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Named: People who become very angry, like Mr. T in the A Team, could
have ‘intermittent explosive disorder’

Do you live surrounded by clutter – ancient copies of magazines, your
children’s old toys, articles you’ve clipped out of newspapers over the
years?

If you find it hard to throw out things of limited or no value, you
could be suffering from hoarding disorder.

‘Hoarding’ is just one of the new mental conditions being added to
the psychiatrists’ bible, or the Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of
Mental Disorders (DSM), to give it its proper name.

Other new conditions identified as possibly needing professional help
include binge eating – which is said to affect many people who are
seriously obese – and ‘cognitive tempo disorder’, which seems very like
laziness (symptoms include dreaminess and sluggishness).

There’s also ‘intermittent explosive disorder’, which involves
occasionally becoming very angry suddenly.

Most bizarre of the proposed additions is one defined as ‘getting a
thrill at being outraged by pornography’.

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It seems that those in the western world who do not fall in line and
follow the norms that the society prescribes as normal, could soon be in
for an experience similar to that of the former Soviet Union.

Childhood temper tantrums, teenage irritability and binge
eating may soon rate as psychiatric disorders in the US, according to
proposed changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the bible of
the psychiatric profession.

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Things like childhood temper tantrums, teenage angst, and binge
eating, might in today’s society be unpopular, but are they worthy of
being classified as signs of mental illness and possibly being drugged
away?

Proposed changes to the U.S. Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual (DSM) could include reclassifying childhood temper tantrums,
teenage angst, and binge eating as psychiatric disorders. If accepted,
the proposals could equal billions of dollars in new revenue for
pharmaceutical companies.

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Is being antisocial really a sign of mental illness? Are these laws
just designed to target those who do not fit into a future state agenda?

The new edition may include “disorders” like
“oppositional defiant disorder”, which includes people who have a
pattern of “negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior
toward authority figures.” Some of the “symptoms” of this disorder
including losing one’s temper, annoying people and being “touchy”.

Other “disorders” being considered include personality flaws like
antisocial behavior, arrogance, cynicism or narcissism. There are even
categories for people who binge eat and children who have temper
tantrums.

Children are already over-diagnosed for allegedly being bipolar or
having attention-deficit disorder (ADD), which results in their being
prescribed dangerous antipsychotic drugs. To categorize even more
childhood behaviors as psychiatric disorders will only further increase
the number of children who will be needlessly prescribed antipsychotic
drugs.

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Is western society slowly implementing many of the same criteria that
allowed Soviet psychiatrists to label many healthy individuals as
mentally ill, just by following a criteria and trying to lump everyone
into those criteria, and weeding out the ones who do not fit?

The APA panel is also suggesting adding a new condition
category to DSM called “risk syndromes”. People who are suspected to
potentially be at risk for developing a mental disorder but do not yet
have one would be deemed as having “psychosis risk syndrome”. This
category would include teenagers who exhibit “excessive suspicion,
delusions and disorganized speech or behavior,” for example.

The APA made it clear that its goal with the revisions is to diagnose
people as early as possible with mental disorders, even before they
actually have them, in order to get them on treatment.

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If these risk syndromes are added to the new update, then you could
be dealt with not for having a mental disorder, but just for having a
factor that puts you at risk of having a mental disorder. You could be
in treatment for just being suspected of potentially being at risk for
developing a mental disorder.

“It not only determines how mental disorders are
diagnosed, it can impact how people see themselves and how we see each
other,” Alan Schatzberg, president of the American Psychiatric
Association, which publishes the guide, told reporters. “It influences
how research is conducted as well as what is researched. It affects
legal matters, industry and government programmes.”

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Might such factors already be affecting how we interact with each
other? How we view each other? Are these criteria or similar being used
to falsely diagnose individuals in western society as having a mental
illness when they do not?

Cases

In the article giving workers the treatment, Peter Downs cites
several cases of workers who complained and then were asked to see a
psychiatrist. This is happening at thousands upon thousands of
workplaces in many democratic societies. A condition of continued
employment might even be based on such a forced encounter.

The first case sited in the article is that of Norm Crosty

On October 5, 1998, Norm Crosty sent a letter to the
labor relationsdepartment at his plant. Crosty, for thirteen years an
electrician at Ford Motor Company’s Wixom, Michigan, assembly plant,
complained that he could not do his job because so many of his bosses
were taking the necessary equipment out of the plant to work on their
homes or personal businesses.

The next day, the plant director of human resources invoked a Ford
program for combating workplace violence to bar Crosty from the factory
and ordered him to see a company-paid psychiatrist or lose his job.

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In this case for making what was a very legitimate claim, the worker
was not only barred from his place of employment, but was ordered to see
a psychiatrist. The ford program for combating workplace violence, most
likely falls under the occupational health and safety laws that have
been used to target others.

A little more than fourteen months later, and 725 miles
away, officials at Emory University cited a similar concern about
violence to justify using armed guards to escort Dr. James Murtagh off
university property when Dr. R. Wayne Alexander, chairman of the
department of medicine at Emory, ordered him to see a company-selected
psychiatrist or lose his job. Six weeks earlier, Murtagh, a professor of
pulmonology at Emory, had filed a false claims suit against the
university, alleging that it had misspent millions of dollars in federal
grant money.

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It seems that members of society who complain, blow the whistle, or
assert their rights at work, are being targeted under these health and
safety provisions. The laws were originally put in place to protect the
rights of workers who have the right to a safe work environment, but it
seems that they are increasingly used to silence those who continue to
complain, blow the whistle, or file complaints. Many targets of
workplace mobbing, who complain about it, or get angry about it, seem to
be having warning markers or notifications placed on their files often
without their knowledge or awareness.

Across the United States, companies have seized upon
concerns about workplace violence to quash dissent. Hundreds of large
corporations have hired psychiatrists and psychologists as consultants
to advise them on how to weed out “threatening” employees. They say they
are only responding to a 1970 directive from the U.S. Occupational
Safety and Health Administration that they maintain a “safe and secure
work environment.” But by drawing the definition of “threatening” as
broadly as possible, they are giving themselves a new club to bang over
the heads of workers.

Maria Buffa, a former salaried employee in the personnel department
at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, said she, too, was
sent to a psychiatrist after she filed a sexual harassment complaint in
February 1999 against a woman co-worker. “You think, maybe I am the
problem, else why would they be sending me to a psychiatrist,”

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This pattern of the state using psychiatrists to follow a set of
diagnostic markers to access workers remotely, often without
interviewing the workers is very similar to the pattern that was
happening in the former Soviet Union, which allowed many innocent
individuals to be falsely misdiagnosed.

As you might expect, the Postal Service, given its
reputation for workplace violence, has bought into the psychiatric
testing. Last September, Postal Service executives proposed to give line
supervisors the right to order emergency psychiatric exams for
employees who are argumentative. Unionists say this will jeopardize
their ability to represent their members. ”

Albanese admits there are some people who clearly need help, but he
says the Postal Service has so broadened its definition of events that
can trigger a mandatory exam that “it is very easy to tie someone up in
that psychiatric situation.” According to the APWU, “The following is a
list of factors that a supervisor can consider when deciding whether or
not to send an employee for a fitness-for-duty exam: significant
increases in unscheduled absences, increased bathroom use, changes in
behavior or work performance after lavatory or lunch breaks,
deterioration in personal hygiene and/or cleanliness of the work
location, inattention to work duties and progressive deterioration in
concentration and memory, [and] threatening behavior. Supervisors can
also impose emergency fitness-for-duty exams if an employee becomes
argumentative, or shows an unusual interest in news stories or
literature dealing with violence.”

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These could be people who also just do not enjoy their jobs very
much. Unscheduled absences, increased bathroom use, changes in behavior
or workplace performance. How many workplaces implement unpopular
changes which drive some workers away from their normal job functions,
or make the regular job functions so unbearable that they just do not
wish to be in the environment? Lot’s of companies do, thus many
individuals at one point in their lives or another might fall into this
criteria.

The web site for Michael H. Corcoran, Ph.D. &
Associates, Inc., for example, asks: “Will the expert you consult be
willing to render an opinion of dangerousness and be willing to put it
in writing?” and “Will the expert be willing to do this without
interviewing the subject personally?”

Some psychiatrists in the field doubt that any reliable judgment can
be made without interviewing the subject.

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Yet it seems that in the case of many individuals that is exactly
what is happening. People are being assessed remotely, and yes some
psychiatrists are diagnosing patients as mentally ill, schizophrenic,
etc. They are then having warning markers placed on their files, placing
them on notification lists, they are then subsequently followed around
and harassed by the community at large. A practice that the Targeted
Individual community has come to call and classify as Gang Stalking.

Speaking for himself, he says it is possible to tell if a
worker is likely to become violent on the job, but not with 100 percent
accuracy. But, he insists, “it will require more than just one session
with the worker, and it will also require information from other sources
close to the patient, including relatives, acquaintances in the
neighborhood, work, etc.” If a psychiatrist is evaluating someone who is
already on the job, he says, “one measure to prevent mistakes is to
require a second opinion. That would give the individual the option to
appeal and have his or her own evaluator.”

Unionists are skeptical of the objectivity of the psychiatrists the
companies use. “We call them prostitutes, because they will write
whatever the Postal Service wants them to,” says Shirley McLennan, vice
president of APWU Local 4 in Louisville, Kentucky, of the doctors who do
fitness-for-duty exams.

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What if the information is coming from hostile other sources, such as
jealous neighbours, or even distant neighbours, hostile co-workers, and
family who immediately assume that their relatives are mentally ill,
just based on the criteria of being interviewed about wither their
relative could be mentally ill?

Donald Soeken, a former U.S. Public Health Service
psychiatric social worker who used to be in charge of giving
fitness-for-duty exams, says the psychiatric exams almost always are
shams. “The doctor will go into all the areas that could discredit a
person,” Soeken says. “He’ll ask early life questions, late life
questions, sexual questions, whatever he wants to ask, and then write it
up and give it to the boss or law firm. Any doctor worth his salt will
find something wrong, or even make up something, and if you don’t answer
one of his questions, then you are uncooperative and you can be fired
for that, too. What they are trying to do is put a person out on a
psychiatric disability. If they succeed, you would never work again in
your lifetime.”

Soeken is sometimes called the father of the fight against abusive
fitness-for-duty exams. While doing such exams for federal employees at
the Public Health Service’s outpatient clinic in Washington, D.C., in
1978, he discovered that many of the people sent to him were either
whistleblowers or people who had a personality clash with the boss. The
employer making the referrals expected him to give them the ammunition
to get rid of employees for mental health reasons.

