The Phone tap
Having your phone tapped is an interesting experience.
Firstly there were friends telling me that their calls had been intercepted. They had been asked who they were calling and what the nature of their call was. Then I noticed that there was a click on the line when I picked the phone up.
I put in a complaint. I began talking to the silent people at the end of the phone. BT provided me with a lame excuse.
After a while it stopped.
I had many interesting discussions regarding the reasons for my phone becoming tapped. At that point in time I was the NUT rep in school organising strike action. But that could not have been it. That was nowhere near sufficient to warrant a phone tap. I had been on a march protesting about a nuclear dump that was proposed near to Hull. That was a possibility. It had certainly been filmed by the police. But in the end we decided that it was the meeting in the library.
I was very concerned about the proposed nuclear dump. I did not believe the proposed encapsulating of nuclear waste in concrete blocks were sufficiently safe. The concrete would decay and radioactive isotopes leach into the aquifers polluting ground water and drinking water. I wanted nuclear waste properly disposed of in deep mines and a process of vitrification. This was more expensive but a lot safer. The nuclear industry did not have a very good record in this area.
A leaflet concerning a public meeting in the city library had come through the postbox and I had stuck it in the window.
On the day of the meeting I went along to the library and, much to my surprise, found a parking space directly outside. As I was expecting a big turn-out this surprised me.
I went in and the place seemed deserted. I was beginning to think I had the wrong day.
I asked the receptionist who directed me to a room in the basement.
I walked in to find six people there. They were delighted to see me and made me very welcome.
It turned out that they were an ultra-left wing group. Everyone knew that except me. The name on the leaflet might have been a clue.
We had a very interesting chat. They were very enthusiastic, dedicated individuals who were extremely idealistic.
I ended up with my phone being tapped.
We are the most watched Country in Europe, so nothing surprises me what goes on now or in the years gone by. You would have been of great interest to them.
I am only 3. I am not a big number. I don’t think they are worried about me.
Maybe they have been reading your books?
They can’t have done. I haven’t been bumped off yet!
I am lost for words, you beat me again.
‘Stopping ain’t that possible
This far into control’
Roy Harper
I have to figure this out. This is a quote from your friend obviously, is he saying those in control are out of control which of course they are – you have me confused and that would not take much.
Basically that our society has evolved to control us and that it is impossible at this juncture to overturn this. Freedom is not possible any longer. Society and the establishment are very much in control. It’s gone too far. We cannot escape it.
Do you really believe that, for if that is the real truth than it is frightening, what for the future generations. I can see how since Thatcher it was changing but then for me Blair ruined what was good in this Country changed it so much it can never be the England I knew. As for this lot, well so much sold to China, what next will be sold to them, that really frightens me how much China has been give.
We have to believe that in the midst of all this control we can still carve our a little niche in which we can fundamentally be ourselves. That is worth pursuing. We can be free thinking individuals. But the power of the institutions (Politics, religious, commercial) are pervasive. How much of what we think is implanted? Who knows. We are susceptible to subliminal nudging and propaganda. We do not know what is really going on or who is holding the power. We only know what we are told. A lot of the time we are reading between the lines.
I am indoctrinated.
It’s a first step.
When we watch the news, how much of that is not the real truth, they create the situations and wait for us to react. Particularly over these Isis scum. All of us are not fooled we see the truth in situations of Government staged murders that take place – they are watching emails now are they not. I don’t think you will agree with me but Diana’s death was convenient to say the least, and I can think of many more – have I gone too far.
yep – even the BBC.
Wow!
I believe we are all under surveillance. It is a question of how it is used.