U.S. CELLULAR MICROWAVE WEAPON PIERCES SKULL FOR SONIC TORTURE

by Scrivener | October 12, 2010 at 07:52 am
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•  Silent electromagnetic waves inject into the heads of "targeted individuals" ear-splitting tones, audible messages, music -- intended to inflict physical pain, impairment and psychological torture.

•  Gov't operative sadists use Mr. Softee ice cream jingle for "psy ops" brain freeze?

•  A "silent sonic holocaust" that security-military-intelligence officials knowingly let happen.

 

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Government operatives at the controls of America's nationwide cellular microwave "torture tower" domestic weapon system are using precision-targeted radio frequency attacks to silently inject disturbing and potentially injurious tones, voices, messages -- even music -- directly into the minds of mostly unknowing, extra-legally "targeted" Americans across the United States.

 
These silent, sonic attacks are happening with the knowledge of security and law enforcement officials within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security- administered multi-agency "fusion center" network -- a de facto shadow government engaged in the continuous torture and persecution of an unknown number of so-called "targeted individuals."

 
One victim, a writer, reports electromagnetic assaults of various forms, including painful, high-pitched tones that cause severe headache, fatigue, and an oppressive "head in a vise" feeling. But sometimes, he says, the microwave acoustic attacks appear to be intended to inflict psychological or emotional distress. His report:

 
"In the past, I have heard music coming from no apparent source. At first, I convinced myself that the music was coming from my immediate surroundings. But when I heard music inside my car, when the radio and CD player were turned off, I began to suspect that I was being targeted by a microwave beam capable of generating sounds.

 
"I did some research, and learned that the U.S. military has developed so-called "voice to skull" weaponry capable of using microwaves and the resonance of human bone to convey sounds directly into the head, bypassing the ears and the auditory organs.

 
"Last night (Oct. 11, 2010), it happened again. As I was leaving a store in Trenton, N.J. and walked out into the parking lot, I distinctly heard the 'Mr. Softee' ice cream truck jingle, loud and clear. I looked around, expecting to see a Mr. Softee truck. But the parking lot was empty, with no other vehicles in sight except for a couple of parked cars.

 
"I did notice that a steel cell tower mast was located just across the closest main street, about a half-mile away. My research shows that cell tower microwave installations are capable of transmitting sounds directly into the heads of targeted persons, using a technology that works on the same principle as those microwave antennas used to pick up distant sounds at sporting events."

 
Later that evening, an anonymous comment was received on this witnesses' blog site.

The message:

 
"...Fine then, bask in the warmth of the microwaves and enjoy the music of the 'voices.' If you don't want help, I will butt out and dismiss this as delusional minds at work. There, now that's better isn't it?"

 
Says the witness:

 
"I can't prove it, but I have little doubt that this sadistic message came from the government operative, probably a defense contractor, who apparently assaulted me in the Trenton parking lot with the microwaved Mr. Softee jingle.


"Just what the intent of the message was, I can only guess -- but it smells like a malicious 'psy op' to me."

 
As described in a Wired.com article published in 2008, a U.S. Army website detailing "voice to skull" microwave hearing technology was mysteriously removed from the internet.

 
www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/05/army-removes-pa/

 
The Federation of American Scientists website has preserved this quotation from the U.S. Army web page, describing the technology in these words:

 
"... (A) Nonlethal weapon which includes (1) a neuro-electromagnetic device which uses microwave transmission of sound into the skull of persons or animals by way of pulse-modulated microwave radiation; and (2) a silent sound device which can transmit sound into the skull of person or animals. NOTE: The sound modulation may be voice or audio subliminal messages. One application of V2K (voice to skull) is use as an electronic scarecrow to frighten birds in the vicinity of airports."

 
www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/vts.html


A variant of this technology is used by intelligence operatives to insert disturbing, painful audio tones into the digital audio signal of cable television service directed to the homes of "targeted individuals" -- and by extension, the sonic torture inflicts pain upon entire families:


nowpublic.com/world/fusion-center-gestapo-uses-digital-tv-sound-torture-demand


Victims maintain that hundreds of thousands of Americans have been unjustly targeted for electromagnetic torture and for so-called "community-based harassment" -- including stalking, home intrusions, government-enabled financial sabotage, and acts of vandalism allegedly committed by government-sponsored "neighborhood watch" vigilantes.

