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| {{About|alleged harassment with electromagnetic waves|the use of electronic devices to stalk or harass someone|Cyberbullying}} | {{About|alleged harassment with electromagnetic waves|the use of electronic devices to stalk or harass someone|Cyberbullying}} | ||
| '''Electronic harassment''' is the alleged use of ]s to ] a victim. Psychologists have identified evidence of ]s, ]s<ref name=KMIRNews20121112 /> or other mental illnesses in online communities supporting those who claim to be |
'''Electronic harassment''' is the alleged use of ]s to ] a victim. Psychologists have identified evidence of ]s, ]s<ref name=KMIRNews20121112 /> or other mental illnesses in online communities supporting those who claim to be targeted.<ref name=WaPo20070114 /> Individuals suffering from auditory hallucinations, delusional disorders<ref name=KMIRNews20121112>{{cite news|url= http://www.jrn.com/kmir6/news/179055911.html |title=Electronic Harassment: Voices in My Mind |last=Monroe|first=Angela |date=November 12, 2012 |newspaper=KMIR News |accessdate=2014-02-25}}</ref> or other mental illness have claimed that government agents make use of electric fields, microwaves (such as the ]) and radar to ], referring to technology that they say can achieve this as "voice to skull" or "V2K" after an obsolete military designation.<ref name=WaPo20070114>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011001399.html |title=Mind Games |last=Weinberger|first=Sharon |date=January 14, 2007 | work=] |accessdate=12 January 2014}}</ref> | ||
| There are extensive online support networks and numerous websites maintained by people fearing mind control. Palm Springs psychiatrist Alan Drucker has identified evidence of delusional disorders on many of these websites<ref name=KMIRNews20121112 /> and other psychologists are divided over whether such sites negatively reinforce mental troubles or act as a form of group cognitive therapy.<ref name=nyt20081112>{{cite news | title=Sharing Their Demons on the Web | last = Kershaw | first=Sarah | newspaper=] | date = November 12, 2008 | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/fashion/13psych.html?pagewanted=all}}</ref> | There are extensive online support networks and numerous websites maintained by people fearing mind control. Palm Springs psychiatrist Alan Drucker has identified evidence of delusional disorders on many of these websites<ref name=KMIRNews20121112 /> and other psychologists are divided over whether such sites negatively reinforce mental troubles or act as a form of group cognitive therapy.<ref name=nyt20081112>{{cite news | title=Sharing Their Demons on the Web | last = Kershaw | first=Sarah | newspaper=] | date = November 12, 2008 | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/fashion/13psych.html?pagewanted=all}}</ref> | ||
| There have been some violent incidents such as the ] which involved individuals who claimed to be victims of electronic harassment. While some alternative media support the idea that such electronic attacks are real, the FBI concluded Aaron Alexis was under “the delusional belief that he was being controlled or influenced by extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves” <ref></ref> | |||
| =="Psychotronics"== | =="Psychotronics"== | ||
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| In the US, there are a growing number of people who hear voices in their heads that claim the government is using "psychotronic torture" against them, and who campaign to stop the use of alleged psychotronic and other mind control weapons.<ref name=WaPo20070114>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011001399.html |title=Mind Games |last=Weinberger|first=Sharon |date=January 14, 2007 |newspaper=Washington Post |accessdate=2010-08-01}}</ref><ref name=nyt20081112>{{cite news | title=Sharing Their Demons on the Web | last = Kershaw | first=Sarah | newspaper=] | date = November 12, 2008 | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/fashion/13psych.html?pagewanted=all}}</ref> These campaigns have received some support from government representatives including ]<ref name=WaPo20070114 /> and ].<ref name=nyt20081112 /> Yale psychiatry professor Ralph Hoffman notes that people often ascribe voices in their heads to external sources such as government harassment, God, and dead relatives, and it can be difficult to persuade them that their belief in an external influence is delusional.<ref name=WaPo20070114 /> Other experts compare these stories with accounts of ]s.