M I-5,Persecuti on MI 5 Wast e Taxpaye r Millions on Po intless Hate-Campa ign

MI5. Persecution Update: Friday 30 April, 1999

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Somewhere between 0. and 100%

The last few days there have. been no clear recordable instances of
abuse. However, while travelling on the. Underground, while walking around
near my home and going to. friends homes, I am constantly troubled by
thoughts that. those people over there might be about to get at me; that
the couple sitting in. the opposite seats laughing are in fact laughing at
me;. et cetera, et cetera.

A comment by a scientist to. the BSE inquiry sticks in my mind. He
described the possible scale of the epidemic. as "between 0% and 100%". It
might not be happening, it might not happen. at all, to any discernable
degree..... or it might be total. Without clear recording, which seems to
have become. impossible the last couple of weeks, there is no way of
knowing whether the harassment really. is continuing, whether we have
entered a temporary hiatus,. or whether perhaps it has perhaps stopped for
now.

But for the time being. I think there arent any reasons to dicontinue these
faxes.. I only re-started them six weeks ago in response to a resumption of
MI5 harassment; and I think. I will need to be more convinced of absence of
persecution before. I discontinue my complaints.

The. Newscasters are still watching

In the last few. weeks there have been at least a couple of fairly overt
instances of "interactive watching" by newscasters. I. reported this in a
previous. "MI5 Persecution Update".

These instances are really very. rare compared to 1990-91, when there were
many dozens. of such occurrences. Undoubtedly the reduction is due to my
practice. of videotaping everything I see. Recently I had the opportunity
of showing this years "happenings" (Jon Snow/Nicholas Witchell). to my
psychiatrist, and he. agreed that in both cases the newscasters were
expressing merriment without visible. cause, and that objectively it might
be possible for my claims to. be true - although of course other people
reported similar thoughts to him, and this. thinking is usually a symptom
of. illness.

Read About the MI5 Persecution on the World. Wide Web

The March 1998 issue (number 42). of .net Magazine reviews the website
describing it as an "excellent. site". Since August 11, 1996 over 50,000
people. have browsed this website.

You are encouraged. to read the web pages which include

a FAQ (frequently asked questions). section outlining the nature of the
persecutors, their methods of harassment through the media,. people at work
and. among the general public

an evidence section, which carries. audio and video clips of media and
workplace harassment, rated according to how directly. I think they refer to me

objective. descriptions of the state security agencies involved

scanned texts of the complaints. I have made to media and state security
agencies. involved

posts which have. been made to netnews over the last four years on this topic

Keith Hill MP (Labour. - Streatham), my elected representative, as ever
refuses. to help.

MI5 Waste Taxpayer Millions. on Pointless Hate-Campaign

Recently I was talking to an. independent observer about the nature and
purpose of the. perceived campaign of persecution against me. The person I
spoke to, a highly intelligent. man, said he was struck by the utter
pointlessness of the. perceived campaign against me. He also said that, if
my theories were in. fact true, many people would have to be involved, in
the surveillance itself,. and in the technical side of the delivery of
information from my home to TV studios for. example, if the "interactive
watching" were. happening as described. He voiced these thoughts without
any prompting from me; but both I and other observers had. arrived at
pretty much the same conclusions, some years. ago.

I saw a team of four men at. Toronto Airport in 1993

To carry out the surveillance alone, full-time, would. employ four or five
men, or their equivalent in terms of. man-hours. Each man would "work" an
eight-hour shift, so you would need at. least three men doing the
surveillance, plus a connecting link. / manager. An indicator that this
estimate is. correct arrived in 1993, when I was accosted by one of a group
of. four men at Toronto Airport; he said, laughing, "if he tries to run
away well find him".. Plainly these were the men who had been involved in
the intrusive surveillance of me for. the preceding three years.

On other occasions, I have seen. the same man on two or three occasions. On
one such occasion,. at Ottawas Civic Hospital in November 1996; he gave his
name to the doctor as "Alan. Holdsworth" or some such; my hearing is not
very good sometimes and I am not. sure of the surname, although I am sure
"Alan" was his first name. I saw exactly. the same man again in Ottawa, at
the airport, in July 1998. Obviously,. other people must be "working" with
this person; he would not be the sole agent employed in this. case.

Usenet readers views on the Cost. to MI5 of Running the Campaign

Here's what a. couple of other people on internet newsgroups / 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.

and......

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. At. the very least, a quarter million a year - and probably much
more, given the intrusive and human-resource-intensive. methods
employed. Times nine years. Equals well over two. million pounds - and
probably much,. much more.

