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Titolo: M-I 5`Per secution ` C apital Rad io - C hris Ta rrant

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Capital. Radio DJs have been "in on it" from the start. One of the first
things I heard in the. summer of 1990 was from a Capital DJ who said, "If
he listens to Capital then he can't be all. bad" (supportive, you see. We're
not bastards). Much of what came over the. radio in 1990 is now so far away
the precise details have been obliterated by time. No diary was kept of. the
details, and although archives if they exist may give pointers,. the
ambiguity of what broadcasters said would leave that open. to
re-interpretation.
In spring 1994, Chris Tarrant on his. Capital morning show made an aside to
someone else in the studio,. about a person he didn't identify. He said,
"You know this bloke? He says we're trying to kill him. We should be. done
for. attempted manslaughter".
That mirrored something I had said a day or. two before. What Tarrant said
was understood by the staff member in the studio. he was saying it to; they
said, "Oh no, don't say that" to Tarrant. If any archives exist. of the
morning show (probably unlikely) then it could. be found there; what he said
was so out of context that he would be very. hard put to find an explanation.
A. couple of days later, someone at the site where I was working repeated the
remark although in a different way; they said. there had been people in a
computer. room when automatic fire extinguishers went off and those people
were "thinking of suing. for attempted manslaughter".
Finally, this isn't confined to the established radio stations.. In 1990
after I had listened. to a pirate radio station in South London for about
half an hour,. there was an audible phone call in the background, followed
by. total silence for a few moments, then shrieks of laughter. "So what are
we. supposed to say now? Deadly torture? He's going to talk to us now, isn't
he?", which meant that they could hear what I would say in my. room.
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longer anything which is ours;
what I call ours is conventional."
[41]Seneca, Epistles, xcv. "It is by virtue of senatus-consultes and
plebiscites that one commits crimes."
[42]Tacitus, Annals, iii. 25. "Once we suffered from our vices; today we
suffer from our laws."
43Saint Augustine, City of God, iv. 27. "As he has ignored the truth which
frees, it is right he is mistaken."
[44]Cicero, De officiis, iii, 17. "Concerning true law."
45Eccles. 3:19. "for all is vanity."
46Rom. 8:20-21. "It shall be delivered."
[47]Horace, Odes, III. xxix. 13. "Changes nearly always please the great."
48Seneca, Epistles, xx. 8. "In order that you are satisfied with yourself
and the good that is born from you."
[49]Montaigne, Essays, ii. 12.
50Cicero, De Divinatione, ii. 58. "There is nothing so absurd that it has
not been said by some philosopher."
51Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae, ii. 2. "Devoted to certain fixed
opinions, they are forced to defend what they hardly approve."
52Seneca, Epistles, cvi. "We suffer from an excess of literature as from an
excess of anything."
53Cicero, De officiis, i. 31. "What suits each one best is what is to him
the most natural."
54Virgil, The Georgics, ii. "Nature gave them first these limits."
55Seneca, Epistles, cvi. "Wisdom does not demand much teaching."
56Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum. "What is not shameful begins to
become so when it is approved by the multitude."
57Terence, Heauton Timorumenos, I. i. 21. "That is how I use it; you must do
as you wish."
58Quintillian, x. 7. "It is rare that one sufficiently respects one's self."
59Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae, i. 4. "So many gods are busy around a single
head."
60Cicero, Academica, i. 45. "Nothing is more shameful than to affirm before