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   From: jackson@soldev.tti.com (Dick Jackson)   
   Subject: Re: What it's like to be watched by the security services   
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   Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 22:53:12 GMT   
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   In article  bu765@torfree.net (Mike Corley)   
   writes:   
   >   
   >Strangers in the street have recognized me on sight many times, and shown   
   >awareness of the current thread of abuse. To give you one example, in 1992   
   >I was seriously ill, and a manager at work somewhat humouroursly said that   
   >"it wasn't fair" that people were bullying me. A few days later, I   
   >attended for the first time a clinic in London as an outpatient, and on my   
   >way out was accosted by someone who asked if "they had paid my fare", with   
   >emphasis on the word "fare". He repeated the word several times in this   
   >different context;  that they should have paid my "fare", each time   
   >emphasising the word.   
   >   
   >For two and a half years from the time their harassment started until   
   >November 1992 I refused to see a psychiatrist, because I reasoned that I   
   >was not ill of my own action or fault, but through the stress caused by   
   >harassment, and that a lessening of the illness would have to be   
   >consequent to a removal of its immediate cause, in other words a cessation   
   >of harassment. I also reasoned that since they were taunting me with jokes   
   >about mental illness, if I were to seek treatment then the abusers would   
   >think that they had "won" and been proved "right".   
      
      
      
   I have so far not contributed to this tread, it has been unpleasant   
   in my opinion. However, I was struck by the resemblance of the above   
   passages to the writing of Franz Kafka.   
      
   Viz. while from an objective viewpoint it seems to refer to a abnormal   
   world, in a strange way it does resonate strongly at other levels.   
      
   Mr. Corley, have you tried to write for publication? I honestly think   
   it might lead somewhere positive.   
      
   Dick Jackson (serious for a change and expecting to get beaten up)   
      
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