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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
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at 13:22 on July 3rd, 2009
No, he's only in it for the free loofas.
It's Hannity who is the psychopathic brains behind the operation....
(just kidding, it's probably the other way around, O'Reilly's pretty sharp though I find his moral posturing pretty laughable. He's a pretty competant debator when he's not on a holier than thou bent)
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Anonymously Given (not verified)at 10:54 on July 3rd, 2009
Fox is playing the same game as everyone else in the news business these days - they know what to say, but won't say it because they think it would not serve their roles and interests.
Vic: you have presented yourself as a liberal-side guy in several posts, unless I am mistaken? How did you find yourself at Fox rather than some less conservative establishment?
Probably a bit of a trite question, because despite all of the labeling, it seems that within the scope of that which is most important to Americans at this critical juncture, the "news" establishments are supporting authoritarian propaganda, and that trumps any squabble about whether they call it "left" or "right".
I see less and less meaningful difference every day.
at 13:16 on July 3rd, 2009
haha, the answer to that is probably quite simple- look at hannity and colmes, they cast holmes as the liberal counter to hannity but he's milquetoast and ineffective- on purpose of course. look at that chain smoking broad they had as their chief democrat talking head, what was her name, susan something or the other? (she used to be a big player in the D party)
They march her out to represent the voice of the left to appear "fair and balanced" yet for the most part she was a complete idiot and got owned by anyone with an excuse for a brain.
Thus it is wholly believable Vic would be recruited by a conservative media outlet, they saw from a mile away he would be their best asset in forwarding their agenda.
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Anonymously Given (not verified)at 07:10 on July 17th, 2009
Censorship?
You bet.
Back in the day, any attributes of anonymity or inherent resistance to censorship within the internet system were based entirely on the idea that the major network players were decentralized, and that they did not "get together", with or without government intervention, to centrally track, trace, read and/or block network traffic.
In the early days, it was often said that censorship of the internet was not possible, and that any attempt to censor any user of same would have the result that the internet would instantly "route around" (the censorship). The ad hoc nature of the system in those days caused it to be imbued with certain inherent freedom facets that no longer exist within it.
Using the excuse of the war on terror, among other things, the internet has become both cable-vision-ized and subjected to new centralized control mechanisms. New coordination-enabling features between major routing choke points have flattened the hierarchy of the internet, and in the name of "fighting for freedom", are strangling it. *
* Italicized comments are based entirely upon my speculation.
at 15:46 on July 19th, 2009
I'd agree in the case of large media owned websites, and could see complicity when the webmasers of said sites are employees who obviously serve the masters who sign their paychecks, but there are far too many independent websites and servers out there to silence.
Vic often speaks of people whose posts in agreement with some of his nuttier ramblings would appear if they weren't blocked by the gov't agents who "torment" him by interfering with all his communications. I suspect these people do not exist. He speaks of his posts to blogs being blocked by the government- yet one can see (and this was displayed by his telephone exchanges with the administrators at Politico.com, who he pondered, incredulously, might very well have been imposters!) the reality is the blog and forum owners are the ones doing this, which is their right, because of spamming ansd otherwise trolling with disruptive posting. He speaks of "spoof" pages appearing before him, yet while a number of imaging software programs could take a screenshot, has produced none.
All in all while the possibility of widespread government censorship is likely, it would be much more believable if the claims were from someone whose grip on reality was less tenuous than the author of these articles.
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Anonymously Given (not verified)at 10:17 on July 30th, 2009
I believe that the little "independent" websites are most vulnerable to complete censorship, simply as a result of money matters. The bigger sites (e.g. Now Public) have the backing of $millions of dollars of venture capital. Believe me, if any large venture-capital driven sites are "shut off" by some dark-water mechanism, the respective investment bankers and their managers are going to raise unholy hell, and in a hurry.
For the $50 dollars per month that the little guy pays to his web-host provider or ISP, he is likely to get scant attention. Such a person will simply be "turned off" and left with little recourse other than to turn to another ISP, where he might receive the same treatment. To add insult and injury to little joe's woes, the $50 per month fee he is paying for ISP service might very well be both trumped and dwarfed by any amount of corrupt or black budget monies poked at the ISP.
Additionally, the bigger sites usually get the benefit of big-name back-links to jack-up their search engine page ranks from the get-go. (With millions of dollars on the line, this makes sense). Additionally, paid search engine placements add jack to the jack.
