NP Rank:
GOV'T 'FUSION CENTER' SPYING: Pretext to Harass and Censor?
• Government surveillance programs apparently are not just for spying.
• Regional "fusion centers" administered by the Department of Homeland Security appear to use surveillance as a pretext...
...for psychological harassment, control over individual telecommunications accounts... and prior restraint and/or censorship of political speech and personal internet telecommunications.
• ACLU: Sue the government on THESE grounds -- which cannot be excused under any reasonable interpretation of the Patriot Act.
GET POLITICAL w/ VIC LIVINGSTON
As readers of NowPublic.com may know, I am a journalist whose telecommunications have been sabotaged for five years — from hijacked passwords and the hijacking of control over my computer connection, to malicious tampering with content and outright censorship of my political speech and my ability to browse and post to certain web sites.
I have memorialized many of these affronts in a running contemporaneous journal posted to the "free speech" section of this blog (thank you, ACLU).
Here is that link:
http://blog.aclu.org/2009/01/26/internet-filters-voluntary-ok-not-government-mandate
Non-Active link:
blog.aclu.org/2009/01/26/internet-filters-voluntary-ok-not-government-mandate
But it takes more than a recitation of alleged abuses to correct these blatant infringements of basic constitutional rights — not just the first amendment right of free speech, but freedom from unreasonable search and seizure of my internet connection, and freedom from the government’s use of telecommunications as a tool of psychological harassment, control, prior restraint and outright censorship.
I m encouraging the ACLU to file a class-action suit against government warrantless surveillance on these grounds. I ask that all NowPublic readers join in this effort.
This is not a matter of the government’s declared right to perform surveillance on American citizens if it does not actually disclose the collected information (a dubious claim, for sure).
This case involves the use of telecommunications as an instrument to control telecommunications, and to harass citizens whose political speech does not meet with the approval of fusion center totalitarians.
I have reason to believe the DHS fusion center in Newtown, PA, near my home, is responsible for these egregious violations of my rights -- and that state and local officials also may be complicit.
These infringements have materially affected my ability to pursue my journalism career, and also have resulted in other related damages stemming from the blatant interference with my ability to use the internet — and even to compose on my personal computer.
My telephone and internet communications remain subject to such interference, even interception. Important email typically does not draw a response.
ACLU, please consider these alternate grounds for a class-action suit that would restore the constitutional rights of all users of telecommunications — and result in a recovery of damages suffered at the hands of totalitarians in government at all levels — federal, state and local.
That is the only way these abuses can be stopped — through legal action that results in official accountability and punitive sanctions.
Fire off an email to www.aclu.org and let them know what you think.
FOR MORE:
http://nowpublic.com/world/gestapo-usa-govt-funded-vigilante-network-terrorizes-america
http://nowpublic.com/world/domestic-torture-radiation-weaponry-americas-horrific-shame
http://My.NowPublic.com/scrivener
NON-ACTIVE LINK: My.NowPublic.com/scrivener


Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (144)
- Sign In or Join to post comments
crimevic (not verified)at 07:31 on April 17th, 2009
What's with the Foxwoods Casino get-up?
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2009/03/104210.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxwoods
http://www.foxwoods.com/
at 08:12 on April 17th, 2009
Leave politics out of the equation. It only clouds the air with more bull****.
(edit- just some advice in my opinion- sorry, that flippant statement was kind of bossy- let me elaborate)
A problem I've seen with an overemphasis on placing blame on Bush is that Bush is gone so people will just figure "Okay, Bush went home in 2008, what's the problem?" and people who don't share liberal political leanings will tune out your message as soon as you start.
It is a bipartisan problem and nothing stinks of nothing constructive like a partisan political discussion.
- Sign In or Join to post comments
anonymous comment (not verified)at 04:30 on April 18th, 2009
Leave politics out of the equation. "batvette"
An excellent point...
- Sign In or Join to post comments
matrix (not verified)at 08:19 on April 20th, 2009
Here's an experiment any one of us can execute, as I did today.
Take yourself for a stroll in a relatively secluded place. The seclusion has the effect of drawing down the "regular folks" percentage, thus concentrating the stalkers.
