Newsgroup: it.fan.musica.baglioni
Titolo: M I-5 Persecutio n ' cos t of t he oper ation

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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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before, his creditor came and demanded payment, and when the father
told him he had no money, and found it very difficult to provide
for his family, Leung A-Tsit said: "Very well, you can give me your
daughter instead, and when she is grown up I will find her a husband."
It was finally agreed that he should have the little girl for $25,
viz., the $23 already owing, and $2 to the mother as "tea-money." The
$2 were paid and he took the child away. The mother said: "I was very
sorry about it and cried." (But mothers have little to say as to the
disposal of the children they bear in the Orient). The Governor, Sir
John Pope Hennessy, took a deep interest in this case, when he heard
of it, regarding it as "an illegal transaction," and urged upon the
Attorney General, Mr. G. Phillipo, to prosecute, on his behalf, the
purchaser of the girl, and that both the father of the child and
Leung A-Tsit be notified that the father was entitled to the child by
British law, and referring the father to the police magistrate.
The police magistrate requested of the Colonial Secretary that
the Attorney General's opinion be obtained, as to what course the
magistrate should pursue. The final outcome of the case is told by
Governor Hennessy in a despatch to the Secretary of State for the
Colonies.
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    the Attorney General, as 'the parties appear to acknowledge being
    concerned in an illegal transaction.' In a few days the papers
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