Subject: Re: MI5? Please can someone explain what's going on here? Newsgroups: uk.misc References: Organization: Toronto Free-Net Distribution:
I think you can build up quite a good picture based on what someone says and on their posting patterns. I don't think "The Internet" (capitals, no less) is as opaque a medium as you make it out to be.
I explained that one, but I don't mind explaining it again (you don't mind having it explained again to you, do you now?). The reason my "symptoms" are such a perfect fit to the textbook is because the people causing the campaign "fitted me up" in such a way that what they did would resemble the symptoms of schizophrenia. Hence TV, radio, other media, people in the streets etc. By a fortunate coincidence (for them) these mthods of harassment are the ones which offer easiest channels of access (for them).
It's really quite neat. All it takes is for people to start believing that the "symptoms" aren't symptoms but reality, though, and the house of cards collapses in a heap. And there are _lots_ of people now who knoiw full well what has gone on.
Picture the scene at the airport; "I arrest you for being Mike Corley and mailbombing people"
"But my name isn't Corley. Who he? Mailbombing isn't illegal is it? You'd have to lock up a lot of people if sending annoying email was a crime"
"Er....."
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But that's the way real abuse works, too. People interject words and phrases into what they say which they know will have meaning for the listener.
And sometimes, they make it obvious. The very first evening of my job in Oxford, we went for a drink with the technical director, and a couple of other employees. The TD said in an "as-if" aside to one of the others, "Is this the bloke who's been on TV?" (he said it directly in front of me, and obviously meant mke to hear him saying it). The other person replied, "Yes, I think so".
I think the subtext of what the TD said was "Why are they bothering with him? He's so insignificant, why would they possibly want to spend the resources going after him and putting all that expensive technology in his home, when there must be much better targets?". The Technical Director was given to sometimes disrespecting people, you see, and in my case he couldn't see the point of anyone expending money on harassing me.
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Subject: Re: Treatment of Schizophrenia Newsgroups: uk.misc,uk.legal,uk.politics,alt.politics.british Followup-To: uk.misc,uk.legal,uk.politics,alt.politics.british References: Organization: Toronto Free-Net Distribution:
Veracity is so unreasonable.
"Unprecedented" hits the nail on the head. It _is_ unprecedented, but we have only just reached the technical stage at which it is feasible, and we know video-spying is done to other people (NB the Diana-Hewitt episode) and is a routine tool of security agencies.
Perhaps what is unprecedented is not the technical side, but the social manipulation of many people by a concealed element in what other countries would be called the secret police. The most disturbing element is the degree to which people allow themselves to be unquestioningly manipulated by an evil element within the state.
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