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 Posted by ieivemie on 12/31/07 09:17 
MI5 Persecution Update: Friday 11 June,. 1999 
 
Harassment in a. pub in Clapham, Tuesday lunchtime 
 
Once a month, or. once every other month, I meet a Polish friends of mine 
who lives in Clapham North, and sometimes we go to. a particular pub near 
where he lives. The last time was some. two months ago; I did not have my 
minidisc-walkman with me,. and consequently was seriously harassed by 
people MI5 had instructed to harass me,. in the pub. 
 
This Tuesday, 8. June 1999, we again went to the same pub for a pre-meal 
drink. This time I did have my minidisc-walkman with me. As you. can guess, 
we were followed. into the pub by a couple of young people (Im getting 
older and older - isnt it. funny how the MI5 agents all look young these 
days?). They started. talking about my situation, in particular some travel 
I had booked the previous day.. Unfortunately, they were talking fairly 
quietly, and my. minidisc didnt pick up their speech. 
 
MI5s schizophrenic. reasoning is that simultaneously I am very important 
and worthy of their acts. of persecution, and I am also totally unimportant 
and their abuse of. me "doesnt matter". Perhaps they should test their 
agents and managers for obsessive personalities. or psychotic features in 
the same way as employees are drug-tested.. MI5 might lose their "worst 
cases" employees if some psychological testing were applied to. their 
recruitment. procedure. 
 
Toothless Watchdogs. What. a Surprise. 
 
Recently I have been engaging in communications with. two watchdogs, the 
Security Service Tribunal which deals with complaints. against the security 
service (and always clears MI5 of any wrongdoing),. and the Data Protection 
Registrar,. which is mandated to investigate misuse of personal data held 
on. computer. 
 
In a letter to Nick. Brooks, Security Service Tribunal secretary, dated 20 
April, I asked him if the. Tribunal, as an allegedly independent body, had 
the means to investigate complaints against MI5. other than asking MI5 to 
themselves investigate complaints. To. my disappointment, his reply two 
weeks. later answered the question only indirectly, in the 
negative. Whatever the reader might. think of the merits of the case I have 
been putting before you in faxed articles this last year and. half, you 
will surely recognise that it is a significant anomaly for the Tribunal. to 
have no independent means of. investigating complaints, particularly given 
the view expressed even. by previous home secretaries that the security 
services. are untrustworthy. 
 
 
 
MI5 Persecution: No Justice. for the Victims of MI5 
 
In a previous article. I detailed the similarities between the current MI5 
Persecution in. England, and other historical instances of similar 
persecution, notably that. by the Nazi Germans in the thirties and 
forties. The Germans persecuted first the mentally ill, the epileptics. and 
those suffering from. schizophrenia, then moved on to racial groups; in 
todays Britain. the persecution is again directed at those with mental 
illness, which the British in their cowardice find. easier than taking on 
racial groups as the. Germans did. But just as in Thirties Germany there 
was. no recourse against a malign and omnipotent state, so the MI5 Secret 
Police. in the modern British Fascist State allow no justice for their 
victims. 
 
No Recourse Against the Security. Services Illegal Harassment 
 
It has become apparent to me over the last nine years just. how loaded the 
dice are in todays Britain, a. fundamentally fascist country which 
masquerades as a democracy. Britain is a democracy in. name only; the 
Establishment,. the defence and MI5 secret police are always there, 
regardless of which party has been voted into. power most recently - and 
from "New Labours" conduct in. office one finds it difficult to tell them 
apart from Old Tories, in their crackdowns on the sick. and vulnerable in 
society. 
 
In thirties Germany. the victims of the Nazi regime had no legal recourse 
against their. State oppressors; and in todays Fascist British state, the 
victims of the Establishment and its MI5 Secret Police similarly. have no 
recourse against the illegal state-funded and. organised oppression. There 
is supposed to be a mechanism for dealing with. MI5 crimes, in the shape of 
the Security Service Tribunal and Commissioner; yet these have never. found 
favour of a plaintiff.. One might as well ask the Nazi SS to investigate 
crimes against epileptics or Jews as ask the. Security Service Tribunal to 
investigate. MI5 crimes against British citizens; it is quite obvious what 
the answer is going to be, regardless of what you say to them, and. what 
evidence you provide. The Tribunal. and Commissioner are a mere formality, 
a whitewashing body to give the Secret Services. a veneer beneath which 
they hide their. shabby criminality. 
 
