[Tfn-suggestions] Fw: MI-5,Persecution (use2) - Bernard Levin 1/6/96

[Robert Naughton]

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Subject: MI-5,Persecution (use2) - Bernard Levin 1/6/96


> Subject: Re: "FANATIC'S FARE FOR THE COMMON MAN"
> Newsgroups: uk.misc,uk.media,uk.legal,uk.politics.misc
> Followup-To: uk.misc,uk.media,uk.legal,uk.politics.misc
> References: <Ds0L1o.BMF.0.bloor@torfree.net>
<ADCF291096681F4E@cara.demon.co.uk>
> Organization: Toronto Free-Net
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> Peter Ceresole (peter@cara.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> : In article <Ds0L1o.BMF.0.bloor@torfree.net>,
> : bu765@torfree.net (Mike Corley) quoted a typical, overblown Bernard
Levin
> : piece, which sounds exactly like any number of other pieces by Levin
over
> : the past thirty years.
>
> : He then goes on to draw an anguished parallel with a totally
unrelated
> : incident that had happened between him and a friend a few days
earlier.
>
> It is in the same style as his other pieces, but it's so close to what
> actually happened a few days previously, that it's completely
reasonable
> to assume that someone told Levin about the meeting, hammed it up a
> little bit and motivated him to write that article.
>
> Look at the parallels;
>
> 1.  "madman running loose about London"
>
> 2.  it's about a meeting which took place recently
>
> 3.  the police are called (he must be controlled, however much that
> consumes in resources)
>
> 4.  he might be violent, approach with caution, yes we're laughing but
> really we're afraid of him, or is it perhaps our own propaganda that
> we're letting manipulate us
>
> 5.   he "bursts into tears, and swears it's all true - and it is" a
very
> exaggerated impression of the conclusion of that meeting
>
>
> Don't worry if you don't believe me, neither my friend to whom I
> explained this nor my GP believe me either (until the friend found out
> otherwise!). If someone just presented this to you as I am presenting
it
> now then I wouldn't find it credible (most likely), so it's not until
you
> actually find out it's true that you can find it credible. And by then
> it's too late, because they've got you in their trap and explained how
> "funny" the abuse is.
>