Fra min mailboks

From: ********
Sent: 17. april 1999 16:43
To: jgaa@jgaa.com
Subject: Support from China

Hi, Jarle:
I come from P.R.China, I heard about your story
from your wonderful War-FTP Daemon's Help, I support
you and appriciate your brave action. You are a 
true hero in this world which is full of smell
of $.

Last year I downloaded your FTPD and found it was
the best I had seen, then I introduced it to a lot of
my friends.

I hope your make great progress in the future.
Thanks again to your free FTPD and welcome to China.

Thanks for your kind letter. It feels strange to receive support letters from China, as China is used as the ultimate example of a country ignoring and violating human right - in the western press. Personally, I have feeling that China have earned this position first of all because China is "far away from us" both geographically and cultural. By pointing at someone else, the western authorities takes the focus away from their own crimes and domestic problems.

Some times, I also feel very sad, because I know the impact the violation of my rights had on me, - and then I receive letters from all over the world, from people who have similar or worse experiences - but are totally alone, ignored and unknown. The human right organizations know about only few of the offences done by the governments all over the world, - and very few of the offences committed by western regimes. Most of the victims are left alone, without any support or help from anyone.

I would love to visit China some day, - but if I were to go anywhere today, - I would go to Serbia, as a human shield against the NATO bombs.

Jarle

Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:06:25 -0700
Resent-From: WebMaster 
Resent-To: jgaa@jgaa.com
Subject: Uforbeholden Tilbedelse
From: <****@online.no>
To: webmaster@jgaa.com
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:11:07 +0100

I never ever heard of you until tonight, as I installed WarDaemonFTP.
The layout and style didn't seem Microsoft'ish , but the feature list is
one of the longest I've seen. 
The homepage was also interesing reading , at first phrases like "killing
judges and police officers" and "the best FTP server ever written , made me
somewhat sceptical . But after finishing the document I'm wholly convinced,
this freeware FTPserver is both technical and ideologically better than the
rest. 

Keep up the good work. And secure the web for the people. 

I really , really like what you are doing. 

If you read Bergens Tidende today, there is an article about Mohammed Ali Pourin, the Iraqi refugee who was sentenced to 9 year in prison, and served more than 3 years, for a murder he did not commit. (The prosecutor, who got him innocently convicted, Walter Wangberg, is the same who destroyed my life). Pourin got 2.5 million Kroner from the state as a compensation for his sufferings. What's interesting in the article, is that the man is still bitter. He suffers from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), and has in many ways become an old man, just 39 years old! PTSD is quite common for innocently convicted prisoners. I felt something was wrong and asked for help just weeks after I was sent to jail. The shrink there ignored the symptoms on PTSD, and I soon felt that I was wasting my time talking to him. Today I still suffer from PTSD, but after all these years, there is no point in trying to deal with it. PTSD must be cured as early as possible, - starting a healing process after 4 - 5 years is meaningless. I'll rather use the rage it cause as a source of energy to reach my objectives in life:)

If you understand this, it is easier to understand my language and why I act like I do. "Killing cops and judges" is however not just empty words. It's something I'm quite capable of, mentally and physically. But doing so at this time would not make me reach my primary goals - which is to destroy the people who destroyed my life. The best way to do that is not to see them suffer just a few seconds before they are shot - just to make them national heroes in the fight against cruel and violent criminals. I was neither cruel or violent before they attacked me - and I've never been a criminal - but that's something that will remain forgotten for all times if I act in a violent manner now.

But again - it's hard to understand my attitude and language for people who don't share my experiences. If you've never been given a reason to hate - you can't understand the true nature of hate - and you feel uncomfortable with the rhetoric's of hate.

If War FTPD is the best FTP server ever written, I don't know - but it's the largest, with more then 100.000 lines in C++. It's probably also the one that has most working hours put into it. Large is not an objective in itself, and I'm now trying to reduce the number of lines, partially by merging modules and simplifying the design, and partially by writing code-generators that creates complex C++ code from simple descriptions of algorithms and data structures. I never expected War FTPD to be this popular, originally I wrote it for my own use. But it's fun that people like it, and I try to live up to the expectations for the next version.

-
Jarle Aase
Author of freeware.