Wait until you spot a person who carries the telltale stalker signs, and if that person is clearly way of of earshot range, (I like to use a distance of about 75 yards) say something that is just blood-curdling nasty, about half under your breath. Make sure that it seems like it could be directed at the stalker.
I have run this experiment a half dozen times, and in <i>every</i> instance, the stalker fled!
My opinion:
These bloody OS idiots have set up some kind of matrix, where they can snatch up audio or electromagnetic energy from any point in the matrix. We are the victims of bloody stinking Orwellian idiocy!
(By the way: in your test script, use blood, bloody, and other similar words often. In order to get the desired effect, the script must be extremely nasty!)
at 11:50 on April 21st, 2009
Oh yes, "extremely nasty" -- so that the authorities who may be listening in or recording the bugged or aurally monitored "target" can declare that person mentally unbalanced, "hollering at clouds."
Thanks for being so transparent. Half-truths, I suppose, help make my case better than outright lies (at least in this case, maybe).
Here's some better advice for "targets":
Address the "good people who may have access to the unconstitutional surveillance that it appears is being imposed on me."
That may sending the stalker scattering, too. A similar approach has worked for me -- because the insiders are in a position to evaluate the veracity of that statement.
And then it's not so easy for them to marginalize you as a looney-tune.
at 23:01 on April 22nd, 2009
Who cares what "the authorities" hear over whatever they're recording with? They can't use it in court and if you're already targeted you're as good as nuts in the eyes of whoever's listening- AND THERE IS NO EVIDENCE IT IS ANY "AUTHORITIES" all.
In fact my personal observation says it is not. For awhile a police car would park directly behind my house for an hour or two once a week, probably for intimidation purposes. I started popping out my back door and out the gate and walking directly right at him.
EVERY time he started the engine and hightailed it out of there in a hurry and parked at the other end of the lot- obviously to avoid me getting a good look at him.
Whatever he's doing is unauthorized and he knows it.
As opposed to talking about nonexistent "good people" looking at (probably) nonexistent GPS surveillance network data.... that "crown of fire" thing is only suggested by one person, AFAIK, as speculation. You even added the name. It's reasonable to GUESS they may use GPS and even communicate during their activities but the idea that this whole thing is operated by a program that can be used for evidence against them is another one of your fantastic tales.
And what do you mean, "worked for you". Why would they "scatter" at Vic's boolshyte?
- Sign In or Join to post comments
confused (not verified)at 05:09 on April 22nd, 2009
"WASHINGTON, April 6, 2009 - A recently published "terrorism threat assessment" from a Virginia fusion center says the state's universities and colleges are "nodes for radicalization" and encourages law enforcement to monitor First Amendment-protected activities of educational and religious foundations as terrorism threats".
[url]http://yubanet.com/usa/Fusion-Center-Declares-Nation-s-Oldest-Universities-Possible-Terrorist-Threat.php[/url]
- Sign In or Join to post comments
confused as well (not verified)at 06:24 on April 22nd, 2009
Naomi Wolf's book "The End of America" is a helpful one, IMHO. It's a good start, but there are many others.
In her words, "The ten steps to dictatorship are basic." They are all listed somewhere in one of Vic's articles (in the comments section), but one of the ten steps is to "invoke and external and internal threat(s)." So in my opinion, this may be just another one of many "internal" threats" that is publicized in order to facilitate the goals of some -- they want to keep people guarded, afraid and therefore willing to go along with almost anything that government wants to do to. In the words of some, the stated promise is that they're doing everything necessary to "keep us safe." In fact, its a set up for disaster.
"Any people who will give up an essential liberty for some temporary safety deserve neither, and will lose both." -Ben Franklin- Sign In or Join to post comments
confused as well (not verified)at 06:26 on April 22nd, 2009
In fact, it's a set-up for disaster. (correction)
- Sign In or Join to post comments
Peter rosenholm (not verified)at 09:13 on May 7th, 2009
#522 I can relate. Peter
at 18:01 on May 10th, 2009
Amen to that.
