Food for Thought

There was hardly any time in the course of U.S. history when the United States has not been at war with somebody--be it the Soviets, the Koreans, the Vietnamese, Iraqis, Afghans.... There is usually some active military arena in which to deploy weapons. Hence, we have enemies, both foreign and domestic (including internal dissident political groups). There is little to prevent enemies of this sort from engaging in disinformation as agents provocateur. They could even be committing some of the excesses and blaming it on U.S. forces. It is not realistic to expect this not to occur. The problem I have with this concept as to where the blame might lie if it is true is: Why are the perps (mine in particular) able to continue unabated for so long, without apprehension or disruption by our own government, despite perpetual complaints by victims. Perhaps the simplest route is taken--eliminating the bearer of bad tidings, the TI who complains, although this might not solve the root problem.

Furthermore, a certain amount of clinical trial (experimentation) undoubtedly actually occurred, without the victims' knowledge or consent, just because the anonymity possible (ability to act invisibly over a distance) makes it easy to circumvent  all  legal requirements for human experimentation.

At the same time, I would not like to provide a cop out, or plausible denial, for persons who are genuinely guilty of heinous crimes.
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I have come across a couple of YouTube videos of interest.

The first, victims coming together at a Washington D.C. Presidential Commission bioethics hearing March 1, 2011. Quite riveting, about an hour and a half long:
http://youtu.be/iyMSvQqeWOo
One interesting development which was mentioned was the Medusa Ray Gun, which is an acknowledged V2K weapon (capable of utilizing the microwave hearing effect). This organization for political action is heartening and took a lot of effort on the part of participants. However, the apparent subsequent  discontinuation of investigation into complaints is disturbing, as evidenced by the following reply to a TI letter of inquiry (which I stumbled across on the Internet):

The second YouTube video relates to an organization set up to help TI's detect their implants or chips, if such exist (may not exist in every case). That miniaturization has occurred such that implants could be injectable is frightening. Some older individuals conceivably got theirs during routine flu shots:

http://youtu.be/enoJtvCnp34

A Collection of Relevant Sites on the Internet

A few weeks later I report that tipping off Homeland Security does not seem to have resulted in any significant resolution of the problem. In fact, I was assaulted just last night by some rabid stalkers who attempted to drive me up the wall with a massive attack. However, I began to be able to breath through my nose again--something I have not been able to do nearly all year because of assailants trying to focus beams on my nasal sinus. They would deliberately limit my ability to breath free to intimidate me out of what seems to be sheer sadism. They would also deliver stinging sensations with hot beams. Survival continues to be an ordeal. When I finally fell asleep last night I had an alien dream of being enrolled in some kind of military school in which I was tasked with absorbing the content of what  seemed to be intelligence manuals. I may have been having a joint dream with a recent communicant, because the content was simply not derived from any personal experience of mine.

I get some relief by surfing the Internet to gather testimony from other targeted individuals. This can be a very isolating and frightening experience, one which lifts you out of the stream of normal existence. Others have undergone the same thing. Some of the links I found to hit the nail on the head regarding the nature of the experience. I decided to collect together some of the more interesting links to Internet sites that ring accurate and true and seem to match my own experience in the various details. The ability to communicate under these circumstances is drastically impaired. The brain is partly incapacitated. Some have still managed by some fluke to describe what is happening to them.

Some of the secret police research we have had here in America is evidently mirrored in the country of Sweden, where quite a few reports of victimization have surfaced. (Is it "research", or is it more justly characterized as "operational" now?) The time frame for victimization of  Swedish TI Robert Naeslund sort of parallels the time frames of my own victimization. This Swede used to post in the old Mind Control Forum and reported turning up various brain implants. Although CAT scans I had done in the 1980's purportedly turned up no implants according to the radiologists I went to (in Beachwood, Ohio near Cleveland), one of the radiologists who did my scans (Dr. Ronald Ross) later made the Cleveland Plain Dealer as being involved in a plane crash, which he survived, enroute to Elmhurst, New York, of all places. What a coincidence. Now Elmhurst, New York, was one of the places I was kidnapped to in the very early stages of my dilemma when I tried to escape to New York City. What if he was not meant to survive that crash, for some reason?   What if the results of my scans were somehow falsified?