 

nowpublic.com/world/gestapo-usa-govt-funded-vigilante-network-terrorizes-america

 

Many of the victims of this Gestapo-like apparatus have been targeted for their political or ideological beliefs, or because of their ethnic, religious or cultural backgrounds. The persecution intensifies when they speak out about the abuses of power and atrocities being committed by their own federal, state and local governments under the aegis of 72 regionally-based fusion center installations.

 
The electromagnetic "scalar wave" technology employed by this weapon system is mounted on cellular towers sited in every neighborhood and along every highway in America. The covert deployment of this precision-targeted domestic weapon system, capable of inducing physical impairment, injury, illness, and sudden or "slow-kill" death, was first publicly exposed nearly a year ago in this NowPublic.com article:

 
nowpublic.com/world/u-s-silently-tortures-americans-cell-tower-microwaves

 

FOR MORE OF VIC LIVINGSTON'S REPORTING ON THE AMERICAN GESTAPO NETWORK, SEE:

 
NowPublic.com/scrivener and "Facebook -- Vic Livingston" (Notes)

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TI

Vic,  On page six of the reader comments to your article, SADISTIC WEB ADS FORESHADOW SILENT U.S. MICROWAVE WEAPON ATTACKS”  you will find TiredDem saying as follows:                 “TiredDem at 18:40 on October 11th, 2010 “. . .  If you don't want help, I will butt out and dismiss this as delusional minds at work.  There, now that's better isn't it?”             The “echoing” of the same words (as we know, a typical gangstalker tactic), appears to link the "music" attack to the computer-perp, TiredDem(on).          The US is in the grip of some very evil federal pod people who have injected their cancer into the nation's lifeblood -- its heretofore honorable legal, police, and justice system.

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Scrivener

1:53 a.m., Mon., Oct. 25, 2010 -- Hit by a pulsed burst microwave attack so severe, so painful, that it awoke me from a deep sleep.  My ears were ringing severely for more than ten minutes after the attack and continue to ring severely to this minute (2:11 a.m.)

THIS IS FELONIOUS ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON.  THIS IS A WAR CRIME.  THESE SOCIOPATH COWARDS ATTACK THEIR TARGETS AS THEY SLEEP -- PROOF THAT THIS WEAPON SYSTEM IS BEING USED TO TORTURE AND SLOW-KILL.

The Bucks County authorities who cover up these crimes are complicit in these war crimes.  WILL NO ONE SAVE THE VICTIMS?  Shortly after the attack, I rose from bed and walked into the bathroom.  Suddenly, sirens began to wail outside.  When I walked downstairs a few minutes later to file this report shortly after 2 a.m., again I heard sirens.  And when I lifted the phone receiver immediately after the attack to alert anyone on the line of yet another felonious assault, another war crime, I got a LOUD BUZZING IN THE EAR.

THESE BARBARIC SAVAGES.  AND EQUALLY BARBARIC -- THE LOCAL OFFICIALS WHO KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING AND WHO DO NOTHING.

NOTE:  I contemporaneously emailed this report to the Philadelphia office of the FBI.  After I did, I noticed that the phase "deep sleep" was maliciously altered; it came out "sleep sleep, " and the word "happening" in the last paragraph had been changed to "happen" -- apparently to make the writer look sloppy or incompetent.  These arrogant sociopaths and their psy ops tactics...

***   (continuing comment in response to poster, supra:)

And just how many crimes were committed by this operative?  The microwave assault, the misuse of government property, the use of the telecommunications system to terrorize and inflict distress, etc. etc.?  The failure to respect the rule of law is just as egregious as the commission of the original crimes -- because it enables more lawlessness, more crimes against humanity and acts of depravity.


If this act is not answered by criminal charges against the operative, his superiors, and their superiors, there is no justice in America.

***

MICROWAVE ATTACK REPORT, 10/12/10 @ 1:26 p.m. -- My gov't operative torturers have steadily upped the amplitude since I posted my story today about the microwave Voice (and music) to Skull attacks.  At this moment, I am suffering from vertigo, severe head pain, and the crown of my head is literally burning, hot to the touch.  THESE WAR CRIMINALS ARE DEFIANT.  THEY ARROGANTLY BELIEVE THEY CAN'T BE STOPPED.  PROVE THEM WRONG.  This is the multi-agency fusion center S.O.P.

WHO ARE THE OFFICIALS WHO ALLOW AMERICAN WAR CRIMES AGAINST U.S. CITIZENS?


