M I-5 Persecu tion ' Capi tal R adio - C hris Tarr ant

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Capital Radio DJs have been "in. on it" from the start. One of the first
things I heard in the summer of 1990. was from a Capital DJ who said, "If
he listens to. Capital then he can't be all bad" (supportive, you see. We're
not bastards). Much. of what came over the radio in 1990 is now so far away
the precise details have been obliterated by. time. No diary was kept of the
details, and although. archives if they exist may give pointers, the
ambiguity. of what broadcasters said would leave that open to
re-interpretation.

In spring 1994, Chris Tarrant on his Capital. morning show made an aside to
someone else in the studio, about. a person he didn't identify. He said,
"You know this bloke? He says we're trying to kill him. We should. be done
for attempted. manslaughter".

That mirrored something I had said a day or two before. What Tarrant. said
was understood. by the staff member in the studio he was saying it to; they
said, "Oh. no, don't say that" to Tarrant. If any archives exist of the
morning show (probably unlikely). then it could be found there; what he said
was so out of context. that he would be very hard put to find an explanation.
A couple. of days later, someone at the site where I was working repeated the
remark although in a different way; they. said there had been people in a
computer room. when automatic fire extinguishers went off and those people
were "thinking of suing for. attempted manslaughter".

Finally, this isn't confined to the established radio. stations. In 1990
after I had listened. to a pirate radio station in South London for about
half an hour, there was an audible phone. call in the background, followed
by total. silence for a few moments, then shrieks of laughter. "So what are
we supposed to say now? Deadly torture? He's going to talk to us now,. isn't
he?", which meant that they could hear what I would say in. my room.

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should be a fact
without which we can have no knowledge of ourselves. For it is beyond doubt
that there is nothing which more shocks our reason than to say that the sin
of the first man has rendered guilty those who, being so removed from this
source, seem incapable of participation in it. This transmission does not
only seem to us impossible, it seems also very unjust. For what is more
contrary to the rules of our miserable justice than to damn eternally an
infant incapable of will, for a sin wherein he seems to have so little a
share that it was committed six thousand years before he was in existence?
Certainly nothing offends us more rudely than this doctrine; and yet without
this mystery, the most incomprehensible of all, we are incomprehensible to
ourselves. The knot of our condition takes its twists and turns in this
abyss, so that man is more inconceivable without this mystery than this
mystery is inconceivable to man.

Whence it seems that God, willing to render the difficulty of our exi

" etc.

309. Justice.--As custom determines what is agreeable, so also does it
determine justice.

310. King and tyrant.--I, too, will keep my thoughts secret.

I will take care on every journey.

Greatness of establishment, respect for establishment.

The pleasure of the great is the power to make people happy.

The property of riches is to be given liberally.

The property of each thing must be sought. The property of power is to
protect.

When force attacks humbug, when a private soldier takes the square cap off a
first president, and throws it out of the window.

311. The government founded on opinion and imagination reigns for some time,
and this government is pleasant and voluntary; that founded on might lasts
for ever. Thus opinion is the queen of the world, but might is its tyrant.

312. Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will
necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are
established.

313. Sound opinions of the people.--Civil wars are the greatest of evils.
They are inevitable, if we wish to reward desert; for all will say they are
deserving. The evil we have to fear from a fool who succeeds by right of
birth, is neither so great nor so sure.

314. God has created all for Himself. He has bestowed upon Himself the power

This mixture
dishonours and annihilates it. Nothing is purely true, and thus nothing is
true, meaning by that pure truth. You will say it is true that homicide is
wrong. Yes; for we know well the wrong and the false. But what will you say
is good? Chastity? I say no; for the world would come to an end. Marriage?
No; continence is better. Not to kill? No; for lawlessness would be
horrible, and the wicked would kill all the good. To kill? No; for that
destroys nature. We possess truth and goodness only in part, and mingled
with falsehood and evil.

386. If we dreamt the same thing every night, it would affect us as much as
the objects we see every day. And if an artisan were sure to dream every
night for twelve hours' duration that he was a king, I believe he would be
almost as happy as a king, who should dream every night for twelve hours on
end that he was an artisan.

If we were to dream every night that we were pursued by enemies and harassed
by these painful phantoms, or that we passed every day in different
occupations, as in making a voyage, we should suffer almost as much as if it
were real, and should fear to sleep, as we fear to wake when we dread in
fact to enter on such mishaps. And, indeed, it would cause pretty nearly the
same discomforts as the reality.

But since dreams are all different, and each single one is diversified, what
is seen in them affects us much less than what we see when awake, because of
its continuity, which is not, however, so continuous and level as not to
change too; but it changes less abruptly, except rarely, as when we travel,
and then we say, "It seems to me I am dreaming." For life is a dream a
little less inconstant.

387. It may be that there are true demonstrations; but this is not certain.
Thus, this proves nothing else but that it is not certain that all is
uncertain, to the glory of scepticism.

388. Good sense.--They are compelled to say, "You are not acting in good
faith; we are not asleep," etc. How I love t