–RAE (Report, Analysis, Op-Ed) | Ramola D | Posted September 10, 2019
On the 21st of April, 2019, the Chicago Sun-Times, owned by a group of neither intellectuals nor literati but businessmen and politicians in Chicago, ran a story by columnist and editorial-team member Neil Steinberg, who was once arrested for getting drunk and beating his wife, and spent a month in an alcohol-rehab facility, as his profile in Wikipedia—in itself a forum famous for its selective truths and rampant propaganda (much like Steinberg’s article here)—so ardently details.
The title of this masterpiece by a little-known journalist now marked in Wikipedia as a drunken wife-beater is “Are you being tracked? Burned by lasers? Maybe you are a ‘Targeted Individual‘
Not solicitous, not concerned, not critically enquiring nor journalistically curious, but skeptical, mocking, stopping just short of sticking a question-mark at the end of that pithy projection of disbelief, and offering a label in quotes, “Targeted Individual,” priming the reader to care just as less as the writer about all of it.
A label, indeed, used as an indictment and straitjacket, a closed door and condemnation, as labels usually are.
And a not-so-subtle invite to the reader to dismiss the entire subject as illusory.
No Longer in Kansas, Neil, Time to Read Orwell
Which is more than confirmed in Steinberg’s opening as he launches into a cascade of scenarios, all presented as improbable, unimaginable—a skepticism which might be convincing if we lived in Dorothy’s Kansas, but reeks of Fusion-Center-driven propaganda instead since we actually reside in post 9/11, post-Orwell, All-Horrors-Plausible America:
“Strangers are following you. Teams of them, coordinating their surveillance. Recording you. Attacking you with sonic devices. Maybe burning you with lasers. Maybe implanting grain-sized trackers inside your body. You can feel the hard bumps under your skin.
You are alarmed, naturally, and turn for help to those you trust: your family and friends. Maybe law enforcement. Only they don’t believe you. They might even act like you’re the problem. Like you’re crazy.
Welcome to the world of Targeted Individuals, a loose confederation of those, in their words, subject to the “growing crimes of organized stalking, surveillance, abuse and electronic harassment.””
This last, in tandem with the bland caption below the photo of a group of people with signs noting Covert Experiments, Torture, Microwave Weapons, and Failures of Law Enforcement, now labelled as “People who claim they are being put under organized surveillance and harassed by shady forces” continues the priming: you, the reader, are enjoined to react only with skepticism to the possibility of surveillance crimes, illicit experiments, torture, microwave weapons, and harassment being reported.
Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance run through the Air Force’s Distributed Common Ground System via drones, satellites, spy planes, now being tested & operated both inside the USA & out
Because of course, with the callous promiscuities of the Patriot Act, the excesses of the NDAA’s Indefinite Detentions, the twisted revisions of the Common Rule favoring carte blanche secret experiments for Intelligence agencies & the Justice department in conjunction with Executive Order 12333, the cannibalizing military complacencies of 5241.1R which permit surveillees to be experimented on and character-assassinated, the hundreds of bio-behavioral field-tests with millimeter/microwave weapons currently ongoing, the numerous categories of citizen the FBI has declared it must and will surveil and investigate, the nauseous militarizing of police and hand-over of multiple powers to fusion centers, the sinister 1994 Memorandum of Understanding between the DOD and DOJ permitting the testing of “advanced technologies” on Americans, the many revelations by whistleblowers from the CIA, NSA, FBI, DHS of perfidy in-house inclusive of DEW attacks on whistleblowers, the hundreds of thousands of National Security Letters rubberstamped every year by the corrupt FISA court, the unauthorized spying of innocents up and down the coasts & heartland of the US, including the outright targeting and surveillance of an elected President by men in high office, the Stasi crossover into community policing nationwide, no organized surveillance and harassment by shady forces could possibly be happening, oh no…Neil Steinberg (the rehabilitated alcoholic) says so.
The Mental Illness, Paranoia, and Delusion Fraud: The DOD/CIA Psy Op of Labeling Victims and Equating that Label with Paranoia and Delusion
One part of this troubled scenario—where purported journalists can write hit-pieces on whole groups of people and get away with it, thanks also to precedent set by such stalwarts as The New York Times (“The United States of Paranoia”) and Wired (“Mind Games: The Tortured Lives of “Targeted Individuals””), proving they’re really full-on propagandists, paid to deceive—is the inherent difficulty in the label “Targeted Individual.”