UPDATE 2:26 p.m. -- Was put under immediately after posting the above.  When I awoke, my arms and legs were numb and I had trouble standing.  Now, a half hour later, I feel somewhat okay again, but weakened, drained.  THIS IS TORTURE, ENSLAVEMENT, A DENIAL OF FREE WILL.  The operatives who are playing God with a U.S. weapon system are WAR CRIMINALS.  Insiders know who they are, where they are stationed.  Arrest them, charge them, and their superiors, with crimes against humanity.


The above post is an hour late in posting because my pages DID go dead and because just after I wrote it I was put under by a radio frequency attack that literally knocked me out at the computer.  The unconstitutional surveillance of my environs can confirm this.  Since I can't end these constitutional rights abuses, perhaps some good people in the inside should monitor this surveillance along with the bad people on the inside, just to see how I am physically assaulted and tortured daily by THIS:

nowpublic.com/world/u-s-silently-tortures-americans-cell-tower-microwaves


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Scrivener

I have just attempted to post the following comment to the political blog of Ben Smith at Politico.com.  Will it actually post to the real site -- or will it be re-directed to a "spoofed" or counterfeit Politico.com under the control of government warrantless surveillance "information systems' defense contractor operatives -- a "man in the middle attack" that facilities censorship, even malicious alteration of internet content?  (For more on that, see the last link at the bottom of the comment):

OBAMA MUST 'GO LARGE' -- BY TAKING DOWN SECRET FUSION CENTER PROGRAMS OF EXTRAJUDICIAL TARGETING AND PERSECUTION

Ben's analysis underscores the urgent need for Obama to GO LARGE in the final days before the election -- with a decisive series of executive orders and initiatives that instantly restore confidence in his leadership, and in his dedication to the core principles that got him elected -- such as his belief in the rule of law and in civil and human rights.

Obama must renounce his government's immoral and constitutionally abhorrent policies of extrajudicial targeting, persecution and covert high-tech silent torture and impairment of hundreds of thousands of Americans deemed by authoritarian bureaucrats to be "dissidents" or undesirables.  

Obama must take down a multi-agency, federal-local-corporate shadow government that is operating out of 72 Homeland Security- administered fusion centers nationwide -- an apparatus that is literally dispensing vigilante INjustice in every city and county in the nation.

Obama must take down a cell tower- mounted microwave radio frequency weapon system that is being used by federal, state and local agencies and commands to conduct what amounts of a slow-kill American genocide -- the silent torture, impairment, subjugation and neutralization of these extra-legally 'targeted individuals" -- many of whom have been targeted for reasons of ideology, politics, or hate.

This veteran journalist fears that the President himself may be an unknowing victim of silent microwave radio frequency assault -- a possible explanation for complaints of chronic fatigue among White House staff, and for physical effects such as fatigue and the sudden appearance of moles, sores and nagging head and body aches.

White House staff, please read and forward these articles to senior decision-makers, and act now -- before this silent genocide claims more victims, along with our democracy and our decency as a nation:

nowpublic.com/world/u-s-silently-tortures-americans-cell-tower-microwaves
nowpublic.com/world/gestapo-usa-govt-funded-vigilante-network-terrorizes-america
nowpublic.com/world/u-s-govt-uses-spoofed-web-pages-and-urls-censor-internet

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Mark Twain

There may not be, nor have ever been, justice in America -- according to "The Gemstone File: A Memoir" by Stephanie Carvana, reissued with updated foreword in 2006.  Primarily an expose about the Kennedy assassinations, this book's allegations of US Gov complicity in the murders, even three years ago, would have been impossible for me to believe.               Now, based on the prevalence of this nationwide filth of  gangstalking, which is kept hidden in plain sight and is totally ignored by mainstream media, I know that Gemstone has got some things very, very right.       

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*

I think you have been implanted with neural-stimulators. Illegal implants found.

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*

Site dosn't supports links, so here it comes.www.us-government-torture.com/Larson%20Report%20Edit.pdf

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www.us-government-torture.com/Larson%20Report%20Edit.pdf

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Winston Smith

Not any more. The devices described by David Larson are as ancient as a model T Ford. The GPS tracking and virus-delivery devices are smaller than a grain of rice -- and draw on the body's electricity.

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MarkTwain

Larson's so-called chips are as big as dumptrucks. As of 2006 the chips were smaller than a grain of rice and powered by the body's own electricity to transmit and receive. No one but the Shadow Government knows what else these nano-capsules (weapons) are programmed to carry.

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Smokey Bear

Why "Mr. Softee"? Why not Bob Dylan's "Everybody must get stoned?"

