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Titolo: M`I'5-Persecu tion ` Bernar d Le vin expresses  his  v iews

to. cheer.
At. the time this article was written I had believed for some time that
columnists. in the Times and other journalists had been making references to
my situation. Nothing. unusual about this you may think, plenty of people
have the same sort of ideas. and obviously the papers aren't writing about
them, so why should my beliefs. not be as false as those of others?
What makes. this article so extraordinary is that three or four days
immediately preceding its publication, I. had a meeting with a friend,
during the course of which we discussed the media persecution,. and in
particular that by Times. columnists. It seemed to me, reading the article
by Levin in Saturday’s. paper, that he was describing in some detail his
"artist’s impression" of that. meeting. Most telling are the final
sentences, when he writes, "The madman bursts into tears, and. swears it is
all true. And it is." Although. I did not "burst into tears" (he seems to be
using. a bit of poetic licence and exaggerating) I did try hard to convince
my friend. that it was all true; and I am able to concur with Mr Levin,
because, of. course, it is.
At the beginning of the. piece Levin reveals a fear of being attacked by the
"irrational" subject of his story, saying "I have no reason to believe. that
he is violent, but he should certainly be. approached with caution". This
goes back to the xenophobic propaganda. of "defence" against a "threat"
which was seen at the very beginning of. the harassment. The impression of a
"madman running loose" who needs to be. controlled through an agency which
assigns to itself the mantle of the "police" is also one. which had been
expressed. elsewhere.
In the final paragraph. of this extract, his reference to Everyman’s Library
as. having "died a lingering and shameful death a decade or so ago" shows
clearly what sort of conclusion. they wish to their campaign. They want a
permanent solution, and as they are. prevented from achieving that solution
directly, they waste significant resources. on methods which have been
repeatedly shown to be ineffective for such a. purpose.
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than ever the tavern had been wont to be.
There is a very great variety, as to the degree of fear and trouble that
persons are exercised with, before they attain any comfortable evidences
of pardon and acceptance with God. Some are from the beginning carried
on with abundantly more encouragement and hope than others. Some have
had ten times less trouble of mind than others, in whom yet the issue
seems to be the same. Some have had such a sense of the displeasure of
God, and the great danger they were in of damnation, that they could not
sleep at nights; and many have said that when they have laid down, the
thoughts of sleeping in such a condition have been frightful to them;
they have scarcely been free from terror while asleep, and they have
awakened with fear, heaviness, and distress still abiding on their
spirits. It has been very common, that the deep and fixed concern on
persons minds, has had a painful influence on their bodies, and given
disturbance to animal nature. The awful apprehensions persons have had
of their misery, have for the most part been increasing, the nearer they
have approached to deliverance; though they often pass through many
changes and alterations in the frame and circumstances of their minds.
Sometimes they think themselves wholly senseless, and fear that the
Spirit of God has left them, and that they are given up to judicial
hardness; yet they appear very deeply exercised about that fear, and are
in great earnes