The day our security agencies decided that neo-crime and dark figure did not need a law-enforcement response was the day we opened the doors to a future Ukraine; an organised criminality in the UK where we now have an army of embedded criminals in all levels of society which outnumbers the British armed forces; and a broad and widely shared sense of citizen, perhaps even political-party, hopelessness about everything that happens quite toxically to Western and related democracies. That is, none of us can reasonably believe in better any more.
Mil Williams, Chester UK, 18th January 2024
What follows …
What follows is a series of observations on a real case of targeted gaslighting on a democratic citizen — myself, being one of many similarly affected over the years by a nexus, I guess, of tech-bros and outlier security interests in the UK, and maybe other states and actors, too: a longitudinal case which already led to my undue and improper incarceration for a month in a UK mental facility back in 2003, after an experience in a broken-backed open-source community the previous year of 2002 called OpenOffice.org.
This open-source site was sponsored and paid for mainly by the then Sun Microsystems, but the dysfunctionality arose from both sides: corporate and independent developers in equal parts.
First, then, a poem about the impact this has had on me over the years.
“tech-bro”: a #poem by #milwilliams
in english a bro of the tech nature killed me
in swedish a bro is a bridge
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if only i’d been able to make my life again
in a land like the latter where good people rule
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but my pain and misery all came from the place
where i had the misfortune to be born
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and whilst in swedish a tech-bro
would be a path to a better future
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in english it’s better so much better
to be burned
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but since i don’t believe in burning anyone
i reason the problem is myself
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and so it’s myself
that mathematically must be removed
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from any equation that includes
the future of humankind
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this is why when the tech-bros
of english-speaking lands
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burnt my person
in the manner of a most inflammatory form
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of gaslighting imaginable
in its scorn
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i never forgot
what they did to me
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just as i began to fly
and just as i began to try
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to lift my head higher
and fly to better skies
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why now i burn those bros memories
even though arson is not my thing
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but not as beautiful bridges of swedish ways
but as stupid men of patriarchal “hey!”
More on the video and how it continues to impact me
The video embedded at the top of this article was, as already alluded to, posted by an unknown person or persons, or an organisation, around the time the Guardian newspaper published a reader profile of me:
• https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2015/feb/13/good-to-meet-you-miljenko-williams
It was a clear example of self-interested gaslighting by those who didn’t want me to begin to build bridges to good and progressive discourses in British society such as the aforementioned newspaper, and therefore perhaps one day gain access to what for me would be a truly self-validating public platform.
Personally, I never forgot this video, and I believe as I write these words that if its creators were ever revealed, the two decades and more of neo-terrorism on the individual — by any other name, cognitive warfare on a specific and targeted individual such as myself — which I have been subjected to at today’s moment of writing this article would now have responsible parties, as well as a clear motive and notable set of explanations.
That is a world absolutely not fit-for-purpose. Absolutely not.
No?
So what do we do?
The day our security agencies decided that neo-crime and dark figure did not need a law-enforcement response was the day we opened the doors to a future Ukraine, an organised criminality in the UK where we now have an army of embedded criminals in all levels of society which outnumbers the British armed forces, and a broad and widely shared sense of citizen, perhaps even political-party, hopelessness about everything that happens quite toxically to Western and related democracies. That is, none of us can reasonably believe in better any more:
• gb2earth.com/hunch/neocrime | #darkfigure #neocrime
We need to believe in better, of course: but in order to begin to have a right to do so we must say enough is enough in the grey area of discretionary law enforcement and security where discretion is given a bad name in the interests of expediency. That is, in precisely that area of operational manoeuvres which utilises both dark figure and what I prefer to call neo-crime, whatever side of the law we find ourselves on.
We can only reacquire the authority Western democracy once had if we start to deliver on this: only this. And we shall not, until and if we do.
Ever again.
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