XPost: nyc.transit, nz.arts, nz.comp 
 XPost: nz.general 
  
 Four Years of "MI5 Persecution" Posts. on Internet Newsgroups 
  
 For approximately the first. three years of the MI5 persecution, from June 
 1990. until late 1992, I kept as quiet as possible, in the hope that by not 
 reacting, MI5s interest in me. would decrease and they would simply go away 
 of their own accord. This is. the sort of behaviour some people employ 
 against bullies; if. the bullies arent getting a reaction, then they might 
 simply go away and. victimize someone else. 
  
 Unfortunately,. this tactic didnt work. The quieter I became, the more 
 shrill and hysterical the. noise from the Security Service operatives. For 
 about two years I didnt watch TV news at all.. Yet this only heightened 
 their. obsessed fixation; they continued to follow me wherever I went, they 
 continued to induce. harassment at work by managers and fellow workers, and 
 they continued. to encourage me to commit suicide. They seemed to regard my 
 refusal to react as a crime which they would have to "put right". by ever 
 more extreme forms of. abuse. 
  
 Finally, in 1995, I changed. tactics radically. Since late 1994 I had had 
 accounts with internet providers in Ontario, Canada.. I discovered the 
 cornucopia of internet. newsgroups, on every topic from consumer 
 electronics, to politics and legal topics,. and I discovered online 
 services such as Compuserve and AOL. In May 1995, I made the. first posting 
 to the. conspiracy newsgroup, on the subject of "BBCs Hidden Shame". 
  
 BBC's. Hidden Shame 
  
 The internet. newsgroup discussion, which has now reached its fourth 
 anniversary, started with an article in alt.conspiracy, which I. reproduce 
 here. 
  
 Date: Thu. May  4 18:27:24 1995 
 Newsgroups:. alt.conspiracy 
 Subject:. BBC's Hidden Shame 
  
 Remember the two-way televisions in George Orwell's 1984? The. ones which 
 watched you 
 back? Which you could never get. rid of, only the sound could be turned 
 down? 
  
 Well. the country which brought Orwell into the world has made his nightmare 
 follow into 
 the world after him. Since 1990 the. British have been waging war against 
 one 
 of their 
 own citizens using surveillance to invade privacy and a campaign of abuse. 
 in 
 the 
 transmitted media in their efforts to. humiliate their "victim". 
  
 And the most remarkable. thing about it is that what they do is not even 
 illegal - the 
 UK has no laws. to protect the privacy of its citizens, nor does it 
 proscribe 
 harassment 
 or. abuse except in the case of racial abuse. 
  
 A lot of people in England know this. to be going on, yet so far they have 
 maintained 
 perfect "omerta"; not a sound, not a squeak has escaped into. the English 
 press, and for 
 all the covert harassment. absolutely nothing has come out into the public 
 domain. 
  
 Have. the British gone mad? I think we should be told 
  
 At this point, I. did not name MI5 as my persecutors. I was still unsure 
 that they were the ones. responsible for the "psychological terrorism". In 
 followup. posts however I did name them; and the persecutors have never 
 denied the claim; so I. think my guess is valid. (The Security Service 
 Tribunal in 1997 have said "no determination in your favour. was made", but 
 it is a well established fact that. MI5 lies routinely to the Tribunal 
 which has never found in favour of a plaintiff,. so no conclusions can be 
 drawn. from this.) 
  
 This first. post was made to alt.conspiracy, but further posts were made to 
 the UK-local newsgroups, in particular. uk.misc but also uk.legal and 
 uk.politics (which is now. called uk.politics.misc). Some time ago I tried 
 to take the battle to the Compuserve forums, UKPOLITICS (which. is now 
 called UKCURRENT. - current affairs), but my articles were censored by the 
 forum operators. Such censorship. is impossible on the internet newsgroups. 
  
 Police. Refuse to Act 
  
 I have complained several times to the Metropolitan Police, who have. each 
 time. refused to help. 
  
 From:. Green  
 Newsgroups:. uk.misc,uk.politics,alt.politics.british,soc.culture.british 
 Subject: Re: MI5. Persecution: Why Aren't the British Police Doing Their 
 Job? 
 Reply-To:. Green@guidion.demon.co.uk 
 Date: Sun Apr  7. 21:13:30 1996 
  
 In article.  
            bu765@torfree.net "Mike Corley" writes: 
  
 >Last Easter (1995) I went into. the local police station in London and spoke 
 to 
 >an officer about the harassment against me. But. I couldn't provide tangible 
 >evidence; what people said, in many cases years. ago, is beyond proof, and 
 >without something to support my statements I cannot expect. a police officer 
 to 
 >take the. complaint seriously. 
  
 This in itself dos not suggest that. the police have it in for you. The old 
 bill 
 operates on extremely tight. spending limits forced on them by that pillock 
 Michael 
 Howard, and without evidence, they often have. higher priorities than 
 chasing 
 something 
 that cannot. go to court. 
  
 I doubt that the police are actually being leant on, but they probably 
 realise 
 that. if 
 they looked into this, they would be leant. on hard. The met always stays 
 away 
 from 
 anything that looks like it. has Defence, Security or secret service 
 interest 
 already, 
 because they realise that they are. below these government agencies in the 
 general 
 pecking. order. 
  
 If I walked into my local nick and complained that MI5 were snooping on me, 
 they. would 
 show me the door without even looking at my evidence, because. that bored 
 desk 
 seargant 
 with. only five years to go before he retires doesn't want to start fucking 
 about with 
 somebody who has incurred the wrath of Stella Rimington..  He would rather 
 deal with the 
 lost dogs and driving licence producers, eat his cheese and pickle. 
 sandwiches 
 and piss 
 off home at the end of his shift than have some high ranking. spook having a 
 go at his 
 boss and getting him a. bollocking. 
  
 In short, you have earned much sympathy but little surprise.  Just remember. 
 that saying 
 about. the enemy of your enemies. 
  
 Most recently, I. wrote in March 1999 to Charing Cross Police Station 
 CID. They did not acknowledge or reply to. my letter. When I phoned them 
 up, the detective Id written to treated me to a sadly not unusual. display 
 of police bigotry, with an uneducated. rant about "your paranoid rubbish". 
  
 It would be nice to think. that such uneducated bigotry is  something other 
 than wholly. typical of police behaviour, but unfortunately that is an 
 illusion that is. rapidly dispelled. 
  
 Uncorruptible Jon. Snow of Channel Four News 
  
 From. previous articles the reader will know what I think Jon Snow has 
 recently been watching me while he. reads Channel Four News in the 
 evening.. Recently I digitized a few moments of one such broadcast, where 
 his face twists into. a smile, without there being anything in the news 
 broadcast to cause merriment. Here. is a usenet post from some time ago on 
 MI5s "bought and paid. for" tools in the so-called "free" press. 
  
  
 Peter Harding (harding@ermine.ox.ac.uk). wrote: 
  
 [continued in next message] 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)