and will suffer, persecution because of a specific political opinion attributed to her.    That is, Zuniga has cynically imputed to Lazo-Majano the "political opinion" that she is a subversive against the government.  By casting this poor woman's submissiveness as political opinion, the majority transforms Zuniga into an alter ego of the "government," depicts his conduct as governmental, and turns him into the wreaker of persecution within the meaning of the asylum statute.  That Lazo-Majano is not shown to harbor any political opinion of her own is disregarded;  if her tormentor views her as an object for domination, that, in the majority's view, suffices as state-level persecution.   See Hernandez-Ortiz, 777 F.2d at 517.  The fact is, however, that Zuniga did and such belief was not the well-founded fear of persecution by the government or of controlling other components.


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In the majority's view, the "persecution" inflicted on petitioner for believing that the government could not control the military was mistreatment at the hands of Zuniga.  But that is not what she thought.  She testified that Zuniga would have acted the same way, and she would not have complained to the authorities, even if he was not a member of the local parapolice.  She feared this violent man for what he had done to her;  she understood his lust for personal gratification.  She did not take his abuse merely because on any objective basis she perceived government-sanction for his acts.  But this lacuna has