<ref name=nyt20081112 /> | In the US, there are a growing number of people who hear voices in their heads that claim the government is using "psychotronic torture" against them, and who campaign to stop the use of alleged psychotronic and other mind control weapons.<ref name=WaPo20070114>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011001399.html |title=Mind Games |last=Weinberger|first=Sharon |date=January 14, 2007 |newspaper=Washington Post |accessdate=2010-08-01}}</ref><ref name=nyt20081112>{{cite news | title=Sharing Their Demons on the Web | last = Kershaw | first=Sarah | newspaper=] | date = November 12, 2008 | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/fashion/13psych.html?pagewanted=all}}</ref> These campaigns have received some support from government representatives including ]<ref name=WaPo20070114 /> and ].<ref name=nyt20081112 /> Yale psychiatry professor Ralph Hoffman notes that people often ascribe voices in their heads to external sources such as government harassment, God, and dead relatives, and it can be difficult to persuade them that their belief in an external influence is delusional.<ref name=WaPo20070114 /> Other experts compare these stories with accounts of ]s.<ref name=nyt20081112 /> | ||
| == Media == | |||
| The theory of Targeted individuals is actively promoted by conspiracy theory-oriented alternative media outlets. For example ] reported that | |||
| ''There is mounting evidence that individuals known as “targeted persons” are subjected to attacks that include stalking, threats, staged incidents (accidents and murder/suicide among these) but also use of secret technologies. The individuals are test subjects, possible security threats, whistleblowers or “Oswald” types. The US has an inventory of several thousand “targeted individuals” who, on command, as in the Charles Bronson film, “Telefon,” are ready to commit acts of terror. ''<ref></ref> | |||
| On the American television series ], the episode "Brain Invaders" aired December 17, 2012 ] interviews a group of so-called "targeted individuals" (or "TIs") – people who claim that they are being manipulated and tortured by mind-control signals after they have spoken out against the government. He further looks into the technology that could be behind these attacks, such as microwave transmitting GWEN towers, and meets with insiders who claim to have worked on and developed the technology for the government that began with Project MKUltra. | |||
| == Incidents == | |||
| Government authorities have made official statements dismissing such beliefs as being due to mental issues and delusions in connection with a number of violent and deadly incidents have been associated with individuals who claim to have been tormented as targeted individuals. | |||
| The following incidents involved in deaths of 17 and injuring of 6 in mass shootings and a car rampage. | |||
| ] was a 20-year-old man who on August 13, 2013, took two women and a man hostage at the St. Joseph branch of Tensas State Bank. He killed two of the hostages after releasing the third. He was an ] of ]i descent and indicated an interest in militant ] as he had been interviewed by the Homeland Security posing with an AK-47 assault rifle on a trip to Yemen. A subsequent police investigation officially concluded that whatever his motives, Ahmed suffered from mental issues such as hearing voices and paranoid schizophrenia, and acted alone as a ] and was not involved in an act of ] against the United States.<ref name=policereport>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/home/8612131-125/la-bank-hostages-killer-had-no|title=Jim Mustian, Man who killed hostages in north Louisiana bank had mental illness, March 12|publisher='']''|accessdate=March 13, 2014}}</ref> Ahmed accused the family of his ex-girlfriend of placing a "microphone device" of some kind in his head. | |||
| The ] occurred on September 16, 2013, when lone gunman Aaron Alexis fatally shot twelve people and injured three others in a ] at the headquarters of the ] (NAVSEA) inside the ] in ] ]<ref name=WPmorello>{{cite news |title=Authorities identify seven of the 12 people killed in Navy Yard shooting |last1=Morello |first1=Carol |last2=Hermann |first2=Peter |last3=Williams |first3=Clarence |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/police-search-for-active-shooter-on-grounds-of-washington-navy-yard-in-southeast-dc/2013/09/16/b1d72b9a-1ecb-11e3-b7d1-7153ad47b549_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=September 16, 2013 |accessdate=September 23, 2013}}</ref><ref name=LATsimon>{{cite news |title=Navy Yard