- Sign In or Join to post comments
Anonymously given (not verified)at 10:47 on May 14th, 2009
Batvette's quote:
"As opposed to talking about nonexistent "good people" looking at (probably) nonexistent GPS surveillance network data.... that "crown of fire" thing is only suggested by one person, AFAIK, as speculation"
My "speculation":
Referring to the end of the quote, wherein the term "speculation" is used, I must protest a little. Surely there is some speculation going on, but a good black-box analyst can mix a little speculation and a little more eye-witness, and develop a theory that later works well to convince a jury.
If you could refer to my eyes as "speculation", then I might agree with you one-hundred percent. Hmmm, there is almost a pun in that sentence.
The deal is that the GPS enabled tracking/surveillance and database system is for real, as is the automated harassment network infrastructure that allows all of the node carrying community stalker members to take orders from it.
The real deal is that the whole system is a high tech reincarnation of the "brown shirt" corps of Hitleresque fame, and the goal of the managers of this system (but not necessarily all of the operatives) is to build on the embryonic fascist system that has been formed and is growing steadily.
To wit, consider the following brief description:
While the surveillance system collects some information about everybody, certain people (dissidents, whistle-blowers, and others who generally disagree with the authoritarianism get special treatment. A substantial number of people, who might in some portion of their capacity be the managers for small groups of the "new brown shirt" community stalkers, take more time than others to attend to the "special treatment" given to detractors.
For instance, the aforementioned "manager" might make an entry into the central databases for a certain sensitizer description to be broadcast to all of the "in range" nodes in the GPS enabled stalking system for a certain target. The "in range" nodes are those that are proximate to the "target dissident/whistle-blower/harassee", as determined continuously and automatically by the surveillance, tracking, database, and networked info-disbursement system.
These "in range" nodes are cell phones or automobile navigation units, or custom configurations along the same functional lines. The "node" beeps or makes some other signal automatically as a result of previous surveillance entries in the databases, and instructs the "on the street" operatives via the cell phone screen or by audio, to engage in some activity. The process is entirely automatic.
One week the database entries may exhort node carriers to "pat the top of their heads" every time the target is proximate to their location (as determined by the system, automatically). Another week the database may be changed to exhort the node carriers to shake a fist or shout at the target. In all cases, an effort is made to continually antagonize and harass the target, and it is a nearly automated affair.
The node carriers who are engaged in the process are the ones that are proximate to the target, often by happenstance. The proximity is determined by the system, automatically. Thus the antagonists are often different sets of people, and because they are, it impresses the target (victim) with an overwelming feeling that he is being assaulted by (what seems to him) large numbers of anybodies anywhere.
The peaceful existence of the target is obliterated, as where-ever he goes, he is assaulted, antagonized, and shouted down. This is basically a high tech automated version of the "brown shirt" operation that was used to put Hitler in power, and subsequently to keep him there.
If you're a target, and you don't need new spectacles, you really know this already.
Really.
at 10:21 on May 15th, 2009
AnonGiven:
Could you please "speculate" on the visible infrared diode on specially equipped stalker cell phones and blackberries, which appears to be the mechanism used to "paint the target" with an infrared beam, thus providing the coordinates of his/her location to the "node."
This appears to be a targeting mechanism for a terrestrially-based directed energy weapon system, perhaps cell tower-based. Correct?
In thee absence of someone available to "paint the target," then the target's cell phone is used to provide the coordinates -- a system that can be disabled by removing the sell phone battery. Correct?
Do most of the stalkers have these infrared units, or is this equipment limited to "targeting" mules?
Could you please elaborate in detail... thank you.
at 00:43 on May 24th, 2009
What's funny is here you go a few posts down accusing someone AGAIN about being here for disinformation purposes, and yet you are still promoting this technically implausible concept of cell phone towers as weapons stations (the difference in power levels in weapons VS comm applications in RF beams is many thousandfold, highly attenuates over distance, and RF energy cannot be tightly focused in its dispersion like laser energy, thus making precise targeting at long range impossible) but then how many times has this been explained to you?
IN ADDITION since we do know the primary goal of OS as a whole is to isolate the target from family and friends, and cause the loss of employment, here we have Mr Genius Vic Livingston advocating all Targeted Individuals remove the battery from their cell phones at all times when not placing a call.