Now Public's page rank runs between 5 and 8 most days, (Microsoft is 10) so their stuff is let through the pipes.
Any large site could be manipulated in the realm of censorship by the actions of employees, to drop specific traffic. And, in defense of the large site's proprietary rights over it's dominion, it is reasonable (and right) that they do so.
The problem with the larger sites is twofold:
The danger that comes out of all of this is not limited to individuals ranting about civil rights abuses. Small businesses can be squashed with targeted censorship efforts. Given two businesses that each depend equally upon the internet for survival, successfully applied censorship efforts against one of them will certainly spell it's doom.
Such a process, if applied systematically and in a wholesale way by those who control the major choke-points of the internet, would drive all real independent business into oblivion, possibly leaving only mogul controlled (fascist?) affiliates. Many businesses operate on little Joe's budget, and a surprisingly large number of commercial sites are low budget affairs, making them vulnerable to the actions of any parties that exercise unfettered (or clandestine) control over internet choke-points.
Note that I currently list Now Public in the good guys column, and so far as I know, none of my postings to Now Public has been tampered with.
at 18:09 on July 31st, 2009
What you say makes sense. Ironically, it was Matt Drudge's site, not known for its progressive outlook, that brought me to NowPublic. For the reasons you state, it looks like it was a good decision to park here.
My site has been tampered with, and continues to be subject to malicious hacking, with copy altered, functions of my pages disabled, etc. But the people who apparently are doing this (and they must be technically sophisticated to "spoof" pages and remotely control my connection) also must know that they are violating international treaties and laws, along with my constitutional rights.
I have urged the site owner to file official complaints with Canadian telecommunications authorities; I know they read my pages and are aware of the malicious tampering ("duo" experiences similar malicious disruptions and interference).
While I cannot prove that U.S. surveillance operatives are doing this, I believe that to be the case.
As they say, it takes time to turn around a battleship, but I believe the new team in the wheelhouse is executing the maneuver.
at 13:39 on August 1st, 2009
They are not "aware of the malicious tampering" of their site. They have merely been magnanimously civil in their replies to you. I had several exchanges wirh Duo, you're two of a kind that's for sure.
For about the umpteenth million time, take a screenshot of the alleged "spoof" page next time you see one and present it to the site owner.
here is a link to an image program, it's free. Great for saving girlie pictures where they disable the right click button:
http://download.cnet.com/FastStone-Image-Viewer/3000-2192_4-10324485.html
Five star free program at CNET downloads.
Next time you claim you've been spoofed and don't post the page here at MyPublic to document your case, consider yourself outed as everything I've said you are. Which is at minimum a horrible investigative journalist. You have no excuses now.
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reposter (not verified)at 19:37 on July 31st, 2009
it is "selective" censorship that *they* aspire too.
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Anonymously Given (not verified)at 15:55 on August 3rd, 2009
If one looks at a set of Google search engine results for gang or organized stalking related search terms, it immediately becomes obvious that many disinformation and "lame parody" pages which are targeted towards the mockery of our cause somehow manage to be close to the top of the rankings.
We know that organized stalking operations are very well financed, and seeing (perhaps) the effect of such financing manifested in high ranking for such pages should not be surprising. Likely it is done in an indirect manner, perhaps with officially unaffiliated advertising for back-links and so forth.
In any case, I have found that much superior results are to be had by going to the end of the search results (last page), and working backwards. It's not so difficult ... there are only around a hundred pages (depending upon exact search term selected) and it is easy to navigate to the end of the list.
I believe that the results will be much more to your liking ...
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reposter (not verified)at 21:40 on August 4th, 2009
When single connections are monitored, it is "selective" and the assaults are contrived from the actual on-screen observations.
Google or any other search engine has nothing to do with it if it is derived from your end, but that is not necessarily true as Homeland Security has the authority access communications.
They can monitor both ends of your communications.
Anything you do can be watched and possibility be served up to you in "directed conversation," if your connection is owned.
at 07:34 on August 5th, 2009
As I have stated before, it's quite obvious that my every keystroke is monitored and some operative is reacting maliciously in real-time.
This is the face of fascism. There is no probable cause or any other justification for this which-hunt against a 59-year-old struggling journalist and torture matrix victim whose over-riding goal in life is to get government witch-hunters OFF MY BACK, and off the backs of many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of similarly unjustly targeted American citizens.
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CIAprograms (not verified)at 21:14 on August 4th, 2009
Stories have been published, that after the 911 terrorist attacks, that thousands of contractors were hired by certain agencies under the auspices of Homeland Security.
