The British police obviously do know what. is taking place. Besides my
interpretations. of what individual officers have said which forces that
conclusion, it would be inconceivable for them to. be unaware of something
on. this scale.
If they know, then. they will know that the abusers have broken laws in the
UK and abroad. Recently the UK introduced. laws against electronic spying
which carry a. penalty of several years jail if caught. If the police know
illegal harassment is taking place, and do nothing about. it, then they are
failing. in their responsibilities.
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.
The current situation with regard. to the police is not one which allows a
breakthrough in dealing with the problem. On the. one hand, most individual
officers at a local police station. may not know about the ongoing assaults,
so a complaint at that. level will not yield results. Yet the police as an
organisation do know of. the harassment, and they must be aware that a
complaint has been. made at a police station. So it is clearly their duty to
take preventative action against the continuing. molestation, but because
the criminals are operating on behalf of a state agency, the police are. not
carrying out their. duty.
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354. Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and
retreats.
Fever has its cold and hot fits; and the cold proves as well as the hot the
greatness of the fire of fever.
The discoveries of men from age to age turn out the same. The kindness and
the malice of the world in general are the same. Plerumque gratae
principibus vices.[47]
355. Continuous eloquence wearies.
Princes and kings sometimes play. They are not always on their thrones. They
weary there. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in
everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Nature acts by progress, itus et reditus. It goes and returns, then advances
further, then twice as much backwards, then more forward than ever, etc.
The tide of the sea behaves in the same manner; and so, apparently, does the
sun in its course.
356. The nourishment of the body is little by little. Fullness of
nourishment and smallness of substance.
357. When we would pursue virtues to their extremes on either side, vices
present themselves, which insinuate themselves insensibly there, in their
insensible journey towards the infinitely little; and vices present
themselves in a crowd towards the infinitely great, so that we lose
ourselves in them and no longer see virtues. We find fault with perfection
itself.
358. Man is neither an