I wish to stress that I have not to date uncovered any evidence that implants are necessary and were not uncovered in my case by medical examination. If they are not necessary, the phenomenon is even more frightening because of its then universal applicability.

By Naeslund:
A Brain Implant Victim Speaks Out - Branded by the Thought Police

Robert Naeslund recent presentation on YouTube. Although in Swedish, there are English subtitles:
http://youtu.be/ei3zla5hS9o

A quote from a now defunct website:

Doctors Warn

          Dr. Robert J. Grimm of the Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon, stated in March 1974 at a doctor’s symposium in California, that he viewed brain control and influencing the brain with radio waves was of similar importance as to the debate concerning the detonation of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima. He also asked, “Do scientists have the right to pursue projects potentially destructive of human life, and in this era, destructive of the individual?”

It is interesting to note that  two major scientific developments with the power to devastate human society in a huge way were the products of physicists and involve radiation. In the case of the atom bomb, there is the capacity to do destruction to all forms of life on earth. Electronically induced telepathy will simply radically alter human society as we know it, in most ways not for the better, as well as potentially causing genetic mutation, biological damage, and atmospheric disturbance.

It is important that this technology be restricted as religiously as are anthrax, dangerous biological agents, human cloning, and fissionable radiological materials. With anonymity, secrecy, and public ignorance instead of vigilance and knowledge, this will not be done before damages are irreversible to society.

Another site explores the possible use of communications satellites to extend the reach of the technology--a scary specter indeed. Just what exactly was the Star Wars project promoted during the Reagan administration and represented as a "defense" project? Maybe Reagan was eventually done in by his own cupidity--some type of brain blasting (speculation only). I am often stumped as to the directional source of the beams I experience. See the blog by TI John Akwei at:
"The Mother Of All Black Ops"
John is very angry, and justifiably so, as am I.

I would like to pay some homage to the net presence of Eleanor White, who did enormous amounts of work to comfort us TI's and offer advice. I miss her old website. She fielded so many bizarre stories with understanding and dignity and soothed our tortured souls and assuaged our grief for our lost selves. She still moderates a Yahoo newsgroup called mcforums where information about the predicament of being a TI is traded. If it cannot save us from annihilation, at least it is therapeutic.

This list may lengthen as I find new sources.

I think the lowest level of Hell is reserved for those who conjured up and carried out the "Monarch Project."--John W. DeCamp, former Nebraska state Senator

Interesting link, depicting extreme abuse of children by perpetrators with high level connnections:

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/franklincoverupexcerpt.shtml

What bothers me here are possible mind control program ties to persons of this character level, like Aquino. At several points in the past some of my victimizers identified themselves as Satanists and also acted accordingly. (An example: They liked to time their virtual rapes and projections of pornographic imagery with my menstrual periods, as long as I was having them. They liked to take advantage of PMS in their infliction of stresses.)  How were some of the test subjects procured and what were they subjected to by their Mengele analogs? There was a consistent undertow of pedophilia and sheer perversion. Was ritualistic abuse related to or a component of any mind control program?

Former Senator John DeCamp's expository book The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska is available at Amazon.com.

There is one chapter about the Monarch Project in a 1996 second edition formerly posted on the Internet in its entirety, in which he quotes his friend former CIA chief William Colby, under whom he worked at one time when he was in the military, and who is now deceased (victim of a mysterious accidental? boating incident):

There was no particular program called 'Monarch', contrary to what you want to think. 'Monarch' was merely a name that some participants in the program -- who knew very little about it, other than from their own limited participation -- were given to identify themselves. But, as far as the CIA was concerned, there was no such program named 'Monarch.'

"But, with respect to mind control, I will tell you that this country spent millions upon millions supposedly catching up to our Cold War adversaries, because we believed they had developed mind control technology which exceeded anything we had. In fact, we at the Company (CIA) truly believed for a substantial period of time, that technology and techniques and drugs had been developed by Russia which would enable them to have agents who in fact really were able to have and use ESP -- extra sensory perception.

