American Civil Liberties Union

IT'S NOT JUST OFF-SHORE.

DOMESTIC TORTURE AND STATE-ENABLED TERRORISM VIA MICROWAVE RADIATION WEAPONRY AND GOVERNMENT-ENABLED 'COMMUNITY GANG STALKING' CONTINUE UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION...

...AN 'EXTRAJUDICIAL TARGETING AND PUNISHMENT' NETWORK SPAWNED OR EXPANDED DURING THE BUSH-CHENEY REIGN OF TERROR.

Gang stalking, menacing with a motor vehicle, surreptitious home entries, vandalism of property and personal effects, and covert assault with hi-tech microwave radiation weapons have been unconstitutionally decriminalized in communities throughout the nation under the convenient banner of the "war on terror"...

...as demonstrated by the Bush Justice Department "torture memos," which have been described as a blueprint for a police state.

Bush administration officials renounced the memos just days before the end of their term -- but fact is, the programs and policies that these memos deigned to justify continue under President Obama.

The Bush torture memos, some still secret, appear to have laid the groundwork for a repressive "extrajudicial punishment network" -- in effect, turning local police into secret agents acting on suspicions derived from "intelligence" that may have been supplied with ideological baggage attached.

Many innocent people have been "put on a list" by those who don't like their politics, their social activism, or their ethnic background. Persons slandered as "troublemakers, " "deviates," "mental defectives" or disloyal "dissidents" have been subject to years of persecution at the hands of their neighbors -- just as occurred in Nazi Germany in the years leading up to World War II and Hitler's "Final Solution."

(A former NSA analyst has revealed that journalists nationwide have been subject to 24/7 surveillance, a claim to which this reporter can attest).

A nationwide GPS satellite tracking network has been made available to "community gang stalkers" who hide behind federal- and county-funded volunteer organizations and public safety agencies such as fire departments and police auxiliaries.

These organizations provide taxpayer-funded vehicles and gasoline to local squads of hundreds of vigilante volunteers, who seem to delight in "swarming the target" when signal from a secreted GPS device planted in their vehicles shows up in the so-called "crown of evil" GPS video screen of the stalkers.

Some stalkers cause auto accidents and attempt to provoke confrontations that will draw police attention. The apparent motive: to portray the persecuted as mentally unbalanced.

This vehicle stalking causes a public safety hazard as vigilante squads violate the civil and human rights of their prey -- many, if not most, of whom are upstanding citizens who were wrongly, maliciously targeted.

Victims say the gang stalkers also make surreptitious entry into their homes to vandalize property and personal effects, and to leave tell-tale signs that the privacy of their targets has been violated -- a form of psychological harassment known as "gaslighting" (after the classic Ingrid Bergman movie "Gaslight," in which an evil husband manipulates his wife's environment to make her think she is going crazy).

Every law enforcement agency in the nation is likely to know about the GPS-enabled stalking system and the community gang stalking -- what some insiders call "the torture matrix." The Bush torture memos specifically cited anti-stalking laws as being exempt from enforcement when "terrorism" was suspected.

Portraying the "targets" as mentally unsound also appears to be the goal of what amounts to an American "slow-kill" genocide: The covert assault of these "targeted individuals" with classified, hi-tech microwave radiation weapons and devices referred to by officialdom as supposedly non-lethal "directed energy weapons."

The benign nomenclature notwithstanding, these powerful microwave weapons can stun, injure, induce illness, and, depending on exposure levels, kill. Victims say the weapons are being used on the "targets" to induce symptoms of mental illness and cognitive impairment -- in a campaign to have them declared mentally ill and thus "neutralized."

These are crimes against humanity, enabled by federal programs and policies that have co-opted and corrupted local law enforcement, which is dependent upon federal funding from the agencies that devised these "programs of personal destruction."

It is time for local authorities to reclaim their autonomy, and their respect for Constitutional rights. There is a new administration in Washington, one that has pledged to uphold the Constitution.

TEAM OBAMA: YOU MUST ACT NOW TO RESTORE CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN AMERICA.

This contagion extends from the D.C. corridors of power to communities and police/public safety departments nationwide -- which get much of their funding, and apparently, marching orders, from federal agencies.

Only executive branch action can quickly restore the rule of law in what has become a repressive, grassroots-based police state.

-- Vic Livingston
Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County, PA

Columnist, NowPublic.com/scrivener; former reporter, Phila. Fox 29 News; New York Daily News; Philadelphia Bulletin, St. Petersburg Times

For more:

http://My.NowPublic.com/scrivener

History will record the Bush years as a dark and trying time for our Constitution, our Nation and our international reputation.

We can prove to the world that that time was an aberration caused by over-zealous leaders following the 9/11 attack.

However, we can only prove this if we stop the practices, investigate fully and prosecute those responsible for the actions and the policy.

"We can prove to the world that that time was an aberration caused by over-zealous leaders following the 9/11 attack."