Its. wasteful for someone with my skills to be unemployed

The. wastefulness of the MI5 campaign against me is not just that of futile
expenditure on their side. It is also extremely wasteful for someone. with
my talents to be unemployed and on a disability pension.. I am highly
qualified in numerate. disciplines, yet am unable to work, specifically
because of the MI5 hate-campaign against me. It is a terrible waste. of
resources for a supposedly efficient. economy like that of the UK to be
squandering the. talents of a skilled and capable worker.

I made every effort to remain in employment for as long as I. could, but
ultimately I was defeated. by MI5s employment of massive resources
specifically targeted on my workplaces with the sole aim of. seeing me
evicted from those workplaces. You might. expect this sort of behaviour
from the Stasi or some other secret. police force in a communist country
where labour. is cheap, and the governments aim on seeing its citizens
confined; but for a supposedly free and. efficient economy like Britains,
the wastefulness resulting both. directly and indirectly from the Security
Services activities is simply. criminal, and should never be allowed.

The international dimension. means the costs are multiplied many times
overoer had. any sense, then they have surely taken leave of them over the
last nine. years.

Four years. of persecution in Canada

The. persecution re-started within less than five minutes of my arrival in
Canada,. as documented above, and in the "frequently asked
questions" article on the website. The. words, "if he tries to run away
well find him" spoken by one. of the harassers at Toronto Airport are now
imprinted on. my mind.

A. year later I emigrated to Canada, intending to find a job and settle
there, hoping that MI5s interest in me. might dim with time. I did manage
to find work there, but my hopes of. avoiding Security Service interest
were ground into dust. As detailed above, I saw the. same man in November
1996 and July 1998, both times in Ottawa.. Apart from these encounters,
there were. numerous incidents between 1994 and 1998 of harassment, of an
identical nature and in. most cases using identical words to what had
occurred in the UK. It became quite clear. to me that the permanent
surveillance and harassment operation which. MI5 had subjected me to in
England was being. continued.

For a team of four or five men to be employed overseas must cost. a lot
more than if they operate in their home. country. And for MI5 to continue
the operation for a period of over four years, continuously,. must cost
many hundreds of. thousands of pounds. This confirms my belief that the
state is funding the campaign. against mehat the Security Service receives
current annual funding of #160M. Divided by. 1850 staff, works out at
#86,000. But the unit annual cost of each "watcher". must be much higher
than this, especially given the frequently mobile and. overseas nature of
their actions of the last few. years. A very conservative figure might be a
little over #100,000 pa for each of a team of. five people, or half a
million pounds per year. For. nine years, so far. So the most conservative
estimate of the surveillance element alone is. perhaps four or five million
pounds. since 1990.

This guesstimate is of course theoretical - I. am not privy to inside
details of how MI5 split. their funding. But to take some other examples,
the cost. of a US counter-surveillance specialist per day is USD
5,000. Even if the agents permanently assigned. to me are not of this
calibre - even if. they employ specialists when difficult work planting
bugs etc is encountered - their salary and support. costs must still be
very high.. The individual agents are doing well for themselves as they are
well-paid to. exercise psychopathic instincts which in any sane society
would see them in prison; but the taxpayers who must fund this. terribly
wasteful exercise are being "done" out of hundreds of thousands of. pounds
each. year.

It must be emphasised that. the above estimates are highly
conservative. Besides the surveillance. operation, it must carry a high
cost in man-hours. to propagate covert slanders through the population; to
setup and maintain the. "interactive watching" links to TV and radio
stations, which these organisations continue desparately to. "lie and
deny"; and. to induce antipathy in co-workers which would not otherwise
exist.

Why they are wasting Millions of Pounds on a. "Nobody from South London"

As remarked in the prologue to this article, it is. really most
extraordinary that the Security Service. spends a chunk of its budget,
every year for nine years so far, on. a meaningless campaign against a
"nobody from South London". That they are spending such. a large amount of
money has been confirmed to me. on several occasions, usually by oblique
references to "its costing this country millions".. The supposed
"logic" behind the persecution is that. MI5 wish to avoid their harassment
of me, and the involvement of the UK media, to. be made public; yet as the
reader will appreciate that. is a circular argument, "theyre doing it
because they. want to keep it secret and avoid humiliation for themselves
and their country" begs the question, "why. did they start doing it in the
first. place?", to which in truth I myself do not know the answer.

Plainly MI5 with its rich budget can. afford half a million pounds a year
to waste. on a "nobody from South London". Some time ago I was talking to a
British surveillance professional on Compuserve. who told me "this work
costs a lot of money and is usally because. the person I am following has
done something (usually criminal) to warrant all this money. and time being
spent." Yet. in this particular case it is plainly not the "victims
fault" that the harassment is taking place. The. hate-campaign against me
is completely. the creation of the obsessive psychologies of the MI5 agents
who have. made themselves my persecutors; it is obviously a
"personal" campaign. for them, and for years they misuse taxpayer funding
to. feed their insane, unnatural and fixated fantasies.

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