Also:
"I will tell you one other thing," Bill said, somewhat ominously, "we are not behind in knowledge of mind control. In fact, we never were, but we only found that out much later, after we had poured incredible resources into this area. And yes, I am sure, there were some problems and abuses that occurred and we will talk about them at another time."

Still, I think Monarch could be used as a convenient umbrella term, for lack of actual public designations of secret projects.

Message to Homeland Security of the United States

On this date I sent yet another message to U.S. Homeland Security to see what kind of response it would generate. Is anybody ethical or responsible Home, even in the wake of 911? Because I sent many such communications  to U.S. officials over the last four decades, they can hardly claim ignorance of the situation. The following is the bulk of that message, with only a line or two left out from the end which were not suitable for publishing over the Internet. It bluntly describes the problem in concise form. The goal of perps is nothing less than takeover and enslavement of the rest of human society.  First is the message I tried to send, until I found out I had to reduce size to conform with requirements of the Homeland Security tip site. It is followed by the abbreviated version which actually got sent:

There are criminal gangs operating in the Maple Heights, Ohio area (a suburb of Cleveland) who are using (what are probably, I have surmised from what I have been able to gather) microwave voice-to-skull weapons which are capable of mind and brain control. They could be using other types of radiation in their transmissions, possibly even the ionizing kind. They can influence various other biological functions with these weapons (heart, gut, etc.). I have been under attack incredibly since 1973, have informed numerous authorities of this, and still nothing is ever done to conclusively end their activity. An army of persons is holding me virtual prisoner with the technology, subjecting me to around the clock harassment. I have been raped with the directed beams, tortured extensively with the technology, and a normal human life is made impossible. Perpetrators have attempted to drive me insane with it. They have a long distance telemetric tracking capability. Such is the state of their current communications network that there is evidence I have been tracked to both New York City and California (opposite ends of the country), based on their knowledge of what I did in those places. These persons are maximally dangerous armed terrorists infiltrating the United States. They are armed with electronic radiation transmitters and can operate anonymously from a distance. They are operating in large groups. They surveil me in my home (and anywhere else I go for that matter) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, accompanying the surveillance with intermittent torture which they use to break victims down. They are especially interested in methods of torture for this purpose. I was captured by them when I was 23 years old. At that time they were picking up women (and some boys) for sexual abuse and for use as slaves to target practice and train on with their armies. I am now 62 and still they are hounding me with various forms of abuse as aggressively as ever. It is obvious there is a news media blackout on the existence of this weaponry for security reasons. This prevents an adequate defense from being mounted against the proliferation of these weapons in the hands of armed terrorists. From their transmitted speech and behavior I have evidence they have used their capabilities to run forced prostitution and other forms of human trafficking and extortion. They often root noisily at their victims in organized groups in such a way that suggests they must be on drugs, which they are probably trafficking as well. I believe they are camouflaging themselves as ordinary private citizens in private homes out of which they operate, although I cannot ascertain exactly how this technology functions. There is some possibility also of satellite or other relays. Palpable beams can be felt by a target (like myself) coming from a variety of directions, most of which seem horizontal (ground-based). The beams can be felt, creating a mild tingling sensation on the skin. I can extend my hand into them and determine directionality, which varies. Aimed at the victim's head, they cause tissue swelling and a perpetual breathing disorder and nasal blockage. Among devised tortures, one simulates a painful blow to the head with instant asphyxiation. Perps are particularly active weekends and evenings. They are cult-like pseudo religionists. Privately, they brag about their amorality and subscribe to a Hitler-like philosophy. My life is quite horrible from them. Many of their victims must have been suicides. Please help stop them....


(Needless to say, this is the definition of Hell.)
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Abbreviated version which actually got sent:


