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You're a good soldier in the wildly imbalanced war within the global nation-state caste system, Vicki. Please be careful.

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And not in a good way

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"I seem to always bring out pettiness out of people, or institutions. Is it because I myself am a petty individual?"

Not at all. You are however combative. You may see their combative actions and reactions as petty. More or less by being combative, aggressive, you will inevitably get aggressive, even combative reactions.

It may help to understand that policing is a bit like cat and mouse, and you're a mouse. Last post you were telling the world how you wish to learn to do violence to the police, and now you are shocked and offended that they seem (seem) to have not much desire to protect you. And this is surprising how? Are you perhaps a millonheiress, donating scads of cash to the policemens' benevolent association? Or perhaps Shushu is an Australian senator? Or maybe you think the police are there in life specifically to protect you - and you think that way because?

Most liberals are entitled and over-privileged. It's a-okay if you want to cast yourself as a liberal dissident in opposition to the Chinese regime. Yet, there is at least some poutrage here.

Would it comfort you to know you are not worth killing?

Everyone makes a trade-off between visibility and security. You want to be in the public eye, so cannot be surprised at being surveiled. You're being surveilled all the time anyway so either avoid the public eye entirely or be happy that at least there will be a nasty trail of blood to trace since there are cameras everywhere (with I may say a consequently greatly reduced incidence of petty crime).

Your not petty, just aggressive, possibly unrealistic, certainly entertaining.

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Jesus H F-ing Christ! I only saw your substack the other day (the pistol pic) annd posted a reply, having no idea who you were or what you were going through! I mean, I’ve recently read articles about the PR harassing and threatening critics abroad, but yours is the first personal experience I’ve read. I’m so sorry that you’ve had to endure this. I guess I’ll be spending the weekend reading all your posts! Well, you have another person in the US rooting for you! Thank you for sharing your story. I don’t even know what else to say…

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I wish I could help you more than just hoping the best for you, and lobbying my local member of Parliament to increase their knowledge of what's happening.

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Wishing you all the best, for what’s it’s worth.

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Fact is, police departments all over the world make use of IMSI catchers/cell site simulators. They also have what is called in USA non-investigative subject lists, which are like suspected terrorist lists that aren't official terrorist lists. Australia as a member of the Five Eyes has its own similar version. If you are politically active they will load backdoor software onto your phone. They use the cell site simulators in all major cities and townships. It acts as a man-in-the-middle situation. They automatically load the software, which used to be called stuff like Pegasus, but now is probably called something else. Anyways, yes, your phone is always hacked. They can do whatever they want and it is very likely that they noticed you said something about them. They invariably let you know in sly, subtle ways such as this....

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