-- Hawaiian style

Or we can come to grips with a more frightening scenario...

...that the "war on terror" was, and is, a premeditated pretext for a repressive, ideologically-driven, neo-fascist campaign to neutralize those considered "undesirables," or "dissidents"...

...those who might stand in the way of evil tyrants who have shredded the Constitution in pursuit of global domination and a stranglehold on personal liberty -- in other words, the Fourth Reich.

See:

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/gestapo-usa-g ovt-funded-vigilante-network-terrorizes-america
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/domestic-torture-radiation-weaponry- americas-horrific-shame

OR (if links are corrupted / disabled):

http://www.NowPublic.com/scrivener

I responded to the post above last night, in a comment that said something like this:

"Or perhaps there is another frightening scenario: That the "war on terror" is a premeditated pretext for the shredding of the Constitution by neo-fascist elements who seek to impose their will upon the nation -- stifling "dissenters" and neutralizing those they consider "undesirables."

And the post vanished (at least on my computer).

Was it taken down by ACLU? By a hacker?
If it was taken down, why? Certainly this response to "Hawaiian Style" does not constitute offensive or inflammatory speech.

Well, let's see what happens this time...

Mob Rule in the Community
By Seana Sperling

There has been a growing paranoia in this country that has people watching for terrorists, drug dealers, thieves, etc. via Community Policing via Neighborhood Watch groups. These Watch groups are viewed as a necessary and positive thing and many people I have spoken to on this subject agree. However, when I asked people in the Capitol Hill neighborhood how much proof they would need to believe that a certain neighbor was a drug dealer, prostitute, thief, pedophile, nazi, etc. most paused. A few were very honest and said they would probably react rather than seeking proof.

I have been guilty of reacting. In the late 1980’s I was in Idaho working at a record store. One day a coworker of mine whispered to me that a person who had entered the store was a nazi. Without any proof, I instantly hated this person and gave him my best glare. I didn’t question it. Frankly, I didn’t know this coworker very well, but I believed her on this hot button issue because I was in Idaho. Reactions like this lead to Community Mobbing (a ganging up by a group against an individual).

In another case, two of my friends were driving around Lynnwood looking for housing in May 2007. According to my friends they saw a white van with the word Rapist spray-painted across the entire side. My friends were shocked and we all commented later that whether it were true or not, the damage had been done. In this age of propaganda an accusation works as well as a verdict and I can only suppose that there was some reaction from the neighborhood.

The week of June 15, 2007, The Stranger Newspaper ran a short piece in the I, Anonymous column, titled, “He’s No Pedophile and You Know It.” It was about a Teacher who had been falsely accused by a jilted girlfriend. Teachers are especially vulnerable to this type of accusation because of the influence they have over the young. As stated in the piece, this Teacher’s career is over even if he is cleared of all charges. Was the jilted girlfriend ever given a lie detector test? For that matter, what about the mainstream TV Media that showed up on the doorstep for an impromptu interview with the accused? (The TV media has been used constantly in these witch-hunts and there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of evidence or fact checking. Since most people believe whatever they see on the nightly news, I’m sure his community is at least regarding him with suspicion.)

Sadly, this is happening globally. With such advances in technology comes convenience, but also new problems can arise, such as anonymous slander on the Internet (cyber mobbing). A satellite of The New York Times, The Herald Times, ran an article about Community Mobbing in China. A man suspected that his wife was having an affair with a University student they had met at a gaming party just because she had exchanged some emails with the student. Even though the husband had no real evidence and the wife denied it, he wrote a lengthy blog on a widely read message board accusing the student of adultery. In response, hundreds of people were recruited and began to stalk and harass the poor student who ended up dropping out of school and hiding at home with his family. From: Mob Rule on China’s Internet: The Keyboard as Weapon. Howard French, The Herald Times, 06/01/2006.

If rumor and innuendo via message boards can provoke such community harassment, then what do we do when we have “proof,” i.e. a photograph, video, a voice-over tape-recording? In this age of PhotoShop, digital imagery, cell phone cameras, etc. much can be distorted. While a picture is worth a thousand words, a photo-shopped image might be worth one life ruining statement and no one questions the accuser. There is no accountability or lie detector test required especially if it is posted anonymously.

It’s quite possible that one vengeance stalker could recruit an entire community with a digitally enhanced image or video of their victim. The Community would then view the targeted victim as an undesirable, someone that needed to be driven out, punished or at the very least watched. Police condone surveillance of suspected wrongdoers by Neighborhood Watch groups and there is no legislation yet for this kind of vigilantism.

Community Policing can turn into Community Mobbing very swiftly. Innocent people can be slandered, then bullied and harassed with little or no proof of their guilt. According to the article: Mob Rule on China’s Internet, there were responses on that message board demanding that everyone, including every store worker or business person harass the student.