Wait, what was it that ruined your career as a journalist? Someone smeared you, or was it really your complete refusal to do even the basic research about the facts you reported, and maybe the inability to reach you ever by phone?
Everyone follow Vic's advice. Right off a cliff.
at 04:49 on May 22nd, 2009
Still sounds like you are speculating.
What is it you know is "real"? That suspected perps have cell phones, dashboard mounted GPS navigation sytstems, etc?
How do we get from there to stating as fact it is known there is an automated dispatch system that they are utilizing with them? Everything you describe has no first hand knowledge of existence other than the fact people have phones and GPS units.
I'm not here to attack you. I just think you lost me somewhere, not seeing how that isn't speculating.
- Sign In or Join to post comments
Anonymously Given (not verified)at 19:27 on May 16th, 2009
Hello Vic:
I do not have much anecdotal evidence that relates to what you are saying. Logistically, I think that most node carriers typically engage in reactive behavior and respond to the manipulations of network driven instruction sequences. I think that their role as thinking, calculating "soldiers" who change the action "on the fly" is fairly limited.
I believe that in most circumstances, they are not "on patrol" at all. They just carry a node, and (for due consideration or not) have agreed to do what it tells them to do.
I have seen articles describing the technology about which you just wrote, in military press releases to major magazines. The invisible infrared beam "painters" are used to direct tank fire against the enemy, by well placed scouts in advance of the armored column.
So technically, it is possible that a civilian version exist.
at 10:37 on May 19th, 2009
Thhis is "reverse engineering," but I believe I have seen this system in action more than a few times and have experienced the consequences of the infrared targeting. Once, I asked a person who was directing such a device my way (I could plainly see the glowing red diode on the top of her cell phone) why she was pointing her cell phone in my direction. She said she was "taking a picture." I didn't buy it at the time, and, in hindsight, coupled with similar experiences in public places, it seems to "paint" a picture, indeed.
- Sign In or Join to post comments
myname (not verified)at 11:33 on May 19th, 2009
Over my many years of assaults, I've had my picture taken countless times with cell phones, cameras and video recorders.
I would doubt "infrared painting" (red diodes are not infrared) using cell phones, but diversions of many kinds have been used against me. The attackers have tried to associate unrelated actions or stimuli with actual attacks.
I see this misdirection as a ploy to confuse the victim or skew their sense of reality. The attackers want the victim to relate these induced perceptions to others in an effort to discredit and provide false evidence of diminished capacity.
at 13:31 on May 19th, 2009
"Diminished capacity"? You know what I think? I think we're onto the weaponization of the telecommunications system by the U.S. government, and you're here (possibly) to inject disinformation into the mix by injecting pejoratives like "diminished capacity" into the equation.
"Diminished capacity" is a pejorative that could apply to the quality of psychological operations by the ideologues responsible for the domestic branch of the government's "torture matrix," judging by the quality of the submissions to these web pages.
Have a nice day.
- Sign In or Join to post comments
myname (not verified)at 14:21 on May 19th, 2009
I said *false* evidence of diminished capacity.
I'm here because I've been assaulted for eight years, or more accurately, in spite of the fact that I have been assaulted for eight years.
When people attack me with chemical agents and electronic weapons and act out senseless skits, it is an effort to get a reaction out of me. It's an obvious attempt to discredit me or characterize me as dangerous and/or crazy.
Their goal isn't rocket science, regardless of the methods used.
I learned not to read too much into anything about this. When I catch myself over-analyzing situations, that's a bad thing.
And, after I started trying to uncover information about these assaults, I found that most of the respondents are stalkers, nothing new about that, at least for me.
Seems that actual victims don't last very long when subjected to attacks like I get 24/7.
at 21:26 on May 19th, 2009
Well then, I guess we both are defying the odds.
The "stalkers" are just the street cretins, even those who are off-duty cops or firemen or municipal or cable/utility workers.
I'm less concerned about them than I am about the higher-ups who are pulling the strings.
As they say in the Air Force: Aim High.
And I am confident that I have allies in places that the architects and enablers of these "programs" would never imagine. That's why I continue to be amazed at the manpower devoted to keeping me under their repressive thumbs. It's way beyond me now. Talk about misplaced priorities.