A percentage of these contractors were assigned to assess and eliminate so-called internal threats within the United States.
The tactics described are common to these agencies and include the fielding and or the experimentation of defense contractor's chemical, biological and electronic weapons.
These agencies are using methods that are not within accepted or the original law of the Constitution of the United States Of America.
Primarily and foremost, the denial of our fourth amendment rights as guaranteed under our Constitution have been usurped by the Patriot Act and Presidential Decrees.
These aberrations of the law have also been exploited by those who would take advantage, to take care of *personal business.*
This is also an extension of the "good'ol boy network" that includes multi-national corporations, the mafia and our government as the basis for these crimes.
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CIAprograms (not verified)at 06:30 on August 5th, 2009
I should add that the weapons said to be used by some of the people called "stalkers" are "non-lethal" or "less-lethal" or considered "incapacitating."
It also appears from what I have read and been told, some victims may be portrayed to fit some sort of "profile" that fits the agenda for whatever is going on.
Who is really behind this? I don't know.
And this all started before the Obama administration and I hope he will put an end to it.
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CIAprograms (not verified)at 06:43 on August 5th, 2009
I should add that the weapons said to be used by some of the people called "stalkers" are "non-lethal" or "less-lethal" or considered "incapacitating."
It also appears from what I have read and been told, some victims may be portrayed to fit some sort of "profile" that fits the agenda for whatever is going on.
Who is really behind this? I don't know.
And this all started before the Obama administration and I hope he will put an end to it.
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CIAprograms (not verified)at 21:16 on August 4th, 2009
Stories have been published, that after the 911 terrorist attacks, that thousands of contractors were hired by certain agencies under the auspices of Homeland Security.
A percentage of these contractors were assigned to assess and eliminate so-called internal threats within the United States.
The tactics described are common to these agencies and include the fielding and or the experimentation of defense contractor's chemical, biological and electronic weapons.
These agencies are using methods that are not within accepted or the original law of the Constitution of the United States Of America.
Primarily and foremost, the denial of our fourth amendment rights as guaranteed under our Constitution have been usurped by the Patriot Act and Presidential Decrees.
These aberrations of the law have also been exploited by those who would take advantage, to take care of *personal business.*
This is also an extension of the "good'ol boy network" that includes multi-national corporations, the mafia and our government as the basis for these crimes.
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CIAprograms (not verified)at 06:27 on August 5th, 2009
I should add that the weapons said to be used by some of the people called "stalkers" are "non-lethal" or "less-lethal" or considered "incapacitating."
It also appears from what I have read and been told, some victims may be portrayed to fit some sort of "profile" that fits the agenda for whatever is going on.
Who is really behind this? I don't know.
And this all started before the Obama administration and I hope he will put an end to it.
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CIAprograms (not verified)at 06:41 on August 5th, 2009
I should add that the weapons said to be used by some of the people called "stalkers" are "non-lethal" or "less-lethal" or considered "incapacitating."
It also appears from what I have read and been told, some victims may be portrayed to fit some sort of "profile" that fits the agenda for whatever is going on.
Who is really behind this? I don't know.
And this all started before the Obama administration and I hope he will put an end to it.
at 08:09 on August 5th, 2009
Everything you say, "CIAprograms," comports with what has happened to me, and continues to occur. As I write this, I am nearly overcome by a powerful headache and a feeling of induced weakness that I am certain is coming from EMF microwave radiation.
Who will rescue people like me, and when? When will a Bill Clinton (or a Leon Panetta or whomever) appear at MY door to tell me, "Your long personal nightmare is over"??
I speak often about the "good people on the inside." I know they are there. The fact that I am able to get my message out -- after four years of being totally silenced, physiologically and from a telecommunications blackout standpoint -- tells me that the forces of good are at work.
But I continue to be tortured and terrorized and framed. I face a court hearing in a week or so on trumped up charges. I receive demand letters in the mail as a result of financial sabotage that was engineered by this torture matrix -- suspiciously fabricated letters from a law firm acting as a collection agency on behalf of the PA Dept. of Revenue, specifying NO specific amounts due, no details, no street address -- just a P.O. box number, a return envelope, and a message to call a toll-free number. So I can be psychologically tortured over the phone, and financially destroyed, by this evil program?
I've been to the FBI several times over the past year and a half. Where is the civil rights investigation I have requested? I have relayed information that could lead to persons who are entering my home, vandalizing, terrorizing... perhaps those who have poisoned our food and water and even fouled the air we breathe.
