UNDER S U R V E I L L A N C E ?

a draft


f i c t i o n a l i z e d, and some would say: highly speculative..


FREE WI-FI

“...It was for around two months or so. Totally free Wi-Fi.”

“And you used it to your heart’s content?”

“Yes; but I was aware throughout that it could be a setup.”

“Did you access your email?”

“Yes, on Yahoo. Then later I changed my password on a land line and stopped accessing Yahoo-mail on Wi-Fi.”

“What else did you do on the Wi-Fi?”

“A lot of You Tube.”

“Pornography?”

“Light stuff; not much else for free.”

“And -"

“And Arab comedy. There’s a new Lebanese comedian, a man, heavy-set, who dresses up as a blond and calls herself Madame Sherraqa, or something. A spoof on Beirut Socialites. She’s very good, but in need of some tweaking.”

“And -"

“I love travelogues; so I must’ve accessed a lot of these. Haven’t taken a real vacation in five years . I’m vacationing vicariously through travelogues. Haven’t even been to Lebanon, and I used to go there once a year. Of course I accessed a lot of Arabic newspapers.”

“Then what happened?”

“I was sitting with my current Jewish Right minder, a friend. I said that I was having access to free Wi-Fi and that I didn’t care if it were a foreign intelligence service providing it.”

“Let me guess: the Wi-Fi was gone.”

“You bet. That very afternoon.”

“Watch your garbage. They have recruited someone in your building. Keep backups for any stuff on the computer and hide your passwords away from your place. Tell your neighbors to keep an eye on your place when you’re at work. Can you do that?”

“Already done it . . . You think?”

“Doesn’t matter what I think. You pay me to advise you and I’m telling you what I think happened. What’s you other question?”



CELL PHONE TRACKING

“The same minder. He used my cell phone.”

“For how long?”

“Ten seconds.”

“They’re now tracking you. Shed the cell phone. You don’t need it. I’ll tell you what to do. Also: be aware that one Israeli company does the billing for most if not all phone companies in the US.”

“To the extend I make any phone call that I want to be private, I don’t use my cellular or my land line.”

“What do you use?”

“Anyone else’s.”

“I’ll tell you what to do here, too.”

“Haven’t they gotten tired of updating my file?”

“It’s an ongoing affair. But I think now there’s something else they’re after. They couldn’t get it through the billing by your phone companies –the billing which is contracted out to the Israeli company – and they couldn’t get it through the free Wi-Fi access.”

“What would it be?”

“You tell me. I haven’t accessed SaudiPolitics in a while – “

“Maybe they want the identity of Zein al-Irban. I remember Faith dying to get me to tell him. And recently Zein has contributed to the newsletter.”

“That’s it – the fucking assholes. They build their entire fucking lives on spying. Spying has supplanted policy. It’ll be their undoing. They want to be useful to the Saudis, trade intelligence. Wonder where Hizbollah got its knack for spying. It’s from these incestuous assholes. They found their match in Hizbollah.”

“We’re speculating.”

“I’m not speculating; they’re still snooping. I know them and I know my work. I’ll check on a couple of things – but even before, I know they are.”

“So?”

“They’re probably now tracking your cell phone so that they can find out where you’ve been to tell them who Zein al-Whatever lives. There are things we can do. The best option, though: shed your cell phone.”

“I can have a lot of fun with this.”

“Do it. If you have the energy and the time, drive all over the place and drop in on strangers’ homes. If you dislike someone, now is the time to drop in on him often. Otherwise, don’t trust your cell phone.”

“Thanks; I’ve been mostly leaving the cell phone behind or I disconnect the battery–but mostly leave it behind – or both.”

“Leaving it behind is safer. What brought about all of this, anyway?”

“My sister. She’s worried sick. They’re probably telling her all sorts of things at the Lebanese church when she goes there. They read the newsletter. I didn’t tell her but recently I’ve received an email about putative travel; it came directly to my Yahoo address, a harassment email. As you know the Israelis coordinate closely with the right wing Lebanese and with Hariri as the Lebanese-Saudi. All have developed mini-states, each with its little Mosad, spread across the globe each using its diaspora.”

“It’s easy to get an email address; I’m sure you’ve searched for lost friends’ email addresses. But they didn’t have to search. You fell into their free Wi-Fi trap. You may have mentioned possible travel to one of the law colleagues. Can’t you limit your contact with these people at the courthouse?”

“I’d hate to do that. In American parlance, this is my professional community.”

“They can hurt you without knowing that they are. Israel comes before friendship to so many of them. I know them. Anytime you tell them anything, it goes to their Israeli minder, directly or through the incestuous organizations they’ve set up.”

“I know.”

“What about contacting what’s his name, ----------, and telling him to help out.”

“I tried a while ago. He thought I was trying to get him to say things about Jews – that I was taping him or something. He gave me a lecture about how similar Jews are to Catholics, when it comes to criticizing the Pope or something. The Israel body snatchers have snatched his brain and his manhood.”

“Well, if he’s snatched , maybe he can tell them to stop the surveillance and harassment. You’d be amazed. Intelligence services work fast on matters like these. The word would come down fast from Israeli intelligence to their Jewish-American operatives.”

“I didn’t think about it this way. But I’m not asking or bargaining with anyone.”

“Before you post anything about this consult, I want to read it and edit it.”

“Sure.”