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| {{About|purported harassment and torture with exotic ]|the harming or harassing via ] networks|Cyberbullying}} | {{About|purported harassment and torture with exotic ]|the harming or harassing via ] networks|Cyberbullying}} | ||
| '''Electronic harassment''', or '''psychotronic torture'''<ref |
'''Electronic harassment''', or '''psychotronic torture'''<ref>{{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> is the delusional belief in harassment via electronic "mind control". Psychologists have identified evidence of ]s, ]s<ref name=kmir20150212>{{cite |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> Individuals suffering from auditory hallucinations, delusional disorders<ref name=kmir20150212/> 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></ref> | ||
| There is also a ] in respect of the purported use of electronic mind control systems to affect a victim's state of mind. No known technology is capable of producing the claimed result. | |||
| 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 embarrassing ]. | |||
| 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=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/> | |||
| == Internet communities and psychological diagnoses == | |||
| There are extensive online support networks and numerous websites maintained by people fearing ]. Psychologist ], 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 /> | |||
| One of the better-known claimants, long-time British ] ] Mike Corley, was the subject of an opera, ]. | |||
| Mental health professionals as Palm Springs psychiatrist ] 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=WaPoPag5/>, 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/> | |||
| == |
=="Psychotronics"== | ||
| {{Main|Psychotronics (conspiracy theory)}} | |||
| The claims mostly point fingers to declassified official documents of the infamous 1950s mind control projects such as ], to a pletora of public patents issued on the subject of electromagnetic devices capable of affecting the nervous system, 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 their claims are real, not products 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.html |title=Mind Games (pag.1)|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/>. | |||
| 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></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 /> | |||
| 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)"<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/etudes/stoa/2000/168394/DG-4-STOA_ET(2000)168394_EN(PAR02).pdf |title=Crowd Control Technologies (An appraisal of technologies for political control) (pag.46)|author=] |publisher=] |date=June 2000 |accessdate=13 March 2016}}</ref>. | |||
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| 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. | |||
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| 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 |title=Mind Games (pag.2)|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 |title=Mind Games (pag.3)|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/> | |||
| == Incidents == | |||
| In recent years there have been a number of violent incidents involving individuals arguing they believe they are tormented victims of electronic harassment. Government authorities have made official statements dismissing such beliefs as being due to mental issues and delusions in connection with the deadly incidents associated. | |||
| The ] occurred on September 16, 2013, when lone gunman ] 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=] |date=September 16, 2013 |accessdate=September 23, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-washington-navy-yard-shootings-20130916,0,6137381.story |title=Navy Yard shooter 'had a pattern of misconduct' |last1=Simon |first1=Richard |last2=Cloud |first2=David S. |last3=Bennett |first3=Brian |newspaper=] |date=September 16, 2013 |accessdate=September 23, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2013/sep/16/washington-dc-navy-yard-shooting-live |title=Washington DC shooting: Aaron Alexis named as navy yard gunman – as it happened |last1=Gabbatt |first1=Adam |newspaper=] |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 (September 18, 2013). . ] 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). . ] Retrieved: 26 September 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24120854 |title=Profile: Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis |last1=] |newspaper=] |date=September 25, 2013 |accessdate=September 25, 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 |newspaper=]|date=March 18, 2014|publisher=|accessdate=October 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
| On November 20, 2014, a gunman, identified as 31-year-old ], who graduated in 2005, shot an employee and two students at the Strozier Library at his university 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 responsible for his destabilized condition. He was fatally shot by prompting police officers counterfire in front of the library. After the shooting, it was revealed that May had mailed a total of ten packages to friends throughout the country beforehand in order to draw attention on the 'targeted individuals' issue.<ref name=WaPo20Nov2014>{{cite news|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/11/20/fsu-gunman-remembered-as-hard-worker-kindest-sweetest-person-by-baffled-friends-acquaintances/ |title=FSU gunman was in 'state of crisis' during shooting, investigators say | last1 = Holley | first1=Peter |last2=Larimer |first2=Sarah |publisher=] | date = November 20, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/us/florida-state-university-shooting.html?_r=0 |title=Gunman at Florida State Spoke of Being Watched |last1=Southall |first1=Ashley |last2=Williams |first2=Timothy |publisher=]|date=November 20, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-fsu-gunman-voices-shooting-20141121-story.html |title=FSU gunman mailed 10 packages before shooting, contents not dangerous |last1=Queally |first1=James |newspaper=] |date=November 21, 2014}}</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 named Robert Duncan who claimed to have helped "put together the technology that allows the government to transmit thoughts and voices into the heads of Americans". May comments on that same post: "Is our government violating ordinary citizens' rights? Unfortunately, the answer is Yes! See inside this video."<ref name=WaPo20Nov2014/>. "His social media activity revealed that he believed he was a 'targeted individual', the term used by people who think the government and shadowy gangs are attacking them with mind control and invisible, remote weapons.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fsu-shooter-myron-may-left-message-i-do-not-want-n253436 |title=FSU Shooter Myron May Left Message: 'I Do Not Want to Die in Vain' |last1=Connor |first1=Tracy |newspaper=] |date=November 21, 2014}}</ref>In a series of communications and phone calls, May told his friends he believed "stalkers" were harassing him from the government, and a "direct-energy weapon" was being used to hurt and torture him. He told to expect packages that would "expose" the conspiracy that tormented all 'targeted individuals'. Such packeges revealed a few properly written documents meant to be addressed at various authorities in a position to be of any help, plus a couple of hours of video footage of himself explaining his imminent tragic actions he decided to undertake. His video footage is now available on Youtube and elesewhere online. | |||
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Revision as of 10:33, 14 March 2016
This article is about purported harassment and torture with exotic energy weapons. For the harming or harassing via information technology networks, see Cyberbullying.Electronic harassment, or psychotronic torture, or electromagnetic torture is the delusional belief in harassment via electronic "mind control". 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 is also a conspiracy theory in respect of the purported use of electronic mind control systems to affect a victim's state of mind. No known technology is capable of producing the claimed result.
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.
One of the better-known claimants, long-time British Usenet kook Mike Corley, was the subject of an opera, The Corley Conspiracy.
"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
- 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"
Notes
- Weinberger, Sharon (January 14, 2007). "Mind Games". Washington Post. p. 5. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
- ^ Kershaw, Sarah (November 12, 2008). "Sharing Their Demons on the Web". New York Times.
- ^ Monroe, Angela (13 November 2012), Electronic Harassment: Voices in My Mind, archived from the original on 2015-12-02, retrieved 2016-03-10
{{citation}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; 2015-08-29 suggested (help); Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Weinberger, Sharon (January 14, 2007). "Mind Games". Washington Post. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
- Matthews, Owen (July 11, 1995). "Report: Soviets Used Top-Secret 'Psychotronic' Weapons". The Moscow Times. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
References and further reading
- 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