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 MI5 Persecution Update: Friday 15 May, 1998 
  
 The persecution has been quite severe for the last week. It appears that 
 my enemies are reacting to the steady stream of faxes making their way 
 over the Atlantic to the fax machines of Westminster politicians and the 
 media. Here is whats happened in the last few days; 
  
 The week started off with an incident in the cafeteria at a local shopping 
 centre where I habitually drink my morning coffee. My enemies have 
 concentrated since winter 1995/96 on throwing a particularly horrible 
 sexual slander against me. They "put people up" to repeat this slander 
 against me, and this is what happened again here. 
  
 On Thursday morning (yesterday), instead of going to the usual cafeteria I 
 went to a nearby convenience store for coffee. The same horrible sexual 
 slander was shouted at me very loudly by a member of staff as I walked 
 into the store. This was the first time I had ever bought morning coffee 
 in that shop. The other staff obviously knew what was going on, one of 
 them said, "they screwed up my life". 
  
 The fax gateway I use to send these faxes to the UK has been working hard 
 these last few days to shut down my access by barring the accounts I use 
 to send these faxes. 
  
 I have received an anonymous threat from fax number 0171-219-6101 (the 
 machine gave its name as "ETRA-HoC") which said, "Stop sending to this fax 
 no 0171-219-6101 or else" (the consequences of continued transmission were 
 unspecified). I invited the sender to apologise for his threat, but 
 received no response. 
  
  
 This all adds up to quite a severe reaction to my faxes of the last few 
 weeks. I actually find this quite heartening since it shows that my faxes 
 are finding the mark and there may yet be a breakthrough in my efforts to 
 expose the Security Service conpiracy of abuse against me which has now 
 been going on for eight years. 
  
  
 MI5 Persecution: "Why would they be doing this to you, sir?" 
  
 This article will concentrate on the difficult question of "Why". The 
 question which forms the title of this piece was asked of me by the police 
 officer I spoke to in Easter 1995, when I went to make my complaint. 
  
 There are really two sides to this question. Firstly, why should MI5 be 
 harassing anybody in this fashion? Secondly, if they choose to behave in 
 this way, why should they have selected me in particular, and not somebody 
 else? Alternatively, why did the persecution start, and why is it 
 continuing? 
  
 I do not have definite answers to either side of this question, since my 
 persecutors have usually kept themselves hidden and only acted through 
 other parties. To know "why", one would have to know who the persecutors 
 are, and something of their personalities, since their abuse is almost 
 certainly symptomatic of a personality disorder of the abusers. Certain 
 things however can be deduced about the abusers from the nature of their 
 behaviour, and I will talk about this later in the article. 
  
 Why did it start? 
  
 It is clear that the persecution must have been initiated by someone who 
 knew me personally, either at school, or at university, or socially, and 
 knew that I was borderline mentally ill, since this is what makes me a 
 target for the persecutors. Unfortunately, the originators have never been 
 identified, and there are several possible candidates. Neither has the 
 link from the originators of the persecution, to the persecutors 
 themselves, ever been made clear. So who are the originators? 
  
 University Staff 
  
 The identity of the originators may lie in the timing of the 
 persecution. It started in June 1990, while I was finishing a course at 
 Imperial College in London, and a year after I graduated from Cambridge, 
 where I received a degree in computer science. At Cambridge I had achieved 
 some notoriety in the computer lab from various nefarious exploits. Roger 
 Needham attacked me by saying that "there were great hopes for it, but it 
 failed terribly". When I started at Imperial I found that my reputation 
 had preceded me; Cambridge computer lab had spoken to I.C. lecturers about 
 me. I.C. lecturer Frank McCabe summed up commenting about "setting up a 
 straw man so you can tear him down". (Despite being "torn down" by the 
 Cambridge computer labs lecturers, I still achieved a good first degree 
 and a Masters degree at Imperial.) 
  
 Other students at university 
  
 So, the originators may have been university staff who knew me from my 
 student days. But there are other possibilities. I had other enemies at 
 university, including some fellow students. At my Cambridge college it was 
 common knowledge that my mental health was dubious, and it was known that 
 I talked to myself in my sleep - the floor and walls were quite permeable 
 to noise, so other students heard. I was given the nickname 
 "gibber" because of this habit. Sometime later, I managed to catch myself 
 talking in my sleep when I woke up in the middle of the night. 
  
 Here is a quote from a participant in the internet newsgroup where I have 
 been posting for the last three years; 
  
 >One thing which has been missing from this discussion is this simple 
 >prognosis: that maybe he is right and that, despite his admitted 
 >mental condition, there really is a campaign against him organised by 
 >now-influential ex-students of his university. 
  
 People I knew socially 
  
 I had yet other enemies in 1990 (I am a man of many enemies!). In January 
 1990 I broke up with some people I had been going out with socially. One 
 of them, by the name of Andy Turner, wrote a letter to Alan Freeman, who 
 at the time was a Radio 1 DJ. Freeman read part of the letter out on his 
 Rock Show, about the "one who wore out his welcome with random precision", 
 saying "thats a hell of a letter you wrote there Andy", and "with a 
 schizophrenic youre never alone". 
  
 It is my belief that Andy Turner and his friends were trying to make 
 trouble for me, and Turner wrote to Freeman with this in mind. Freeman may 
 have discussed the letter with others, and things may have snowballed from 
 there. This is, of course, pure supposition. The fact is that I do not 
 know who the originators are, and can only guess. 
  
 Once it started, why is it continuing? 
  
 The answer to this question is obvious. It is unacceptable to the "powers 
 that be" in the UK to have somebody running around who knows he has been 
 targeted by the Security Service and media organizations, and who is in a 
 position to embarrass British institutions. This has become particularly 
 evident in the last week; as I send more faxes to UK politicians and 
 media, so the pressure on me grows, and the volume of abuse increases. 
  
 Part of the reason the persecution continues is in the personalities of 
 the abusers, and it is this subject to which I will turn to next, since 
 the key to understanding the persecution lies in understanding those who 
 carry it out, as much as we can. 
  
 The Security Service operatives, the persecutors, are they psychopaths? 
  
 Let us first examine the definition of the term "psychopath". DSM-IV 
  
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