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Titolo: M,I-5'P ersecution   abu se in set- up s ituations a nd in pub lic

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Strangers in the street have recognized me on sight. many times, and shown
awareness of the current thread of abuse. To give you one example, in. 1992
I was seriously ill, and a manager at work somewhat humorously. said that
"it wasn't fair" that people were bullying me. A. few days later, I attended
for the first time a clinic in London as. an outpatient, and on my way out
was accosted by someone. who asked if "they had paid my fare", with emphasis
on the word. "fare". He repeated the word several times in this different
context; that they should have. paid my "fare", each time emphasizing the
word.
For. two and a half years from the time their harassment started until
November 1992 I refused to see a psychiatrist, because I. reasoned that I
was not ill of my own action or fault,. but through the stress caused by
harassment, and that a lessening of the illness. would have to be consequent
to a removal of its immediate cause, in other. words a cessation of
harassment. I also reasoned that since they were taunting me. with jokes
about mental illness,. if I were to seek treatment then the abusers would
think that they had "won" and been proved "right". Remember, the. constant
theme of any persecution is, "we must destroy you because. you're X",
whether X is a racial or. other attribute. In this case the X was "we
persecute you because you have. brain disease". The similarity of this logic
to Nazi attitudes to the mentally ill is. striking.
The same manager who'd said "it wasn't. fair" asked me in winter 1992 why I
didn't seek help from a psychiatrist;. was it, he asked, because "they would
think they had. won" if I sought treatment? That was something I'd never
said at work... again, taken separately it proves nothing, but. many such
things over a period of months. proves conclusively that people in the
company knew what was going on,. and in quite a lot of detail.
Usually harassment in public lacks the. level of finesse of "paying your
fare". Most people's imagination. does not go beyond moronic parroting of
the current term of denigration. That. is not surprising given the average
level of. the abusers; if they do not have the intelligence to distinguish
wrong from right then neither will they have. the capacity for anything
other than mindless repetition of a monosyllabic term. calculated to fit
into. their minds.
The first incidents of. verbal assault in public were in again in the summer
of 1990, although they increased in frequency. and venom with time. In July
1990 the first public incident occurred on a. tube train on the Northern
line. Two men and their. girlfriends recognised me; the women sprang to my
defence, saying "He looks perfectly normal, he doesn't. look ill". Their
boyfriends of course knew better, and followed the party line; one. of them
made reference to an "operation", apparently to work at the tube. station
but. implicitly to a visit that I had made to hospital a couple of weeks
previously.
In August 1990 going home from college,. soon after getting on a tube train
at Gloucester Road. I was followed by a group of four youths, who started a
chant of abuse. That. they were targeting me was confirmed by other people
in the carriage, one of whom asked the other "who are they. going on at, is
it the bloke who just got on?" to which the. second replied "yes, I think
so". I was tempted to reply, but as in every other instance the. abusers are
enabled in. their cowardice by physically outnumbering the abused; any
confrontation would result in my being beaten. up, followed by a complaint
to the police that "he attacked us", and of course he's ill, so he. must
have. been imagining that we were getting at him. Shitty, aren't they?
But the shittiness of the four youths. on the tube train is as nothing
compared to the episode on the National Express coach. to Dover in the
summer of 1992. While going on holiday to. the Continent I was verbally set
upon. by a couple travelling sitting a few rows behind. The boy did the
talking, his female companion contributing only a continuous empty. giggling
noise. He spoke loudly to ensure other people on. the coach heard, always
about "they". and "this bloke" but never naming either the abusers or the
person he was talking about. He said. "they" had "found somebody from his
school, and he was. always really stressed at school". They must have dug
deep to find enemies there; perhaps someone who dropped. out of school,
someone who. didn't do too well later, who was jealous and keen to get their
own back?. The boy also said "he was in a bed and breakfast for only one
night and they got him". By a not. unexpected coincidence I had been in a
B&B. in Oxford a week previously, which had been booked from work; other
things lead me to the conclusion. that the company's offices were bugged for
most of the 2 1/2 years that I was there, so "they" would have known. a room
in the B&B had been booked.. (But I'll bet "they" didn't tell the company's
managers their offices. were bugged, did they?).
After a few minutes. of this I went back to where they were sitting and
asked where they were travelling. The boy named a village in. France, and
the girl's giggling suddenly. ceased; presumably it permeated to her brain
cell. what the purpose of the boy's abuse was.
This and. other set-up situations are obviously calculated to provoke a
direct confrontation which would bring in the police, with. the abusers
claiming that they were the ones. attacked. Again in 1992, outside the
house where I. was living in Oxford I was physically attacked by someone -
not. punched, just grabbed by the coat, with some verbals thrown in for good
measure. That was something the people at. work shouldn't have known
about... but soon after. a couple of people were talking right in front of
me about, "I heard he. was attacked". The UK police have a responsibility
for preventing assault occurring, but they. do not seem to take any interest
in meeting that responsibility. I suppose their attitude is. that harassment
does not come within their remit unless it. involves physical assault, and
they. will only become involved once that happens. That is of course quite
the wrong attitude. for them to take, but as I now understand, the police
investigate only the crime they wish to investigate; if they do. not take
your complaints seriously then. there is nothing you can do to make them
take. action.
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and should be actively combated as such. The owners
of property, especially those who have a monopoly in the matter of
housing vice because of municipal measures for its segregation, are
most potent offenders against decency, and should be punished as such,
instead of their being admitted, as too often they are, not only to
good society, but to membership on the church roll.
No individual can afford to be indifferent and ignorant as to the
existence of social vice in the community. The only escape from moral
blight and confusion is by active conflict with the forces of evil.
The wrong training of youths who grow up in the presence of tolerated
evils, cannot be overcome in a single generation, nor in a single
century. There is a confusion of the moral sense in the presence of
evil to which one has become accustomed, that is truly terrible.
When it was first learned in England that such an official had been
appointed at Singapore and Hong Kong as the inspector of brothels, the
matter could scarcely gain credence. Mr. Benjamin Scott, Chamberlain
of the City of London, in his valuable book, "A State Iniquity,"
in mentioning this exclaims: "Her Majesty's Inspector of Brothels!
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owners of the child, Wai Alan, the woman who beat the child, or Pao
Chee Wan, her husband. The Chief Justice now said:
    "I now direct you, Mr. Attorney General, to prosecute these two
    people, Pao Chee Wan and Wai Alan." Attorney General:--"My Lord,
    I intimated before that this matter was under consideration; I do
    not think I am at liberty to say under whose consideration."
    His Lordship:--"I direct the prosecution, and will take the
    responsibility. It is the course in England and I will pursue it
    here." The Attorney General:--"You have publicly directed it;
    and I will report it to the proper quarter." His Lordship:--"The
    Attorney General at home is constantly ordered by the Court to
    prosecute. On my responsibility alone I do this." The Attorney
    General:--"May I ask your Lordship to say on what charge?" His
    Lordship:--"Under Sections 50 and 51 of No. 4 of 1865, and also
    for assault." The Attorney General continued to raise objections,
    when the Chief Justice said: "I have said as much as I choose to
    say, and I will not be put to question by the Attorney General. If
    you have any difficulty, come to the Court in Chambers."
Governor Hennessy, in reporting the incident to the Secretary of State
at London, adds: "I sent a note