Here it links with the original story I published when I NOTICED MY
MAILS WERE NOT ARRIVING. Impossible, sent so many that AT LEAST some
interest should have shown... And my login times were increasing and
there were some blueprints... so I arrived at the conclusion my files
had been stolen somehow... I started publishing all I cpuld and
sending more mails. There were no replies, NO REPLIES AT ALL FROM
NOBODY (except the 4 four or five REJECTIONS I RECEIVED EARLY IN
FEBRUARY... SEE WHAT I MEAN?).
In 1999 I rented an appartment in Mexico City, behind the WTC. In
2000, after I bought my guitar, the bathroom toilet started failing...
During 2001 everytime I called the plumber the toilet would fail. An I
was living with four cats! Even holding a job is difficult without a
working toilet... In 2002 my neighbours upstairs started threatening
me to death to steal my computer. The night they planned to poison my
cats I fled to my mother's home, cats, computer, guitar and books. The
next morning they broke into my appartment and stole my notes and a
collection of AI magazine, among other things.
The police came, but they did NOTHING. That week they let me know they
had the key... They setup the boiler to explode while I bathed, but
didn't work. Next day my bathroom flooded. I went to the police but
they wouldn't hear. Why bother if I was moving out of the appartment?
Why make it so complicated as to actually name the culprits and give
their address? Mordida? (bribe) The police did nothing. As a
consequence I ended up hunted by this guys, the remaining of my 8000
books barricaded, evicted, and locked myself up for fear of burglary
for one year... During which time there happened a shooting in the
place I was living in and I don't know the details, but fear for
people I knew and worked with...
I don't know their names, except for one Fraunhofer who plotted once,
saw twice. And my old associate Luis Bistrain Gonzalez and politically
powerful family. There was also the woman who was my actual neighbour
and whose name I never knew but can find.
2003 in Veracruz was a similar experience. I fled the place the day I
started to be videotaped by the local gang... Now I don't even know if
it was another criminal group or the same guys who followed me. The
day the music from a small italian's town page I hit came at the same
time from outside the window I knew I had a problem again... Other
things happened, but after almost two years of near retirement,
dedicated myself to the simple joy of creating in my computer, I
arrived in America safe.
But now, 2004, feeling safe and out of the shock, I wondered, for how
long did they have the key? Did they forced me to live in a place
witout toliet during the months it tool me to move out of there, and
with all my cats sharing the disgrace...? I mean, was my computer and
my music and my programs wide open for this guys to copy while I
waited for my documentation to be straighten up...? Did the engagement
ring I never delivered and never found ended up in those two guys'
hands? Do they have the invoices of my computer and guitar, my
agendas, school yearbooks, school notebooks, the notes of ten years of
ideas? Was my life's work stolen by those guys? Would you know if you
are living alone if somebody enters your home and copies your files?
Nightmare or real life? The works in this site are progressing and
growing. There is internal coherency, nothing can bend truth, not
forever...
Is this supposed to happen in a civilized country? Isn't barbarism
what happens when police fails? Will I get justice in case the worst
happen...? Who will have to admit he or she was deceived by a pair of
thieves? Will he or she be up to that responsibility when the time
comes...?
This will offend many people but I don't care: Mexico is a country
where impunity reigns, where thievery is sanctioned by society, where
police works for money, not ideals, where people's work is sabotaged
by those who can't stand others to advance in life, where piracy is a
way of living, where justice is applied selectively as example and not
by principle, where it is easier to let a criminal go than to punish
it, where it is risky to have money and not to have money, where
treachery is a historical constant, where everything is impossible,
can't be done or isn't available (el no-hay tv character)... And many
people suffer because of it.
In the last ten years I was assaulted with everything, from keys to
submachine guns. Ten times at least, threatened to death twice,
chased, a murder attempt (or two?), the five places I lived in where
robbed... Even the police robbed me after I reported a theft!!! The
judiciales stole my game boy, that the thieves (which I knew, by the
way, and were preying on the people of my office, he even told me it
was him), missed because it was under a drawer...
Nice place to visit? Sure! But don't try living there... even less try
to make a living there... Are you offended? Then maybe you will do
something to change it. I gave up, it was not my land after all.
This poem is disrespectful but, who would dare appropriating it? And
if I wrote this, then it follows that my other poems are mine, too...
I care for each and every one of my works, however imperfect and poor
they may be... Piracy and intellectual property thievery is awful, but
it is even more not to be recognized for what you contribute to the
accumulated wealth of humanity. That, is total horror. But even more
horror is to imagine the hypothetical situation of being mirrored in
all I do and denied in whatever I say, being called a liar when, in
fact, creating is in itself a form of Truth.
Will I be persecuted de oficio, slandered, incriminated for telling
the truth? Or even worse, eliminated and problem solved? Bad for
business, sure, but everyday truth in Mexico.
Did those guys acquired fame and are reknown because of my work, or
derivations thereof? Will they "turn over the pancake" and blame me of
their crimes? Will they pay if identified?
This is my experience, and unfortunately this site still reflects it.
Eventually it'll wear off. Sorry to impose it on you, unwarned reader,
hope it won't downgrade your enjoyment of this site.
And all this because I started playing the guitar...
And there are so many things I still don't know... but
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Truth will set us free
Los Angeles, April 2004