Today as I was approaching the escalators on the second floor of the Novy Smichov shopping center, I saw the black security guard at the Decathlon checking out the asses of two young girls as they were leaving the store. They looked about 16 or 17. I mean, he was really checking them out, as in almost leaning forward to get a better view.
To be fair, that’s pretty normal behaviour for the security staff employed at Novy Smichov, and several are even worse. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to reach for my smartphone to record it, but last year I managed to photo the Zara security guard checking out a girl with her mother who looked 14 or so. I’ll publish it here when I find it.
Around a year ago, the same black security guard was manning the door of the H&M store on the ground floor of Novy Smichov. As I was walking out of the store he stopped me and told me he was ‘looking over there’ and pointed beyond me. This was at a time when I was still getting every security guard in Europe, from Spain to the Ukraine, positioning themselves in my line of sight in every shop I went into, and even restaurant or cafe with a security guard, theatrically looking past me, and moving away as soon as I left, often chuckling to themselves.
When I was a young man, I was hospitalized for paranoid schizophrenia. For the last 15 years, the police in every country in Europe, aware of that, have been pointing me out to security guards wherever I travel, and in the case of Prague, now live. Not only that, but they have incited these hundreds or thousands of guards to mock me for ‘not liking to be looked at’, and for ‘being paranoid’, whilst knowing that I will never be able to get any help or even advice, because nobody will believe me. In fact, that I will doubt it myself, and the distress that will cause me. This is very much illegal. In the UK, the senior police officers responsible face life sentences under the Criminal Justice Act of 1988 and its provision on psychological torture committed by a public official. This was introduced into law because of the UK ratification of the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT), which the Czech Republic, as a post-medieval society, has likewise ratified.
But for this black Novy Smichov security guard, it’s a complete mystery to his peanut brain. Why on Earth do I think that security guards like him are looking at me? Even though I’ve been pointed out to thousands of security guards across Europe, as well as thousands of shop and restuaruant staff, who each in turn, like him, mock me for being ‘paranoid’.