There are criminal gangs operating in the Maple Heights, Ohio area who are using (what are probably, I have surmised from what I have been able to gather) microwave voice-to-skull weapons which are capable of mind and brain control. They could be using other types of radiation in their transmissions, possibly even the ionizing kind. They can influence various other biological functions with these weapons (heart, gut, etc.). I have been under attack incredibly since 1973. An army of persons is holding me virtual prisoner with the technology, subjecting me to around the clock harassment. I have been raped with the directed beams, tortured extensively with the technology. Perpetrators have attempted to drive me insane with it. They have a long distance telemetric tracking capability. They are armed with electronic radiation transmitters and operate anonymously from a distance, in large groups. They surveil me in my home (and anywhere else I go for that matter) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, accompanying the surveillance with intermittent torture which they use to break victims down. I was captured by them when I was 23 years old. At that time they were picking up women (and some boys) for sexual abuse and for use as slaves to target practice and train on with their armies. I am now 62 and still they are hounding me with various forms of abuse. From their transmitted speech and behavior I have evidence they have used their capabilities to run forced prostitution and other forms of human trafficking and extortion. They often root noisily at their victims in organized groups in such a way that suggests they must be on drugs, which they are probably trafficking as well. I believe they are camouflaging themselves as ordinary private citizens in private homes out of which they operate, although I cannot ascertain exactly how this technology functions. There is some possibility also of satellite or other relays. Palpable beams can be felt by a target (like myself) coming from a variety of directions, most of which seem horizontal (ground-based). Beams aimed at the victim's head cause tissue swelling and a perpetual breathing disorder and nasal blockage. Perps are particularly active weekends and evenings. They are cult-like pseudo religionists. Privately, they brag about their amorality....

Some Recommended Websites

Several websites concerned with the MC technology recommended for reading and perusal, for those who wish to add to their arsenal of information:

[The site of The International Committee on Offensive Microwave Weapons, of which Harlan Girard was Managing Director, no longer exists, due to his passing.  He will be missed.

The site of the support group Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance no longer exists, due to the organization's untimely dissolution.]


http://psychophysical-torture.de.tl/Home.htm
site disclosing international repercussions and experiences of TI's

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A note about the psychosocial profiles of the persons by whom I have been assaulted personally: They are coarse personalities and have sometimes claimed gang affiliations. I have reason to believe they have been involved in various illegal traffickings conventionally associated with organized crime. So this technology is falling into the hands of persons with the character of rough street elements, as difficult as that is to believe. Whether or not there is any dark alliance (a la Gary Webb) with government types may be open to conjecture. I do keep wondering why they are invulnerable to arrest no matter how much I may complain about their activity over a period of thirty plus years, through all kinds of channels. I kept a loose journal of their activity which commenced toward me in October, 1973, a couple of days before Halloween (an apt holiday for the commencement of paranormal activity). I was 23 years old at that time and was told by them (via the communication) that I was older than most of their victims. There is some evidence of involvement with another family member considerably prior to that by several years, from the time he was a minor teenager. They tend to prefer as victims (from the number of reports) gentle females and subject them to brutal, unending, sometimes fatal, torture. They used to brag about their amorality and were also confessed racketeers. Towards the end of the last century some of them were professed Satanists. They seem periodically to be engaged in military type attack drills (with the victim serving as the hapless target) and training toward some military objective. They often accompany physical assault with the energy with an audio barrage (energetic rhythmic rooting to provoke anxiety and distress). At times it felt like my home was ground zero, in the past--very specific to target, and apparently not detectable by those outside. Needless to say, they do not need to be armed with weapons like these which grant them free access to other people's homes and persons, without traceability.

Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom & no such thing as publick liberty without freedom of speech. 
Benjamin Franklin, 1722

Freedom of thought... is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. With rare aberrations a pervasive recognition of this truth can be traced in our history, political and legal.
Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo (Palko v. Connecticut, 1937)

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance only with the permission of the person and not by force.
Article 18, Universal Declaration of Human rights, United Nations General Assembly

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I was taken mental prisoner by aberrant perpetrators using the technologically-based mc (now referred to as synthetic telepathy in some circles) in 1973, when I was only 23 years old and had the whole of life ahead of me. In 1974 I started writing and otherwise contacting all kinds of government authorities and journalists about what was happening, hoping to alleviate my distress. Thousands of recipients were contacted. This was repeated year after year for quite a few years to come. All the while I could not escape the signal, and was stalked around the clock 24/7 every day since then. To this day (2012) I am being stalked by teams of anonymous persons who will not desist. There were rapes (with the directed beams), innumerable tortures, attempts to break me down by anonymous men stalking me and working around the clock. Back in the 70's and 80's I was using the U.S. government manual as a mailing list, trying to get help against these attacks, which amounted to involuntary servitude and human trafficking, waged for indefinite stretches of time. To this date the perpetrators have never spent a day in jail (to my knowledge). Instead they appear to have acquired additional collaborators. They have destroyed my life, my brother's life (They assaulted him before they transferred to me). They murdered Delores Hejazi in Parma, Ohio, as surely as anything, and I am sure this is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the number of reported victims. The news media continue to collaborate in a suppression of information. It is clear that any delusion of living in a so-called free society is just that--a delusion and a lie. 