A military term quite factual in its meaning yet offering a pigeonholing label now historically misused and abused by reporters who claim people “self-identify” as TIs (short-form for Targeted Individual) and do nothing to investigate their claims/reports but spend reams of column-inches mocking, ridiculing, and calling them “delusional,” this term now occupies a conflicted signifying space, at once literal and associative, which no doubt has been the intention all along, to tie the term to notions of paranoia and delusion.
Stage set, therefore, for a propaganda artist like Mr. Steinberg to engage in some hard-core Media POPPCon—Psy Op Propaganda Piece Conning—which he does, with aplomb. Reading the rest of his article follows the formula for propaganda success over at POPPConville (a MockOp subdivision of Langley): Cast TIs as delusional, interview someone who helps establish TIs are delusional, cast this someone as delusional, call on a psychologist to state the lot are delusional, bring up “mass delusions” and “Internet” syndromes, close-case on anything TIs claim, now that you’ve worked so hard to damage their credibility by naming them delusional.
What is lost in this merry-go-round of formula madness is that “Targeted Individuals” are reporting victims of extremely grave human rights violations under cover of Fusion Center Surveillance, involving the non-consensual use of silent electromagnetic weapons, sonic weapons, scalar weapons, neuroweapons, bioweapons such as microchip implants—all bio-hacking, neuro-hacking “advanced technologies” and “non-lethal weapons” that both DOD and DOJ have publicly established they are testing—treasonously and unethically—on Americans, in addition to harassive COINTELPRO, extrajudicial surveillance, and worldwide “community policing” Psy Ops also known colloquially as Gang Stalking—as this writer has been reporting for several years now, and as many other writers and whistleblowers, such as Paul Baird, Barbara Hartwell, Karen Melton-Stewart, Dr. Rauni Kilde, Mark Rich, Cheryl Welsh, Soleil Mavis, John Finch, Dr. John Hall, Dr. Eric Karlstrom, Harlan Girard, Dr. Corkin Cherubini, Mary Gregory, Renee Pittman Mitchell, Rosanne Schneider, Mojmir Babacek, and others, have also been reporting for years.
It is no exaggeration to say Targeted Individuals have been extrajudicially targeted for extreme persecution and illicit and unethical Mil/Intel experimentation—by corrupt criminals in power seeking to ruthlessly silence people of integrity, including activists and whistleblowers—and my own numerous interviews over the years, my own 6-year experience of being extrajudicially targeted, and my research and published investigative journalism, in addition to that of others (named above) confirms this.
Ella Free’s Statement to Neil Steinberg Regarding Targeted Individuals Being Mentally Ill
In this particular case, it has been extraordinarily concerning to myself and other journalists and human rights activists to note that Ella Free who runs talk shows on Talkshoe for TIs and has tried to establish herself as a radio and talk show persona under her banner “Freedom For Targeted Individuals,” purporting to be deeply concerned about TIs and seeking to offer human rights “support” is quoted as herself calling TIs mentally ill.
Calling spokeswoman, “Ella Free,” started with a surprise.
“A good portion of people who claim to be Targeted Individuals are actually mentally ill,” she said. Straight to the elephant in the room. “So many of them, people have the same story: it’s interesting that a person isolated is having a very similar scenario.”
She meant “interesting” as in “persuasive” — these people are describing the same thing, therefore it must have basis in reality. That logic doesn’t hold up.
Giving Ella the benefit of the doubt, despite being incensed—as an investigative science and technology journalist who has been researching and reporting on this subject for 5 years–at this false statement (more on this below) I contacted Ella fairly immediately on Twitter, DM (text on Twitter), and email to find out what she had said to Neil Steinberg and if indeed she had said what he claimed, that many TIs are mentally ill.
Ella Free: “It Was A Strategy Behind It”
In the course of the convoluted text/email conversations that followed, it became clear that Ella Free had 1) indeed said to Steinberg that a “portion” of Tis were mentally ill, and 2) sought to explain to him simultaneously—with her apparently non-existent communications skills—that TIs “came across that way’ because “it’s hard to discern the symptoms”/”the symptoms seem the same.” Her texts sought to explain to me that she’d had a “strategy” behind this statement of hers, a strategy which had apparently backfired.
Does agreeing with a propaganda-publishing misleading reporter working for mainstream media constitute a strategy?
