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Posted by Bob on 01/03/08 00:12
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stiloro. Mea putah, mea putah, mea maxima putah chi.
<vfvfve@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:sn0800011444296473@4ax.com...
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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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