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Though not the exact same as being sent off to a Soviet Union state
mental health facility, this practice could render a worker unable to
work again. It could render a worker unfit to stay gainfully employed
because they choose to blow the whistle, or had a disagreement with the
boss. This practice in American society has been in place since at least
the 1970, and similar practices are in other democratic countries.

After leaving the Public Health Service in 1994, Soeken
established Integrity International to assist whistleblowers in the
private sector. Since then, he has testified as an expert witness in
seventy psychiatric reprisal lawsuits. Soeken warns anyone who will
listen not to trust the company psychiatrist.

“If you assume the doctor is concerned about your health and
well-being, you’ve made a deadly assumption,” he says. “They are looking
for any phrase or evidence they can use against you to stereotype you
as schizophrenic, paranoid, or delusional.”

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This is why individuals who have never seen a mental health
professional can be classified as delusional, schizophrenic, paranoid,
etc, without ever having had a mental health exam. This can be done
remotely. Remember this is not happening in the former Soviet Union,
this is not happening in China, this is happening in democratic
countries. America, Canada, The U.K., and many other democratic
countries. Along with many none democratic countries.

Tom Devine, legal director for the Government
Accountability Project. Often, another goal is to smear and discredit
the employee. That, he said, is why psychiatric harassment “is
unsurpassed in its ugliness.”

In Crosty’s case, a notice on the company bulletin board announced he
had been expelled from the plant for psychiatric reasons. “It was very
demeaning,” says Crosty. With the help of an attorney, and after he was
cleared by four different psychiatrists, he got his job back, but “I was
totally discredited as some kind of kook and wacko,” he says.

In Murtagh’s case, administrators at Emory “spread a rumor that he
could be armed and dangerous, and a terrorist threat,” says Devine,
whose organization has taken up Murtagh’s defense.

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These practicies are being used across democratic workplaces,
educational facilities, and other areas of society. These practices are
being used on unsuspecting members of society. It’s being used to
discriminate, silence, and destroy the lives on many innocent
individuals. In addition to fit for duty exams, warning markers are
being placed on files, citizens are being declared as having mental
illnesses, in many cases without having ever been assessed by a health
professional, and even if they are assessed, there is no guarantee of a
fair assessment, in some cases these health professionals are going on
rumours and hearsay of the administration that wants to have the worker
removed from their job.

Based on this criteria it’s easy for the system to not only be abused
by Employers, but also by employees who wish to get away with harassing
fellow coworkers. Eg. If an employee complains too much, files a
complaint, they can be placed on a notification system. If other
employees go to Human Resources with complaints about an employee,
reports are gathered together. The information is forwarded from Human
Resources, and then to the Occupational Health and Safety team members
who can be made up of a number of internal employees, plus a number of
outside employers. Some workplaces and universities even have a special
threat assessment team to determine if a worker could become a danger to
themselves or others.

Employees and Educational facilities can recommend that a worker seek
psychiatric assistance, or even use the Employee Assistance Program if
one is in place, but in many cases they can not force an employee to
undergo an assessment, what they can do instead is they can add a
warning marker to an employees file. Using the occupational health and
safety, workplace violence prevention laws, they can add a warning
marker without the individuals knowledge. Once a warning marker is
added, which could say a variety of things, including that the subject
has displayed violent behaviours, might be suffering from mental health
issues, etc. A notification is sent out to everyone in the targets
environment, under the guise of protecting the community.

What community notifications really do is poison the targets
environment, and often not only socially annexing the target, but
opening the target to unspeakable harassment by the community at large.
These notifications are in many cases treated the same way notifications
about violent offenders and other predators are treated, it puts the
community into a frenzy, and the target is treated as a pariah in many
cases.

Once the community receive the notification, they often start to
monitor and follow the target around. Many will even gaslight the target
and other subtle, and not so subtle forms of harassment in an attempt
to remove the target from the environment. Thus Gang Stalking is also
referred to as community mobbing, taken to the extreme. This practice
not only disrupts the life of the target, it’s fully capable of
destroying the targets life. Because the notifications are systemic,
they follow the target everywhere they go, every new job that they apply
for, every new association that the target tries to form is poisoned by
these notifications.

In the case of Damon Thompson he reports having made many complaints
of harassment by both student and staff alike. Though he did not receive
any help, student affairs reports that he was known to them. In cases
similar to his, what has been known to happen to others is that the
continued complaints about staff and students is not used as a learning
opportunity to address mobbing on campus, or in the workplace, but is
used to classify the person complaining and seeking help as mentally
unwell. In similar cases, targets have had files opened, and been placed
on notifications, which then increases the level of harassment the
target experiences. Then due to the notification, further complaints by
the target are treated as a sign of mental illness, rather than a cry
for help, as they are further targeted in their environment.

Damon Thompson became violent and attacked a fellow student. He was
arrested, and will likely go to jail. The fellow student he attacked a
Katherine Rosen who did recover, but reports from an overseas paper
report that he had made several complaints against her in the past. When
the U.S. media reported the same story, they reported it as an
unprovoked attack, and said that the student had just snapped for no
apparent reason.

sources close to him and his family indicated that prior
to this incident he had made countless complaints against classmates
and this specific lab partner but with no results. Contrary to US media
reports, Thompson did know Rosen who was his lab partner and who has
been very offensive to him on previous occasions and even the day in
question. Now UCLA in an attempt to shift blame away from itself has
sought to discredit the mental stability of Thompson by using his many
complaints by e-mail as an indication of instability.

But according to KTLA news, a professor who taught Thompson said he
told a university administrator he was worried about the student’s
mental health 10 months ago. UCLA history professor Stephen Frank, who
taught him Western civilization late last year admits that Thompson sent
him several emails complaining that classmates sitting around him had
been disruptive and made offensive comments to him while he was taking a
written exam and even accused the Professor of taunting him.

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What many individuals are unaware of is that the very act of seeking
out aid and assistance for workplace mobbing, or harassment, can be used
against the person complaining to make it seem as if they are mentally
unstable.

One e-mail stated “I believe I heard you, Professor
Frank, say that I was ‘troubled’ and ‘crazy’ among other things,”
Thompson wrote. “My outrage at this situation coupled with the pressure
of the very weighted examination dulled my concentration and detracted
from my performance.”

Frank said he was present during the entire exam, that Thompson sat
in the front row and that he saw nothing to support the student’s
complaints. Frank said he was told that other professors had reported
similar exchanges with Thompson, who complained he was taunted by other
students — in class, the dorms, dining areas and the library. A
university official told Frank that he could only suggest that Thompson
seek treatment, but they couldn’t require him to seek psychological
help. “My concern was in the context of other violent incidents on
campuses around the country,” Frank said.

Sources close to his family explain that Thompson frequently spoke
with his mother and complained about the many things student had done to
him and the names he was called even by the female students. However,
they explain that the problem had to be extreme for Thompson to have
reacted so violently

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It seems that in some democratic countries similar psychiatric
reprisal practices have been in place for the last 40 years or more.
While many were pointing the finger at countries such as the former
Soviet Union and China, many democratic countries were subtle
implementing policies, practices, and procedures that were almost as
harsh as those practices in none democratic countries. It seems for the
last few decades the occupational health and safety laws have been used
in a way similar to how the laws were used in the former Soviet Union.
As early the 70’s there were reports of these laws being used to target
whistleblowers and those who did not get along with their boss.

For change to happen and the abuses within the system to stop, the
media, must be willing to report the abuses, like they were when these
abuses happened in other countries. Society must wake up to the reality
that we are using occupational health and safety laws, not always to
protect society, but to target dissenting voices in many cases. To
target those who are different, those who stand out, those who are still
willing to complain, or fight for what they believe in.

With the future changes to the DSM rules and regulations, democratic
countries could well wittingly or unwittingly be exactly where the
former Soviet Union was just a few short years ago. Targeting perfectly
sane, perfectly healthy productive members of society and declaring them
as mentally ill to fit an a state and corporate agendas. A society
where everyone is the same is not a creative, productive, or forward
momentum society and eventually such societies do not remain productive
for very long. The people just loose the will, when everyone is the
same. When everyone is forced to think the same, act the same, and
individuality, eccentricities, or differences are legislated, medicated,
or socialized away.

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After leaving the Public Health Service in 1994, Soeken established Integrity International to assist whistleblowers in the private sector. Since then, he has testified as an expert witness in seventy psychiatric reprisal lawsuits. Soeken warns anyone who will listen not to trust the company psychiatrist.
"If you assume the doctor is concerned about your health and well-being, you've made a deadly assumption," he says. "They are looking for any phrase or evidence they can use against you to stereotype you as schizophrenic, paranoid, or delusional."

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This is why individuals who have never seen a mental health professional can be classified as delusional, schizophrenic, paranoid, etc, without ever having had a mental health exam. This can be done remotely. Remember this is not happening in the former Soviet Union, this is not happening in China, this is happening in democratic countries. America, Canada, The U.K., and many other democratic countries. Along with many none democratic countries.

What it is

This was a practice first identified as being used in the former Soviet Union. Targets of this practice were misdiagnosed as mentally ill, many were placed in state run psychiatric facilities.

Thousands upon thousands of individuals were targeted and systemically eliminated this way before the practice was brought to light and drew international attention.

The primary targets of this practice were dissidents, activists, those who tried to exercise their rights, or who wrote or published items that the state did not approve of. Those practicing freedom of religion. Also those who practiced minority or ethnic rights.

The practice was brought to the attention of the United Nations in 1969, and brought some condemnation in 1974, but this did little to change what was happening. The practice continued. It was only in 1991 when change was happening on the world stage, that the issue was again examined in more depth and the practice seems to have diminished.

Russia is not the only country to have used this practice. The practice was also heavily used in China as well. They also used this as a way of dealing with political dissidence.

What was interesting about the research into this practice is the idea that a whole field of professionals can become corrupted and misguided in their views. Believing that any form of dissidence is a mental illness.

She could not sleep that night, and became increasingly worried during subsequent months as more instructions from Moscow appeared on her desk. They were unusual, and what was worse, they confirmed her fears of that very first night: The author, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, was not normal. Actually, he was ill, clearly suffering from what was widely known in Soviet psychiatry as “sluggish schizophrenia.” And indeed, Gorbachev had all the symptoms: struggle for the truth, perseverance, reformist ideas, and willingness to go against the grain. My interlocutor continued to believe in her diagnosis until the Soviet Union collapsed and the windows to the world were opened wide. Only then did she realize that her concept of mental illness, shared by virtually all the approxi-mately 45,000 Soviet psychiatrists, was what was abnormal and that Gorbachev had been normal all along.