Where are the investigators who will fairly and without malice ferret out this officially-sanctioned terrorism? WHO IS COVERING UP THIS GENOCIDE, and when will those at the top be alerted?
I remain very concerned about our current leadership in Washington. Was I the only one who noticed that narrow bald streak running vertically, behind President Obama's left ear? Looked like some kind of laser did it. I've experienced similar scarring.
Or the puffy veins and brownish discoloration of Vice President Biden's temples... the same kind of discoloration and puffiness that I experience in conjunction with an induced sense of malaise and head pain?
Where are the American heroes who will save the victims of these officially-countenanced crimes against humanity?
And when you, "CIAprograms," say you "don't know" who is behind this, why is it that I can't believe you?
Anyone who knows as much as you seem to know also knows who's behind this. It's all hiding in plain sight, under the auspices of a "multi-agency coordinated action program"...
And as I wrote those words, I received a piercing direct hit in the right front temple -- the area of the brownish skin discoloration that I just described, above. The precision of the attack tells me this is no doctored microwave oven doing this, but a sophisticated microwave radiation directed energy weapon. A local discharge -- or "triangulated" silent attack from a terrestrial- or satellite-based weapon delivery system?
You tell me, "CIAprograms." I do not know. I do know I am under attack.
This is torture. And I will never surrender to it.
at 15:42 on August 6th, 2009
Ok, I'm going to approach this rationally and fairly.
As I write this, I am nearly overcome by a powerful headache and a feeling of induced weakness that I am certain is coming from EMF microwave radiation.
What leads you to be certain this is from "EMF microwave radiation"?
Who will rescue people like me, and when? When will a Bill Clinton (or a Leon Panetta or whomever) appear at MY door to tell me, "Your long personal nightmare is over"??
OMG. Just, OMG.
I speak often about the "good people on the inside." I know they are there. The fact that I am able to get my message out -- after four years of being totally silenced, physiologically and from a telecommunications blackout standpoint -- tells me that the forces of good are at work.
You say you are totally silenced, yet the better part of a year watching your articles appear here, I have not seen a single one of your articles- or your comments within them- disappear or become altered in any way.
Let alone the logical fallacy that you posting your material here or anywhere means "good people inside" are at work. Do you think your posting this helps your cause or anyone else's, thus since it has been allowed to appear, this means the forces of good alloweed this to happen, overruling the forces of evil? This fits the profile of you waiting for the President to come to your door. If you don't see a problem with this, that's even another reason why you need to seek some counseling, whether you're really being gangstalked or not.
I receive demand letters in the mail as a result of financial sabotage that was engineered by this torture matrix -- suspiciously fabricated letters from a law firm acting as a collection agency on behalf of the PA Dept. of Revenue, specifying NO specific amounts due, no details, no street address -- just a P.O. box number, a return envelope, and a message to call a toll-free number. So I can be psychologically tortured over the phone, and financially destroyed, by this evil program?
In one paragraph you say they financially destroyed you.... then go on to question whether collection letters sent to you are real- huh? The simpler issue to address is do you owe this entity money?
Where are the investigators who will fairly and without malice ferret out this officially-sanctioned terrorism? WHO IS COVERING UP THIS GENOCIDE, and when will those at the top be alerted?
Well historically speaking it's usually been investigative journalists who expose these things. However, using one of your examples I don't think Bob Woodward would have gotten far telling people the watergate burglary was committed by aliens in a spacecraft.
Or the puffy veins and brownish discoloration of Vice President Biden's temples... the same kind of discoloration and puffiness that I experience in conjunction with an induced sense of malaise and head pain?
It's called getting old, and ugly... and in your case, quite daft.
And as I wrote those words, I received a piercing direct hit in the right front temple -- the area of the brownish skin discoloration that I just described, above. The precision of the attack tells me this is no doctored microwave oven doing this, but a sophisticated microwave radiation directed energy weapon. A local discharge -- or "triangulated" silent attack from a terrestrial- or satellite-based weapon delivery system?
And yet you stubbornly refuse to concede the most fundamental technical fault of your claim: Radio Frequency Energy cannot be tightly collimated and focused and projected a long distance.
A 59 year old man feels weak and gets frequent headaches. That's unusual. Must be a satellite and only the President can stop it.