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annoying orange

They use the Mr. Softee theme because it's Good Humor.

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Scrivener

Who will be laughing when reports of operative-administered electromagnetic rape and mutilation result in charges of felonious crimes against humanity?  These American Nazis, hiding behind badges, titles and federal contracts, are being unmasked and will be brought to justice.

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Scrivener

The Upper Moreland Twp, PA police have proposed making it a criminal offense to leave your car unlocked. I attempted to post this comment to the NBC10Philadelphia website (nbc10.com) but despite repeated attempts, was unable to do so. I finally was able to post it to the station's Facebook page, after calling Verizon DSL to again complain about malicious interference with, and censorship of, my internet service.

Here is the comment that the fusion center Gestapo and its rogue "information systems" contractor apparently are trying to censor, or keep from broad dissemination:

MORE SIGNS OF A CREEPING POLICE STATE

In the nearly seven years since this former business reporter for Fox 29 TV in Philly realized he is being extrajudicially targeted and subject to community-based persecution -- vigilantism apparently coordinated by a fed-directed, police-protected fusion center- based Gestapo-like apparatus -- I sometimes find that my properly locked car is unlocked when I return to the vehicle.

I strongly suspect that the car's GPS-controlled "anti-theft immobilization system," which we did not order but which was installed in the vehicle when we bought it, is being used by rogue operatives on a witch hunt to unlock my car. I have found possessions inside tampered with, and on at least one occasion, I found evidence of vandalism. I also believe this GPS system is being used by GPS-equipped community "watch" vigilantes to stalk and harass me while I am driving.

Criminalizing unlocked cars is a bad idea, another intrusion of a creeping police state. Draconian proposals like this makes it just too easy for constitution-disrespecting authorities to conduct witch-hunts against unjustly, extra-legally "targeted individuals" -- what I have described as a hate- and ideology-driven purge of American society. I have to question the motives of those who propose these "Nanny State" laws. Find my recent articles on this subject at http://NowPublic.com/scrivener (lede stories and links therein). -- Vic Livingston

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Scrivener

MICROWAVE ATTACK REPORT - Wed., Oct. 13, 2010 @ 1 p.m.

The government operative microwave radio frequency torturers are turning up the amplitude of their electromagnetic toys, apparently in retribution for my net postings earlier today. Vertigo, severe headache, a feeling of weakness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating... this is how they silently, covertly torture, impair, subjugate, electromagnetically incarcerate.

Fusion center officials know exactly who is at the controls, and where they are located. Surely these operatives are under surveillance (not to do so would be serious malfeasance).

ARREST THESE WAR CRIMINALS ONCE AND FOR ALL AND SET AN EXAMPLE FOR THE NATION.

The rule of law and the Constitution mean nothing as long as this torture matrix remains operative.

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Scrivener

I have attempted to post the following comment to the Politico.com foreign policy blog of Laura Rozen.  I received a message that the comment was "received successfully," but unlike other comments, it did not appear to post immediately.  Was it posted to a spoofed or counterfeited web page under the control of government operative censors -- as appears to have happened in the past?  Please check http://politico.com/blogs/laurarozen to see if this comment appears, or if it was subject to "man in the middle attack" censorship:


<p>No, Mr. President, it is not merely a question of "marketing and P.R." 

<p>Your greatest shortcoming is a failure to restore the rule of law and human rights in an America that is being hijacked by a grassroots, fusion center- based shadow government that is engaged in the extrajudicial persecution of untold thousands of "targeted individuals," by the following unconstitutional, illegal and morally heinous means: 

<p>• silent electromagnetic torture and impairment induced by a covert microwave radio frequency weapon system deployed nationwide on cell towers; 

<p>• financial sabotage enabled by major federal agencies;

<p>• police-protected, fusion center- directed community- based town "watch" stalking and harassment, including surreptitious home intrusions other acts of domestic terrorism.

<p>Extrajudicial targeting is not just for "terrorists."  Indeed, the war on terror is being used as a pretext for a hate- and ideology-driven genocidal purge of American society. 