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What is frightening is the realization of how indoctrinated these health professionals were. That they so implicitly believed the propaganda of what the state taught them to, and were willing to turn this indoctrination on innocent citizens. Just like some of the Nazi's in Germany, many were following what they had been told or taught to do.

The overwhelming multitude of Soviet psychiatrists either had never participated in the political abuse of psychiatry, had tried to avoid being trapped by authorities into taking part, or had no idea that they were hospitalizing people who according to international standards were in perfect mental health—if such a thing exists. They followed thee criteria that they had been taught by a monopolized psychiatric educational system that was dominated by the Moscow School headed by Professor Snezhnevsky. They had been cut off from international psychiatry and had no knowledge of what their colleagues in the outside, “bourgeois” world believed. If any information trickled through, it was immediately seen as an offspring of degenerated bourgeois societies.

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Many times we like to view these individuals as evil. Denizens of the state who cruelly and unconscionably tortured and falsely inprisioned innocent citizens, but what history is repeatedly showing time and again is that things are often not the cut and dried. These psychiatrist in many cases apparently did not realise the evil that they were doing. They in many cases were following a criteria, a set of standards laid out for them, by a governing body, and anyone who fell into specific criterias, were automatically labelled mentally ill.

They were part of a society in which private initiative, independent thinking, and going against the grain were, at the least, considered dangerous and were often branded criminal. They were part of a society that was taught that anybody who was different, both in thought and in appearance, was “not normal” and thereby almost inherently was “antisocial” and “antisocialist.” When combined with the theories of “sluggish schizophrenia,” this training made it very easy to convince rankand-file psychiatrists, who had only a Soviet education and no access to world psychiatry, that any person who went against the Communist Party and was willing to risk the happiness of both his family and himself had to be mentally ill.

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These professional had a limited lens by which to judge, and so they went with what they had been taught, they followed the guidelines without question, and placed people into categories based on predetermined criterias. Could the same pattern be re-emerging in other societies? Could these same patterns be happening in democratic countries? Could health professionals also be following a set of criteria, and misdiagnosing perfectly healthy individuals as mentally unwell, schizophrenic, without having ever met them face to face, based solely on predetermined criteria?

Dissidents were held for observation in the fourth (“political”) department, and in most cases mental illness was the eventual diagnosis—almost invariably accompanied by a diagnosis of “sluggish schizophrenia.” When the investigative commission reviewed the files, the retired psychiatrist recognized many names under the diagnoses: former colleagues, sometimes friends, known to her as good professionals. The diagnoses were composed as though she had written them herself: the same style, the same terminology, and probably the same conclusions. Yet when the commission subsequently examined the 60 former victims in person, she was shocked, devastated.

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What is really scary is how these diagnosis were handed out and delivered. By her own admission this psychiatrist would likely have put many of these individuals away, yet in person they still remained healthy fully functioning individuals, even after years of surviving the Soviet hell that they were put through.

As I said earlier, after the fall of the Soviet regime we found that the truth about Soviet psychiatry was even more horrific than we had imagined. The political abuse of psychiatry was only the tip of the iceberg. The Soviet regime had ostracized any person who was not productive, who did not fulfill the image of the healthy socialist person laboring for the common good—the radiant communist future.

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Could these same criteria be slowly getting implemented in many democratic societies? Could this same agenda be making it's way to the west? Will the citizens of the western world soon experience what their counter parts in the former Soviet Union did? A systemic abuse of power that targets 1 in 3 political prisoners?. A practice that touched possibly millions of innocent lives?

Approximately one in three political prisoners were held in psychiatric hospitals rather than in camps and prisons. Yet, the thousands of victims of these political abuses form only the tip of the iceberg of millions of Soviet citizens who fell victim to totalitarian Soviet psychiatry.

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The American Psychiatric Association is said to be writing it's soon to be updated version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and the criteria for mental illness might surprise some individuals.

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1. Apparatus for manipulating the nervous system of a subject, the
subject having an ear, comprising:

generator means for generating voltage pulses;

induction means, connected to the generator means and responsive to
the voltage pulses, for inducing at the ear subliminal atmospheric
acoustic pulses with a pulse frequency less than 15 Hz.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for
automatically controlling the voltage pulses.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for
monitoring the voltage pulses.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, for exciting in the subject a
sensory resonance that occurs at a resonance frequency less than 15 Hz,
the apparatus further comprising tuning means for enabling a user to
tune the pulse frequency to the resonance frequency.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, further including a casing for
containing the generator means, the induction means and the tuning
means.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said induction means
comprise:

means for generating in the atmosphere a gas jet, the latter having a
momentum flux; and

modulation means, connected to the generator means and responsive to
said voltage pulses, for pulsing the momentum flux with a frequency less
than 15 Hz;

whereby subaudio acoustic pulses are induced in the atmosphere.

7. Apparatus for manipulating the nervous system of a subject, the
subject having an ear, comprising:

generator means for generating voltage pulses;

a source of gas at a pressure different from the ambient atmospheric
pressure;

a conduit having an orifice open to the atmosphere for passing a
gaseous flux;

valve means, connected to the source of gas and the conduit to
control the gaseous flux;

means, connected to the generator means and responsive to said
voltage pulses, for operating the valve means to provide an oscillation
of the gaseous flux with a frequency less than 15 Hz.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising vessel
means for smoothing fluctuations of the gaseous flux caused by
fluctuations in the pressure of the source of gas.

9. A method for manipulating the nervous system of a subject, the
subject having an ear, comprising the steps of:

generating voltage pulses; and

inducing, in a manner responsive to the voltage pulses, at the ear
subliminal atmospheric acoustic pulses with a pulse frequency less than
15 Hz.

10. The method according to claim 9, for exciting in the subject a
sensory resonance that occurs at a resonance frequency less than 15 Hz,
further comprising the step of tuning the pulse frequency to the
resonance frequency.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein said inducing comprises
the steps of:

generating in the atmosphere a gas jet, the latter having a momentum
flux; and

modulating the momentum flux in pulse-wise fashion in a manner
responsive to the voltage pulses.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising the step of
directing the gas jet at a material surface.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein said inducing comprises
the steps of:

generating a gas flow through a conduit orifice that is open to the
atmosphere; and

modulating the gas flow to produce flow pulsations, in a manner
responsive to the voltage pulses.

14. A method for remotely manipulating the nervous system of a
subject in the course of law enforcement in a standoff situation, the
subject having an ear, comprising the steps of:

generating voltage pulses;

generating, in a manner responsive to the voltage pulses, atmospheric
acoustic signals at a plurality of locations remote from the subject
for inducing at the ear subliminal atmospheric acoustic pulses with a
pulse frequency less than 15 Hz, the signals having phase differences
with respect to each other arranged to cause constructive acoustic wave
interference at the subject.

15. A method for exciting in a subject a sensory resonance having a
resonance frequency less than 15 Hz, the subject having an ear,
comprising the steps of:

generating voltage pulses;

inducing, in a manner responsive to the voltage pulses, at the ear
subliminal atmospheric acoustic pulses with a pulse frequency less than
15 Hz;

tuning the pulse frequency to the resonance frequency; and also

inducing audible audio-frequency atmospheric acoustic signals at the
ear.

16. A method for controlling in a subject neurological disorders that
involve pathological oscillatory activity of neural circuits, the
subject having an ear, comprising the steps of:

generating voltage pulses;

inducing, in a manner responsive to the voltage pulses, at the ear
subliminal atmospheric acoustic pulses with a pulse frequency less than
15 Hz; and

arranging said pulse frequency to detune the pathological oscillatory
activity.

17. A method for controlling in a subject epileptic seizures, the
subject having an ear, comprising the steps of:

generating voltage pulses;

inducing in a manner responsive to the voltage pulses, at the ear
subliminal atmospheric acoustic pulses with a pulse frequency less than
15 Hz; and

initiating said inducing when a seizure precursor is felt by the
subject.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The central nervous system can be manipulated via sensory pathways.
Of interest here is a resonance method wherein periodic sensory
stimulation evokes a physiological response that peaks at certain
stimulus frequencies. This occurs for instance when rocking a baby,
which typically provides relaxation at frequencies near 1/2 Hz. The
peaking of the physiological response versus frequency suggests that one
is dealing here with a resonance mechanism, wherein the periodic
sensory signals evoke an excitation of oscillatory modes in certain
neural circuits. The sensory pathway involved in the rocking example is
the vestibular nerve. However, a similar relaxing response at much the
same frequencies can be obtained by gently stroking a child’s hair, or
by administering weak heat pulses to the skin, as discussed in U.S. Pat.
No. 5,800,481, Sep. 1, 1998. These three types of stimulation involve
different sensory modalities, but the similarity in responses and
effective frequencies suggests that the resonant neural circuitry is the
same. Apparently, the resonance can be excited either via vestibular
pathways or via cutaneous sensory pathways that carry tactile or
temperature information.

Near 2.5 Hz another sensory resonance has been found that can be
excited by weak heat pulses induced in the skin, as discussed in U.S.
Pat. No. 5,800,481, Sep. 1, 1998. This sensory resonance brings on a
slowing of certain cortical functions, as indicated by a pronounced
increase in the time needed to silently count backward from 100 to 70
with the eyes closed. The effect is sharply dependent on frequency, as
shown by a response peak a mere 0.13 Hz wide. The thermally excited 2.5
Hz resonance was found to also cause sleepiness, and after long
exposure, dizziness and disorientation.

Other, more obscure types of stimulation in the form of weak magnetic
fields or weak external electric fields can also cause the excitation
of sensory resonances, as

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Experiments have shown that atmospheric acoustic stimulation of
deeply subliminal intensity can excite in a human subject the sensory
resonances near 1/2 Hz and 2.5 Hz. The 1/2 Hz resonance is characterized
by ptosis of the eyelids, relaxation, drowsiness, a tonic smile,
tenseness, or sexual excitement, depending on the precise acoustic
frequency near 1/2 Hz that is used. The observable effects of the 2.5 Hz
resonance include a slowing of certain cortical functions, sleepiness,
and, after long exposure, dizziness and disorientation. The finding that
these sensory resonances can be excited by atmospheric acoustic signals
of deeply subliminal intensity opens the way to an apparatus and method
for acoustic manipulation of a subject’s nervous system, wherein weak
acoustic pulses are induced in the atmosphere at the subject’s ears, and
the pulse frequency is tuned to the resonance frequency of the selected
sensory resonance. The method can be used by the general public for
control of insomnia and anxiety, and for facilitation of relaxation and
sexual arousal. Clinical use of the method includes the control and
perhaps a treatment of anxiety disorders, tremors, and seizures. A
suitable embodiment for these applications is a small portable
battery-powered subaudio acoustic radiator which can be tuned to the
resonance frequency of the selected sensory resonance.

