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{{About|purported harassment and torture with exotic ]|the harming or harassing via ] networks|Cyberbullying}} {{About|purported harassment with electromagnetic waves|the harming or harassing via ] networks|Cyberbullying}}
'''Electronic harassment''' is the purported 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>
'''Electronic harassment''', or '''psychotronic torture''',<ref name=WaPoPag5>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011001399_5.html |page=5|title=Mind Games |last=Weinberger|first=Sharon |date=January 14, 2007 | work=] |accessdate=12 January 2014}}</ref> or '''electromagnetic torture'''<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> describes either a ] or an unusual ], about either the unlawful use (most oftenly ascribed to rogue government officials<ref name=kmir20150212 />) of exotic ] to ], ], ] and forcedly alter a victim's behaviour unnoticed, or a condition of severe ] belief systems and ].


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>
Since decades ago, the alleged victims around the world claim their truthfulness, while mental health professionals address their expertise according to their technical knowledge often ending the debate in what looks as an ].


⚫ =="Psychotronics"==
== Internet communities and psychological diagnoses ==
⚫ {{Main|Psychotronics (conspiracy theory)}}
There are extensive online support networks and numerous websites maintained by people fearing ]. Dr. Bell, whose study was published in the journal ], along with other mental health professionals, state that reports of ‘mind control experiences’ (MCEs) on self-published web pages are "highly likely to be influenced by delusional beliefs,<ref name=pubmed20060201>{{cite web|last1=Bell|first1=Vaughan|last2=Maiden|first2=Carla|last3=Muñoz-Solomando|first3=Antonio|last4=Reddy|first4=Venu|date=January 2, 2006|title=‘Mind control’ experiences on the internet: implications for the psychiatric diagnosis of delusions. |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16391510|work=]|accessdate=12 March 2016}}</ref> although he also says it does not suggest all people participating in mind-control sites are delusional, and that a firm diagnosis of psychosis could only be done in person.<ref name=nyt20081112 />
In Russia, a group called "Victims of Psychotronic Experimentation" attempted to recover damages from the ] 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 "]" psychological warfare techniques during the early 1990s, with Vladimir Lopatkin, a ] committee member in 1995, surmising "Something that was secret for so many years is the perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theories."<ref>{{cite news| title=Report: Soviets Used Top-Secret 'Psychotronic' Weapons | first=Owen|last=Matthews |work=The Moscow Times | date=July 11, 1995 |url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/report-soviets-used-top-secret-psychotronic-weapons/337288.html|accessdate=March 5, 2014}}</ref>


In the US, there are people who hear voices in their heads and 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/><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 public figures, including former U.S. Congressman ]<ref name=WaPo20070114 /> and former Missouri State Representative ].<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 to accounts of ]s.<ref name=nyt20081112 />
Mental health professionals have identified evidence of ]s, ]s<ref name=kmir20150212>{{citation |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150829083519/http://www.scrippsmedia.com/kmir6/news/179055911.html |url=http://www.scrippsmedia.com/kmir6/news/179055911.html |title=Electronic Harassment: Voices in My Mind |last=Monroe|first=Angela |date=13 November 2012 |archive-date=2015-12-02|access-date=2016-03-10|dead-url=yes}}</ref> or other mental illnesses in online communities supporting those who claim to be targeted.<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> Palm Springs psychiatrist Alan Drucker has identified evidence of delusional disorders on many of these websites<ref name=kmir20150212/> 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/>

== The claims ==
The claims mostly point fingers to declassified official documents of the infamous 1950s mind control projects such as ], and to unequivocal pieces of information referring to psychotronic wars, experiments and research<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rt.com/news/psychotronic-arms-soviet-weapon-379/ |title=Billion dollar race: Soviet Union vied with US in ‘mind control research’ |date=December 17, 2013 | work=] |accessdate=13 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/06/11061093-reality-check-on-russias-zombie-ray-gun-program?lite |last=Boyle|first=Alan|title=Reality check on Russia's 'zombie ray gun' program |date=April 6, 2012 | work=] |accessdate=13 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/98spring/thomas.htm |last=Thomas|first=Timothy L.|title=The Mind Has No Firewall |date=Spring 1998 | work=] |accessdate=13 March 2016}}</ref>, which allegedly prove it's all really happening and it's not just a product of delusions. Yet "if you go to the police and say 'I'm hearing voices', they're going to lock you up for psychiatric evaluation"<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011001399_1.html |page=1|title=Mind Games |last=Weinberger|first=Sharon |date=January 14, 2007 | work=] |accessdate=12 January 2014}}</ref>. To be noted is that more than a few victims were put on anti-psychotic drugs without obtaining any benefits whatsoever: the voices did not stop<ref name=WaPoPag5/><ref name=nyt20081112/><ref name=kmir20150212/>.

