Thursday 1st October

-[ I am surprised that the standards of our wonderful Polis have on this occasion fallen so low.  My only excuse is that they are simply human with all the frailties that infers, and are still subject to those basic emotions of fear and loathing so common in all of us.  I say fear, because I suspect that deep down the Polis are scared, frightened of the things they cannot control.  That poor wretch Charlene was right in that the Polis could not actually kill these non-persons.  That would have been frowned upon most severely I can assure you.  They should of course have brought them in for questioning, and had they done so, our problem of Janek Smith would have been resolved much sooner.  For that misdemeanour an inquiry was instituted as a matter of course, but somehow I have never been able to access the final report.  I hope that appropriate action will have been taken, because it would appear from the account Janek has recorded that an unnecessary degree of violence and humiliation was pursued on this, hopefully isolated, occasion.

These non-persons are a perpetual problem though.  They are too un-crammed to be useful members of society, and the few experiments to re-cram them have not been successful.  Some have argued for their complete removal, but in their way I believe they represent some sort of safety valve for the pressures of society.  There has to be a nadir for every zenith.  Possibly in some future we can only hope for there will be nobody who falls into this unfortunate category, but for now I believe they should be tolerated.  Besides they continue to teach us more about the human condition than one might suspect, in fact several Uni courses are already studying the anthropology of these disparate groups.

And still our Janek is refusing to acknowledge the inherent kindness that pervades all levels of our system.  What kindness has he really found outside the system?  If his diary is any evidence, precious little I would say.  But I do detect, in the occasional phrase, the accidental slip he makes here and there, that he may be learning from his experience.]-