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Titolo: M I.5 Pe rsecution ' my r esponse to th e harassmen t

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My first reaction in 1990/91. was to assume that if I broke contact then
they would not be able to follow and would lose. interest. So I did the
things that. have been suggested by other people; I sold my television,
stopped listening to the radio and tried to withdraw away from the. sources
of abuse as much as possible. I reasoned. that they must have more important
things to deal with and that normal people would simply leave. me alone if
it were made difficult for. them to continue their harassment.
I reckoned without the sheer vindictiveness of the abusers.. They did not
let up but instead "got to" people around me, mainly people at work,. to do
their dirty work for them. I went to see. my GP, who refused to believe what
he was being told, and refused to direct me on to anyone who could be. of
practical assistance. It was not until three years. had passed that the GP
admitted the matter was outside his competence and. suggested going to the
police.
In the summer of 1994 we called in. counter-surveillance experts from a
private detective agency. to sweep our house and telephone for bugging
devices. They conducted. a thorough search and found nothing; but as noted
above, since the existence of surveillance was being forced. in my face by
the harassers, you would expect them. to have taken the possibility of a
counter-surveillance sweep. into account when planning the type of devices
to be. employed.
In Easter 1995 I made a complaint to my local Police. station in London, but
the police have not expressed any intention to. do anything about the
continuing harassment ("we're. not saying it's happening and we're not
saying it isn't happening". were the words used). I think the officer I
spoke to at Easter wasn't. aware of it happening, although other members of
the police force. obviously do know.
From April 1995 until the. present time the matter has been discussed in a
lot of detail on the Usenet (Internet) "uk.misc" newsgroup. That. discussion
has given. birth to the article which you are now reading. My hopes in
posting to Usenet were that wider publicizing would. discourage the security
services from continuing their harassment, and "draw people. out" into
concurring with the truth of what was being. said. Neither of those have
followed, but the discussion has served a purpose in. allowing this
structured report. to be created.
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a degree in the same affair, that it is
ever uppermost in their thoughts, they will naturally make it the
subject of conversation when they get together, in which they will grow
more and more free. Restraints will soon vanish, and they will not
conceal from one another what they meet with. And it has been a practice
which, in the general, has been attended with many good effects, and
what God has greatly blessed amongst us: but it must be confessed, there
may have been some ill consequences of it; which yet are rather to be
laid to the indiscreet management of it than to the practice itself; and
none can wonder, if among such a multitude some fail of exercising so
much prudence in choosing the time, manner, and occasion of such
discourse, as is desirable.
SECTION III. This Work Further Illustrated in Particular Instances.
But to give a clear idea of the nature and manner of the operation of
God's Spirit, in this wonderful effusion if it, I would give an account
of two particular instances. The first is an adult person, a young woman
whose name was Abigail Hutchinson. I fix upon her especially, because
she is now dead, and so it may be more fit to speak freely of her than
of living instances: though I am under far greater disadvantages, on
other accounts, to give a full and clear narrative of her experiences,
than I might of some others; nor can any account be given but what has
been retained in the memories of her friends, of what they have heard
her express in her lifetime.
She was of an intelligent family: there could be nothing in her
education that tended to enthusiasm, but rather to the contrary extreme.
It is in no-wise the temper of the f