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 From: jackson@soldev.tti.com (Dick Jackson) 
 Subject: Re: What it's like to be watched by the security services 
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 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 22:53:12 GMT 
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 In article  bu765@torfree.net (Mike Corley) 
 writes: 
 > 
 >Strangers in the street have recognized me on sight many times, and shown 
 >awareness of the current thread of abuse. To give you one example, in 1992 
 >I was seriously ill, and a manager at work somewhat humouroursly said that 
 >"it wasn't fair" that people were bullying me. A few days later, I 
 >attended for the first time a clinic in London as an outpatient, and on my 
 >way out was accosted by someone who asked if "they had paid my fare", with 
 >emphasis on the word "fare". He repeated the word several times in this 
 >different context;  that they should have paid my "fare", each time 
 >emphasising the word. 
 > 
 >For two and a half years from the time their harassment started until 
 >November 1992 I refused to see a psychiatrist, because I reasoned that I 
 >was not ill of my own action or fault, but through the stress caused by 
 >harassment, and that a lessening of the illness would have to be 
 >consequent to a removal of its immediate cause, in other words a cessation 
 >of harassment. I also reasoned that since they were taunting me with jokes 
 >about mental illness, if I were to seek treatment then the abusers would 
 >think that they had "won" and been proved "right". 
  
  
  
 I have so far not contributed to this tread, it has been unpleasant 
 in my opinion. However, I was struck by the resemblance of the above 
 passages to the writing of Franz Kafka. 
  
 Viz. while from an objective viewpoint it seems to refer to a abnormal 
 world, in a strange way it does resonate strongly at other levels. 
  
 Mr. Corley, have you tried to write for publication? I honestly think 
 it might lead somewhere positive. 
  
 Dick Jackson (serious for a change and expecting to get beaten up) 
  
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