From: <***.demon.co.uk>
To: jgaa@jgaa.com
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 17:59:33 GMT
Subject: Hello
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d)

I have used your War FTP Daemon for some time now. It has been 
of interest to me in exploring facets of teh Internet that would have 
been impossible, setting up server software for use over the Internet.

It was always quite impressive, and I have now downloaded the 1.7 
version which I am starting to configure. It was during reading 
through the start of the help files that I noticed your story. 

Being British, I have a strong sense of justice and a feeling of fair 
play that transcends that found from other nationalities. (Though, 
this is not exclusively British ! we are much more concerned about 
abuse of power by the government and its agencies).

I am deeply shocked by your story. That you are gay is of no 
relevance to me, I have gay friends and run an anti deportation 
campaign for one of them. That you are harrassed and falsely 
convicted of a criminal offence in a European country just because 
a police officer took a dislike to you is an absolute disgrace.

Your government ought to hang its head in shame at these events.

In Great Britain, mistakes are made for the same reasons. The 
police are known to have given false testimony to the courts. 
Eventually, they are found out and compensation is offered to the 
victim. There is an increasing voice that he officers are prosecuted 
that they be made to answer the charges against them that they 
have perverted the course of justice.

This movement is growing and the government is taking notice. 
Some police forces, notably that in London, are starting to 
investigate officers for corruption and racism. This is following 
severe criticism in the courts and the appeal court.

I admire your courage in publishing your case in such a wide forum 
as the Internet. I do hope that you succeed in your ambitions and 
that you receive justice for your suffering. Always remember, that 
action in this world often comes down to the effotrs of a single 
individual. It was one person, Ghandi, who laid the seeds for the 
destruction of the British Empire. 

Thanks for your mail.

In Norway, the politicians and press are very concerned about human rights violations - in other countries. The fact that the police indeed use torture and also imprisonment in order to get confessions, or false allegations (from so called witnesses) - are silently ignored. The police in my hometown, Bergen, has a very bad reputation for brutality here in Norway, and received massive criticism from the supreme court a while ago. The criticism is however totally ignored by the police and local justice authorities.

A short time after the supreme court ruling about police brutality in Bergen in the 80ts (the ruling was earlier this year) the law students in Bergen had an open session at the local university about the matter. A professor specializing in police brutality, the police headmaster in Bergen and one of the two state prosecutors here participated. But the session was a great disappointment. First of all, only a handful of students and a few journalists showed up. The police master said he was very concerned about police brutality, but that it does not occur any more. That of course is a lie. The state prosecutor didn't even pretend to take the issue seriously.

In order to be make it even easier to break human rights and prosecute innocent people, the government is preparing new (partially secret) laws that allows for anonymous witnesses, and more or less unlimited rights for the police to place bugs in rooms, tap telephones and data transmissions, and open packages and mail. I will of course fight this development in all possible ways. I will continue to boycott the government and not pay any taxes or otherwise participate in their efforts. I will also add military strength encryption to the FTP protocol and release source code for both server and client under the GNU public license in order to make it easy for other vendors to implement the same level of encryption. I also consider adding military strength encryption to the IRC protocol. But that is about all I can do at the moment. The waste majority of the Norwegian people are not interested in human rights issues inside the Norwegian borders. And the so called free press/media's don't dear to challenge the police (if they do they are cut off from information from the police, and they will sell less papers or get lower ratings - something that has happened in Bergen before, in the 80ts).

I will however continue my efforts to change the system, first of all by having the people who violated my rights brought to justice. This is something that has never happened in Norway since the Nazis were prosecuted just after World War II. I have made my point of view very clear to the authorities, and their current policy seems to be to ignore me. And the same can be said about the Norwegian press - although I don't play their game and have a rather hostile attitude against them.

Some time ago I pressed charges against one police officer whom I had hard evidence against. SEFO (the Norwegian equivalent to "Internal affairs") investigated the matter but the state prosecutor (one of the prime forces in the attack on my person) rejected the case. This was of no surprise to me, so I do have a strategy on how to proceed.

Unfortunately, the situation in Norway is not very different from the situation in other countries. Since I placed the note in the helpfile, and also made some statements on www.jgaa.com, I have received a large number of emails from other people who have been victims of similar crimes from USA, Canada, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. I don't think there is a free country where people can trust and have faith in their government, anywhere on the earth today.

