M'I.5 Perse cution th e BB C, televisio n a nd radio
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The first incident in June 1990 was when a BBC newsreader made. what seemed
to be a reaction. to something which had happened in my home, and out of
context of what they were reading. My first reaction was disbelief;. nothing
of the sort had ever. happened before, the idea that such a thing could
occur had not crossed my mind, yet there was no doubt. of what had just
taken. place. My disbelief eroded as this recurred time after time. Besides
the news, offenders included shows such as Crimewatch (!),. Newsnight, and
"entertainment" shows. There seems to. be very little moral understanding
among the people who make these programmes; they. just assume they will
never be caught, so they carry on without a thought for the illegality. or
amorality of what they do. The only time I. ever heard a word raised in
doubt was. by Paxman being interviewed by someone else (I think by Clive
Anderson). back in 1990; referring to the "watching" he said it troubled
him, and when asked. by the host what you could do about it, replied "Well,
you could just switch it off" (meaning the surveillance monitor in. the
studio). He. clearly didn't let his doubts stand in the way of continued
surreptitious spying from his own or other people's shows,. though.
Now you're convinced this is a troll, aren't you?. This story has been the
subject of much debate on the uk.* Usenet newsgroups for over a year,. and
some readers believe it to be an invention (it has. even been suggested that
a. group of psychology students are responsible!), others think it
symptomatic of a derangement of the author, and a few give it. credence.
Quite a few people do. know part or all of the story already, so this text
will fill in the gaps in their knowledge. For the rest, what. may persuade
you of the. third possibility is that some of the incidents detailed are
checkable against any archives of radio and. TV programmes that exist; that
the incidents involve named. people (even if those hiding in the shadows
have not. made their identity or affiliations evident), and those people
may be persuaded to come. out with the truth; and that the campaign of
harassment. is continuing today both in the UK and on the American
continent, in a. none-too-secret fashion; by its nature the significant risk
of exposure. increases with time.
On several occasions. people said to my face that harassment from the TV was
happening. On the first day I worked in Oxford, I spent the. evening in the
local pub with the company's. technical director Ian, and Phil, another
employee. Ian made a few references to me and said to Phil, as if in. an
aside, "Is he the bloke who's been on TV?" to which Phil replied,. "Yes, I
think. so".
I made a number of efforts to find the. bugs, without success; last year we
employed professional. counter-surveillance people to scan for bugs (see
later) again without result. In. autumn 1990 I disposed of my TV and watched
virtually no television for the next three. years. But harassment from TV
stations has gone. on for over six years and continues to this day. This is
something that many people obviously know is. happening; yet the TV staff
have. the morality of paedophiles, that because they're getting away with it
they feel. no wrong.
Other people who were involved. in the abuse in 1990 were DJs on BBC radio
stations, notably disc jockeys. from Radio 1 and other stations (see the
following section).. Again, since they don't have sense in the first place
they can't be expect to have the moral. sense not to be part of criminal
harassment.
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All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves,
and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavour, then, to
think well; this is the principle of morality.
348. A thinking reed.--It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but
from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds.
By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by
thought I comprehend the world.
349. Immateriality of the soul--Philosophers who have mastered their
passions. What matter could do that?
350. The Stoics.--They conclude that what has been done once can be done
always, and that, since the desire of glory imparts some power to those whom
it possesses, others can do likewise. There are feverish movements which
health cannot imitate.
Epictetus concludes that, since there are consistent Christians, every man
can easily be so.
351. Those great spiritual efforts, which the soul sometimes assays, are
things on which it does not lay hold. It only leaps to them, not as upon a
throne, for ever, but merely for an instant.
352. The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but
by his ordinary life.
353. I do not admire the excess of a virtue as of valour, except I see at
the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who had
the greatest valour and the greatest kindness. For otherwise it is not to
rise, it is to fall. We do not display greatness by going to one extreme,
but in touching both at once, and filling all the intervening space. But
perhaps this is only a sudden movement of the soul from one to the other
extreme, and in fact it is ever at one point only, as in the case of a
firebrand. Be it so, but at least this indicates agility if not expanse of
soul.
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 w