"Institutional Racism" and Bigotry in the. Metropolitan Police 
 
The. recent inquiry into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence found clear 
evidence of systematic and deliberate racism. in the Metropolitan Police, 
which cannot have surprised. anyone. Commissioner Sir Paul Condon accepted 
a somewhat lukewarm definition of institutional racism as. being 
"unconscious". In. truth, and this truth must surely be obvious to anyone 
who has any familiarity or encountered the. great British police, the Met 
has. not just "unconscious" racism, but very clearly "conscious" and 
deliberate racism, of the kind that. would have done Thirties Germans 
proud. And it is a bastion of such open racism - when many. other parts of 
society are learning. to live in a multicultural environment, the Met is 
still living in the past. in its attitude to the minorities. 
 
But in addition to the systematic racism confirmed. by the Lawrence 
inquiry,. there is also something much more relevant to this case, which is 
systematic police bigotry against the physically. and mentally disabled, 
which I personally have experienced in my dealings. with the police over 
the years. You cannot. expect equal treatment if you are mentally 
disabled. I tried to make a complaint to the police in 1995. about the 
harassment I. had been subjected to for several years. As soon as they 
found out I had mental illness, they refused to. even talk to me. I tried 
again in March 1999;. the police made various threats to me, while ranting 
about "your paranoid. rubbish" in reference to the complaints expressed to 
them. 
 
The police refusal to do the job they. are employed and paid to do is 
extremely. serious, particularly as this case is highly important, indeed 
key to. the whole issue of British self-perception at the end of the 20th 
century and the beginning of the 21st century. Britain. has lost much in 
the last fifty years - it has lost. an empire, it has lost its self-respect 
and its identity as. a people. If the MI5 persecution finally makes it into 
the light and the Security Services are seen for the rather cheap. bullies 
their behaviour indicates, it will. have a massive and harmful effect on 
British self-perception in the new. century. 
 
Security Service Tribunal  -. Blatant Whitewashing 
 
A few weeks ago I spoke. on the phone to Nick Brooks, the Secretary of the 
Security Service Tribunal, which is supposed to. deal with cases of MI5 
transgression. I asked him if the Tribunal had ever found in. favour of a 
plaintiff and against the Security Service. He. answered that as far as he 
knew,. it had not. 
 
I. also asked Mr Brooks if the Tribunal had any means of investigating 
allegations of criminal activity by MI5, other than. asking MI5 themselves 
if they had engaged in such activity.. His rather circuitous written reply 
states that the 1989. Security Service Act provides that "it shall be the 
duty of every member of the Service to disclose or give to. the Tribunal 
such documents or information as. they may require for the purpose of 
enabling them to carry out their functions. under this Act". Which is a 
very round-about way of saying - "No" - the Tribunal has no. way of 
investigating. MI5 crimes - None At All. 
 
Setting up the S.S. Tribunal, and creating a. Security Service 
Commissioner, was really an act of falsehood by. the government. It is 
generally recognised that MI5 are out of reach of. the normal criminal 
justice system. - the police, as we have seen, have no intesot answer to 
the government;. in a previous article I quoted Roy Jenkins speaking of "a 
secretive atmosphere.... secretive vis-a-vis the government as. well as 
[enemies]", and a "lack of frankness" from. MI5. 
 
If the government wanted to, it could reform the secret. services and 
ensure they. acted in conformance with the laws which have been enacted for 
them in the last ten years. But apparently the present government. does not 
see any need to. ensure security service compliance with the law. As noted 
above, the regulatory machinery for MI5 is deliberately weak;. the Tribunal 
has no independent means of investigation,. and it is simply a waste of 
time. complaining to the Tribunal or Commissioner. 
 
Every so. often, fresh revelations come to light of secret service 
transgressions. We have heard. from Shayler that MI5 bugged Jack Straw and 
Peter Mandelson; we have heard from Peter Wright that MI5. plotted to see 
Wilson ejected from office; yet so closed. is the system of government that 
the law is never enforced against MI5 when. they "bug and burgle" everyone 
from. politicians to ordinary citizens. 
 
