Hamlet,

Thanks for the good wishes.

Heck, Microsoft Corp, the computer, the internet and the myriad three-letter agencies of the US government are all schemes so elaborate as to seem unlikely at first glance. Your argument is like the one creationists use to try to knock down Darwinism/natural selection theory. 'Well, gee, it sounds so complex, that it couldn't just... happen.' In their wishful thinking, the creationists just gloss over the logical underpinnings behind natural selection. (Pardon me if my metaphor is a bit strained).

Dude, it's just a kind of cage that one or more of those agencies can thrust people into to punish, toss into psychiatry, knock down, surveill, etc. It's not that I'm so much important as in trouble and I'm far from the only one in that cage. Do you think one upstairs neighbor makes for an unlikely elaborate scheme? Or that people can't be organized with a few phone calls to kick some guy into shape?

That being said, there is much more to it than that and I too am amazed that something so old could remain so well submerged for so long. I chalk it up to the way that all of the means are chosen to provide no compelling proof, the relative few people in that cage and the relatively large number of people who like it and support it, consider it precious and fight to keep it secret.

We all know that our government has poured a lot of money into developing so-called 'non-lethals'. For example, if along the way they invented a way to project the perception of sound at someone using microwaves (several publically available patent documents exist). Don't you think they would find a use for it? Or would they just say, 'Oh, that's interesting.' and put it away? Plenty of people are complaining of that kind of influence, but not a damn one of them can prove it. And it's all to easy to, with a wave of the hand, chalk it up to mental disorder. So, being unprovable, all of those reports effectively just add to the public perceptions (some of them false) surrounding mental disorder.

You may have seen the politically motivated commercial with the two friends smoking together and one of them shoots the other by accident. We both know that scenario is unlikely, but that doesn't stop the anti-smoking lobby from advancing a kind of politically motivated fiction for strategic purposes. Much the same has happened in conjunction with that 'cage'.

Take care.