In the current situation, where the governments not only violate human rights and encourage their police forces to commit crimes within their own borders, - but also cooperate across the borders about these crimes (i.e. the schengen corporation) I believe the only way to fight them is by an International resistance. Police brutality, criminal politicians and corrupt civil servants are not isolated national problems. They are an international concern, since they oppose a threat of the safety for people in every nation in the world. I can't do much by myself, but I can spread the word about my experiences, and I can make software available to the masses that enables people to communicate worldwide over Internet in a safe manner.

If more software vendors picked up my policy about denying the governments access to the technology - the governments would sooner or later be forced to change their behavior. But I think that's too much to hope for in a world where money generally has a higher priority than human rights or human lives.

Anyway, thanks for your kind words and support!

-
Jarle Aase
Author of freeware.

Subject: Hello,
From: ******@aol.com
To: webmaster@jgaa.com
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:47:08 EST

As I was downloading the program you wrote, I read through the links,
comments, and opinions on your site. I simply feel sorry for the few ignorant
people who end up in your Hall of Shame. I thought to myself you seem to be a
truly exceptional human being with exceptional dimension and depth. I am 33
years old and would be pleased to be able to program great software, speak
another language, or champion human rights. I am sorry you ever went to jail.
As I can understand the outrage you must have felt though. Here in the United
States, I was first - handcuffed, second - brutally beaten about the head, and
third - imprisoned by police who only - thought - I meant them harm; nothing
could have been further from my mind at the time. I was so badIy beaten, my
face was bruised, bloated, and destorted. Later, I was laughed at and paraded
around a United States jail as if I were a trophy for these sadistic cops. And
I was never given any medical attention while in custody. I tried to obtain an
attorney to sue the police that beat me. I was convinced it was my duty to sue
and bring light to these crimes. But I could not find a lawyer that would take
my case. The main reason seemed to be: because I did not sustain any broken
bones nor other permanent injuries; therefore having no undisputed damages for
which to sue. Apparently, the lawyers were afraid to pursue a case against
police without knowing beforehand that they would win. I was embittered and
disillusioned by the same system that purports to contemn violence in my
country. Thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts. Take care and God
bless.

I receive letters from all over the world about police brutality, injustice and the like. The police forces, all over the world, seems to be filled with low-life creeps with no other intentions or pleasures in life than beating up and harassing decent people. But what's really annoying me is the cowardness among 'normal' people. They don't want to see, hear or have anything to do with the domestic violence of their government or police forces. It's OK to engage in human right efforts in other countries (because it is safe) or support bombs over Baghdad (because it is good entertainment) - but _very_ few people have the courage to stand up against their own government. I did, and it cost me 2 years in jail. Currently I guess I'm too well known by the international Internet society to be harassed. But they will get back at me when they feel that it's safe. I was well known from a local radio station when I first attacked the local police. They waited patiently for many years, until I had quit the radio and was forgotten among the public, before they hit back the last time...

My only advice is to spread the word. Make a statement about your experiences and publish it on the net, on flyers, on bulletin boards in the local supermarkets! Refuse to just forget what you have gone trough. And force your neighbors, your fellow citizen's to at least know about the shit!

I have made it the objective of my life to get back at the bastards who destroyed me. If just a single person of the hundreds or thousands who are harassed in every city or town in the world fights back, the system will have to change. I'm so annoying that every cop, everyone at the state attorneys office and every judge in my town knows my name. It don't change anything, but it places an extra constant pressure on the cops who violated the very law they are paid to protect - because someone has to be blamed. Low-lives will always blame someone. And when they can't scare me to silence, they will blame the ones that caused my rage. As a result, the bastards who destroyed my life are scared to cause another innocent persons rage, and can't live out their dark sides anymore, in they way they used to, and loved so much. They also know that I'm here, and that I will never rest until they are punished. And best of all, - since I no longer consider myself as a member of the Norwegian society - they don't know the rules I play by, and can't predict my next move. In their imagination, they can see me drag them to court, to a disgraceful conviction, or they can see me in the night, shooting them down like the dogs they are. They have a live, family, status, property - lot's of things they can loose. I've already lost everything that ever meant anything too me, - and can do whatever I want, without loosing a thing.

