The way I see it, if a rock falls off the edge of a cliff and hits your head that's just bad luck and you have to live with it. If the government pays somebody

The way I see it, if a rock falls off the edge of a cliff and hits your head that's just bad luck and you have to live with it. If the government pays somebody to throw a rock at your head, you have every reason to bear a grudge and to seek redress. This is a situation where the government (in the form of the Metropolitan Police) trained and paid officers to infiltrate political groups using sex and long term intimate relationships. It's a quite different situation from a man telling a woman he's an airline pilot in order to sleep with her (although that is also shitty behaviour). > Are there any good examples of things any citizen may do that an officer may not, that are not as cloudy and twisted as romantic relationships? Assuming "may do" means "may do without it being a crime", I don't think anybody's really suggested the officers involved committed any actual crime. People are taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police, but not against the officers themselves afaik.