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   their behaviour indicates, it. will have a massive and harmful effect on   
   British self-perception in the new. century.   
      
   Security Service. Tribunal  - Blatant Whitewashing   
      
   A few. weeks ago I spoke on the phone to Nick Brooks, the Secretary of the   
   Security Service Tribunal, which is supposed to. deal with cases of MI5   
   transgression. I asked. him if the Tribunal had ever found in favour of a   
   plaintiff and against the Security Service. He answered that as. far as he   
   knew, it. had not.   
      
   I also asked Mr Brooks if the Tribunal had any means of. investigating   
   allegations of criminal activity by. MI5, other than asking MI5 themselves   
   if they had engaged in such activity. His. rather circuitous written reply   
   states that the 1989 Security Service Act provides that "it shall. be the   
   duty of every member of the Service to. disclose or give to the Tribunal   
   such documents or information. as they may require for the purpose of   
   enabling them to carry out their functions under this Act".. Which is a   
   very round-about way of saying - "No" - the Tribunal. has no way of   
   investigating MI5. crimes - None At All.   
      
   Setting. up the S.S. Tribunal, and creating a Security Service   
   Commissioner, was really an act of falsehood by. the government. It is   
   generally recognised that MI5 are out of. reach of the normal criminal   
   justice system - the police, as we have seen,. have no intesot answer to   
   the government; in a previous. article I quoted Roy Jenkins speaking of "a   
   secretive atmosphere..... secretive vis-a-vis the government as well as   
   [enemies]", and a "lack. of frankness" from MI5.   
      
   If the government. wanted to, it could reform the secret services and   
   ensure. they acted in conformance with the laws which have been enacted for   
   them in the last ten years. But apparently the present. government does not   
   see any need to ensure security service compliance with the law.. As noted   
   above, the regulatory machinery for MI5 is deliberately weak; the. Tribunal   
   has. no independent means of investigation, and it is simply a waste of   
   time complaining to the. Tribunal or Commissioner.   
      
   Every. so often, fresh revelations come to light of secret service   
   transgressions. We have heard from Shayler that. MI5 bugged Jack Straw and   
   Peter Mandelson; we have heard from Peter Wright that. MI5 plotted to see   
   Wilson ejected from office; yet so. closed is the system of government that   
   the law is never enforced against MI5 when they "bug and. burgle" everyone   
   from politicians to ordinary. citizens.   
      
   No Justice from. the Legal System, either   
      
   Britain has a civil and criminal justice system which effectively. limits   
   many complaints. from being heard. For a civil complaint to be brought   
   before. a court, you need a solicitor willing to act on your   
   behalf. Supposedly it is possible to represent. yourself as a   
   Litigant-in-Pthe basis of being "frivolous and. vexatious" or "disclosing   
   no. cause for action in law". This is exactly what happened to me in 1997   
   when I twice tried to take the BBC to court for spying. on me in my living   
   room. at home; my case was twice struck out, and on the second occasion an   
   order was made against me that I could not bring. further civil litigation   
   against the. BBC without leave of the court.   
      
   As the reader can guess it is quite impossible for a person. with   
   schizophrenia, who complains about the. secret services and media   
   interfering in his life, to find. a solicitor willing to represent him in   
   legal action against the persecutors. I have quite a lot of. evidence of   
   the continuing persecution which I have posted on. the website, even if the   
   evidence. is quite tentative and perhaps open to varying   
   interpretations. But I have tried several. firms of solicitors; some of   
   them have acted unprofessionally and abused me; all of them. have refused   
   to represent me. My psychiatrist. gave me the name of the firm of Bindman   
   and Partners in central London,. and I have approached them twice. On each   
   occasion they refused to accept my. instructions. Plainly the problem with   
   Bindmans, which they have admitted, is their bigotry. against mentally   
   disabled people; yet this is not just something. that is wrong with   
   Bindmans,. it is something that is wrong with the legal system as a whole,   
   since the legal system necessitates finding a solicitor willing. to   
   represent you in order to bring a case to court,. but it does not have a   
   mechanism for providing a. lawyer in the case where no solicitor is willing   
   to take on your case. So the. British legal system is such as to prevent   
   cases such as mine from ever receiving an airing in a. court.   
      
   So much for the civil courts. But. the criminal justice system is no   
   better. Two years ago the Protection from Harassment Act came. into   
   force. But again, while the Act is all very. well on paper, in practice it   
   is unenforceable. in my case, since it would require Police action to see   
   the law implemented, and if the police cannot even be trusted. to conduct a   
   murder investigation competently (in the Lawrence. case), then what chance   
   is there of their investigating. complaints against the Security   
   Service? Of course, it would be possible. for me to personally issue   
   proceedings through a. private prosecution either against MI5 themselves,   
   or against one or more of. their media tools; but here we see the same   
   problems as. with the civil courts, because first of all I would have to   
   find a lawyer willing to act on my behalf. Litigants-in-person. do exist in   
   the criminal courts, but the Attorney General can bring. such a prosecution   
   to an end by taking it over and entering a. plea of "nolle prossequi"; and   
   I suspect that if I were to bring a. private prosecution against either MI5   
   or one of their media tools,. then this is exactly what would happen.   
      
   So much for British justice. But if. anything the wrongs that have been   
   perpetrated on me by. the British justice system are quite mild to what   
   others have suffered. Others have. been wrongly convicted based on police   
   evasions and lies, and spent many. years in jail based on false charges. I   
   should count myself. lucky that despite the best efforts of the MI5 secret   
   police, I have not acquired any. criminal charges or convictions; which   
   shows. that for all their resources and influence, and the clear   
   imperfections in the British legal. system, there are still limits on how   
   much subversion MI5. can achieve.   
      
   The latest in a. long line of injustices   
      
   A comment I heard during the recent scandal of. the police mishandling of   
   the Lawrence. murder investigation is that "its not as if the police   
   themselves murdered him". This is not a. particularly wise statement to   
   make about the case,. since it could be argued that the four alleged   
   murderers were aided in their crime by the expectation. that the police   
   would deliberately. botch the investigation - which of course is exactly   
   what. the police did.   
      
   But in my case, this would be a. completely inaccurate thing to say - since   
   the. MI5 secret-police have expressly been trying to nine years now to see   
   an end put. to my life, either by having me incarcerated and my liberty   
   ended, or by forcing self-termination on me.. It is exactly as if the   
   secret police "themselves murdered [me]", since that. is what their aim is   
   in. their campaign against me.   
      
   The public has. heard of instances of police mishandling of cases, of   
   police manufacturing evidence,. lying in court, extracting false   
      
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