When you experience injustice, you can break down, or you can become your enemies worst nightmare!

-
Jarle Aase
Author of freeware.

X-Sender: *.gov.bc.ca
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 13:04:06 -0800
To: jgaa@online.no
From: ****gov.bc.ca>
Subject: Your WAR FTP server & you

At 13:04 07.11.96 -0800, you wrote:
>He Jarle
>  I am very much touched by your unfortune sufferings. You deserve
>exteremely high respect and admiration. I really respect you for your solid
>firm persistence of standing and pursuing justice and truth. You suffered so
>much, but you are a very strong fighter. I appreciate the name of your FTP
>server. I like this server. It works great for us.
>  I came to Canada from China. I suffered too from the Chinese authorities,
>but that is no comparison to yours. Chinese government is one of the worst
>and evilest governments in cracking dissidants and innocent people. It is
>beyond our belief that the Norwegian government does the same evil to its
>people. Your are much braver than I. You are much firm than most of the
>ordinary people. I respect you very much.
>  I passed your experiences to my colleagues here. It is unbelievable to
>Canadian people. But one of them made some comments. He said that we have to
>listen to both sides. It is true that there are two different sides on
>every- thing in the world. We have heard the story from only your side. I
>trust you by what I have heard and experienced. But it is not easy for him
>to believe that had happened in a western European country. If you can tell
>me something more from the view of the police, which may be negative to your
>story, that will help me to explain to my colleagues and help you to win
>more support.

All governments attac individuals that have individual opinions. In the western world this is "political incorrect", so the most common method is to frame the person with some criminal charge. That way they can break down the person, without (officially) breaking the ideals of democracy and freedom that is the basic fundament of the western world. Other countries; like China, Turky, Burma, Isreal etc. use alot more torture and force to stop their domestic political enimies, but the governments are a little more honest about this violence than the US, Canada and Norway. That way people get the impressiin that political witchunt does not occur (at least not torture and illegal imprisonment) in the democratic countries.

My case is not at all special. Things like this happen all the time. The only thing special in my case is that I refuse to accept it. In stead of turning my back to it and go on with my life, I choose to fight back. In the western world we all look up to Chineese or Burmesian or Turkish political "freedom fighters", that continue to fight no matter what the governments do to them. Freedom fighters in the western world is a threat to the established society, and do not receive the same credit. I was harressed just as bad by the local press, as by the police.

Tell your colleagues that all strories do not have two sides. People die every day because governments choose to spend their money and resources on other tasks than food for their poorest population. That is a fact and do not have "two sides". Hundred of thousands of children are kept as slavelabor to provide the western world with low cost cloathing. That fact neither has "two sides".

I was innocently convicted and inprisoned. That is a fact - and does not have "two sides". Pepole can choose to believe or not believe this - just as they can choose to believe or not to believe in every other matter. If it is hard to believe - then it is probarbly because of their unwillingness to open their eyes and accept that the entire western civilisation is based on fase illusions about freedom. This freedom will only last until one challange it.

Jarle

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:37:46 +1000
From: Gerhard  <*****@****.net.au>
To: jgaa@mail.jgaa.com
Subject: Hello

Was reading about your political custody. At the same time you were arrested 
I had the same shit in East Germany. We, friends of mine, who wanted to leave 
to West Germany, cuz of the fucking political situation there,  met in pubs for a 
drink sometimes (nothing else!) . 
When these Bastards then confiscated my Passport, I reported Erich Honecker 
(former President there) for deprivation of liberty. This was enough for them. 
4 days later I heard from friends they are searching me. 
I went to the West German Embassy and asked for political Asylum. 
They sent me to the Caritas who was at this stage the negotiating party between East- 
and West Germany for buying free political prisoners to West Germany. The 
Caritas (with some political power) after hearing the whole thing, decided to 
come with me to the Police Court to ask what's going on.... 
This was my capture. 
After a few months I was sentenced to 29 months jail. And this was the same 
like Siberia after the second world war..... 
When I refused to work I was arrested in a special jail 2x2 meters where ice 
crystals were on the walls, and had to stand up 16 hours/ day.....  
They break you if they want!!!!!! And I started fucking working again...:( 
Then I refused food....They lined me up in a bed and wanted to give me injections 
and intr. venus food. Who knows what else was in the bottles.... 
After 21 months I was bought free. 
After the wall broke down these fucking motherfuckers from there (East germany) 
came all over the places I lived and so I had no other choice to leave "my" country 
and settled down here in Australia. 