I’ve experienced ongoing harassment in a variety of forms over the past few years. In December of 2007, I found multiple postings accusing me of everything from prostitution to racism on a site called rottenneighbor.com under my full name. I immediately contacted the webmaster through the site and alerted him to the slander. The posts were gone the following day, but the webmaster didn’t acknowledge my request for information on the postings. The most recent smear was a series of libelous blogs on the May 27, 2008 The Stranger Newspaper’s SLOG message board under the title, Modern Warfare. I only discovered this particular smear because Chris Daniels, one of the reporters at King 5 called me to ask about it. I wrote to Dan Savage, asking why The Stranger would want to make any kind of “warfare,” against me. Tim Keck responded on Savage’s behalf, writing that he didn’t t think the postings were that bad and the worst of the blogs had been redacted. (The blogs saying I should be “Put down, “ or accusing me of being a crack whore. I printed the originals out however.) These are only a couple of episodes in a long and consistent history of smears.

There is nothing new about Mobbing and the KKK, the Nazi’s and other groups used this to eliminate people they felt were a threat. During McCarthyism, similar tactics were used to destroy people that had been accused of being Communists. Slander campaigns, harassment at work, blacklists, and surveillance were employed. Throughout history activists, educators and writers have suffered the same abuses and there is still no accountability for a whisper or surveillance campaign.

In 2002, Ashcroft unveiled Bush’s plan for community action groups, originally charged with watching for terrorist activity, community action groups are watching for any real or imagined infraction and will mete out punishment vigilante style to anyone that comes under suspicion. In this era of citizen informants (Do an internet search for Amerisnitch.) anyone could spread slander to these citizen groups who then would feel entitled to gang up on the individual. Two or more enemies could then corroborate the lies. The targeted victim is then thrust into situation after situation where they have to defend themselves, thus creating more and more enemies. In my case some of the anonymous bloggers claimed to know me therefore confirming the smear.

The most serious issue to me is that a seemingly liberal community like Seattle would organize around this type of fascist behavior. Consider a quote by William S. Burrows, “A Police State needs no Police.”
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My name is Seana Sperling. I’m a Washington State resident. In mid October of 2007, I was stopped by U.S. Border Patrol at the Blaine border in Canada because my name came up on a Watch List. My belongings and the car I was riding in were searched and we were detained at the Border for approximately an hour. I was returning to the States after attending a NAFSA conference in Vancouver B.C. I am an Academic Advisor for International students, a Writer, part-time Peace Activist and former Peace Corps Estonia Volunteer. It is my right to know why I was stopped and why my name is on some Watch List.

I have contacted the three Government intelligence agencies for these records, (which I know exist) but have been getting the run-around. For Peace Corps, I had to undergo an FBI background check so there would that at the very least. Also, anyone working for the Government has some sort of report or file and being in Peace Corps is considered Government service. The FBI claims there is nothing.

We live in an age when innocent people can be accused of a multitude of horrendous things by their enemies (who can conveniently remain anonymous when they call in to TIPS or Ashcroft’s other DHS community-snitch programs). Being on some watch list has resulted in community-based harassment, which I have to deal with on a daily basis (late night phone calls from strangers, harassment on the street, workplace mobbing). According to the ACLU, there are over one million names on the Watch Lists and many people are having similar problems. (I’ve also been the target of an ongoing slander campaign for some time now and my name was associated with horrendous libel on both rottenneighbor.com and the Stranger Newspaper SLOG. I am a proponent of free speech and a free internet, but the slander has caused such a backlash in the community, that I’m treated as some kind of thief in stores among other things. (For crying out loud—I’m 50 years old and I don’t cheat clerks or steal or do anything else out of the ordinary.) Many of us that have been critical of the Bush administration are going through this.

The Bush administration made a shambles of our constitution. They invented something called the NSA letter, which allows Law Enforcement or the Intelligence Officials to contact a targeted person’s workplace, family, friends, bank, library, etc. to gather information, yet the people they contact are told not to let the targeted person know. People are told that the person is under some kind “investigation.” This a clear abuse of the 6th amendment. (Some people have hinted to me that I am under investigation. If I’m being accused then bring on my accuser and let me know what I’m being accused of.)

I voted for Obama because I believe that he has the people’s best interest at heart and not corporations. Smears are nothing new and this type of quelling of political dissent (which some are calling the New McCarthyism) has appeared in Communist Russia and China, Germany 1930’s and earlier in Italy. Please help restore our Constitution.

I have been trying to get assistance for the past eight years. My ex-husband has family employed by the federal government. I have been denied medical treatment and human services because someone with a lot of clout has blocked these services. Me and my child have been targeted and tortured for the past eight years. Nobody will help. I have collected evidence of these occurances which have been ignored. My health is very poor due to lack of adequate medical treatment and a attempt to take my life will probabily soon be realized as my family's goal of revenge will be accomplished. My child is handicapped and she has also been blocked from receiving needed services. If anybody can help me please respond.