There is an embodiment suitable for law enforcement operations in
which a subject’s nervous system is manipulated from a considerable
distance, as in a standoff situation. Subliminal subaudio acoustic
pulses at the subject’s location may then be induced by acoustic waves
radiating from a venting acoustic monopole, or by a pulsed air jet,
especially when aimed at the subject or at another material surface,
where the jet velocity fluctuations are wholly or partly converted into
static pressure fluctuations.

The described physiological effects occur only if the intensity of
the acoustic stimulation falls in a certain range, called the effective
intensity window. This window has been measured in exploratory fashion
for the 2.5 Hz resonance.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 illustrates a preferred embodiment wherein a modulated air jet
is used for inducing subliminal acoustic pulses in the atmosphere at
the subject’s ears, for the purpose of manipulating the subject’s
nervous system.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment in which a pulsed air jet is produced by
modulating the flow from a fan by a cylindrical sheet valve that is
driven by a voice coil.

FIG. 3 shows schematically an acoustic monopole operated by a
solenoid valve.

FIG. 4 shows the circuit of a simple generator for producing voltage
pulses that drive a piezoelectric speaker.

FIG. 5 depicts a portable battery-powered device that contains the
circuit and the piezoelectric speaker of FIG. 4.

FIG. 6 shows schematically a generator for chaotic pulses.

FIG. 7 depicts a circuit for generating a complex wave.

FIG. 8 illustrates an application in a law enforcement standoff
situation.

FIG. 9 contains experimental data that show excitation of the sensory
resonance near 2.5 Hz, and the effective intensity window.

FIG. 10 depicts experimental data showing that the sensory excitation
occurs via the ear canal.

FIG. 11 shows the buildup of the physiological response to the
acoustic stimulation.

FIG. 12 shows schematically an acoustic monopole operated by a
rotating valve.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

It has been found in our laboratory that deeply subliminal
atmospheric acoustic pulses with frequency near 1/2 Hz can evoke in a
human subject a nervous system response that includes ptosis of the
eyelids, relaxation, drowsiness, the feeling of pressure at a centered
spot on the brow, seeing moving patterns of dark purple and greenish
yellow with the eyes closed, a soft warm feeling in the stomach, a tonic
smile, a “knot” in the stomach, sudden loose stool, and sexual
excitement, depending on the precise acoustic frequency used. These
responses show that this sensory resonance involves the autonomic
nervous system.

The sharp peaking of the physiological effects with frequency is
suggestive of a resonance mechanism, wherein the acoustic stimulation,
although subliminal, causes excitation of a resonance in certain neural
circuits. Since the frequencies and responses are similar to those for
the 1/2 Hz sensory resonance discussed in the Background Section, it
appears that the resonance excited by the described acoustic stimulation
is indeed the 1/2 Hz sensory resonance. It has been found that the 2.5
Hz sensory resonance can be excited acoustically as well. This sensory
resonance causes the slowing of certain cortical processes, sleepiness,
and eventually dizziness and disorientation.

One can avoid the described physiological responses by wearing snugly
fitting ear plugs. This shows that the excitation occurs via the
external ear canal, so that the stimulation proceeds either through the
auditory nerve or the vestibular nerve. Frequencies near 1/2 Hz or 2.5
Hz are far too low for stimulating the cochlear apparatus, but they are
within the response range of hair cells in the vestibular end organ.
Also, there exists a low-frequency acoustic path to the vestibular end
organ by virtue of the ductus reuniens which provides a fluid connection
between the cochlea and the vestibular organ. The narrow duct severely
attenuates acoustic signals and acts as a low pass filter with a very
low cutoff frequency. Subaudio acoustic signals, i.e., acoustic signals
with frequencies up to 15 Hz, may perhaps penetrate to the vestibular
organ with sufficient strength for stimulating the exquisitely sensitive
vestibular hair cells.

For the 1/2 Hz and 2.5 Hz resonances, the described physiological
responses are observed only if the acoustic intensity lies in a certain
interval, called the effective intensity window. The acoustic intensity
levels in this window are far below the human auditory threshold, so
that exposed subjects do not sense the acoustic pulses in any other way
than through the mentioned physiological effects. The upper limit of the
effective intensity window is believed to be due to nuisance-guarding
neural circuitry that blocks repeditive nuisance signals from higher
processing.

The acoustic signals used for the excitation of sensory resonances
have the nature of pulses. The pulses may be square, trapezoid, or
triangle, or rounded versions of these shapes. However, depending on the
pulse frequency, strong harmonics with frequencies in the audible range
could stimulate the cochlear apparatus. This may be avoided by using
sine waves or appropriately rounded other waves with low harmonic
content.

The acoustic pulses occur in the atmosphere air; even when
administered with earphones, the pulses at the subject’s ear constitute
pressure and flow pulses in the local atmospheric air.

The resonance frequencies of the 1/2 Hz and 2.5 Hz sensory resonances
lie respectively near 1/2 and 2.5 Hz. The different physiological
effects mentioned occur at slightly different frequencies. Thus, one can
tune for drowsiness or sexual excitement, as desired. The precise
resonance frequency is also expected to depend slightly on the subject
and the state of the nervous and endocrine systems, but it can be
measured readily by tuning the acoustic pulse frequency for maximum
physiological effect. Besides the resonances near 1/2 and 2.5 Hz, other
sensory resonances may perhaps be found, and those with resonance
frequencies below 15 Hz are expected to be excitable acoustically via
the vestibular nerve, since the vestibular hair cells are sensitive in
this frequency range.

The finding that deeply subliminal subaudio acoustic stimulation can
influence the central nervous system suggests a method and apparatus for
manipulating the nervous system of a subject by inducing subliminal
atmospheric acoustic pulses of subaudio frequency at the subject’s ears.
In doing so, one may in addition exploit the sensory resonance
mechanism, but there are important applications where this is not done.
For example, the subliminal acoustic manipulation of the nervous system
may be used clinically for the control of tremors and seizures, by
detuning the pathological oscillatory activity of neural circuits that
occurs in these disorders. This may be done by choosing an acoustic
frequency that is slightly different from the frequency of the
pathological oscillation. The evoked neural signals then cause phase
shifts which may diminish or quench the oscillation. Exploitation of the
resonance mechanism by tuning the acoustic signals to the resonance
frequency of a selected sensory resonance affords other forms of
manipulation, such as control of insomnia and anxiety, or facilitation
of sexual arousal.

For both types of manipulation, the required subliminal subaudio
acoustic pulses may be induced at one or both of the subject’s ears by
earphones with a proper low-frequency response, acoustic waves generated
by an acoustic source and propagated through the atmosphere, or by a
pulsed jet of gas (which may be air), preferably directed at a material
surface open to the atmosphere, such as a wall or the subject’s skin or
clothing. In the area of impact, especially where the surface is
oriented substantially perpendicular to the jet, atmospheric pressure
pulses are then generated by virtue of the ram effect, wherein flow
velocity fluctuations are wholly or partly converted into static
pressure fluctuations. If the material surface on which the jet impinges
includes the subject’s ears, then these pressure pulses cause direct
stimulation of the subject, but the pulses also propagate through the
atmosphere to the subject’s ears by virtue of acoustic wave propagation
along accessible paths.

The induction of atmospheric acoustic pulses by a pulsed air jet
proceeding in the atmosphere and directed at a subject is shown in FIG.
1, where a blower 1, labeled “FAN”, produces an air jet 2 that is
directed at a subject 3. The fan is powered by a power supply 4,
labelled “SUPPLY”. At the fan, the supply voltage is modulated in pulsed
fashion by a relay 5 controlled by the generator 6, labelled
“GENERATOR”, through voltage pulses 7 supplied to electromagnet windings
8. A user can adjust the frequency of the pulses with the tuning
control 9. The pulsing of the voltage supplied to the fan causes the
momentum flux 10 of the air jet to be modulated in a pulsed manner. Upon
impinging on a material surface such as the skin of the subject 3, the
pulsed jet induces acoustic pressure pulses at the ears 11 of the
subject. The atmospheric acoustic effect of the jet is complicated by
the fact that the region of the fan inlet undergoes a fluctuation of
static pressure as the result of the modulation of jet momentum flux.
There thus are two distinct acoustic monopoles, one at the fan inlet and
the other in the area of impact of the jet on the material surface. The
monopoles radiate with a phase difference that is determined by the jet
velocity, the modulation frequency, and the distance between fan and
impact area. The resulting sound pressure at the subject’s ears can be
analyzed with retarded potentials as discussed for instance by Morse and
Feshbach (1953). Even a jet which does not impinge on a material
surface radiates by virtue of the acoustic monopole at the fan inlet.

When skin of the subject is exposed to gas flow of the jet, or to the
flow of atmospheric air entrained by the jet, the flow will fluctuate
in pulsed fashion, so that a periodic heat flux occurs by convective
transport and evaporation of sweat. The resulting periodic fluctuation
of the skin temperature can excite a sensory resonance, as discussed in
U.S. Pat. No. 5,800,481, Sep. 1, 1998. Hence, the apparatus of FIG. 1
can cause excitation of a sensory resonance via two separate sensory
pathways, viz., the vestibular nerve and the afferents from cutaneous
temperature receptors. The strength of the thermal stimulation depends
on the skin area and type of skin exposed to the fluctuating flow. The
face is particularly sensitive, especially the lips. The two-channel
excitation of sensory resonances needs further investigation. In any
particular situation, the vestibular channel can be blocked by using
earplugs.

An air jet with pulsed momentum flux can also be obtained as
illustrated in FIG. 2. Shown is a fan 1, labelled “FAN”, which
discharges into manifold 12. The air flow in the manifold can be
partially obstructed by a sheet valve 13 in the form of a perforated
cylindrical sheet. The sheet valve carries a voice coil 14 which is
situated in the field of a permanent magnet 15, in the manner of
conventional electromagnetic loudspeakers. When no current flows through
the voice coil, the sheet valve is held in equilibrium position by
springs 16. In this position, the perforation 17 in the sheet is lined
up with the flow passage allowing essentially unimpeded flow through the
manifold and out the exit 18, such as to form a jet 19 in the
atmosphere. Sending a current pulse through the voice coil 14 causes the
sheet valve to be displayed in the axial direction, thereby partially
obstructing the air flow through the manifold. Owing to the low inertia
of the sheet valve, the arrangement allows efficient pulse modulation of
the jet momentum flux.

A somewhat different modulation system can be obtained with a
rotating cylindrical sheet valve that has one or more holes along its
periphery, and which is adjacent to a stationary cylindrical shroud that
has corresponding holes, so that rotation of the valve causes
modulation of the air flow through the holes. The valve is rotated by a
stepper motor driven by voltage pulses. The latter are obtained from a
generator that is controlled by a tuner.