I don't understand why you have the Norwegian flag on your programs...But the 
other good thing of course is to give them with this the bloody shit.....LOL 
How can other ppl in other countries support your fight against them?? 
Let me know!!!!!!!!!! 
Hope to hear from you!!!!! 

Yours kindly 
*****

Hi.

I get feedback on my story all the time - mostly from people who are shocked but don't understand, simply because they haven't been there. No one can understand how helpless you feel in prison, when you are put there for your believes, for who you are - and not because you broke any criminal laws. Sometimes I read outrages in the papers, about human rights violations in China and other places far away - but many of the 'inhuman' and 'unacceptable' actions they criticizes are actions I myself have been a victim of in Norway.

The system is not as brutal in Norway as it was in Eastern Germany. When the police, and the guards in the prison, realized that they could not break me unless they killed me, It seemed to scare them. But I had to pay a very high price before they came to that conclusion. The system was not as brutal as the system you faced - but I was alone. I had no one on the outside who tried to bye me out, no human rights organizations who cared about the situation - I was totally on my own, brought down on false criminal charges, and in conflict with both the inmates and the staff. The newspapers was very happy with my conviction, and the few friends I had left was scared half to death by my conviction and did not dare to do anything - most of them never even answered my letters. One was sent to psychological treatment because he said he believed I was innocent. I wrote a book about what happened, but the publishers would not publish it. They believed in my story, - but they did not have the courage to publish. I was totally on my own. The rest of the world did not dare, care or believe. I don't think it's possible for anyone but us who have this experience to imagine how small, mortal and helpless you feel in that situation. I knew that if I fell, no one would ever even hear about the story. And the bastards in the police who started it all would never be put to justice. I don't believe in heaven or hell - I can't sit back and comfort myself with the lie that God will punish the bad people. At the bottom line, the only thing that kept me alive was the urge for justice, or revenge as I call it.

You ask why I don't leave this country. Well - I can't. I know I can't change the system, or make the population in Norway realize what's going on here. But Norway is known to be one of the most 'human' countries in the world. If this shit happens here, it happens everywhere. And it does. I get emails from all over the world about similar cases. I don't believe there is a single place in the world where a person can be safe from it's own government. So, before I do what I have to do with the bastards who brought me down, I'm attacking all the governments in the world with my "freeware policy". The policy won't change anything, but it's a clear message to them that there exist people in this world that refuse to play their little games. They can beat me up, put me in prison, or kill me, - but they can never ever make me obey. They will never get any money from me, and they will never benefit from any of my work. And I know that pisses them off :-)

Another issue is the damage. Where should I run? Even if I found a safe place, a kind government, I still can't live anything close to a 'normal' life. I've been trough hell, spit on the devil and fought his demons. But as you probably know, once you become hard enough to fight the devil, you never soften up. You're always preparing the next battle, and when you don't, you're fighting the demons in your own mind. I have lost basic human feelings like fear and trust. How can I fear anything? I've lived trough my worst nightmares - there is nothing left to be afraid of. How can I trust anyone when I have seen how weak and false people really is?

You ask about the flag. Well - it's a way to make people aware that 'hey! I'm in Norway'. If someone from Scandinavia they read about my experiences, they might realize that this is actually happening here in Norway, and not in some obscure place far away (you know - those places your government condemn for their human rights situation because of (hidden) political or economical reasons).

You ask how other people in other countries can help. You can't. You can send emails to the Norwegian government expressing your concern, but they don't care about your concern. If CNN made a 45 minutes program about the situation here they might shake a little, but my best guess is that they would seas killing whales for a while and make so much noise about that that people around the world would forget all about the CNN report. After all - people are much more concerned about whales or little seals getting killed, then other human beings. Also - the situation here is much less critical than the situation in many other countries. Most people who are attacked by the government break down and obey. I only know about one political prisoner who was killed in the local prison in the last few years.

