"We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when an adult is afraid of the light." Attributed to Plato.
Australia has the worst internet in the world due to staggering government incompetence, he muttered to himself for the umpteenth time. One of millions under the yoke.
Dedicated to all the Watchers on the Watch, to the predators in the walls and the pissants on TV, to all those lost in the schizophrenic wash of modern Australia.
Caught in an insanity that would not stop. Ruled over by the greediest, most avaricious and incompetent pack of lawyers ever to grab the wheels of power. "You're not the first person to jump to that conclusion."
Power only for themselves. To feather their own nests. Massage their own egos. To plunder the populace with their out of control taxes. To destroy the nation that once was, all for their own benefit.
And to plunder, plunder, plunder. These creaking, screeching feather dusters they called politicians. In a failed democracy. A failed system. Ruled by fear and excessive policing. The country on Earth which surveyed its citizens more than any other. Because the truth of their own staggering incompetence could not leak out. Or there would be a revolt.
There was already revolt. The seeds of revolution. In the short term, the long term, in the way which clouds of troubled destiny mustered over the horizon.
Old Alex listened to ribald jokes at the evening Table of Knowledge. And stared out to sea.
Staggering incompetence combined with staggering levels of surveillance. To keep together a stitched up ship that was falling apart as we speak.
Dangerous levels of discontent. Public policy entirely mismanaged.
Nothing in the country worked. Nothing was fair. Nobody expected anything else anymore.
Mismanaged courts, mismanaged bureaucracies, public servants on fabulous junkets, everyday a new story about the waste of billions in public funds.
By governments which mismanaged everything, be it local, state or federal.
It had to stop. Someone had to take stock. There had to be a forensic audit. There had to be a leader with a solid dose of common sense.
Who would ask the simple question of every last dollar of public expenditure: why should someone go to work in a factory to pay taxes to support this.
And sweep the infrastructure clean.
Instead, because nobody could tell the truth, because now the gross expenditures and madness in public office had reached such high levels of farce, the country was turning into a police state. Every minute offer under scrutiny. Every tedious little human indiscretion. Every off colour joke. Every failure to comply with the government narrative: we are a unified, prosperous, leading edge nation, the most successful multicultural society on earth, with the best security services, the best legal system. The best of everything. To repeat endlessly, "we are lucky to live here. If I'm ever overseas, I can't wait to get home. There's nowhere else in the world better than Australia."
"He has a point," said one of the Watchers on the Watch, and he would laugh with them, if only he could.
And tell the tedious little policeman on a different shift, with his parsimonious attitude and his vainglory obsession with his own career, to eff off. He was 65-years-old and he didn't care anymore. They had done their worst.
There was no compensation for years of abuse. For surveillance was abuse. The equivalent of torture.
There was no apology for the services misuse of vigilante groups in their hunting of a target.
There was no way to say no.
The curse had been cast before he could even think.
Nothing will go right in your life ever again.
The public mistook the followers of Lord Buddha as weak. It was as much about power as inner revolution. It had nothing to do with peace.
They climbed the spires, and could see as far into the distance as it was possible to see, every danger, every collapsing empire, every simpering, self-serving, parsimonious fool on the edge of known civilisation.
Time and the impending revolution would clear them all from the wreckage. These pissants.
THE BIGGER STORY:
“Gang Stalking” is, very likely, a disinformation term created by U.S. intelligence agencies. It refers to the intense, long-term, unconstitutional surveillance and harassment of a person who has been designated as a target by someone associated with America’s security industry.
Such operations have nothing to do with criminal gangs. Official domestic counterintelligence operations of this type are – apparently – perpetrated by federal agents and intelligence/security contractors, sometimes with the support of state and local law enforcement personnel. Unofficial operations of this type are, apparently, perpetrated by private investigators and vigilantes – including many former agents and cops, some of whom are members of the quasi-governmental Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Units (LEIU), sometimes on behalf of corporate clients and others with connections to the public and private elements of America’s security industry.
The goal of such operations – in the parlance of counterintelligence agents – is “disruption” of the life of an individual deemed to be an enemy (or potential enemy) of clients or members of the security state. Arguably, the most accurate term for this form of harassment would be “counterintelligence stalking.” Agents of communist East Germany’s Stasi (state police) referred to the process as Zersetzung (German for “decomposition” or “corrosion” – a reference to the severe psychological, social, and financial effects upon the victim). American and British victims have described the process as “no-touch torture”– a phrase which also captures the nature of the crime: cowardly, unethical (and often illegal), but difficult to prove legally, because it generates minimal forensic evidence.
Tactics include – but are not limited to – slander, blacklisting, “mobbing” (intense, organized harassment in the workplace), “black bag jobs” (residential break-ins), abusive phone calls, computer hacking, framing, threats, blackmail, vandalism, “street theater” (staged physical and verbal interactions with minions of the people who orchestrate the stalking), harassment by noises, and other forms of bullying.
Both the facts and the geographical distribution of relevant published news reports – as well as other evidence cited on this website – suggest that such stalking is sanctioned (and in some cases, orchestrated) by federal agencies; however, news reports, credible anecdotal information, and my own experiences, indicate that such stalking is also sometimes used unofficially for personal and corporate vendettas by current and former corrupt employees of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, private investigators, and their clients.
Since counterintelligence stalking goes far beyond surveillance – into the realm of psychological terrorism, it is essentially a form of extrajudicial punishment. As such, the harassment is illegal – even when done by the government. It clearly violates, for example, the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unwarranted searches, and the Sixth Amendment – which guarantees the right to a trial. Such operations also violate similar fundamental rights defined by state constitutions. Stalking is also specifically prohibited by the criminal codes of every state in America.