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   MI5 Persecution Update: Friday 15 May, 1998   
      
   The persecution has been quite severe for the last week. It appears that   
   my enemies are reacting to the steady stream of faxes making their way   
   over the Atlantic to the fax machines of Westminster politicians and the   
   media. Here is whats happened in the last few days;   
      
   The week started off with an incident in the cafeteria at a local shopping   
   centre where I habitually drink my morning coffee. My enemies have   
   concentrated since winter 1995/96 on throwing a particularly horrible   
   sexual slander against me. They "put people up" to repeat this slander   
   against me, and this is what happened again here.   
      
   On Thursday morning (yesterday), instead of going to the usual cafeteria I   
   went to a nearby convenience store for coffee. The same horrible sexual   
   slander was shouted at me very loudly by a member of staff as I walked   
   into the store. This was the first time I had ever bought morning coffee   
   in that shop. The other staff obviously knew what was going on, one of   
   them said, "they screwed up my life".   
      
   The fax gateway I use to send these faxes to the UK has been working hard   
   these last few days to shut down my access by barring the accounts I use   
   to send these faxes.   
      
   I have received an anonymous threat from fax number 0171-219-6101 (the   
   machine gave its name as "ETRA-HoC") which said, "Stop sending to this fax   
   no 0171-219-6101 or else" (the consequences of continued transmission were   
   unspecified). I invited the sender to apologise for his threat, but   
   received no response.   
      
      
   This all adds up to quite a severe reaction to my faxes of the last few   
   weeks. I actually find this quite heartening since it shows that my faxes   
   are finding the mark and there may yet be a breakthrough in my efforts to   
   expose the Security Service conpiracy of abuse against me which has now   
   been going on for eight years.   
      
      
   MI5 Persecution: "Why would they be doing this to you, sir?"   
      
   This article will concentrate on the difficult question of "Why". The   
   question which forms the title of this piece was asked of me by the police   
   officer I spoke to in Easter 1995, when I went to make my complaint.   
      
   There are really two sides to this question. Firstly, why should MI5 be   
   harassing anybody in this fashion? Secondly, if they choose to behave in   
   this way, why should they have selected me in particular, and not somebody   
   else? Alternatively, why did the persecution start, and why is it   
   continuing?   
      
   I do not have definite answers to either side of this question, since my   
   persecutors have usually kept themselves hidden and only acted through   
   other parties. To know "why", one would have to know who the persecutors   
   are, and something of their personalities, since their abuse is almost   
   certainly symptomatic of a personality disorder of the abusers. Certain   
   things however can be deduced about the abusers from the nature of their   
   behaviour, and I will talk about this later in the article.   
      
   Why did it start?   
      
   It is clear that the persecution must have been initiated by someone who   
   knew me personally, either at school, or at university, or socially, and   
   knew that I was borderline mentally ill, since this is what makes me a   
   target for the persecutors. Unfortunately, the originators have never been   
   identified, and there are several possible candidates. Neither has the   
   link from the originators of the persecution, to the persecutors   
   themselves, ever been made clear. So who are the originators?   
      
   University Staff   
      
   The identity of the originators may lie in the timing of the   
   persecution. It started in June 1990, while I was finishing a course at   
   Imperial College in London, and a year after I graduated from Cambridge,   
   where I received a degree in computer science. At Cambridge I had achieved   
   some notoriety in the computer lab from various nefarious exploits. Roger   
   Needham attacked me by saying that "there were great hopes for it, but it   
   failed terribly". When I started at Imperial I found that my reputation   
   had preceded me; Cambridge computer lab had spoken to I.C. lecturers about   
   me. I.C. lecturer Frank McCabe summed up commenting about "setting up a   
   straw man so you can tear him down". (Despite being "torn down" by the   
   Cambridge computer labs lecturers, I still achieved a good first degree   
   and a Masters degree at Imperial.)   
      
   Other students at university   
      
   So, the originators may have been university staff who knew me from my   
   student days. But there are other possibilities. I had other enemies at   
   university, including some fellow students. At my Cambridge college it was   
   common knowledge that my mental health was dubious, and it was known that   
   I talked to myself in my sleep - the floor and walls were quite permeable   
   to noise, so other students heard. I was given the nickname   
   "gibber" because of this habit. Sometime later, I managed to catch myself   
   talking in my sleep when I woke up in the middle of the night.   
      
   Here is a quote from a participant in the internet newsgroup where I have   
   been posting for the last three years;   
      
   >One thing which has been missing from this discussion is this simple   
   >prognosis: that maybe he is right and that, despite his admitted   
   >mental condition, there really is a campaign against him organised by   
   >now-influential ex-students of his university.   
      
   People I knew socially   
      
   I had yet other enemies in 1990 (I am a man of many enemies!). In January   
   1990 I broke up with some people I had been going out with socially. One   
   of them, by the name of Andy Turner, wrote a letter to Alan Freeman, who   
   at the time was a Radio 1 DJ. Freeman read part of the letter out on his   
   Rock Show, about the "one who wore out his welcome with random precision",   
   saying "thats a hell of a letter you wrote there Andy", and "with a   
   schizophrenic youre never alone".   
      
   It is my belief that Andy Turner and his friends were trying to make   
   trouble for me, and Turner wrote to Freeman with this in mind. Freeman may   
   have discussed the letter with others, and things may have snowballed from   
   there. This is, of course, pure supposition. The fact is that I do not   
   know who the originators are, and can only guess.   
      
   Once it started, why is it continuing?   
      
   The answer to this question is obvious. It is unacceptable to the "powers   
   that be" in the UK to have somebody running around who knows he has been   
   targeted by the Security Service and media organizations, and who is in a   
   position to embarrass British institutions. This has become particularly   
   evident in the last week; as I send more faxes to UK politicians and   
   media, so the pressure on me grows, and the volume of abuse increases.   
      
   Part of the reason the persecution continues is in the personalities of   
   the abusers, and it is this subject to which I will turn to next, since   
   the key to understanding the persecution lies in understanding those who   
   carry it out, as much as we can.   
      
   The Security Service operatives, the persecutors, are they psychopaths?   
      
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
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