Jarle

Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:57:57 +0100 (MET)
To: jgaa@online.no
From: **********
Subject: Din historie...

At 22:57 14.11.96 +0100, you wrote:
>Heisann! :)
>
>Jeg leste om din fortid i hjelpefila til WarFTP.
>
>Jeg vil si at det du har blitt utsatt for, er ganske typisk for myndigheter,
>som har alt for mye makt.
>Dessverre er fakta at slike ting skjer over hele verden, alle land, uten at
>ofrene blir hørt.
>Blir noen hørt, så er det selvfølgelig aldri i Norge (for myndighetene
>sørger for at folk ikke får greie på at slike ting skjer her i landet).
>
>Det jeg synes er at samfunnet i dag er altfor basert på at man vokser opp,
>går på skole, skaffer seg en jobb, jobber til pensjonstiden er inne, så blir
>pensjonist og dør før eller siden.
>
>Slik behøver det ikke å være! Folk må kunne få bestemme selv hvordan de vil
>leve, og hvordan de vil ha det, uten å bli påvirket av personer med makt.
>
>Men, dette er vel tanker du har tenkt for lenge siden... :)
>
>Vel, det jeg vil si, er at jeg synes du gjør en utmerket jobb! Det er ikke
>mange som orker og klarer å være politisk fange, og det er svært få som
>senere har mulighet til å få spredd sitt syn og sine meninger.

Utøvelsen av makt fra myndighetenes side er i praksis svært lik, uavhenging av det politiske og ideologiske systemt. Norsk politi bruker press og tortur (både fysisk, psykisk og kjemisk) for å tvinge frem egne tilståelser eller falske anklager mot andre - dersom politiet finner det formålsnyttig. Rettsikkerheten i Norge er i praksis ikke bedre enn rettisikkerheten i andre land, Kina og Tyrkia inkludert. Den store forskjellen er bare at myndighetene i Norge har lykkes i å lulle storparten av befolkningen inn i en illusjon om at slikt ikke skjer her. Isreal er ærlig nok til å innrømme at de bruker og legitimerer bruk av tortur. I Norge ville det vært uhørt, - så i stedet skjer overgrepene i det stille - faktisk så stille at majoriteten av innsatte i Norske fengsler ikke vet at det skjer. Og de få som vet det er for det meste oss som har blitt utsatt for det.

Pressen i Norge har dessverre så overflatiske og udyktige journalister på "krim" stoff at avsløringer fra det holdet er en utopi.

En spesiell type mennesker vil alltid krafse seg inn i maktposisjoner og bruke disse til å tjene sine egne ambisjoner. Politiske tenkere lager ideologier. Massen velger ideologi ut fra tidsmessig korrekt motetenkning, og maktmenneskene bruker ideologien som et dekke for å ivareta sine egne interesser. Jeg tror ikke det er mulig å skape en ideologi og et samfunn av mennesker som er våkne og kunnskapsrike nok til å ivareta enkeltmennekskets interesser.

Jarle

Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 04:20:32 +0100 (MET)
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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 21:24:15 +0000
From: ****
To: BugReport@jgaa.ldp.no
Subject: Is it a bug...or feature...
Original-sender: BugReport@jgaa.ldp.no
Resent-Message-Id: 
Sender: jgaa@jgaa.ldp.no
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At 21:24 10.11.96 +0000, you wrote:
>Hey, your bio was great. A lot of situations with which I can relate.
>
>Perhaps not a bug, but just more of a feature request - the ability to
>redirect wsendmail to a URL instead of the "Mail Submitted" (.ini)
>message.

I will probarbly do this in a future version.

>BTW, did you ever "clear" your records with the courts? I haven't been
>quite so lucky (expunging a "court appointed stay" in a mental hospital
>is almost impossible in this country...

Jarle

Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 04:37:39 +0100 (MET)
X-Sender:***
To: jgaa@online.no
From:  ***
Subject: Norge mitt Norge

At 04:37 AM 12/9/96 +0100, you wrote:
>Utsatt for justismord? Forfulgt? Voldsbruk i fengselet? Alt i alt er dette
>kraftig kost. Og det vekker min gryende journalistiske nysgjerrighet.
> ...
>Jeg skal ærlig innrømme at det er tøffe
>påstander du lanserer, og at jeg intuitivt skyver det fra meg - det passer
>ikke inn i min virkelighetsoppfatning. 

