Newsgroup: it.diritto.condominio
Titolo: M,I`5,Pers ecution ' c ost of t he operati on

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Here's what a couple of other people on Usenet. (uk.misc) had to say
regarding the cost of running. such an operation...
PO: >Have some sense, grow up and smell reality. What you. are talking about
PO: >would take loads of planning,. tens of thousands of pounds and lots of
PO: >people involved in the planning, execution and. maintenance of it. You
PO: >must. have a very high opinion of yourself to think you are worth it.
PM: >But why? And why you? Do you realize how. much it would cost to keep
PM: >one person under continuous surveillance. for five years? Think about
PM: >all the man/hours. Say they. _just_ allocated a two man team and a
PM: >supervisor. OK., Supervisor's salary, say,. #30,000 a year. Two men,
PM: >#20,000 a year each. But they'd need to work in shifts -- so it. would
PM: >be six men at #20,000 (which with on-costs would work out. at more like
PM:. >#30,000 to the employer.) 
PM:. >
PM: >So, we're talking #30,000 x. 6. #180,000. plus say, #40,000 for the 
PM: >supervisor. #220,000. Then you've got the hardware involved. And. 
PM:. >any transcription that needs doing. You don't think the 'Big Boss'
PM: >would listen to. hours and hours of tapes, do you.
PM:. >
PM: >So, all in all, you couldn't actually. do the job for much less than
PM: >a quarter million a year. Over five years. What are. you doing that makes
PM: >it. worth the while of the state to spend over one and a quarter million
PM:. >on you?
Those are pretty much the sort of calculations. that went through my head
once I stopped to consider. what it must be costing them to run this
operation. The partial answer. is, there have been periods when the
intensity has been. greater, and times when little has happened. In fact,
for much of 1993 and the first half. of 1994, very little happened. Although
I. don't think that was for reasons of money - if they can tap into the
taxpayer they're not going. to be short of resources, are they?
The more complete. answer is in the enormity of what they're doing. Relative
to the cost to British pride of seeing their country humiliated for. the
persecution of their own citizens, isn't is worth the cost. of four or five
people to try to bring things to a close in the manner they would wish?. To
the government a million or two is quite honestly. nothing - if they can
convince themselves of the necessity of. what they're doing, resources will
not. be the limiting factor.
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punishes this bad faith with force.
389. Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total ignorance and
inevitable misery. For it is wretched to have the wish, but not the power.
Now he would be happy and assured of some truth, and yet he can neither
know, nor desire not to know. He cannot even doubt.
390. My God! How foolish this talk is! "Would God have made the world to
damn it? Would He ask so much from persons so weak"? etc. Scepticism is the
cure for this evil, and will take down this vanity.
391. Conversation.--Great words: Religion, I deny it.
Conversation.--Scepticism helps religion.
392. Against Scepticism.--... It is, then, a strange fact that we cannot
define these things without obscuring them, while we speak of them with all
assurance. We assume that all conceive of them in the same way; but we
assume it quite gratuitously, for we have no proof of it. I see, in truth,
that the same words are applied on the same occasions, and that every time
two men see a body change its place, they both express their view of this
same fact by the same word, both saying that it has moved; and from this
conformity of application we derive a strong conviction of a conformity of
ideas. But this is not absolutely or finally convincing though there is
enough to support a bet on the affirmative, since we know that we often draw
the same conclusions from different premises.
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extinguishes the natural light which assures us of these things. The
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