One can also use direct acoustic wave propagation for inducing the
required atmospheric acoustic pulses. It is then advantageous to employ
as the source of the waves an acoustic monopole, since for these the
acoustic pressure does not fall off as fast with increasing distance as
for dipoles. Moreover, at the very low frequencies involved, acoustic
pressure shorting across a conventional loudspeaker baffle is very
severe. A sealed loudspeaker mounted in an airtight box eliminates this
pressure shorting, and radiates acoustic waves with a relatively large
monopole component.

An acoustic monopole may also be produced by having a source of
pressurized gas vent through an orifice into the atmosphere in a pulsed
fashion. The gas may be air. Alternatively, one may have a source of
low-pressure air inhale atmospheric air through an orifice in pulsed
fashion. These actions are easily achieved by an oscillating or rotating
valve. For purposes of discussion it is convenient to introduce the
concept of gaseous flux through the orifice, defined as the integral of
the normal flow velocity component over an imagined surface that tightly
caps the orifice, the normal component being perpendicular to the local
surface element, and reckoned positive if the flow is directed into the
ambient atmosphere. The gaseous flux has the dimension of m3 /s. For
the case with a source of pressurized gas, the gaseous flux is positive
and due to gas venting to the atmosphere. For the case with a source of
vacuum, the gaseous flux is negative and due to atmospheric air entering
the orifice. The strength of the acoustic monopole is expressed as the
amplitude of the gaseous flux fluctuation, amplitude being defined as
half the peak-to-peak variation. The concept of gaseous flux allows a
unified discussion of venting acoustic monopoles that use a source of
pressurized gas or a source of vacuum, or both.

The source of pressurized air could be a cylinder with pressurized
gas, such as a CO2 cartridge. For personal use, such a cartridge may
last a long time because only very small acoustic monopole strengths are
needed for the induction of the required weak acoustic signals. For
long term and long range operation, the exhaust port of an air pump may
serve as a source of pressurized air, and the intake port could be used
as a source of vacuum.

A simple venting acoustic monopole is shown in FIG. 12, where the
source 63 of pressurized gas, which may be air, is connected to a
conduit 69 which has an orifice 65 that is open to the atmosphere. A
rotating valve 66 labelled “VALVE” controls the gaseous flux through the
orifice. The valve is rotated by a stepper motor 67 labelled “MOTOR”,
driven by voltage pulses from the generator 68 labelled “GENERATOR”. The
motor speed is determined by the frequency of the voltage pulses. This
frequency can be selected by the tuner 70, which therefore controls the
frequency of the acoustic pulses emited by the orifice 65. For the
simple orifice shown, boundary layer separation may occur in the
outflow, so that the air pulses emerge in the form of jets. This causes
dipole and higher multipole components in the radiated acoustic field.
If desired, such radiation components can be avoided or diminished by
placing a spherically or dome shaped fine mesh screen over the orifice
65. Instead of holding pressurized gas, the source 63 may hold a vacuum.
In either case, the pulsing of the gaseous flux causes radiation of
monopole-type acoustic waves. The source 63 may be replenished by a
pump.

Push-pull operation can be achieved in the manner shown in FIG. 3. An
air pump 20, labelled “PUMP”, with flow ports 64, pressurizes the
pressure vessel 21 while drawing a vacuum in the vacuum vessel 22. A
valve 23 is operated by the solenoid 24 such as to alternately admit
high and low pressure air to the conduit 26. The latter vents to the
atmosphere through a screen 55 placed across an orifice 27 that is open
to the atmosphere. The valve is controlled by an oscillator consisting
of the solenoid 24, which is connected to the pulse generator 6,
labelled “GENERATOR”. The frequency of the electric current pulses
through the solenoid is determined by the setting of the tuning control
9. This frequency is to be tuned to the resonance frequency of the
sensory resonance that is to be excited. The tuning may be done manually
by a user. The conduit 26 is structured as a diffuser in order to avoid
boundary layer separation during the exhaust phase; the screen across
the orifice 27 inhibits formation of a jet, thereby providing more
nearly for a monopole type acoustic wave. During the intake phase the
orifice acts as a sink; streamlines 28 of the resulting flow are
illustrated. The vessels 21 and 22 smooth the flow fluctuations through
the orifice that are due to the flow fluctuations through the pump; they
are drawn at a relatively small scale for compactness sake. Instead of
the oscillating valve 23, a rotating valve may be used, driven by a
stepper motor powered by voltage pulses from a generator.

Conventional loudspeakers may be used as well as the source of
acoustic radiation. An example is shown in FIG. 4, where the
piezoelectric transducer 37 is driven by a simple battery-powered pulse
generator built around two RC timers 30 and 31. Timer 30 (Intersil
ICM7555, for instance) is hooked up for astable operation; it produces a
square wave voltage with a frequency determined by capacitor 33 and the
potentiometer 32, which serves as a tuner that may be operated by a
user. The square wave voltage at output 34 drives the LED 35, and
appears at one of the output terminals 36, after voltage division by
potentiometer 71. The other output is connected to the negative supply.
The output terminals 36 are connected to the piezoelectric speaker.
Automatic shutoff of the voltage that powers the timer 30 at point 38 is
provided by a second timer 31, hooked up for monostable operation.
Shutoff occurs after a time interval determined by resistor 39 and
capacitor 40. Timer 31 is powered by a 9 Volt battery 41, via a switch
42. Optional rounding of the square wave is done by an RC circuit
consisting of a resistor 43 and capacitor 44. An optional airtight
enclosure 29 may be used for the speaker 37, in order to enhance the
monopole component of the radiated acoustic signal. Instead of a
piezoelectric speaker one may use an electromagnetic loudspeaker with a
voice coil. Because of the low impedance of the voice coil, a resistor
must then be included in the output circuitry in order to keep the
output currents to low values such as to allow battery powering of the
device. Small voice coil currents are sufficient for the low acoustic
powers required.

Low pulse frequencies can be monitored with the LED 35 of FIG. 3. The
LED blinks on and off with the square wave, and it doubles as a power
indicator. The pulse frequency can be determined by reading a clock and
counting the LED light pulses. For higher frequencies a monitoring LED
can still be used, if it is driven by a signal obtained by frequency
division of the generator signal.

The automatic shutoff described above is an example for automatic
control of the generated voltage; more sophisticated forms of control
involve automatic frequency sequences. A computer that runs a simple
timing program can be used for the generation of all sorts of square
waves that can be made available at a computer port. An economic and
compact version of such arrangement is provided by the Basic Stamp
manufactured by Parallax Inc, Rocklin, Calif., which has an onboard
EEPROM that can be programmed for the automatic control of the generated
pulses, such as to provide desired on/off times, frequency schedules,
or chaotic waves. The square waves can be rounded by RC circuits, and
further smoothed by integration and filtering.

A compact packaging of the device such as shown of FIG. 4 is depicted
in FIG. 5 where all circuit parts and the speaker, piezoelectric or
voice-coil type, are contained in a small casing 62. Shown are the
speaker 37, labelled “SPEAKER”, driven by the generator 6, labeled
“GENERATOR”, with tuning control 9, LED 35, battery 41, and power switch
42. The LED doubles as a mark for the tuning control dial. With the
circuit of FIG. 4, the device draws so little current that it can be
used for several months as a sleeping aid, with a single 9 Volt battery.

For the purpose of thwarting habituation to the stimulation,
irregular features may be introduced in the pulse train, such as small
short-term variations of frequency of a chaotic or stochastic nature.
Such chaotic or stochastic acoustic pulses can cause excitation of a
sensory resonance, provided that the average pulse frequency is close to
the appropriate sensory resonance frequency. A chaotic square wave can
be generated simply by cross coupling of two timers. FIG. 6 shows such a
hookup, where timers 72 and 73, each labeled “TIMER”, have their output
pins 74 and 75 connected crosswise to each other’s control voltage pins
76 and 77, via resistors 78 and 79. The control voltage pins 76 and 75
have capacitors 80 and 81 to ground. If the timers are hooked up for
astable operation with slightly different frequencies, and appropriate
values are chosen for the coupling resistors and capacitors, the output
of either timer is a chaotic square wave with an oval attractor. Example
circuit parameters are: R78 =440KΩ, R79 =700KΩ, C80 =4.7 μF, C81 =4.7
μF, with (RC)72 =0.83 s and (RC)73 =1.1 s. For these parameters, the
output 74 of timer 72 is a chaotic square wave with a power spectrum
that has large peaks at 0.46 Hz and 0.59 Hz. The resulting chaotic wave
is suitable for the excitation of the 1/2 Hz resonance.

A complex wave may be used for the joint excitation of two different
sensory resonances. A simple generator of a complex wave, suitable for
the joint excitation of the 1/2 Hz autonomic resonance and the 2.5 Hz
cortical resonance, is shown in FIG. 7. Timers 82 and 83 are arranged to
produce square waves of frequencies f1 and f2 respectively, where f1 is
near 2.5 Hz, and f2 is near 1/2 Hz. The outputs 84 and 85 of the timers
are connected to the inputs of an AND gate 86. The output 87 of the AND
gate features a square wave of frequency f1, amplitude modulated by a
square wave of frequency f2, as indicated by the pulse train 88.

The very low frequency waves needed for the acoustic stimulation of
the vestibular nerve may also be provided by a sound system in which
weak subaudio pulses are added to audible audio program material. This
may be done in the customary manner way of adding the currents from
these signals at the inverting input of an operational amplifier. The
amplitude of the pulses is chosen such that the strength of the
resulting acoustic pulses lies in the effective intensity window.
Experiments in our laboratory have shown that the presence of audible
signals, such as music or speech, does not interfere with the excitation
of sensory resonances.

The invention can also be implemented as a sound tape or CD ROM which
contains audible audio program material together with subliminal
subaudio signals. The recording can be done by mixing the audio and
subaudio signals in the usual manner. In choosing the subaudio signal
level, one must compensate for the poor frequency response of the
recorder and the electronics, at the ultra low subaudio frequencies
used.

The pathological oscillatory neural activity involved in epileptic
seizures and Parkinson’s disease is influenced by the chemical milieu of
the neural circuitry involved. Since the excitation of a sensory
resonance may cause a shift in chemical milieu, the pathological
oscillatory activity may be influenced by the resonance. Therefore, the
acoustic excitation discussed may be useful for control and perhaps
treatment of tremors and seizures. Frequent use of such control may
afford a treatment of the disorders by virtue of facilitation and
classical conditioning.

In this as well as in the detuning method discussed before, an
epileptic patient can switch on the acoustic stimulation upon sensing a
seizure precursor.