For å være ærlig passer det ikke inn i min virkelighetsoppfatning heller - selv etter at jeg har opplevd det. Det har vel noe å gjøre med at virkelighetsoppfatningen blir formet av det en lærer og leser om samfunnet - og I Norge lærer og leser vi definitivt ikke om denne typen overgrep.

>Men dersom dine påstander er sanne,
>eller i det minste er oppriktig ment (subjektivt sanne), så vet du selvsagt
>det bedre enn noen annen. Jeg beklager det faktum at jeg når dette skrives
>er meget trøtt, det hadde nok vært formålstjenlig å vente med denne
>henvendelsen til en annen dag. Men jeg befinner meg midt i eksamenstiden, og
>har følgelig andre planer for de nærmeste dagene. Problemet med å forfatte
>noen ord til deg på denne tiden av døgnet, er at jeg i min nåværende
>tilstand ikke er var overfor språkets melodi - noe som forringer
>kommunikasjonen betraktelig. Uansett; jeg har altså valgt å kontakte deg
>umiddelbart.
>
>Som jeg sa er jeg skeptisk til din historie. Rent umiddelbart frykter jeg at
>du er paranoid; det _kan_ se ut som om du tolker f.eks. forlagets avvisning
>av ditt manuskript som et konspiratorisk trekk. 

Jeg ser ingen "konspirasjon". Men innholdet i boken er såpass "ubehagelig" og stiller så mange spørsmål ved etablerte sannheter og verdinormer at den kanskje er over grensen av hva norske forlag ønsker å utgi. Bøker av denne typen vil tære på den virkelighetsoppfatningen de fleste i Norge ønsker å ha. Etter å ha skrevet min bok fant jeg mange likhetstrekk i verkene til både Platon, Luther, Hitler, Ibsen og Nietzche - bøker som i dag gjerne refereres til heller enn å leses.

>Mellom linjene leser jeg at
>du er venstreradikal (?), og at du ser dette som en mulig underliggende
>årsak m.h.t. det du angivelig har blitt utsatt for. 

Jeg følger ingen "etablert" politisk ideologi. På noen områder ligger synspunktene til venstre, i andre til høyre, og noen i sentrum. Jeg definerer meg som "anarkist"- men i det ligger først og fremst at jeg ikke annerkjenner autoriteter - og heller ikke ser på demokrati som en god styreform. Anarki som politisk system (og ikke i betydningen kaos) krever en modenhet hos befolkningen som vil være utopisk i min levetid.

>Av erfaringsmessige
>årsaker må jeg dessverre fastslå at jeg får uheldige assosiasjoner når jeg
>av venstresympatiserende (atter) forelegges en beretning om autoriteters
>maktmisbruk og/eller politisk forfølgelse. Riktignok har en rekke
>undersøkelser foretatt de siste par årene avdekket at det har forekommet en
>veldig overvåking og registrering/kartlegging av kommunister, marxister og
>andre på den ytterste politiske venstrefløy i Norge, men dog... Min
>skeptisisme vil visst ingen ende ta :) Bør i denne sammenheng i
>rettferdighetens navn avsløre at Lund-kommisjonens rapport om de hemmelige
>tjenester i Norge ikke kom som noe voldsom overraskelse på meg; - m.a.o.
>finnes det visst likevel grenser for min naivitet. Men nok om det, kanskje
>er jeg helt på jordet her i forhold til det din situasjon dreier seg om.

Den norske stat har forgrepet seg mot en rekke minoriteter. Politiske venstreradikale er en av dem. I dag er disse blitt "stuerene" og man kan til en viss grad ta et oppgjør med den ulovlige politiske forfølgelsen av denne gruppen. Men (ulovlige) overgrep fra det offentlige ovenfor minoriteter og enkeltpersoner er nok ikke mindre utbredt i dag enn det var for 20 år siden.

>Du belyser den kjensgjerning at du som journalist i Bergen på 80-tallet var
>en av de første som tok for deg de mye omtalte voldspåstandene ved
>politikammeret der. Kan jeg spørre deg hvilken avis du jobbet i? 

