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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.

1669

to be loved and admired of men and do not
know their own corruption. If they feel full of feelings of love and
admiration and find therein their chief delight, very well, let them think
themselves good. But if they find themselves averse to Him, if they have no
inclination but the desire to establish themselves in the esteem of men, and
if their whole perfection consists only in making men--but without
constraint--find their happiness in loving them, I declare that this
perfection is horrible. What! they have known God and have not desired
solely that men should love Him, but that men should stop short at them!
They have wanted to be the object of the voluntary delight of men.

464. Philosophers.--We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Our instinct makes us feel that we must seek our happiness outside
ourselves. Our passions impel us outside, even when no objects present
themselves to excite them. External objects tempt us of themselves, and call
to us, even when we are not thinking of them. And thus philosophers have
said in vain: "Retire within yourselves, you will find your good there." We
do not believe them, and those who believe them are the most empty and the
most foolish.

465. The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find
your rest."

And that is not true.

Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is
not true. Illness comes.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us
and within us.

466. Had Epictetus seen the way perfectly, he would have said to men, "You
follow a wrong road"; he shows that there is another, but he does not lead
to it. It is the way of willing what Go

was
because they knew that the madmen, to whom they spoke, thought they were
kings and emperors. They entered into their principles in order to make
their madness as little harmful as possible.

332. Tyranny consists in the desire of universal power beyond its scope.

There are different assemblies of the strong, the fair, the sensible, the
pious, in which each man rules at home, not elsewhere. And sometimes they
meet, and the strong and the fair foolishly fight as to who shall be master,
for their mastery is of different kinds. They do not understand one another,
and their fault is the desire to rule everywhere. Nothing can effect this,
not even might, which is of no use in the kingdom of the wise, and is only
mistress of external actions.

Tyranny--... So these expressions are false and tyrannical: "I am fair,
therefore I must be feared. I am strong, therefore I must be loved. I am...

Tyranny is the wish to have in one way what can only be had in another. We
render different duties to different merits; the duty of love to the
pleasant; the duty of fear to the strong; duty of belief to the learned.

We must render these duties; it is unjust to refuse them, and unjust to ask
others. And so it is false and tyrannical to say, "He is not st