No Justice from the. Legal System, either 
 
Britain has a civil and criminal justice. system which effectively limits 
many complaints from being heard. For. a civil complaint to be brought 
before a court, you need a solicitor willing to. act on your 
behalf. Supposedly. it is possible to represent yourself as a 
Litigant-in-Pthe basis of. being "frivolous and vexatious" or "disclosing 
no cause for action in law". This is exactly what happened to me in. 1997 
when. I twice tried to take the BBC to court for spying on me in my living 
room at home; my case was. twice struck out, and on the second occasion an 
order was made. against me that I could not bring further civil litigation 
against. the BBC without leave of the court. 
 
As the reader can guess it is quite impossible. for a person with 
schizophrenia, who complains about the secret. services and media 
interfering in his life, to find a solicitor willing to represent. him in 
legal action against the persecutors. I have quite. a lot of evidence of 
the. continuing persecution which I have posted on the website, even if the 
evidence is. quite tentative and perhaps open to varying 
interpretations. But I have tried several firms of solicitors;. some of 
them have acted unprofessionally and abused me;. all of them have refused 
to represent me. My psychiatrist gave me the name of the firm. of Bindman 
and Partners. in central London, and I have approached them twice. On each 
occasion. they refused to accept my instructions. Plainly the problem with 
Bindmans, which they. have admitted, is their bigotry against mentally 
disabled people; yet. this is not just something that is wrong with 
Bindmans, it is something. that is wrong with the legal system as a whole, 
since the legal. system necessitates finding a solicitor willing to 
represent you in. order to bring a case to court, but it does not have a 
mechanism for providing a lawyer. in the case where no solicitor is willing 
to take on your. case. So the British legal system is such as to prevent 
cases such. as mine from ever receiving an airing in a court. 
 
So much for the civil courts. But the. criminal justice system is no 
better. Two years ago the Protection from Harassment Act. came into 
force. But again, while the Act. is all very well on paper, in practice it 
is unenforceable in my case, since it would require Police action. to see 
the law implemented, and if the police cannot even. be trusted to conduct a 
murder investigation competently (in the Lawrence. case), then what chance 
is there of their investigating complaints. against the Security 
Service? Of course, it would be possible for me. to personally issue 
proceedings through a private. prosecution either against MI5 themselves, 
or against one or more of their media tools; but here we see. the same 
problems as with the civil courts, because first of all. I would have to 
find a lawyer. willing to act on my behalf. Litigants-in-person do exist in 
the criminal courts,. but the Attorney General can bring such a prosecution 
to an end by taking. it over and entering a plea of "nolle prossequi"; and 
I suspect. that if I were to bring a private prosecution against either MI5 
or one of. their media tools, then this is exactly what would happen. 
 
So much for British. justice. But if anything the wrongs that have been 
perpetrated on me by the British justice system are. quite mild to what 
others have suffered. Others have been wrongly convicted based on. police 
evasions. and lies, and spent many years in jail based on false charges. I 
should count myself lucky that despite the best. efforts of the MI5 secret 
police,. I have not acquired any criminal charges or convictions; which 
shows that. for all their resources and influence, and the clear 
imperfections in. the British legal system, there are still limits on how 
much subversion MI5 can. achieve. 
 
The latest. in a long line of injustices 
 
A comment. I heard during the recent scandal of the police mishandling of 
the Lawrence murder investigation is that "its not as if. the police 
themselves murdered him". This is not a particularly. wise statement to 
make about the case, since. it could be argued that the four alleged 
murderers were aided in their crime by the. expectation that the police 
would. deliberately botch the investigation - which of course is exactly 
what the. police did. 
 
But in my case, this would be a completely inaccurate thing to say. - since 
the MI5 secret-police have expressly been trying to nine years. now to see 
an end put to my life, either by having me incarcerated and my. liberty 
ended, or by forcing self-termination on me. It. is exactly as if the 
secret police "themselves murdered [me]", since. that is what their aim is 
in their. campaign against me. 
 
The public has heard of instances of police mishandling of. cases, of 
police. manufacturing evidence, lying in court, extracting false 
confessions. to clear up crimes, et cetera. Various instances of 
extra-legal activity by the secret services. have also come to light in the 
last few years. The unhappy truth is that what. MI5 have been doing to me 
for the last nine years is. really nothing out of the ordinary for them. To 
me it seems unbelievable that this sort. of systematic campaign of 
harassment, which thousands and thousands of. people in this country and 
abroad are well aware of, could exist for such a long. period of time with 
the media maintaining "omerta". But my case is. not the first such instance 
of persecution by the "British. secret police", and judging by the lack of 
any real controls on MI5,. I very much doubt it will be the last. 
 
4693 
 
 
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