What They Did

See my new pages Mind Control: Technology, Techniques, and Politics for more information.

This page contains some descriptions of my harassment and torture right here in the USA. The original "ugly story" is in poem format, since at the time it was easier for me to express what had happened in that form. More details, in prose, are given in the 3/14/96 update. The letter which announced my hunger strike also has details in prose.

By the way, to state the obvious, this page is here because I was tortured and will not be silent about it. I certainly did not choose to have these things done to me. The events did awaken me to the truly perilous state of freedom here in the US. I hope you do not let what has happened color your opinions of my other works, but unfortunately it did all happen and I will not pretend it did not.

If you do not believe this kind of thing can happen here, I recommend the book Challenging the Secret Government by Kathryn Olmsted (University of North Carolina Press). See this page for the unvarnished truth about some of the history, politics, and technology involved in this type of harassment. See also my report on the State of the Union, along with some personal notes about this report.

My public testimony to the National Bioethics Advisory Committee (NBAC), Human Subjects Subcommittee, Nov. 23, 1997.

Excuses and Manipulations in Mind Control

Feedback Disparity in Repressive Control Systems

Some new words to consider in the Orwellian world we live in.

Some links to related sites:

• Virginia Commonwealth University has a site with details of segregation in Richmond, Virginia. This linked page focuses on educational aspects. Segregation was America's official apartheid system, and Virginia was far from the only place where it was practiced. The system was widely supported by ``prominent citizens'' -- who at the same time spouted about freedom, justice, and liberty. It was enforced with the constant threat of violence. The mainstream press supported it for years, as did mainstream churches. A different page on the web gives a glimpse of what happened to white women who opposed segregation.

  This was not that long ago, and the people who ran this massive repressive system for the most part stayed in power after the courts overturned it. Though some truly changed their ways, the mindsets for such conspiracies of thuggery and exploitation are still in place. Much of the current repression is not specifically focused on race, although there were always other aspects to the repression for people who ``needed to be put in their place.'' (And there is no denying that race is still a huge factor in America.) The repressive system has gone covert, where it can be denied and the courts can ignore it -- willfully or not. This also makes it easy for people who do not want to believe such things are happening. The current exploiters have figured out what they cannot say openly anymore, so hatred is spewed in codewords and between the lines. And the repression is as real as it can be.

• An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control, Working document (Consultation version) Luxembourg, 6 January 1998, European Parliament, Directorate General for Research, Directorate B, The STOA Programme. A well-researched document on the applications of technology for political control -- and the potential for a gradual, worldwide slide toward repression.
• A New Statesman article, ``Somebody's Listening,'' on the NSA's global electronic eavesdropping. It includes some discussion of domestic spying and has many good additional links.
• The Parascope site now has online, from Jan. 16, 1999, a talk by journalist and author Gary Webb. Among other subjects he discusses the failure of the media to expose the truth, particularly with regard to CIA and intelligence operations.
• The World Organization Against Torture, USA has recently issued a report on Torture in the United States. Among other abuses it includes a section on involuntary human scientific experimentation.
• The former Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Directorate ( IEWD) is now the Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD).
• The Revolution in Military Affairs and Conflict Short of War, by Steven Metz and James O. Kievit, July 25, 1994. Also available in ASCII format. [If these versions are not available at the Army site, a local formatted copy can be found here] This is a frequently-cited paper from the Strategic Studies Institute at the Army War College. It discusses some of the issues, especially ethical issues, that follow from nonlethal technologies and their applications:

  "The advantage of directed energy weapons over conventional ones [in drug interdiction] is deniability. Against whom is such deniability aimed? ...deniability must be aimed at the American people, who do not sanction the imprisonment, much less execution, of individuals without a trial..."

  The authors envision a "future history" of a revolution of techno-authoritarianism, carried out in stages to alter some basic values of Americans that might stand in the way. [Note the references to "spiritual warfare" -- so much for religious freedom -- and the importance of data fusion.]
• Measurement of Heart and Breathing Signals of Human Subjects Through Barriers With Microwave Life-Detection Systems. This paper is one of many at the DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments site.
• Check out the FAIR article from their Extra magazine on Propaganda From the Middle of the Road. They have many more interesting articles in their archive. I do not agree with everything there, as for example I think the Second Amendment is a fundamental protection against oppression, but there are many insightful articles. Centrism in overlooking tyranny is more than a vice, it is collaboration. (After reading the article, consider the idea of ``terrorism from the center.'')
• An article from the Journal of Human Rights and Technology, Vol.1, February, 1997 on coercive psychiatry and human rights. It includes a discussion of the Soviet abuses of psychiatry for political purposes:

  They called the condition ``sluggish schizophrenia, a form of schizophrenia where the symptoms are subtle, latent or only apparent to the skilled eye of the psychiatrist.'' Soviet dissidents who ``wanted to reform the system and claimed that they had the personal vision to do it....were exhibiting the text-book symptoms of sluggish schizophrenia.''

  See also Mind Control Denial and the Abuse of Psychiatry.
• America's Dirty Little Secret -- Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
• More on the Tuskegee Experiment. Click through for several pages of graphics and text, including the following:

  In order to insure that they would not be treated, which became increasingly difficult with the discovery and widespread use of penicillin after 1943, local physicians, draft boards and P.H.S. veneral disease eradication programs were given a list of the ``subjects.''

  (This is the sort of obscene conspiracy among prominent citizens that credulous Americans believe could never happen.)
• Holocaust Pictures Exhibition
• John Marks' book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, online at the DRCNet Library. See especially Chapter 12, The Search for Truth.

  By April 1961 the head of TSS was able to report ``we now have a `production capability' '' in brain stimulation and ``we are close to having debugged a prototype system whereby dogs can be guided along specific courses.''

• The CIA's KUBARK interrogation manual at ParaScope. Especially, IX. THE COERCIVE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INTERROGATION OF RESISTANT SOURCES 82-104.
• The DARPA Tactical Technology Office Operations Other Than War (OOTW) page.
• The Federation of American Scientists' FAS Project on Government Secrecy.
• The University of Minnesota's Human Rights Library, including international treaties against torture and slavery.
• A Department of Energy page on the ethics of human subjects research, and the current policies that are supposed to be followed in conducting it.
• Here are more links about secret government, mind control, nonlethal weapons, the press, etc.
• An interesting item on microwave hearing.
• See also my Miscellaneous page and my page on longer articles I have posted to Usenet and mailing lists.

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For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment
for any Murders which they should commit on the
Inhabitants of these States...

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