Harassment Tactics

[Hamlet]

When I was in the fifth grade me and some friends wemt on a shoplifting spree. My family spent the summer in Texas and at the time that State was having a big 'Shoplifting Propaganda' campaign running. You know the handcuffs posters, tv ads with Suzy getting caught in the crackdown (pic. of Suzy with black tape on her eyes).

I was guilt-ridden and horrified. The one that got me was an ad talking about 'the new XR surveilence camera--you can't see it, but it can see you!" I was certain all those stores had me on film and I was going to jail when I got back to Colorado. I was a wreck...I couldn't turn on the tv without seeing one of those ads. Couldn't go in a store without a handcuff poster there or feeling like everyone was watching me.

When we returned to Colorado in the fall I knew I was doomed. Every time the phone rang my heart was in my throat. I knew the next call would be for me.

Sure enough, one day I was home alone and the phone rang. "This is Officer 'so-and-so'...Is your mother there?!" I damn near died. He left a number and told me to have her call him back.

I decided to face my sins and give my mom the message. I knew I was busted. The call was about some little bastard stealing our gas cap off our car and having to return it. Of all the times for that to happen-just when I'm crapping my pants in guilt and fear whenever the phone rang.

Anyway, that long boring story was to illustrate what your mind can do. I've been there several times in my life and it always works the same way. I'm a skeptic on the ESP stuff but if there is such a thing I almost think this kind of emotional energy actually makes syncronicities happen. No one is behind it..no plots or subterfuge...just all that emotional mayhem playing hell on what you're noticing.

[birdgirl73]

That was not a long, boring reply. I enjoyed it a lot. How long before you felt relieved of your anxiety after the cop phone call about the other matter?

[Breukelen advocaat]

I had paranoid episodes years ago, and was lucky not to have a nervous breakdown. I was working the graveyard shift, often totally alone, in a large NYC business. Being on that schedule, combined with several undiagnosed illness', pushed me into a similar mindset as described here. Due to my delusions, I ended up making irrational statements to higher-ups, became confused and despondent, and resigned. Fortunately, I quickly got a 9-5 job at another company and recovered my sanity (for the most part).

[TJOnline]

If you have difficulty believing me, I understand. But perhaps some others can convince you. By the way, I don't believe in natural ESP for a minute either:

Thomas Dolby on media 'mirroring', equipment manipulation and so-called 'remote viewing':

She's caught up in traffic
and I'm on her radio
Carve her legend on the bow - Caroline four-five-two
When they come to call for her I will be there too...
What's wrong with the parking meter? What's happening to me?
Oh to paint her eyes so red and her lips so blue.
Raise her likeness on the mast. Caroline four-five-two.


Thomas Dolby on 'street theater':

What was that name you called me?
What was that grin you grinned?
An expression so uncertain
That breaks a line so thin


Thomas Dolby on creative media MC:

People never read the airwaves.
Do we only feed the airwaves?
I really should have seen through the airwaves.
Electric fences line our new freeway.
Dama said to take the airwaves.


Thomas Dolby on what it feels like:

Private hell...
Now there's only you


Talking Heads:

Peace of mind
Piece of cake
Thought control
You get on board anytime you like
Like sittin' on pins and needles
Things fall apart, it's scientific


Black Crows:

Says she talks to angels.
They call her out by her name.
She pulls those shades down tight.
She smiles when the pain comes.


Sting of the Police:

Young teacher
The subject
Of schoolgirl fantasy
Roxanne
You don't have to put out the red light
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Every breath you take
Every move you make
I'll be watching you
When you've made your secret journey
You will be a holy man
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives its heat to everyone


The techno band X-Dream:

Monitoring devices know where you go. Mass media. Total control.
Digital delight. Desire in megabyte.
Data overflow. Virtual suicide.
This information is disinformation.
Truth is hidden. Knowledge forbidden.
Structures, power, (to) delegate.
To speak is to lie. To lie is to collaborate.
Information streams. Simulating dreams.
Interactive mind control. Systemmatic overthrow.
We interface. We interface. We interface.
Monitoring devices know where you go.
Public mind. Propaganda show.
Magnetic sleep. Network addiction.
Be absorbed. Science fiction.
It's psychological. Diabolical.
Society's brain-washed hospital.
The sun never sets on cyberspace.
Transmit. Receive. Log on to interface.


X-Dream's X-Ray Eyes:

This is a promise. This is a threat. X-Ray eyes.
Public device capturing your mind.
Brain scanning machines discerning thoughts.
Original blueprints. Replicating imprints.
X-ray eyes are electric.
X-ray eyes analyze.
X-ray eyes strike the target.
X-ray eyes read your mind.


