ANIMAL FORUM

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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 wasnt 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 youre 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 whod said it wasnt fair asked. me in winter 1992 why
> I
> didnt seek help from a psychiatrist; was it, he asked, because they.
> would
> think they had won if I sought treatment? That. was something Id 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. peoples 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 doesnt 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 hes ill, so he must
> have been imagining that we were getting. at him. Shitty, arent 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 didnt 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 companys 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 Ill bet they didnt. tell the
> companys
> 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 girls giggling suddenly ceased; presumably it permeated. to her brain
> cell what the purpose of the boys. 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 shouldnt 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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> just who in the blue hell is this guy? and why does he keep spamming the
> hell out of this ng with what seems to me as random gibberish?
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