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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 Tri