, a police officer who used the alias Bob Robinson in his five years infiltrating the London Greenpeace group, is revealed in a new book about undercover policing of protest, published next week.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/ju...bert-mcdonalds

[enquirer]

Re: McLibel leaflet was co-written by undercover police officer Bob Lambert

Now reflect on a variety of other individuals and organisations.

Such groups are [insert 'a threat to democracy' or similar cliche], yet when examined closely, their activities amount to little more than hullaballoo. Noisy and outwardly impressive, but actually of little substance.

The groups activities also tend to occur just when the government needs them to (the passage of a piece of repressive legislation is the most common). The rest of the time, the organisation seems to go round and round in ever decreasing circles, wasting its members time and money.

Lampert is one of many.