shooter 'had a pattern of misconduct' |last1=Simon |first1=Richard |last2=Cloud |first2=David S. |last3=Bennett |first3=Brian |url=http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-washington-navy-yard-shootings-20130916,0,6137381.story |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=September 16, 2013 |accessdate=September 23, 2013}}</ref><ref name=guardian>{{cite news |title=Washington DC shooting: Aaron Alexis named as navy yard gunman – as it happened |last1=Gabbatt |first1=Adam |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2013/sep/16/washington-dc-navy-yard-shooting-live |newspaper=The Guardian |date=September 16, 2013 |accessdate=September 23, 2013}}</ref> The attack, which took place in the Navy Yard's Building 197, began around 8:20 a.m. EDT and ended when Alexis was killed by police around 9:20 a.m. EDT. After the Navy Yard shooting, the media speculated that Alexis had appeared to be suffering from ]. The media reported that Alexis had filed a police report in Rhode Island on August 2, 2013, in which he claimed to be the victim of harassment and that he was hearing voices in his head.<ref>Eric Tucker 18 September 2013. . ''The Huffington Post.'' Retrieved: 22 September 2013.</ref> According to an FBI official after the shooting, Alexis was under "the delusional belief that he was being controlled or influenced by ]". A message later obtained by federal authorities from Alexis' personal computing devices said, "Ultra low frequency attack is what I've been subject to for the last 3 months. And to be perfectly honest, that is what has driven me to this."<ref name=lowfrequency>Greg Botelho and Joe Sterling. September 26, 2013. . ''CNN.'' Retrieved: 26 September 2013.</ref> On August 4, 2013, naval police were called to Alexis' hotel at ] and found that he had "taken apart his bed, believing someone was hiding under it, and observed that Alexis had taped a microphone to the ceiling to record the voices of people that were following him". At the time of the incident, he was working for the contractor at the base.<ref name="Report: Concerns about Navy Yard shooter never reported">{{cite web|url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/18/navy-yard-shooter-called-insider-threat/6558373/|title=Report: Concerns about Navy Yard shooter never reported|author=Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY|date=March 18, 2014|publisher=|accessdate=October 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
| {{Use mdy dates | date=October 2013}}In the ] on October 3, 2013 in ] Miriam Carey, 34, an unarmed African American dental hygienist from ], attempted to drive through a ] security checkpoint in her black ] coupe, struck a ] officer, and was chased by the Secret Service to the ] where she was fatally shot by law enforcement officers. A young child, Carey's daughter, was found unharmed in the car after it was ultimately stopped.<ref>{{cite news|author=David Montgomery|title =How Miriam Carey's U-turn at a White House checkpoint led to her death|newspaper=]|date=November 26, 2014|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2014/11/26/how-miriam-careys-u-turn-at-a-white-house-checkpoint-led-to-her-death/|accessdate=November 28, 2014}}</ref> Carey had told police in December 2012 that she thought Obama was eavesdropping on her and the government was electronically monitoring her house, and she believed she was some kind of a prophet.<ref>{{cite news|author=Kevin Johnson, Donna Leinwand Leger and Doug Stanglin|title =Official: D.C. suspect thought Obama was speaking to her|newspaper=]|date=October 5, 2013|url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/04/miriam-casey-connecticut-us-capitol-case-depression-washington/2921377/|accessdate=December 5, 2014}}</ref> | |||
| On November 20, 2014, a gunman, identified as 31-year-old ], shot an employee and two students at Strozier Library on the university campus shortly after midnight. He was a lawyer and an alumnus of the university, who was obsessed with ] conspiracy theories and believed that the U.S. government was watching him. He was fatally shot by responding police officers after he shooting at them outside Strozier Library. After the shooting, it was revealed that May had mailed a total of ten packages to friends throughout the country beforehand; the contents of the packages are unknown.<ref></ref><ref name="FSU gunman mailed 10 packages before shooting, contents not dangerous"></ref> Before the attack, May shared on Facebook a Google search with the words “Targeted individuals” typed into the search box. He had also posted a video clip from the television show ] with a man who is claimed “put together the technology that allows the government to transmit thoughts and voices into the heads of Americans.” <ref></ref> In a series of communications and and phone calls, May told his friends that believed "stalkers" were harassing him from the government, and a "direct energy weapon" was being used to hurt him. He told friends to expect packages that would "expose" the conspiracy that tormented him.<ref></ref> | |||