Harvey Danger - Paranoia:

I had visions, I was in them, I was looking into the mirror,
I'm not sick but I'm not well and I'm so hot cause I'm in hell....
Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me.
You told them all I was crazy, they cut off my legs now I'm an amputee, goddamn you
I want to publish zines and rage against machines,
Paranoia paranoia everybody's comin' to get me,
Just say you never met me,
Hear the voices in my head, I swear to God it sounds like their snoring,
The agony and the irony it's killing me!


Audioslave - Like A Stone:

On a cold wet afternoon no room for love and emptiness
By a freeway
I confess I was lost in the pages


U2 - Running to Stand Still:

You've got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice.
You know I took the poison from the poisoned stream
And I throwed it out of here.


U2 - Walk On:

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
A singing bird in an open cage


U2 - Vertigo:

Hello hello.
There's a place called vertigo.
It's everything I wish I didn't know.
But you give me something I can feel.


Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel:

Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing stretching every nerve
Had to listen had no choice
I did not believe the information
Just had to trust imagination
To keepin' silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes but still can see

[Breukelen advocaat]

If you have difficulty believing me, I understand. But perhaps some others can convince you. By the way, I don't believe in natural ESP for a minute either:

Those are just song lyrics, not a justification for anything.

During the period that I wrote about in the above post, I actually believed that people, and agencies, were out to "get" me. It seemed like there were hidden clues everywhere. Living alone, working nights, bad nutrition, and health problems put me on a collision course with myself. That was over 20 years ago, and I'm still here - and doing better than ever.

If you can admit that your own mind is at least partially responsible for your situation, you will be on the way to recovery. You have developed belief systems that are irrational. You must learn to DISPUTE them, with rational thinking, over and over until it is apparent what reality consists of. This is the only way that you'll get better. If you donâ??t believe me, try it - and if Iâ??m wrong, it wonâ??t hurt anything. Logic will show you that the truth can be found by controlling your thoughts. It can be done. I would recommend Albert Ellis' books. He is the founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.

[TJOnline]

Those are just song lyrics, not a justification for anything.

Yes, they are just song lyrics. But actually they ARE a justification for MC, because they almost always link some form of sin or trangression to hints of MC tactics and tech. Strong supporters of MC in the media love particularly to marry hints of child abuse to hints about the tech and tactics of MC. It's the best sales tactic possible. And it has worked wonders.

During the period that I wrote about in the above post, I actually believed that people, and agencies, were out to "get" me. It seemed like there were hidden clues everywhere. Living alone, working nights, bad nutrition, and health problems put me on a collision course with myself. That was over 20 years ago, and I'm still here - and doing better than ever.

There ARE hidden clues everywhere. Both from people who have been bitten by MC and don't wish to talk plainly about their experience (for fear of being labeled a nut, of being embarassed, etc.) and who are supporters of MC and know that hints and innuendo are ultimately more useful in advancing MC than plain facts. Both ends of the spectrum ultimately seem to serve the same purpose - entrenching, protecting and selling MC.

If you can admit that your own mind is at least partially responsible for your situation, you will be on the way to recovery. You have developed belief systems that are irrational.

It's not my mind that's responsible for my situation, it's more likely my behavior (particularly past behaviors) that set the jaws upon me. Irrational? No. Actually, what I've been telling you guys is quite logical and rational, complete with opportunity and motive. It's just unprovable. Can you not see why such a system would exist in the first place?

With all due respect, Breukelen, there's a fool born every minute. You remind me of my French colleague who would come up with just about the most unlikely sleep-walking scenario one could imagine to explain the disappearance and reappearance of my equipment, just so that he could hold on to his precious little view of the world, even though my own explanation was much more likely. As for your experience, maybe you WERE being given the treatment. The best question is probably, 'What were you doing at the time that might have gotten the jaws clamped down upon you?'.

TJ

[Myth1184]

Georgia Tech is a Ivy League school, and you admitting to smoking pot would be grounds for termination. Oh...and on a side note...Ga Tech Sucks....UGA!!!

[TJOnline]

Myth,

You are mistaken! Georgia Tech is NOT an ivy league school! It is a kudzoo league school.

I only admitted to smoking pot well after termination. Isn't smoking pot grounds for a UGA scholarship?? :-)

Yes, Georgia Tech does suck! UGA looks like much more fun. Youall have so many beautiful women there! Tech is just beginning to realize that it's no longer an all male military institute (though it's still a 'military institute'). I'm quite fond of Athens and its influence on popular music (listening to the B-52s right now).

TJ