Ella also stated that she did not keep on top of all that has been published in recent times in terms of disclosure or analysis, which means she has missed Dr. James Giordiano’s recent rather stunning disclosures of military neuroexperimentation on “selected targeted individuals” and Debra Schnelle’s astonishing reveal of “neuro cognitive weapons” inducive of high-speed-Alzheimer’s the US Navy was seeking to build countermeasures for, and Dr. Hoffman’s and Dr. Golumb’s and Dr. Giardiano’s affirmations of neuroweaponry and radiation weaponry being used on the diplomats from China and Cuba reported to have been hit with sonic weapons originally–among other interesting revelations.
What DARPA, MIT, and Dr. Giordiano in particular have been publishing recently is nothing short of mind-blowing—especially in terms of public acknowledgment of the kinds of neurotechnologies only Tis had previously been talking about, even though patents for many of these have been long in the public domain.
Stressing how busy she is “supporting” those who are targeted, she stated she had no time to read.
What then is she doing acting as a spokesperson for those targeted?
Post the publication of Report #144 with CIA whistleblower Barbara Hartwell, Ella Free left a torrent of comments on Twitter, including one disavowing any claim from her of being a journalist, and one suggesting that talking about the technology being used on targets was provenly pointless, in response to a tweet from me pointing out that Targeted Justice Board members Dr. Katherine Horton and Richard Lighthouse were both putting out Disinfo regarding the technology, and that Midge Mathis was blindly supporting them, despite, most especially, Dr. Katherine Horton’s well-reported and widely-known petty, juvenile, but profoundly injurious and sinister smear attacks, sabotage-activities, calls to violence, and echo-stalking/mirroring displays-in-plain-sight of her Intel Neuro-Linguistic-Programming efforts, the latter aimed directly at me, earlier described in The Consequences of Infiltration, Swiss Cheese and Bayonets, and The End of Techno Crime Fighters Forum: The Real Backstory.
Contextualizing Ella Free’s tweet (below) regarding ignoring the technology, are some of my previous tweets regarding Disinfo, clarifying my stance re. what I see as an influx of Disinfo being poured into the TI activism space by highly questionable personalities in Targeted Justice and Freedom for Targeted Individuals and supported and endorsed by others such as Frank Allen of Targeted Massachusetts (@FranktheArcher), and a couple tweets in response to Lulie’s (@B91827364) questioning of that stance. (Lulie apparently has removed her Twitter account, hence the blanks below.) Ella’s tweet, focus of this scrutiny, is in the last tweet pictured below.
Then there’s the assurances from Ella Free, post-article, that she’d had most enriching conversations with #MockOp minion Neil Steinberg and he was going to issue a follow-up article filled with truth and facts (Dream On, really), while stating to her it was not his intention to “sadden” anyone. In contrast, consider the actual pithless remonstrances she apparently made on email, post-article, which her pal Neil brushes off like he might a flea, oh, a mentally-challenged flea at that. Both below.
Mindwash Media Tactic from Neil Steinberg: Find a Lone “Spokesperson” to Cast as Delusional
Tellingly, and most intriguingly, Ella revealed that Neil Steinberg had told her he wanted to talk to her alone for his article.
Remember the POPPCon formula for success in Mindwash Media, over yon at POPPConville (wealthy suburb of Langley)? Cast TIs as delusional, interview someone who helps establish TIs are delusional, cast this someone as delusional…
Obligingly, just as Justin Rohrlich at The Daily Beast cast down highly-respected Cheryl Welsh—research scholar, writer, attorney, founder of a non-profit and website at Mindjustice.org—as delusional, and Mike McPhate at the New York Times cast longstanding #WarCrimeWitness Timothy Trespas as delusional and slurred or obscured the witness of well-known and well-respected others like Rosanne Schneider (see her commentary on this farce here), NSA whistleblower Karen Stewart, and military/CIA neuroscientist Dr. Robert Duncan (see his commentary), Neil Steinberg cast Ella Free as delusional:
I spoke with Free and listened to her interviews on Internet shows, about how a bad online relationship expanded into obsessiveness — whether hers or someone else’s I’ll leave unaddressed. Maybe everyone at the beach was videotaping her.
“I knew right off this guy had hired these people to do this to me,” she said.
Maybe the stabbing pain in her leg was being induced.
I knew it was artificial,” she said. “I thought it was a laser, maybe going off the wi-fi.”
I do not mean to suggest that I see Ella in the same light as any of the other named witnesses above, each of whom has a solid history of highly credible research, testimonial, and reportage behind them.