Since the autonomic nervous system is influenced by the 1/2 sensory
resonance, the acoustic excitation of the resonance may be used for the
control and perhaps the treatment of anxiety disorders.

The invention can be embodied as a nonlethal weapon that remotely
induces disorientation and other discomfort in targeted subjects. Large
acoustic power can be obtained easily with acoustic monopoles of the
type depicted in FIG. 3 or FIG. 12. If considerable distance needs to be
maintained to the subject, as in a law enforcement standoff situation
illustrated in FIG. 8, several monopoles can be used, and it then may
become important to have phase differences between the acoustic signals
of the individual monopoles arranged in such a manner as to maximize the
amplitude of the resultant acoustic signal at the location 52 of the
subject. Shown are four squad cars 53, each equiped with an acoustic
monopole capable of generating atmospheric pulses of a frequency
appropriate for the excitation of sensory resonances. The relative
phases of the emitted pulses are arranged such as to compensate for
differences of acoustic path lengths 54, such that the pulses arrive at
the subject location 52 with substantially the same phase, resulting in
constructive interference of the local acoustic waves. Such arrangement
can be achieved easily by using radio signals between the monopole
units, with the target distances either dialed in manually or measured
automatically with a range finder. The subaudio acoustic signals can
easily penetrate into a house through an open window, a chimney, or a
crack under a closed door.

Some of our experiments on acoustic excitation of sensory resonances
which provide a basis for the present invention will be discussed
presently. Of all the responses to the excitation of the 1/2 Hz
resonance, ptosis of the eyelids stands out for distinctness, ease of
detection, and sensitivity. When voluntary control of the eyelids is
relinquished, the eyelid position is determined by the relative
activities of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. There
are two ways in which ptosis can be used as an indicator that the
autonomic system is being affected. In the first, the subject simply
relaxes the control over the eyelids, and makes no effort to correct for
any drooping. The more sensitive second method requires the subject to
first close the eyes about half way. While holding this eyelid position,
the eye are rolled upward, while giving up voluntary control of the
eyelids. With the eyeballs turned up, ptosis will decrease the amount of
light admitted to the eyes, and with full ptosis the light is
completely cut off. The second method is very sensitive because the
pressure excerted on the eyeballs by partially closed eyelids increases
parasympathetic activity. As a result, the eyelid position becomes
somewhat labile, exhibiting a slight flutter. The labile state is
sensitive to small shifts in the activities of the sympathetic and
parasympathetic systems. The method works best when the subject is lying
flat on the back and is facing a moderately lit blank wall of light
color.

The frequency at which ptosis is at a maximum is called the ptosis
frequency. This frequency depends somewhat on the state of the nervous
and endocrine systems, and it initially undergoes a downward drift,
rapid at first and slowing over time. The ptosis frequency can be
followed in its downward drift by manual frequency tracking aimed at
keeping ptosis at a maximum. At a fixed frequency, the early ptosis can
be maintained in approximately steady state by turning the acoustic
stimulation off as soon as the ptosis starts to decrease, after which
the ptosis goes through an increase followed by a decline. The acoustic
stimulation is turned back on as soon as the decline is perceived, and
the cycle is repeated.

At fixed frequencies near 1/2 Hz, the ptosis cycles slowly up and
down with a period ranging upward from about 3 minutes, depending on the
precise acoustic frequency used. The temporal behavior of the ptosis
frequency is found to depend on the acoustic pulse intensity; the drift
and cycle amplitude are smaller near the low end of the effective
intensity window. This suggests that the drift and the cycling of the
ptosis frequency is due to chemical modulation, wherein the chemical
milieu of the neural circuits involved affects the resonance frequency
of these circuits, while the milieu itself is influenced by the
resonance in delayed fashion. Pertinent concentrations are affected by
production, diffusion, and reuptake of the substances involved. Because
of the rather long characteristic time of the ptosis frequency shift, as
shown for instance by the cycle period lasting 3 minutes or longer, it
is suspected that diffusion plays a rate-controlling role in the
process.

The resonance frequencies for the different components of the 1/2 Hz
sensory resonance have been measured, using acoustic sine waves with a
sound pressure of 2×10-9 N/m2 at the subject’s left ear. Ptosis reached a
steady state at a frequency of 0.545 Hz. Sexual excitement occurred at
two frequencies, 0.530 Hz and 0.597 Hz, respectively below and above the
steady-state ptosis frequency. For frequencies of 0.480 Hz and 0.527 Hz
the subject fell asleep, whereas tenseness was experienced in the range
from 0.600 to 0.617 Hz.

The resonance near 2.5 Hz may be detected as a pronounced increase in
the time needed to silently count backward from 100 to 70, with the
eyes closed. The counting is done with the “silent voice” which involves
motor activation of the larynx appropriate to the numbers to be
uttered, but without passage of air or movement of mouth muscles. The
motor activation causes a feedback in the form of a visceral stress
sensation in the larynx. Counting with the silent voice is different
from merely thinking of the numbers, which does not produce a stress
sensation, and is not a sensitive detector of the resonant state. The
larynx stress feedback constitutes a visceral input into the brain and
may thus influence the amplitude of the resonance. This unwanted
influence is kept to a minimum by using the count sparingly in
experiment runs. Since counting is a cortical process, the 2.5 Hz
resonance is called a cortical sensory resonance, in distinction with
the autonomic resonance that occurs near 1/2 Hz. In addition to
affecting the silent counting, the 2.5 Hz resonance is expected to
influence other cortical processes as well. It has also been found to
have a sleep inducing effect. Very long exposures cause dizziness and
disorientation. The frequency of 2.5 Hz raises concerns about kindling
of epileptic seizures; therefore, the general public should not use the
2.5 Hz resonance unless this concern has been laid to rest through
further experiments.

The sensitivity and numerical nature of the silent count makes it a
very suitable detector of the 2.5 Hz sensory resonance. It therefore has
been used for experiments of frequency response and effective intensity
window. In these experiments, rounded square wave acoustic pulses were
produced with a frequency that was slowly diminished by computer, and
the subject’s 100-70 counting time was recorded for certain frequencies.
The acoustic transducer was a small loudspeaker mounted in a sealed
cabinet such as to provide acoustic monopole radiation. At fixed
frequency, the acoustic monopole strenght in m3 /s varies linearly with
the voice coil current, with a constant of proportionality that can be
calculated from measured speaker dome excursions for given currents. The
sound pressure level at the entrance of the subject’s nearest external
ear canal can be expressed in terms of the acoustic monopole strength
and the distance from the loudspeaker. For each experiment run, the
sound pressure level at the entrance of the subject’s external ear canal
can thus be calculated from the measured amplitude of the voice coil
current and the pulse frequency. Since for the subaudio frequencies the
distance from the acoustic radiator to the subject’s ear is much smaller
than the wavelength of the sound, the near-field approximation was used
in this calculation. The sound pressure level was expressed in dB
relative to the reference sound pressure of 2×10-5 N/m2. This reference
pressure is traditionally used in the context of human hearing, and it
represents about the normal minimum human hearing threshold at 1.8 KHz.

FIG. 9 shows the result of experiment runs at sound pressure levels
of -67, -61, -55, and -49 dB. Plotted are the subject’s 100-70 counting
time versus pulse frequency in a narrow range near 2.5 Hz. Resonance is
evident from the sharp peak 57 in the graph for the sound pressure level
of -61 dB. The graphs also reveal the effective intensity window for
the stimulation, as can be seen by comparing the magnitude of the peaks
for the different sound pressure levels. For increasing intensity, the
magnitude of the peak first increases but then decreases, and no
significant peak shows up in the graph for the largest sound pressure of
-49 dB; this can be seen better from the insert 58, which shows the
graphs for -67 and -49 dB in a magnified scale. It follows that the
effective intensity window extends approximately from -73 to -49 dB, in
terms of the sound pressure level at the entrance of the subject’s
external ear canal.

The physiological response to the 2.5 Hz acoustic stimulation can be
avoided by wearing earplugs. FIG. 10 is a plot of the 100-70 counting
time versus acoustic pulse frequency, with and without earplugs. The
sound pressure level at the entrance of the subject’s external ear canal
was -6 dB for both runs. Without earplugs the counting time has the
peak 59, but no significant peak is seen in graph 60 for the run in
which the subject used earplugs. Two conclusions can be reached from
these results. First, in the experiments the 2.5 Hz resonance is
essentially excited acoustically rather than through the magnetic field
induced by the voice coil currents in the loudspeaker. Second, it
follows that the exciting sound essentially propagates via the external
ear canal, instead of through the skin and bones in the area of the
ears, or via cutaneous mechanoreceptors in the skin at large.

To answer the question whether the acoustic excitation of the 2.5 Hz
sensory resonance occurs perhaps through the cochlear nerve, one needs
to consider the human auditory threshold curve such as shown, for
instance, by Thomson (1967). The curve has a minimum near 1.8 KHz where
the threshold sound pressure level is 0 dB, by definition. At 10 Hz the
threshold is 105 dB. Hence, the pronounced acoustic excitation of the
sensory resonance shown in FIG. 9 for a sound pressure level of -61 dB
is 166 dB below the auditory threshold at 10 Hz. The excitation occurs
near 2.5 Hz, and at that frequency, the auditory threshold is even
higher than at 10 Hz. Although the curve in Thomson’s book does not go
below 10 Hz, linear extrapolation suggests the estimate of 135 dB for
the threshold at 2.5 Hz, bringing the sound pressure level that is
effective for acoustic excitation of the sensory resonance to 196 dB
below the estimated threshold at the frequency near 2.5 Hz used. This
result all but rules out excitation via the cochlear nerve.

Chemical modulation may be the cause for the small frequency
difference for peaks 57 and 59 in FIGS. 9 and 10, for the sound pressure
level of -61 dB; these peaks occur respectively at 2.516 and 2.553 Hz.

The physiological response to the excitation of the sensory
resonances at a fixed stimulus frequency is not immediate but builds
over time. An example is shown in FIG. 11, where the graph 61 depicts
the measured 100-70 time plotted versus elapsed time, upon application
of acoustic pulses of 2.558 Hz frequency and a sound pressure level of
-61 dB. The graph shows that the response is initially delayed over
about 5 minutes; thereafter it increases, and at about 22 minutes the
slope is seen to decrease somewhat. Other experiments have shown a
counting time that eventually settles on a plateau, or even starts on a
decline. Chemical modulation and habituation could account for these
features. The response curve depends strongly on initial conditions.

The method is expected to be effective also on certain animals, and
applications to animal control are therefore envisioned. The nervous
system of mammals is similar to that of humans, so that the sensory
resonances are expected to exist, albeit with different frequencies.
Accordingly, in the present invention subjects are mammals.