Another interesting piece of information is the following study conducted on behalf of the ] in June 2000, titled "Crowd Control Technologies (An appraisal of technologies for political control)":
{{Quote box
|quote = The most controversial 'non-lethal' crowd control and anti-materiel technology proposed by the US
are so called Radio Frequency or Directed Energy Weapons that can allegedly manipulate human
behaviour in a variety of unusual ways. Some microwave systems have been proposed which can raise
body temperature to between 105 to 107 degrees F, to provide a disabling effect in a manner based on
the microwave cooker principle. However, the greatest concern is with systems which can directly
interact with the human nervous system. There are many reports on so called psychotronic weapons
which are beyond the brief of this study but one comment can be made. The research undertaken todate
both in the US and in Russia can be divided into two related areas: (i) individual mind control and
(ii) crowd control. That the US has undertaken a variety of mind control programmes in the past such
as MkULTRA and MkDELTA is a matter of public record and those using electromagnetic radiation
such as PANDORA have been the focus of researchers in para-politics for many years. More
recently, authors such as Begich and Roderick have alleged significant breakthroughs in the ability of
military high frequency electromagnetic technologies to manipulate human behaviour.
|author = OMEGA Foundation, Manchester, UK
|source = '']''
|width = 100%
|align = left
}}
Victims make use of exotic lexicon such as "voice to skull" (abbreviated as "V2K"), official military designation for the ], denoting weapons that beam voices or sounds into the head, "Targeted Individuals" (abbreviated as "TIs") to describe themselves, 'gang stalking' to refer to the fact they believe they're being followed and harassment by strangers, neighbours or colleagues who work for the government. The alleged victims are aware that the idea of "being targeted by weapons that can invade their minds has become a cultural joke, shorthanded by the image of solitary lunatics wearing ] hats to deflect invisible mind beams".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011001399_2.html |page=2|title=Mind Games |last=Weinberger|first=Sharon |date=January 14, 2007 | work=] |accessdate=12 January 2014}}</ref>.

The alleged victims of Electronic harassment claim that schizophrenia-like voice hearing, severe psychologycal violence and pain all over their bodies are produced by ]<ref name=WaPoPag3/>, and believe government is probing and controlling their minds with mind-control technology, along with other specific symptoms. A victim from California conducted interviews narrowing the symptoms down to several major areas: 'ringing in the ears', 'manipulation of body parts", 'hearing voices', 'piercing sensation on skin', 'sinus problems' and 'sexual attacks'.. in fact, many report the sensation of having their genitalia manipulated.. both male and female TIs report a variety of 'attacks' to their sexual organs, some in the form of sexual stimulation, including one TI who claims he dropped out of the seminary after constant sexual stimulation by directed-energy weapons". A TI in San Diego says many women among the TIs suffer from attacks to their sexual organs but are often embarrassed to talk about it with outsiders.<ref name=WaPoPag5/>.

Thanks to the internet, people believing the government is beaming voices into their heads and living up with social isolation, "now have discovered hundreds, possibly thousands, of others just like them all over the world. Web sites dedicated to electronic harassment and gang stalking have popped up in India, China, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Russia and elsewhere. Victims begun to host support meetings in major cities, and prompt possible legal strategies for outlawing mind control"<ref name=WaPoPag3>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011001399_3.html |page=3|title=Mind Games |last=Weinberger|first=Sharon |date=January 14, 2007 | work=] |accessdate=12 January 2014}}</ref>.

== Legislative interventions ==
Government representatives showed some support to the victims, with ] ]<ref name=WaPoPag3/> presenting a bill at the ] advocating the outlaw of "weapons and weapon systems capable of inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person) using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations"<ref>{{cite news|url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.2977.IH: |title=H.R.2977 -- Space Preservation Act of 2001 (Introduced in House - IH) |last=Kucinich|first=Dennis |date=October 2, 2001 | work=] |accessdate=12 March 2016}}</ref>. Yet this bill was later dropped.

Also ] ] stepped foward "calling for an investigation into the claims of those who say they are being tortured by mind control". In his own words: "I’ve had enough calls, some from credible people — professors — being targeted by nonlethal weapons", adding that nothing came of his request for a legislative investigation. He added: "I believe there are people who have been targeted by this. With this equipment, you have to test it on somebody to see if it works."<ref name=nyt20081112/>


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== Notes == == References ==
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==External links==
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Revision as of 12:59, 13 March 2016

This article is about purported harassment with electromagnetic waves. For the harming or harassing via information technology networks, see Cyberbullying.

Electronic harassment is the purported 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: Psychotronics (conspiracy theory)

In 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 people who hear voices in their heads and 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 public figures, including former U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich and former Missouri State Representative 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 to accounts of alien abductions.

See also

References

  1. ^ Monroe, Angela (November 12, 2012). "Electronic Harassment: Voices in My Mind". KMIR News. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  2. ^ Weinberger, Sharon (January 14, 2007). "Mind Games". Washington Post. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  3. ^ Kershaw, Sarah (November 12, 2008). "Sharing Their Demons on the Web". New York Times.
  4. Matthews, Owen (July 11, 1995). "Report: Soviets Used Top-Secret 'Psychotronic' Weapons". The Moscow Times. Retrieved March 5, 2014.

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