Stay tuned for further developments.
- Sign In or Join to post comments
info4u (not verified)at 15:05 on May 19th, 2009
Article - "National Security Letters have been used since the 1980s, but the Patriot Act expanded the kinds of records that could be obtained with an National Security Letter. They do not require court approval, and come with a built-in lifetime gag order. With an National Security Letter, the FBI need merely assert that the information is “relevant” to an investigation, and anyone who gets a national security letter is prohibited from disclosing that they’ve received the request."
wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/fbi-use-of-patriot-act-authority-increased-dramatically-in-2008/
- Sign In or Join to post comments
absolutely anon (not verified)at 08:54 on May 20th, 2009
"National security letters have been used since the 1980s ... "
I am in absolute agreement with that statement (quote). My sister-in-law was an FBI agent (she died prematurely at 46 yrs - still a big question mark for me), and we got along very well. Some things that she told me then I did not really understand (wasn't targeted yet), but in retrospect all is *very* clear.
Our Republic is scre*@d. Oh well, we had a good run - couple hundred years - probably will never happen again.
at 19:20 on May 20th, 2009
No surrender. And this covert targeting is not new. It began many years ago, but was codified by Bush-Cheney. Read the book "The Secret War Against the Jews" by John Loftus (not a Jew, by the way). And if anyone here has access to David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel, please make sure they read that book -- along with my articles on extrajudicial targeting and punishment and domestic torture.
- Sign In or Join to post comments
info4u (not verified)at 06:46 on May 23rd, 2009
From BBC Article -
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)
A national network of cameras and computers automatically logging car number plates will be in place within months, the BBC has learned.
__________________________________________
John Catt found himself on the wrong side of the ANPR system. He regularly attends anti-war demonstrations outside a factory in Brighton, his home town.
It was at one of these protests that Sussex police put a "marker" on his car. That meant he was added to a "hotlist".
This is a system meant for criminals but John Catt has not been convicted of anything and on a trip to London, the pensioner found himself pulled over by an anti-terror unit
"I was threatened under the Terrorist Act. I had to answer every question they put to me, and if there were any questions I would refuse to answer, I would be arrested. I thought to myself, what kind of world are we living in?"
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/whos_watching_you/8064333.stm
- Sign In or Join to post comments
spiralingdownwards (not verified)at 05:52 on May 24th, 2009
Yeah, that's about the gist of it. Our world is spiraling down into overt, iron fisted tyranny. I myself have one of the "markers" that you describe, installed for no legitimate reason whatsoever and made from the ultra-high tech, nearly impossible to detect devices created supposedly for the good, but now used for evil. Millions do.
The British never had a constitution. I think what kept them from turning into something worse, in terms of government, was peer pressure from and association with the western world. Now that we have pretty much abandoned any respect for or adherence to constitutional principles here in the United States, a lot of that "peer pressure" is gone.
Orwell (1950s era) could never have imagined how much worse than his book the non-fiction world would eventually become.
I remember reading about the "Evil Empire" as a kid (the then U.S.S.R), and how people had to go through checkpoints to move from city to city. It was described as iron-fisted oppression of the Soviets by their government, and decried as one of the more evil aspects of their system.
Of course, what you have just described is essentially the same thing. The only difference is that they do not have to check your papers by stopping your vehicle (thanks to computerized ANPR). They automatically are notified of the fact that you are on their "list", and stop your vehicle as you described.
So many of the attributes of the old "Evil Empire" have been assimilated into our system, both here in the United States, and in other Western countries. We even have (in an indirect way) implemented the Soviet system of forced servitude.
I'm not a particularly religious person, but I'm pretty much down to prayer as the only solution.
- Kind regards,
Under the thumb in the U.S.
at 09:07 on June 3rd, 2009
Here is a variation on a posting I made today to the Freedom from Covert Harassment and Stalking blog site (with some important additions that could provide some clues as to the structure of this pervasive, multi-agency, multi-STATE torture matrix)...
NOTE: Another version of the post below appeared today on the Freedom from Covert Harassment and Stalking web site. By adding this preamble, with some changes, the "spam filter" should not suddenly "activate" -- unless I am being censored once again...)