The described method and apparatus can be used beneficially by the
general public and in clinical work. Unfortunately however, there is the
possibility of mischievous use as well. For instance, with small
modifications the method of FIG. 1 can be employed to imperceptibly
modulate the air flow in air conditioning or heating systems that serve a
home, office building, or embassy, for covert manipulation of the
nervous systems of occupants.

The invention is not limited by the embodiments shown in the drawings
and described in the specification, which are given by way of example
and not of limitation, but only in accordance with the scope of the
appended claims.

REFERENCES

P. M. Morse and H. Feshbach, METHODS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1953

R. F. Thomson, FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Harper &
Row, New York 1967

United States
 
http://www.ccohs.ca/

Canada
 
http://australia.gov.au/topics.....and-safety

Australia
 
http://osha.europa.eu/en
Europe

Now what I have to do is find out if similar clauses exist for other
countries. If so targets might be able to mount actual lawsuits, God
maybe even a nice class action might actually be possible. But I dare to
dream. Even if targets can just get their files corrected, names
removed from these lists, that is a start, but for all that is being
done, with the electronic monitoring which just amounts to be torture.
(Keep in mind I am saying this as I recently discovered yet another top
layer skin burn from the electronic monitoring. Yes sometimes my
shielding is not perfect. Also at times they seem more upset about
things more than others.)
 
So the struggle continues on, but
really this should be a good deal of information for targets to start
with. It's more than we had just a year ago, more than most had six
months ago, or even three months ago. So here is hoping that a procedure
can be found that can be used cross border for getting this corrected.
The privacy acts and understanding the terminology will come in very
handy as will skilled lawyers (if any can be found) in those areas.

Awareness Register - Managers (via, and with the discretion of, the Health and Safety
team) must keep details of dangerous customers. Employees must report any potentially
violent situations they are aware of via the Accident/Occurrence form.

Awareness Register
Definitions
Cross-directorate Awareness Register - a computerised database that contains names
and/or addresses of persons (or dangerous animals at those addresses) who have initiated
incidents of VATB against Torbay Council employees or whilst on Council premises. The data
has a digitally encrypted password so that it cannot be read if copied.

The Data Protection Act - legislation which protects an individual’s rights regarding information held about themselves; information held on the Awareness Register must comply with this legislation. An individual has the right to receive a copy (on written request) of the data held about them (and a right to compensation if the information is inaccurate).

Recording of Incidents/Individuals When an incident/individual is to be recorded on the Awareness Register, the Line Manager (or deputy in their absence) will:
· Countersign the Accident/Occurrence form before passing immediately to the Health and
Safety Team; where inclusion is recommended, approval by a senior officer is vital in a
situation should the record be challenged,
· Ensure there is a clear and accurate account of the incident (both relevant to the event and not excessive); officers can be held accountable for their decision to include on the
Awareness Register,
· Ensure only those who are to interview, or visit people, will have access to information held,
· Ensure information on the use of the awareness register and safe working practices is
communicated to employees at induction and regularly re-enforced.

Maintaining the Awareness Register
The Health and Safety team are responsible for updating the Awareness Register on receipt of the completed Accident/Occurrence form and providing general maintenance to the system. No other employees will make alterations to the Awareness Register. Individual managers will designate and authorise, by using form IT05, employees who have been identified through risk assessment by their line managers to have access to the Awareness Register.
Once a person, or address, has been placed on the register it will be reviewed for accuracy at six monthly intervals by the Health and Safety team and removed at the end of the expiration of the following periods where the threat to employees no longer exists:

Physical assault After 5 years Verbal threats and a person reasonably fears
for their own or another’s safety Review after 2 years Verbal abuse and a person reasonably fears for their own or another’s safety Review after 1 year The above limits will be halved where persons committing the incident were under the age of 17 at the time.

If there are multiple reports attributed to one person, a person’s name will be held on the
register from the date of the last report.
The Health and Safety Team are responsible for monitoring issues concerning VATB, by
reporting to the Health, Safety and Risk Management Forum.

Targeted Individuals have spent several years trying to understand the mechanisms that would allow the type of targeting that is happening to them to exist. Many have tried to understand how a system could exist that could monitor and track them 24/7. That could follow them from community to community. A structure that could label them, even from country to country.

Most targets see themselves as innocent individuals. People that have done no wrong, yet many started to experience, psychological torture, electronic harassment, and systemic wide targeting almost as if overnight in some cases, and in other cases it slowly built up over years.

Targets looked at structures such as Cointelpro, The Stasi, Stalking Groups, Vigilantes, the types of structures that had occurred in the past that had lead to a similar types of harassment. Many were close and very similar to what targets experienced, in their scope, and potential for systemic life disruptions and destruction, but none were ever quite perfect.

Jane Clift

Then last year the case of a woman in England named Jane Clift was brought to light as she made headlines in the U.K., and beyond. Ms. Clift tried to perform what was her citizens duty in reporting a man that had become angry and violent with her. In reporting this man, she herself was embroiled in a verbal altercation with the community worker that she tried to report his anti-social behaviours to.  Ms. Clift followed up their heated discussion with a letter, and for this simple act, Ms. Clift was placed on a list with sex perverts, and other criminals. She was placed on what the U.K. calls the violent persons registry. It's a listing for individuals who have displayed violent or other inappropriate behaviour.  Ms. Clift found that being under the spotlight of this flagging system was too much and she was forced to move from the area that she had lived in for over 10 years.

Ms. Clift unlike many targets had been given notification that she was to be placed on such a list. The nature of her perceived offence, and the length of time she would be on such a list. She described her experience, which in some pivotal ways matched some of what Targeted Individuals had mentioned in their harassment.

She sensed that, everywhere she went, there was “whispering, collaboration, people scurrying about”. “Everywhere I went – hospitals, GPs, libraries – anywhere at all, even if I phoned the fire service, as soon as my name went on to that system, it flagged up ‘violent person marker, only to be seen in twos, medium risk’.”

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Ms Clift's targeting if not identical was at least fraternal to what targets had described. People collaborating. Whispers, scurrying, life disruption that had caused her to move. In Ms. Clifts case the warning markers, and flags had been sent out to quite a few agencies, and thus everywhere she want this warning marker followed her.

The question then became was such a system, or similar system available in other countries? Which laws were being used and who was responsible for keeping or organizing such information?

Further research showed that under occupations health and safety laws, there was such a structure in place, that would allow an individual to receive a warning marker, or flag on their files for various perceived offences. The structure matched and covered all the various markers that targets had complained about. The structure also allowed for those around the accused to be fully aware of what was ongoing, while it allowed the accused to be unaware, unable to defend themselves. This structure upon further and deeper examination fit extremely well with what was ongoing.

Under the Occupational health and safety, or community health and safety laws, which have been established in many countries, individuals can be flagged and a notification about them can be sent out to the community at large, all without the targets awareness. These laws give workers the right to be made aware if they are about to encounter potentially violent situations or individuals. These laws however do not give the target any foreknowledge of the violence, and harassment they will soon receive from the community, once placed on such a notification system.

Workers have the ’ right to know ‘ all risks and safe work procedures associated with the job. This may involve identifying individuals with a history of unpredictable or violent behaviour.

    Training workers to recognize escalating behaviour that has the potential to result in violence is a common way to minimize risk. Five warning signs of escalating behaviour and possible responses are listed in Appendix C.

    In the service sector this may require identifying to employees persons who have a history of aggressive or inappropriate behaviour in the store, bar, mall or taxi.

    The identity of the person and the nature of the risk must be given to staff likely to come into contact with that person. While workers have the right to know the risks, it is important to remember that this information cannot be indiscriminately distributed.

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Workers do have a right to know if they are going to encounter violent situations or individuals. On the surface this sounds like a good thing, and if used properly should be a good thing, yet the innocent were and are being targeted by this system. How were innocent individuals, whistle-blowers, and others ending up on such lists without any kind of warning or notification? Even convicted prisoners get warnings if they are going to be placed on a notification system, thus legally it would be presumed that other individuals would have the same rights and protections if there lives were going to be disrupted in a similar manner. This does not seem to be the case.

Under these occupational health and safety laws, incidents must be reported. They can range anywhere from threatening looks, yelling, to actual physical aggression and everything in between. They can also include other inappropriate behaviours. Eg. Acts of sexual aggression, harassment, intimidation, inappropriate lewdness, etc.

Once a worker files a report, if the workplace has an Employee Assistance Program then this matter might be discussed with that department. If the behaviour is deemed to be a real concern, then it might be forwarded to a Threat Assessment Team. This team is where designation, warning markers, and notifications can be determined and applied to an individuals file, depending on the structure of the organization.

Employee Assistance Program and Threat Assessment Team

This is a pre-emptive team with a mission of early identification of intervention. The composition of the TAT shall be the following individuals or their designated representatives:

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Early interventions can be misconstrued and lead to damaging consequences. There many assumptions that go into pre-crime policing, that can have damaging consequences for the target involved.

Oregon State Police Sgt. Jeff Proulx explained to South Oregon's Mail Tribune why the operation was such a success: "Instead of being reactive, we took a proactive approach."

    There's just one problem: David Pyles hadn't committed any crime, nor was he suspected of having committed one. The police never obtained a warrant for either search or arrest. They never consulted with a judge or mental health professional before sending out the military-style tactical teams to take Pyle in.

    "They woke me up with a phone call at about 5:50 in the morning," Pyles told me in a phone interview Friday. "I looked out the window and saw the SWAT team pointing their guns at my house. The officer on the phone told me to turn myself in. I told them I would, on three conditions: I would not be handcuffed. I would not be taken off my property. And I would not be forced to get a mental health evaluation. He agreed. The second I stepped outside, they jumped me. Then they handcuffed me, took me off my property, and took me to get a mental health evaluation."

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This team consists of members from Human Resources and other organizations. In the case of one Florida University the organization consists of many different individuals from various areas that work together to make the determination of whether they thing an individual could be a cause for violence.

1. Chief, University Police Department 2. Director, EAP 3. Director, Personnel Services 4. General Counsel 5. Appropriate Vice-President 6. Others as needed and deemed appropriate by above representatives E. Workplace Violence Management Team: A Workplace Violence Management Team (WVMT) shall periodically review the workplace violence policy and recommend changes as needed. The WVMT shall consist of the following persons or their designated representative:

    1. Chief, University Police Department 2. Director, EAP 3. Director, Personnel Services 4. General Counsel F. Crisis Management Unit - The University maintains a Crisis Management Unit (CMU) through a collaborative effort between the Psychology Department and the Campus Police Department. In the event of a situation which may require immediate police or psychological intervention, the Police department should be notified. The Chief of Police (or designated representative) will determine if the situation requires the attention of the police, the CMU or the TAT.

