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   From: jbaker@pobox.com (Jill Baker)   
   Subject: Re: MI5 Persecution: How and Why Did it Start?   
   Reply-To: jbaker@pobox.com   
   Date: Thu Apr  4 05:03:01 1996   
      
   jbaker@pobox.com (Jill Baker) wrote:   
      
   >bu765@torfree.net (Mike Corley) wrote:   
      
   >>Why would   
   >>the security services expend hundreds of thousands of pounds and more than   
   fiv   
      
   >>years of manpower to try to kill a British citizen? Because ...   
      
   >So why didn't they just shoot you dead?   
   >It would have been a lot cheaper.   
      
   Please make the effort to respond to this point Mike.   
   It was a serious question.   
      
      
           Jill              (my opinions are entirely my own, no-one else's)   
      
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   Subject: Re: MI5 Persecution: How and Why Did it Start?   
   Newsgroups: uk.misc,uk.politics,alt.politics.british,soc.culture.british   
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   jbaker@pobox.com (Jill Baker) wrote:   
      
   >bu765@torfree.net (Mike Corley) wrote:   
      
   >>Why would   
   >>the security services expend hundreds of thousands of pounds and more   
   than fiv   
   >>years of manpower to try to kill a British citizen? Because ...   
      
   >So why didn't they just shoot you dead?   
   >It would have been a lot cheaper.   
      
   I think there are two reasons nobody has taken physical action as opposed   
   to verbal;   
      
   a) A lot of people "know". Perhaps you the reader might not know, but   
   lots of people in the media etc do. Remember, I was born in the UK and   
   lived there until a couple of years ago. I don't think these people would   
   condone state-sponsored murder of someone who might be seen on a good day   
   as one of their own.   
      
   b) Rather than doind anything directly, they're going for spying, verbal   
   harassment, media harassment, every form of persecution short of the   
   physical. Because as soon as anything turns physical, the police become   
   involved; and unless it turns physical, the police can shrug and say 'not   
   our problem'.   
      
   So they persecute you and try to get you to react, either by hitting one   
   of them (in which case I clearly find myself in the wrong as far as the   
   police are concerned), or by trying to harm myself (in which case they   
   can pretend they weren't responsible).   
      
   It's a pretty unproductive form of harassment actually, because if you   
   don't react then they're wasting they're time. Or perhaps they're just   
   cheap bullies and trying to wreck someone's life, without any ulterior   
   motive?   
      
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