M.I,5-Pers ecution . bugg ing an d co unter-surveillance

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PO: >Did you ever look for the bugs in your house ?. If not, why not ? I mean if
PO: >I. thought that was happening to me, I'd search the place from top to bottom,
PO: >I mean I live there I would know if anything was. out of place. If I was
PO: >really suspicious, I would call in one of. those bug detection teams which
PO:. >have those machines that pick up the transmitted radio waves. This
PO:. >reminds me of BUGS, that new programme on BBC1 on

That's exactly what we did. We went to a competent,. professional detective
agency in London, paid them over 400 quid. to debug our house. They used
scanner devices. which go to over 1 GHz and would pick up any nearby
transmitter in that range, they also checked. the phones and found
nothing... but. if the tap was at the exchange, then they wouldn't find
anything,. would they?

CS: >Doesn't this suggest to you. that there are, in fact, no bugs to be found?

You can assume that they've done this sort of thing to. other people in more
"serious" cases, where they would know the targets would suspect. the
presence of electronic surveillance. So they will have. developed techniques
and devices which are. not readily detectable either by visual inspection or
by. electronic means. What those techniques might be, I couldn't guess.

In this case, the existence of. bugging devices was clear from the
beginning, and they "rubbed it in" with. what was said by the boy on the
coach. It was almost as if. they wanted counter-surveillance people to be
called in, who they knew would fail to detect. the bugging devices, causing
loss of credibility to the other things I would have to say. relating to the
harassment.

I did all the things someone in my situation would do. to try to find the
bugs. In addition to calling. in professional help using electronic
counter-surveillance, I made a close. visual inspection of electrical
equipment, plus any points where audio. or video surveillance devices might
have been concealed. Of course, I. found nothing. Normal surveillance
"mini-cameras". are quite noticeable and require visible supporting
circuitry. It seems to me. the best place to put a small video surveillance
device would be additional to a piece of electronic equipment such as a. TV
or video. It. would be necessary to physically break in to a property to fit
such a. device.

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and we find a man. Whereas those who have good
taste, and who, seeing a book, expect to find a man, are quite surprised to
find an author. Plus poetice quam humane locutus es.2 Those honour Nature
well who teach that she can speak on everything, even on theology.

30. We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. The rule is
uprightness.

Beauty of omission, of judgement.

31. All the false beauties which we blame in Cicero have their admirers, and
in great number.

32. There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a
certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the
thing which pleases us.

Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song,
discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, rooms, dress, etc.
Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have
good taste.

And as there is a perfect relation between a song and a house which are made
after a good model, because they are like this good model, though each after
its kind; even so there is a perfect relation between things made after a
bad model. Not that the bad model is unique, for there are many; but each
bad sonnet, for example, on whatever false model it is formed, is just like
a woman dressed after that model.

Nothing makes us understand better the ridiculousness of a false sonnet than
to consider nature and the standard and, then, to imagine a woman or a house
made according to that standard.

33. Poetical beauty.--As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak
of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and the
reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it
consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists
in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object
of poetry. We do not know the natural model which we ought to imitate; and
through lack of this knowledge, we have c

that of Jesus
Christ expressly traced through Tamar, Ruth, etc.

Those who ordained these sacrifices knew their uselessness; those who have
declared their uselessness, have not ceased to practise them.

If God had permitted only one religion, it has been too easily known; but
when we look at it closely, we clearly discern the truth amidst this
confusion.

The premiss.--Moses was a clever man. If, then, he ruled himself by his
reason, he would say nothing clearly which was directly against reason.

Thus all the very apparent weaknesses are strength. Example; the two
genealogies in Saint Matthew and Saint Luke. What can be clearer than that
this was not concerted?

579. God (and the Apostles), foreseeing that the seeds of pride would make
heresies spring up, and being unwilling to give them occasion to arise from
correct expressions, has put in Scripture and the prayers of the Church
contrary words and sentences to produce their fruit in time.

So in morals He gives charity, which produces fruits contrary to lust.

580. Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and
some defects to show that she is only His image.

581. God