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In addition to exhibiting violent or other inappropriate behaviours, there are other factors that could ensure that an individual has a warning marker, or flag placed on their file. Again this will differ with each organization, but the concept is the same. This structure or one similar is used in some cases to determine if individuals will end up on this system wide notification.

V. "Fitness for Duty" Issues

    In addition to the definitions of violent, potentially violent, and abusive behaviors as discussed in Section IV, these Guidelines shall also be concerned with behaviors, physical and verbal, that may not appear to be violent, potentially violent, or abusive prima facie. Such behaviors that do not fall within the purview of the definitions in Appendix A, yet may be viewed as precursors to violent behavior and/or have the tendency to interfere with a harmonious work environment or with an individuals work performance, shall be deemed as "fitness for duty" issues. Examples of "fitness for duty" behaviors may include, but are not limited to:

    A. Expression of bizarre and inappropriate thoughts. B. Excessive absenteeism without prior approval or rationale. C. Degenerating physical appearance. D. Acts of insubordination. E. Poor work performance. F. Poor workplace relationships with others. G. Indications of alcohol/substance abuse. H. Excessive complaining.

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The additional criterias that can get a person flagged, are interestingly enough many of the same symptoms that harassment, bullying and mobbing victims targets experience, or have express experiencing at the height of their targeting. Remember that harassment can happen in the workplace, in the community, or on campus. Many victims of sexual harassment have expressed inappropriate thoughts of what they would like to see happen to those harassing them. Many targets of sexual harassment and other harassment's do not always keep up their physical appearance, while being harassed. They might disobey supervisors if asked to work with their assailant. Targets of mobbing, bullying, and harassment do often start to exhibit poor performance, workplace reviews and assessments. Some do turn to alcohol and substance abuse to deal with the harassment. Almost all targets of these harassment do make complaints to human resources on a regular basis in order to have the harassment stopped. Yet these are coincidentally the criteria listed for determining if someone is fit for duty.

VI. Reporting Procedures

    All University employees and registered students, regardless of position, are responsible for the immediate reporting of any acts of violence, potential acts of violence, or threats they have received or witnessed, or have been told that another employee has witnessed or received. Employees and students should also report unusual, harassing, or threatening behaviors, as defined in Appendix A, even though such behaviors may not be in the form of an imminent threat, particularly if these behaviors make one fearful for his or her continued safety. Employees must make such reports regardless of the relationship of the employee to the person who initiated the threat or behavior or committed the act of violence.

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Today's workplace does not leave very much room for discretion. It is now routine for individuals to report acts of aggression, or other inappropriate behaviours. These can often have devastating affects on innocent individuals.

A medical technician killed himself after being suspended from work after someone complained that he made a politically-incorrect joke about a black friend.

    Roy Amor, 61, who was devastated at the prospect of losing his job making prosthetics, shot himself in the head outside his house.

    He was facing a disciplinary investigation after suggesting to the black colleague that he ‘better hide’ when they noticed immigration officers outside their clinic.

    It is understood that the man was a close friend of Mr Amor and was not offended. However, it was overheard by someone else who lodged a formal complaint.

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The above case shows how a seemingly innocent joke between two friends, can be overheard, taken as offensive by a third party, and lead to dire consequences. He made the remark to an individual who was a long term friend, but this remark lead to a disciplinary investigation. An investigation which might even have seen him fired from his job. Unable to face the consequences he committed suicide.

Due to the secrecy used in this program a target of harassment might well display anger, or other legitimate outbursts. Once this happens all the aggressors who are familiar with this system have to do is report the incidents. Explain how the target makes them feel threatened, uncomfortable, or express concerns about workplace violence. When in fact the target is the one being constantly provoked. Get a few friends involved and before you know it, the target is the problem. The target is the person who is aggressive, and the target is the one being disciplined or having a warning marker placed on their file. Targets are often being baited by complete strangers once they find themselves on these notification lists.

In future many more innocent people might just find themselves with such warning markers added to their files, as the DSM make the definition for mental illness that much wider and broader in scope.

DSM Updates

Proposed updates to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) are prompting many to question whether or not the psychiatric profession itself has gone crazy. The latest additions to the alleged “mentally ill” could include hoarders, people who get angry every now and again, lazy people, and even those who get outraged over things like sex and violence on television.  7

    “For this latest revision they’ve set up a special task force to decide if behaviors like bitterness, extreme shopping or overuse of the internet should be included,” explained Professor Christopher Lane

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Many Internet users who spend time on games such as World of Warcraft might meet this definition. People who spend too much time on chat forums. Lazy individuals, people who get angry, or who get upset about too much violence on television, people who like to shop too much, or hoard things, might all make the list in future. The criteria for these definitions are not only unscientific, they could easily incorporate most any individual in today's modern society. If these definitions are successfully updated, there could be many more targets making the list in future.

Once a target is flagged, or a warning marker is placed on their files, depending on what the threat assessment team determines a community notification is sent out to the individuals around the target. Anyone that might come in contact with the target is contacted. Others who are part of these notification programs are also contacted when the target is nearby.

If a target makes a call, or their name is pulled up on a system, the targets warning marker will follow them. The community then naturally goes into hypervigilance mode, and they do anything they can to remove that individual from within the community. Most individuals treat these notifications the same way they would treat notifications about any other threat, be it paedophiles, rapists, the same hysteria is often present.

Community Notification

Some people might argue that they would feel more secure if they were aware of the identities of dangerous offenders in their neighbourhoods, but widespread community notification actually serves to heighten fear of victimization. In a large metropolitan area, hundreds of thousands of people are notified of a dangerous offender's release, while only hundreds will come into contact with him in the community. This blanket notification propagates the belief that there are more "predators" in the community than ever before, and fearful attitudes among members of the public are reinforced. A vicious cycle results: widespread notification leads to an increase in the community's fear of crime which, in turn, leads to more calls for notification. We would also argue that the use of inflammatory language such as "predator" by politicians and officials also works to heighten fear and increase calls for more punitive action.

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Since the innocent target has no idea of what is happening behind their back, this system is being used in inappropriate ways. Based on the research that has been conducted,it seems this notification systems is being used to silence whistle-blowers, women seem to be targeted above average, and minorities. As Jane Clift points out, this system goes beyond race, gender. There are lot's of men and non minority individuals who have also found themselves targeted by this system. This program is not only systemic, but these notifications are being used indiscriminately, with very little oversight, and they are being used beyond borders.

Since most civil workers are aware of this notification system, it means that targets reporting incidents of being followed around by various strangers should not have been unfamiliar to the police, and other agencies that targets reported their harassment to. In most cities this notification is well known, and used by many workers and employers. Yet Targeted Individuals have had to have mental health evaluations for making complaints about this structure, and the harassment that comes with it.

Workers

Not only will this program used the civil servant already mentioned, but it will expand who is used in the program. They will have secret sources of communication available to them. The members of these programs will connect with the fusion centres. None disclosure agreement or a confidential disclosure agreements will be signed by many in these programs to ensure that the information is protected.

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Once the notification goes out, the target literally feels as if they have become enemy of the state, because the community is getting a notification with information that may or may not be fully accurate. Remember a lot of the reporting that happens, happens by individuals who could have ulterior motives, such as revenge. For someone familiar with this structure, it's the perfect way to systemically destroy someone's life and keep them out of the loop for years, if not forever.

The portion of the harassment that targets refer to as Gang Stalking is a deliberate psychological operation that happens within this structure. Involving community harassment, community mobbing, gaslighting, street theatre, electronic harassment and dozens of other techniques that all work together to help systemically destroy the target over time. It also paints those complaining as mentally ill. This structure is capable of destroying the targets reputation, and credibility. As the target seeks to get help for the community harassment that will inevitably occur under such a notification, their cries and pleas for assistance are ignored. Their stories of harassment, stalking, mobbing, electronic harassment, are all conveniently written of as signs of mental illness,while the Targeted Individuals life continues to be systemically interfered with, and continues to fall apart.

Most participants of this notification structure seem to be under some kind of confidentiality or none disclosure agreement. There is also a structure in place that seems capable of punishing anyone who is part of this structure that steps out of line, thus most people do not discuss this program, even as those close to them are being destroyed.

These occupational safety and health laws are in most communities, workplaces, and educational facilities. They are in most democratic countries, such as Canada, U.S., U.K. and the rest of Europe. At this stage many other countries seem to be adapting this structure, and from the feedback targets have provided it seems that this structure is already in most countries.

What this means is that wittingly or unwittingly. There is a systemic, surveillance structure that is fully capable of monitoring and targeting an individual who has been flagged in this manner. This structure is not limited to states, or provinces, and can go beyond borders. The targets information might also be indiscriminately distributed to a wide range of individuals. Individuals that the target might never come in contact with face to face, yet who the target might have an acquaintance, or business relationship with. It's basically a net that is capable of touching everyone connected to the target, and poisoning them with the information contained in the targets file, wither accurate or not. Because most targets have no idea what is happening, or how such a structure could exist, they are floored as they try consistently to get help within the normal structures, while being written off as having a mental illness.

I believe that this notification system will continue, because it works for many. Many like feeling as if they are part of a secret club. Unless it happens to them, most will never truly understand how devastating such a structure can be to an innocent person. I can only suggest that those with the know how, financial ability, and dedication, work towards implementing laws to get this structure corrected.

Suggestions

This structure should be required to give written notification to targets. If an investigation is ongoing, then the time frame for the investigation should be limited. Targets complain of years, upon years of targeting. If the targets guilt has been established in some capacity, then invite them to a hearing. If not then it should be mandatory to remove these notification after a specific time frame. Most lawyers, mental health workers, police, are all fully in the know about this notification system, thus targets and their complaints of harassment should be taken seriously. Instead this notification system is being used to destroy innocent lives, or harass them for years on end with dire consequences to themselves, and the communities at large.

What many in society still do not understand or realize is that there is a dark side to many of those shootings and violent incidents, there is a dark side that society would rather not have you know about. A dark side that happens masked just below the public's eye and awareness, but that is often very real and traumatizing for the Targeted Individual.

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This notification system in scope and breadth is no less damaging then the Stasi's system of harassment, or the American Cointelpro program. The difference now is that the state has masked these offences under the guise of doing what is right for the community. Leaving innocent targets at the mercy of the mob, and individuals who use this system to openly target, harass, oppress and control those who have been targeted.

1. http://www.1brickcourt.com/fil....._58136.pdf
2. http://www.24dash.com/news/Loc.....ly-violent
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