Jeg var i nærradioen. Først i Radio Bergen, senere i Bergen Gay Radio (som på det beste var rangert som nr. 3 av nærradioene i Bergen. Jeg var såpass kjent på den tiden at jeg knapt kunne åpne munnen i kassen et supermarked uten å bli gjenkjent).

>Har du
>senere (i etterkant av det som har skjedde deg) informert eventuelle
>kontakter i din tidligere, journalistiske omgangskrets og bedt om at din sak
>skal belyses 

Nei. Jeg tok aldri opp mine egne erfaringer bak mikrofonen (med et par unntak i 1992/93), og det ville være uetisk å bruke bekjentskaper til å fremme min egen sak. Like før rettssaken var jeg innleid av Bergensavisen ca. 20 timer i uken som EDB konsulent - men selv om jeg informerte EDB sjefen i avisen om saken, snakket jeg aldri med journalistene. Jeg har lite respekt for mennesker som prøver å mele sin egen sak i media - og jeg har enda mindre respekt for et samfunn hvor dette er eneste mulighet til å nå frem.

>(du skriver "Norge skiller seg ikke fra andre land på annen
>måte enn at pressen ikke vet, eller i alle fall ikke trykker det de vet, om
>manglende rettsikkerhet, overgrep og tortur")? 

Kriminaljornalistene i Norge virker på meg kyniske, historieløse, og blottet for kritisk sans. En bekjent av meg overhørte en kjent Bergensk kriminalreporter spørre redaktøren om vedkommende kunne dikte opp en historie i forbindelse med en stor kriminalsak - i det journalisten ikke hadde fått tak i nye "facts" - dersom journalisten trodde at det var mer enn 50% sjanse for at den oppdiktede historien kunne være sann...

>Du skriver "3 måneder før jeg >ble løslatt ble jeg angrepet av direktøren i fengslelet i en av >lokalavisene". - Hva gikk disse anklagene ut på?

De gjalt min seksuelle legning.

>Var du identifiserbar
>gjennom disse anklagene? 

Ja.

>Fikk du noensinne muligheten til å gi uttrykk for
>dine synspunkter i så måte (tilsvar til fengselsdirektøren)? 

Nei. Jeg var på dette tidspunkt helt isolert og fikk ikke aviser. Jeg fikk greie på uttalelsene 3 måneder senere da jeg slapp ut.

>Kunne du tenke
>deg å gå nærmere inn på hvilke forhold du ble dømt for? 

Voldtekt.

>Har du noen støtte
>blant venner/bekjente/meningsfeller eller andre, mennesker som kjenner din
>historie og "kjøper" din versjon? 

Ja. Vennene mine kjenner meg for å være ærlig til det naive. Noen av dem ble også utsatt for til dels sterkt press fra politiet for å komme med anklager. I tillegg har et av "ofrene" mine innrømmet ovenfor to felles venner at påstandene var løgn.

>Kjenner du til andre som har blitt utsatt
>for lignende forfølgelse? 

Nei. Ikke i samme omfang. Men jeg har heller ikke gjort noe for å få kontakt med andre ofre. Jeg har mer enn nok med mine egne problemer.

>Er det overhodet mulig å sannsynliggjøre din
>historie på noe annet vis enn ved å lytte til dine utsagn? 

Ja. Alle sakspapirer, legeærklæringer og psykiatriske rapporter (vedr. "ofrene") støtter min historie. Den eneste versjonen av denne saken som ikke har selvmotsigelser, eller blir motsagt (bortsett fra av politiet og to falske anklager) er min.

>Anser du denne
>kommunikasjonsformen for å være trygg (mail)?

Det spiller ingen rolle. Jeg har få hemmeligheter.

>Ja, jeg er skeptisk. Nei, jeg skal ikke skrive noen sak om dette. Men det
>faktum at du legger ut om dine opplevelser på web, tyder for meg på at du
>ønsker publisitet rundt saken. 

Jeg ønsker å fortelle at slikt skjer i Norge. Jeg har ingen interesse av "publisitet" rundt saken. Det har vært nok "publisitet" allerede - i en form hvor journalistene ikke har klart å skille mellom dikt og dekning. Det er tragisk når avisene innholdemessig fører er journalistisk linje et stedd mellom "Donald Duck" og "Se og Hør".

Jarle