In June of last year again in desperation I asked for help from the FBI through their online website, giving them one last benefit of the doubt. Instead of receiving help, torture intensified. Some parties started constantly choking me with the radiation, wafting horrible mental states at me, telling me on a constant basis that my only option was to commit suicide. This on the 39th year of victimization. The perps have long distance telemetry and I cannot escape, also having been reduced to poverty, which hinders relocation. The perps are well organized gangs of armed thugs. They coordinated with others in New York and throughout Ohio. I have personal evidence they were able to reach the state of California.

I don't think the prisoners in Nazi Germany suffered more than I did. World War II only lasted four years. This is genocide. This is fascism. What is the excuse for failure to shut down this operation involving holding prisoners in involuntary servitude with the mind control for a full 39 years? The authorities have no trouble locating Bin Laden in Pakistan, but they claim they are helpless against a slavery ring in Cleveland, Ohio, operating on their own soil, which steals and destroys the lives of innocent people.

I was forced to forgo family, occupation, life itself, which was reduced to rubble for a period of 39 years. The perps are free to operate unto this very day. All of this out of greed for technology and desire to dominate and exploit or enslave the rest of mankind with this technology. They appear from some indicators to have cooperation from the very highest levels of the U.S. government. I cannot ascertain the true nature or breakdown of who is behind the atrocities because of the secrecy which is maintained. Neither can the people undertake any intelligent action against their potential domination because of their ignorance of the facts, as I am sure they would defend themselves more aggressively if these facts were known. 

The perps have violated multiple provisions set forth in the U.S. Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution on a constant basis, as well as stipulations of human rights set forth by many international conventions, such as UN human rights declarations.

The right of persons to be secure in their homes, persons, and personal effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, as set forth by the fourth amendment.

The right to not be deprived of life and liberty without due process of law, as stipulated by the fifth amendment.

The right against cruel and unusual punishments (eighth amendment).

The right to freedom of speech, and the freedom of thought which is also implied by this (first amendment).

The right to not be subjected to involuntary servitude as guaranteed by the thirteenth amendment, and supposedly outlawed in the last century after the U.S. civil war by the administration of Abraham Lincoln. These programs are a form of human trafficking such as the world has never before seen. Someone (I forgot who) coined the apt description of the condition induced as a virtual concentration camp.

No "research" program lasts this long. This is more of a relentless elimination of opposition program, a program of genocide.

There are protected academics in this Cleveland, Ohio, area involved in the usage and development of this technology who have never been held to any kind of account or ever been sanctioned by any restraint at all after having committed horrible, unspeakable crimes against innocent people. Instead they are getting rich off of profits, probably well connected to the local bloated medical establishment.

The investigation of MKULTRA by the Congress of the United States was nothing but boilerplate, and concealed the depth, nature, and continuation of crimes. It was an ultimately failed attempt to restore democracy to the United States. 

The clear solution to this problem is the unilateral ban on usage of these weapons in any context, rigorously enforced, except (perhaps) for well selected special forces entrusted with their detection. In the long run, these weapons cannot be categorized as non-lethal, for they are very lethal to the fundamental fabric of a free society. In the long run, they kill on a more delayed basis, and in this respect are crueler than conventional weaponry. As I once wrote in another context:
So-called non-lethal weapons are often represented as relatively harmless, but when used to stalk targets very incessantly they can often do as much if not more damage than conventional weapons. How essential to normal life is an active autonomous mind or a body free of physical torture? What if you were deprived of either of these indefinitely by a persistent enemy?...