| == See also == | == See also == | ||
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| *, BBC News, 25 September 2013 | *, BBC News, 25 September 2013 | ||
| *, Tracy Connor, NBC News, 21 November 2014 | *, Tracy Connor, NBC News, 21 November 2014 | ||
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Revision as of 04:19, 20 January 2015
This article is about alleged harassment with electromagnetic waves. For the use of electronic devices to stalk or harass someone, see Cyberbullying.Electronic harassment is the alleged use of electromagnetic waves to harass a victim. Psychologists have identified evidence of auditory hallucinations, delusional disorders or other mental illnesses in online communities supporting those who claim to be targeted. Individuals suffering from auditory hallucinations, delusional disorders or other mental illness have claimed that government agents make use of electric fields, microwaves (such as the microwave auditory effect) and radar to transmit sounds and thoughts into their heads, referring to technology that they say can achieve this as "voice to skull" or "V2K" after an obsolete military designation.
There are extensive online support networks and numerous websites maintained by people fearing mind control. Palm Springs psychiatrist Alan Drucker has identified evidence of delusional disorders on many of these websites and other psychologists are divided over whether such sites negatively reinforce mental troubles or act as a form of group cognitive therapy.
"Psychotronics"
Main article: PsychotronicsIn Russia, a group called "Victims of Psychotronic Experimentation" attempted to recover damages from the Federal Security Service during the mid-1990s for alleged infringement of their civil liberties including "beaming rays" at them, putting chemicals in the water, and using magnets to alter their minds. These fears may have been inspired by revelations of secret research into "psychotronic" psychological warfare techniques during the early 1990s, with Vladimir Lopatkin, a State Duma committee member in 1995, surmising "Something that was secret for so many years is the perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theories."
In the US, there are a growing number of people who hear voices in their heads that claim the government is using "psychotronic torture" against them, and who campaign to stop the use of alleged psychotronic and other mind control weapons. These campaigns have received some support from government representatives including Dennis Kucinich and Jim Guest. Yale psychiatry professor Ralph Hoffman notes that people often ascribe voices in their heads to external sources such as government harassment, God, and dead relatives, and it can be difficult to persuade them that their belief in an external influence is delusional. Other experts compare these stories with accounts of alien abductions.
See also
- Directed-energy weapon
- Electronic warfare
- Tin foil hat
- The Corley Conspiracy an opera based on alleged electronic harassment
- On the Origin of the "Influencing Machine" in Schizophrenia
References
- ^ Monroe, Angela (November 12, 2012). "Electronic Harassment: Voices in My Mind". KMIR News. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
- ^ Weinberger, Sharon (January 14, 2007). "Mind Games". Washington Post. Retrieved 12 January 2014. Cite error: The named reference "WaPo20070114" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Kershaw, Sarah (November 12, 2008). "Sharing Their Demons on the Web". New York Times.
- Matthews, Owen (July 11, 1995). "Report: Soviets Used Top-Secret 'Psychotronic' Weapons". The Moscow Times. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
External links
- Eric Tucker, 18 September 2013. Aaron Alexis, Navy Yard Shooting Suspect, Thought People Followed Him With Microwave Machine, The Huffington Post
- Profile: Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis, BBC News, 25 September 2013
- FSU Shooter Myron May Left Message: 'I Do Not Want to Die in Vain', Tracy Connor, NBC News, 21 November 2014