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Anonymously Given (not verified)at 06:27 on August 5th, 2009
"This is also an extension of the "good'ol boy network" that includes multi-national corporations, the mafia ... "
The determination of "who is who" and "what is what" is so extraordinarily difficult, as all persons must find more disinformation than anything else, and citizens are drenched by it from sunrise until sunset every single day of the year.
Any person with low observational acumen or sensitivity is consumed into it's totalitarian contrived "fairy land" false-reality in a fairly short time. Some of the less sophisticated "brown shirt" types probably fit into that category.
I've notice for a long time that a lot of noise seems to be coming from groups claiming to be "freedom fighter" oriented, or "privacy activists", and who are providing a slightly altered expression of what we espouse as our reality on these forums day after day.
An example of such a person is the prolific privacy rights personality Katherine Albrecht, who has the major commentary on sites such as www.katherinealbrecht.com and spychips.com. Mrs. Albrecht seems to concern herself primarily with the negative connotations related to the use of RFID tags. I share some of her concerns, as RFID tag technology can be used in exactly the same way as GPS tracking technology, if it is spread to all corners far and wide.
There are other personalities that come to mind (not to imply that all of these folks may be lumped together into one basket).
A right-wing leaning group may be found at infowars.com.
The one thing that is lacking in the commentary produced by *all* of these groups is any mention of "organized stalking". As self proclaimed activists set against such things as RFID tags and similar other (potentially) totalitarian technology, one would think that the "totalitarians" would be pouncing upon them like cats on catnip.
Thoughts?
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Anonymously Given (not verified)at 06:59 on August 5th, 2009
Immediately after I posted the last message, I turned off the computer and went outside to do a little yard work.
A neighbor (whom I have never met) yelled across to me that "Alex Jones is not a right winger".
I think that this particular neighbor that I referenced is somewhat new to our neighborhood, but I am not sure, as there seems to be a lot of movement (pun intended) into and out of this neighborhood.
I believe that our family is one of the few remaining ones whose residence dates from the time we moved into this neighborhood eight and a half years ago.
Perhaps the comment made by "reposter", indicating that my internet connection is "owned" is accurate.
In any case, I digress. Is the neighbor's statement about Mr. Jones "on the mark"?
at 08:19 on August 5th, 2009
All I know about Alex Jones is that he picked up one of my stories from the NowPublic syndicate, printed every word as I wrote it, and it generated a huge response from people who took it seriously.
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Anonymously Given (not verified)at 07:52 on August 20th, 2009
Vic:
I surfed to the Alex Jones site and stumbled across your article (by accident). I did notice that he gave you full attribution -- that is some consolation, I suppose ... :-)
I wonder about the real agendas held by the operators of any UTV victim-oriented web sites. The reason I make such a statement has a basis in a message that I recently posted to another UTV (I think) who authors official news pages on this site. The message follows:
Which ISP do you use?
Really, due to my discovery that the websites of activists and dissidents are routinely tossed into the Internet's "black hole", I find it very difficult to believe that your site is, in any way, "for real".
The propaganda machine doesn't like competition, and so (naturally) any dissenting point of view is blocked. This is the way that all mainstream (as well as other) press operations have been muzzled in this country (U.S.) and around the world. Tokyo Rose is all that remains for the eyes and ears of all the submissive drones worldwide.
The so-called "open" internet was never any such thing. The military folks designed it, for crissakes. They had control of all the major traffic control nodes (choke points) back then, and they still do (indirectly) have control of them now.
Bigger sites (such as NPR) allow the posting of messages from people such as myself, but such a thing is tolerated by the "system" only because messages posted to boards such as this one are easily "buried" by the myriad spam messages submitted by roving legions of "gang stalkers".
My sites have been buried for seven years: nada, nyet, nicht -- zero real traffic ever allowed through! I have tried a dozen different ISP operators in five different countries. No dice - it's all controlled to the hilt. At one point I considered putting the sites in China, for crying out loud, but the Chinese make that almost impossible for (obvious) reasons. You must have a "sponsor" in the Chinese government to get it done - yeah, right.
Our "internet" however; is not much different than theirs. They are just more truthful about the censorship.
It is true that one of my sites might be deemed politically controversial, another is "family oriented", and another is "tech oriented". It really doesn't matter at all what the content of your site is if at any point in time your number is punched into the central control databases. At such a juncture, you are the "invisible man" and always will be.
At this point I have a total lack of understanding as to why it can be that your site(s) are visible on the internet. Please tell me which "magical" ISP you are using .....