How many times have I viewed regretfully this Norman Rockwell picture [above, poster created in response to World War II], which once seemed an attainable dream of the safety of people in their beds at night in a peaceful society, only to have to reflect that it is no longer attainable by me to have anything resembling that peace and security, as long as these renegade social forces are not disarmed and put under control. Instead there is the horror of the daily physical and mental assault and invasion of privacy.

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Some recommended reading, a valiant attempt to piece information together on topics which are not publicly known and hence difficult to document accurately:  

Monarch: The New Phoenix Program by Marshall Gregory Thomas (available in paperback at Amazon.com) 
This book is also available online at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/59682701/Marshall-Thomas-Monarch-The-New-Phoenix-Program-2009

This is a compendium of a lot of what is publicly known (not a whole lot) plus much that is rumored, some of which is derived from personal accounts of targeted individuals. Which possibly allows some inaccuracies to creep in. But has a lot of leads to further information. The author, Marshall Gregory Thomas, also produced DVD's available at Amazon.com, under the same title. He has some interesting videos at YouTube as well.

Marshall is a man who tells it like it is with no holds barred and without reservation. I strongly urge reading his book to understand the full extent of the danger to mankind and to democracy of these mind control programs. It also describes how the public is often duped by secrecy into believing that military interventions are tamer than what they are in actuality. 

Gary Webb and the Fate of Dissent

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson

Gary Webb, the former San Jose Mercury News reporter who unveiled the dark alliance between shadow forces with government connections and the drug business, supposedly committed suicide in 1994. I say supposedly because he is alleged to have fired two gun shots into his own cranium, and it kind of stretches credibility to believe he had the presence of mind to fire a second one. He had been gradually edged out of the news profession after his paper withdrew its support--a reporter who had won the Pulitzer prize for previous journalistic work.

Some of the suicides of whistleblowers are actually engineered from behind the scenes using the incredible capabilities of the synthetic telepathy, as it is now sometimes called, by making the lives of the targets quite miserable with relentless stalking combined with all kinds of torture-harassment, which even includes maneuvering the behaviors of key persons in that target's environment to be detrimental to him/her. The stalkers seem to have virtually no opposition from those entrusted with law enforcement however much the victim may complain. In my case I have complained through all kinds of channels for actual decades, to no seeming avail. Lately my perps have alternated between choking my adenoids till I can't breath through inducing tissue swelling, and wafting mental states at me from seemingly spiritually and emotionally broken down sources as means of disablement, for instance. The victim who is not even aware of their capabilities, who is not aware of being acted upon, and hence mistakes these states for his own, is even more vulnerable to collapse, because he is more fatalistic about their origin and any prospect of relief or cure. Of course this (induced suicide) is a favorite method of elimination of dissent because of its plausible deniability. A striking number of prominent dissidents in the last few decades have taken their own lives or have otherwise disappeared prematurely. Abbie Hoffman, for example, who in public lectures actually discussed CIA assassinations disguised as suicides, then ultimately proceeded to take his own life. Some targets could fall victim to other means of remote influence with the technology, such as inducement of heart attack, stroke, or cancer (as radiation is carcinogenic), all of which can be attributed to natural causes. With this neutralization of dissent free criticism of social injustice becomes ever more scarce, and the public becomes more like a homogeneous mesmerized flock without leadership for constructive change.

Gary Webb's story found its way back onto the Internet after his death. It can still be viewed at http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

He also leaves us with the book he wrote on the story entitled "Dark Alliance." There are also some videos on YouTube.

There is another even more sinister chapter in history which needs to be unveiled--the connection between mind control and forms of human trafficking which included organized prostitution rings and sex slavery. This connection is so egregious that I cannot let it rest, because of the human misery it must have wrought, and might still be causing, since no crack down on these activities ever really occur because of public ignorance. This is another area of typical organized crime involvement which seems to have had sanction by users of this technology. Regular slavery is bad enough, but compounded by the use of MC technology it is horrendous.

Gary Webb--a canary in the American mineshaft personal quote (from Wikipedia biography of Webb):

"If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more staunch defender of the newspaper industry than me ... I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. So how could I possibly agree with people like Noam Chomsky and Ben Bagdikian, who were claiming the system didn't work, that it was steered by powerful special interests and corporations, and existed to protect the power elite? And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job ... The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress....”