<p>And you, Mr. President, as well as other public officials, could be among the "targets."   Please read this veteran journalist's articles, and ACT:

<p>nowpublic.com/world/u-s-silently-tortures-americans-cell-tower-microwaves
<p>nowpublic.com/world/gestapo-usa-govt-funded-vigilante-network-terrorizes-america
<p>nowpublic.com/world/u-s-govt-uses-spoofed-web-pages-and-urls-censor-internet

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Scrivener

MORE BLATANT IDEOLOGICAL CENSORSHIP BY HAM-FISTED GOV'T OPERATIVES?  HISTORY REPEATS... AND REPEATS... AND REPEATS


PLEASE RE-POST MY GOV'T CENSORED COMMENT TO: http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk -- re: "Afifi wants his congressman's help with FBI bug"



My attempt to post a comment to a Washingtonpost.com "Spy Talk" blog item about a lawsuit concerning a federal agency's planting of a GPS tracking device on an Arab American's car once again has elicited the obviously spoofed, counterfeited "held for blog owner" page.  Wa-Po does not "hold" blog comments "for the blog owner."  In fact, I have written about this very fraudulent U.S. intel technique:

nowpublic.com/world/wash-post-blog-moderation-used-cover-u-s-govt-censorship

In fact, recently I've had trouble even accessing current "Spy Talk" columns.  When I navigate to Jeff Stein's very informative blog, I lose my sign-in and my comments appear to be re-directed to a "spoofed" or counterfeit page under the control of government surveillance censors -- "information systems" defense contractor operatives.

Here is the comment that U.S. operatives apparently saw fit to censor:

In the case of this extra-legally and unjustly "targeted" journalist (a Jew, not an Arab), the entity seeking to destroy my credibility through slander and character assassination did not have to secret a "Q-ball" on or in my car...

...apparently, the entity (or perhaps a multi-agency fusion center task force) had a local car dealer sell my wife a car equipped with GPS-activated "anti-theft immobilization."  And the salesman called it a "free option" -- a total lie.

I don't have the expertise to disable the device, and my suspicions are that the dealership would be under instructions to leave it operative.

Why are "they" targeting a 60-year-old former mainstream reporter?  I think these articles may hold the key:

nowpublic.com/world/u-s-silently-tortures-americans-cell-tower-microwaves
nowpublic.com/world/gestapo-usa-govt-funded-vigilante-network-terrorizes-america
nowpublic.com/world/u-s-govt-uses-spoofed-web-pages-and-urls-censor-internet


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one guy

my posts on the local newspaper are always deleted.

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FaithlessTemplar

With good reason, I dare say.

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posted anonymously

While I agree with you about publication of certain comments, I also know that you are wrong about group/team stalking in America.  100% wrong.

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TI

Thanks to computer-perp, Faithless Templar, for validating the observations of "one guy."

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Scrivener


Thurs., Oct. 14, 2010 @ 1:35 p.m. -- Once again, my government operative torturers are manipulating the environment on my premises -- the "cold room."  It is colder inside than outside.  I turn up the heat, and still I am bone-chill cold.  Ductless A/C surreptitiously installed?  Some kind of freon gas?  How much extra in heating bills does this (apparently) fusion center-coordinated torture cost us?  AND NO ONE WILL INVESTIGATE.  The rule of law has broken down in Bucks County, PA, or wherever Americans are extra-legally targeted and persecuted.

I am literally being held hostage -- to manipulation of my environment, and to electromagnetic torture, impairment and extra-legal incarceration via the cellular microwave radio frequency weapon system that elements of the U.S. gov't are using to subjugate and harm those considered to be "dissidents"  or "undesirables. 

When the house is left empty, there are signs of surreptitious entry upon our return -- often vandalism or malicious mischief -- items soiled, torn, broken.  This is domestic terrorism, and no law enforcement authority will investigate or run down leads I have provided, to my knowledge.  Naivety enables this Nazi-like persecution in America.  Read this:

nowpublic.com/world/u-s-silently-tortures-americans-cell-tower-microwaves

nowpublic.com/world/gestapo-usa-govt-funded-vigilante-network-terrorizes-america

nowpublic.com/world/u-s-govt-uses-spoofed-web-pages-and-urls-censor-internet

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MarkTwain

Our American Axis of Evil eschews the  blood and guts approach for Americans to adopt a more refined, legalistic approach.  A rule-of-law approach, you might say.                    The Criminals with Badges deliberately worsen the problems of daily life (numerous costly car accidents, illnesses,  mechanical failures) -- to exhaust the TI both financially and physically.                   One of the Perps' favorite ploys, in addition to sabotaging the TI's house in some way, is to inject the TI's house with  ants, rats, or snakes.  Naturally, the Perps also have scads of phony pest-control (har-har) trucks roaming around, as in "you TIs are pests to be exterminated."  When I see a "pest control" truck, however, I know that an officially sanctioned "rat" is at the wheel.   