TO ALL UNJUSTLY TARGETEDS:
I have reason to believe high officials in the U.S. Dept. of Justice are aware that unjustly targeted victims of the "extrajudicial targeting, punishment and control network" have been turned away from their local FBI offices when they attempt to file a request for an official civil rights investigation. I base this on impressions left after another visit on Monday to the FBI field office in Philadelphia.
I also have reason to believe that the outward attitude of FBI intake personnel -- at least at the Philadelphia office -- has undergone a marked change since my last personal visit to demand an investigation (prior to the election, and it was not a pleasant scene).
So please, all unjustly targeteds, try again. Go to your local FBI office and demand a formal Justice Department Civil Rights division investigation into the use of covertly planted GPS tracking devices with the intent to stalk, harass and physically abuse unjustly targeted individuals. Avoid using the phrase "mind control" because that just gives the intake officer a pretext to write you off as a loony.
You are also tell them that Vic Livingston, the former business reporter for the Fox TV station in Philadelphia who has written about the unconstitutional "extrajudicial punishment network at NowPublic.com/scrivener is among those demanding such an investigation.
I don't think the change in attitude is just for show -- because no such niceties were extended in my pre-election visit, when I was humiliated for no reason and escorted out to the building with an armed guard merely for asking to meet with a specific Special Agent whom I thought might be of assistance.
I should add that in the hour before I arrived at FBI HQ in Philadelphia, as I entered the Bourse Building in Philadelphia to seek assistance from the local chapter of the ACLU (which hasn't been helpful in the past), I was again struck in the right front temple by what I am sure was a microwave radiation directed energy weapon attack. And another attack occurred the day after my visit, as I was checking out at a local dollar store.
(Interesting that once again during a visit to the Morrisville (PA) Shopping Center, a manned New Jersey state police car was in the parking lot when I exited the store. If this had been the only time an out-of-state trooper was in the lot when I was at this particular store, I would consider it unremarkable, a mere coincidence. I did note the plate number (SP A234).
The more they (whoever they are) attack me, the greater my resolve.
at 17:05 on June 15th, 2009
Show them your damaged little plastic keyboard feet. They have an agent in charge of that department.
whatever that department is.
"this is special agent johnny utah of the DLPKF strike team! you're goin' down, bodie!"
at 07:25 on June 10th, 2009
10:53 p.m. June 9, 2009
I was just hit with a two or three-second microwave ultrasonic blast
of some kind that sent a piercing tone into my ears and left me
momentarily deaf. I was sitting in front of a window, a clean shot
from the backyard or an adjacent property.
These Nazi bastards must be taken down, NOW. This is torture in
America. I also was hit with some sort of constant frequency today
that left me tired and weak all day, although I had a good night's
sleep. This has been going on for FIVE YEARS. I have been robbed of
my career, my well-being, and my ability to live as a free human
being.
This is the violation of the most basic human right: The right to
freely think and function without manipulation or TORTURE.
They think because their tortuous weaponry is silent and little known
that they can get away with their crimes against humanity. They are
wrong. Those they think will cover for them live with the realization
that they are enabling these crimes -- and those who are "aware" no
longer will carry this burden of criminal culpability as accomplices
before and after the fact.
Let the torturers know: You are being watched, just as you are
watching and torturing me. Your day is coming, you Nazi bastards
masquerading as patriots and self-righteous avengers. Your purge will
fail, and you will get justice, by the hand of God and under the rule
of law.
http://NowPublic.com/scrivener
- Sign In or Join to post comments
formertiat 18:36 on June 15th, 2009
Vic, I doubt it is that simple. Too many people in high places are compromised by other criminal activities, in particular the drug trade, to be able to take much of a stand on anything. And I suspect that the imense ammount of money it takes to torture so many people all day and all night may come from the drug trade anyway, at least in part.
Whilst we are waiting for the "good people" to do something, how about cutting the bad people's funds? There is a site called LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition). Their moto is: "Drugs are bad, prohibition is worse." Asside from saving the life of many adicts, the legalisation and regulation of drugs would remove the funds from all sorts of illegal and corrupt activities, including the world wide torture through DEWs. Look up the site and make a donation.