M.I'5.Persecut ion - my re sponse to t he harass ment
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-= my response to the. harassment -=
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My first reaction in 1990/91. was to assume that if I broke contact then
they. would not be able to follow and would lose interest. So I did the
things that have been suggested by other. people; I sold my television,
stopped listening to the radio and tried to withdraw. away from the sources
of abuse as much as possible. I. reasoned that they must have more important
things. to deal with and that normal people would simply leave me alone if
it were made difficult for. them to continue their harassment.
I reckoned without. the sheer vindictiveness of the abusers. They did not
let up but instead "got to" people around me, mainly people at work, to. do
their dirty work for them. I went to see my. GP, who refused to believe what
he was. being told, and refused to direct me on to anyone who could be of
practical. assistance. It was not until three years had passed that the GP
admitted the matter was outside his competence and suggested going. to the
police.
In the. summer of 1994 we called in counter-surveillance experts from a
private detective agency to sweep our house and telephone for. bugging
devices. They conducted a. thorough search and found nothing; but as noted
above, since. the existence of surveillance was being forced in my face by
the harassers, you would expect them to have taken the possibility. of a
counter-surveillance sweep into account when planning the type of. devices
to. be employed.
In Easter 1995 I made a complaint to. my local Police station in London, but
the police have not expressed any intention to do. anything about the
continuing harassment ("we're not saying it's happening and we're. not
saying it isn't happening" were the words used). I. think the officer I
spoke to at Easter wasn't aware. of it happening, although other members of
the police. force obviously do know.
From April 1995 until the present time the matter has been discussed in. a
lot of detail on the Usenet (Internet). "uk.misc" newsgroup. That discussion
has. given birth to the article which you are now reading. My hopes in
posting to Usenet were that. wider publicizing would discourage the security
services from continuing their harassment, and "draw people. out" into
concurring. with the truth of what was being said. Neither of those have
followed, but the discussion. has served a purpose in allowing this
structured report to. be created.
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sinful practices; and the looser sort have been brought to forsake and
dread their former vices and extravagances. When once the Spirit of God
began to be so wonderfully poured out in a general way through the town,
people had soon done with their old quarrels, backbitings, and
intermeddling with other men's matters. The tavern was soon left empty,
and persons kept very much at home; none went abroad unless on necessary
business, or on some religious account, and every day seemed in many
respects like a Sabbath-day. The other effect was, that it put them on
earnest application to the means of salvation, reading, prayer,
meditation, the ordinances of God's house, and private conference; their
cry was, What shall we do to be saved? The place of resort was now
altered, it was no longer the tavern, but the minister's house that was
thronged far more than ever the tavern had been wont to be.
There is a very great variety, as to the degree of fear and trouble that
persons are exercised with, before they attain any comfortable evidences
of pardon and acceptance with God. Some are from the beginning carried
on with abundantly more encouragement and hope than others. Some have
had ten times less trouble of mind than others, in whom yet the is
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Now, it is for you to begin. If I could, I would give you faith. I cannot do
so, nor therefore test the truth of what you say. But you can well renounce
pleasure and test whether what I say is true.
241. Order.--I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding
that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in
believing it true.
SECTION IV: OF THE MEANS OF BELIEF
242. Preface to the second part.--To speak of those who have treated of this
matter.
I admire the boldness with which these persons undertake to speak of God. In
addressing their argument to infidels, their first chapter is to prove
Divinity from the works of nature. I should not be astonished at their
enterprise, if they were addressing their argument to the faithful; for it
is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once
that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore.
But for those in whom this light is extinguished, and in whom we purpose to
rekindle it, persons destitute of faith and grace, who, seeking with all
their light whatever they see in nature that can bring them to this
knowledge, find only obscurity and darkness; to tell them that they have
only to look at the smallest things which surround them, and they will see
God openly, to give them, as a complete proof of this great and important
matter, the course of the moon and planets, and to claim to have concluded
the proof with such an argument, is to give them ground for believing that
the proofs of our religion are very weak. And I see by reason and experience
that nothing is