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credibility reports

*Honeypot site, sitting on top of a crock of cheese*

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Scrivener

LAME PSY OPS RULE #1...


Ascribe to the truth-telling "target" the very tactics and methods used against the target.

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Scrivener

POSTED TO MY FACEBOOK PAGE ABOUT 3:45 p.m. -- Slandering, character assassinating gov't operatives apparently are placing "sexual abuse center" and "free sex offender report" ads on my http://NowPublic.com/scrivener page. This is how rogues try to defame (and possibly frame) those they witch hunt as "dissidents" or slander as undesirables. This has been going for for more than six years. I won't let them get away with this -- I will call them out every time.

AFTER-ACTION REPORT: Immediately after I posted this, the sex crime ads disappeared from my NowPublic page. The cowardly bastards, the scum who hide behind gov't contracts and badges... the only way this will stop is when they go to PRISON for their serial violations of constitutional, civil and human rights. Good people on the inside are working on it...

4:25 p.m. -- Apparently, I spoke too soon.  The sex offender ads are back on the page.  Let me say it again -- scum who shame security and law enforcement, frat boy Nazis who hide behind badges, titles and government contracts, are the true enemies of the state and the good people on the inside are working quietly to take them down just when they don't expect it -- my educated opinion

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Scrivener

Oct. 14, 2010 @4:33 p.m. -- Now instead of freezing to death, I am literally burning up, ears turning red, ringing off the hook, head-in-vise pain, feel as though a powerful magnet is splitting my brain -- electromagnetic attack. 

THESE ARE WAR CRIMES.  THIS IS TORTURE IN AMERICA, UNDER GOV'T DIRECTION.  AND AS FIVE O'CLOCK APPROACHES, THE FRAT BOY NAZIS UP THE AMPLITUDE.

STOP THESE MURDEROUS WAR CRIMINALS -- OR YOU WILL BE HELD FULLY COMPLICIT COME THE RECKONING.

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Simply Delusional

Why would a group of people on a college campus apparently stalk me through one of the campus buildings?

Why would they apparently stalk and follow me through the corridors -- coughing at me, several people coughing right at me, several people and several incidents of coughing, all walking towards me - all turning their heads towards me to do it, all having the look of sadism and devious enjoyment on their faces for doing it?

Why, only seconds after the coughing incident, would a young woman sitting on a bench in one of the hallways of the same campus building begin to loudly and sadistically recite, almost verbatim, a phone call I made that very morning? Why would she do that as I walked down the hallway, only seconds after the coughing incidents?

Why would a twentyish male, only a half a minute later in another corridor of the same building, look straight at me, and with a devilish intonation in his voice loudly prolaim "Hah, they're everywhere!".

Who are these people that apparently stalked me? Are these visual and auditory delusions?

Was this apparent stalking designed to make me appear delusional in my telling of my account of it, or was it designed to cause me to become delusional -- or am I suffering from delusions?

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Dr Sigmund

I do not believe you were being stalked. These misinterpretations are called illusions, not delusions.

When we witness an illusion, we perceive something that does not correspond to what is actually out there—what exists in the real world. Illusions fool us. They convince us of things that are not true.

Illusions are different from both hallucinations and delusions. Illusions are misperceptions that are perceived by most people, and are based on a specific stimulus received under certain conditions.

Hallucinations are usually seen by only one individual. Most often they are experienced by people who suffer from specific kinds of mental illness, or who are influenced by drugs or extreme amounts of alcohol. Hallucinations are false perceptions that occur in the absence of appropriate external stimuli, whereas illusions are misinterpretations of external stimuli that are, in fact, present.

Delusions are different from both illusions and hallucinations. They are beliefs, not perceptions. Like hallucinations, they tend to be found in people who are mentally ill. A person may have delusions of grandeur (believing that he or she is a very important or famous person) or delusions of persecution (believing someone or something is out to harm them) when the facts clearly do not support these beliefs.

People tend to be fascinated by illusions, but as we noted earlier, not everyone responds to every illusion. There is no simple explanation for this variability in perception. There is no evidence that these differences are related to intelligence or personality, although experience with them often helps one see new versions of the same kind of illusion. Thus, you or your friends should not be upset if an illusion is not apparent to you. There are many of them and we can enjoy all that we can perceive.

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posted anonymously

Even if you're a shrink, you're no doctor.  And you don't have a clue what you're talking about here.

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TI

You're suffering from blatant computer-perp-itis.

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