The difference is, Ella – whose words, as she stated to me, could certainly have been taken out of context in order to cast her as delusional, as evident in the semantic sleight-of-hand above – openly confesses she has no idea about the technologies being used, makes no effort to determine what they might be, discourages others from doing so (as recently on Twitter), and suggests it is schizophrenic to read and learn widely from articles and videos, exercise critical thinking, and get informed!
The Insider-Outsider MockOp Media Psy Op: Factors of Note
I will also note here that Ella’s story of being obsessively stalked by a single deranged acquaintance appears to many of us, extrajudicially targeted, who are being multiply-monitored, surveilled, COINTELPRO’d, high-tech-weapon-hit and harassed by whole groups of Fusion Center-run minions (including local police, ambulance, and EMS personnel, often flashing Masonic symbols) in highly organized fashion indicative of Mil/Intel operations, is highly anomalous and in no way typical of the general TI experience. But comes across really as nothing but a fairy-tale, token concoction to gain her entrance into the highly-fragmented and severely-infiltrated, data-collector-strewn, targeted “community.”
This of course ties in with my general assessment of Ella as planted insider, as discussed earlier in my podcast with CIA whistleblower Barbara Hartwell and noted here in my article on that podcast as well.
In fact, as many readers may know, one important reason I am writing this article is to illustrate why Ella Free is clearly not a trustworthy spokesperson for those targeted and reporting victims of fusion-center trafficking into black ops military/intelligence/academic neuro/behavioral/medical experimentation, who are being disappeared with the label “Targeted Individuals” now freely being synonymized by Mainstream Media, as Steinberg does, with Paranoid and Delusional—as part of the gigantic False-Reality-Construct being run by Operation Mockingbird’s media minions, as noted in this recent expose of CBS 60 Minutes’ Targeted America, a well-scripted-and-played Tell-a-Lie-Vision production playing the Cuba/China Mysterious Weapons Charade.
When she is not informed, not well-read, not aware, what is she doing running an organization termed “Freedom for Targeted Individuals” and handing out flyers which strategized-tunnel-vision reporters like Neil Steinberg can latch on to?
And why then would the small group of activists protesting in Chicago and handing out flyers choose those in particular—quite bypassing the stellar flyers posted online by NSA whistleblower Karen Stewart, or myself, or Dr. Eric Karlstrom, or anyone else?
Also of note is the fact that it is the Targeted Justice group here, along with Ella Free and Matthew Aaron’s group, Freedom for Targeted Individuals, offering a public face for mainstream Chicago media to notice while using her flyers: is this their joint intent–through on-street-activism, while also pushing Disinfo and Misdirection in efforts to limit the public disclosure, as covered here earlier?
And why, most of all, did Neil Steinberg interview only Ella for his little froth-piece with a purpose, to denigrate Tis as mentally ill? What does that really signify about his own interests in covering the issues of targeting and being targeted? Not to mention the interests of the Chicago Sun-Times in projecting those reporting the persecutory depredations of Surveillance Abuse and wrongful watchlisting—which has permitted Mil/Intel/Univ exploitation and human trafficking–as mentally ill?
How does this not establish the Chicago Sun-Times as complicit, in this clear Failure-to-Report-Crime production?
Also: As Barbara Hartwell asks in her meticulous examination of Ella’s own words and actions here, who is supporting the many billboards she has now placed in many cities and seeks to place in many more? Those who are targeted and being destroyed are generally flat-broke, near-homeless, kept unemployed or low-income-employed by severe blacklisting, wrongfully psych-committed or wrongfully incarcerated; clearly her benefactors are well-monied: what is their purpose? Given especially, the Victim Message of those weeping blue-eyed billboards, which completely bypass the Governmental/Fusion Center/Military/Intelligence/Academic/Medical Research nature of these illicit targeting and persecution programs, and highlight contract-stalking instead, suggesting private stalking, not taxpayer-paid-for, pervasive, government-run, military-funded, Defense-granted programs.
To me, as to many others (who have reported to me the lopsided focus and selective highlighting of witness on the interminably long (3-4 hours) conference calls that she runs), the conclusion that Ella Free is a carefully-strategized, deliberately-planted misdirector “activist” running an insider Psy Op to match the carefully-strategized, deliberately-planted misdirector “journalist” outsider Psy Op, which Steinberg embodies, is inescapable.
And how this might fit into a historic alt-media construct run by CIA fraudsters keen to keep us all swimming in Fake News and False Realities, is well-described by CIA Whistleblower Barbara Hartwell in her observation of long-time alt-media persona Ken Adaichi, who stepped forward in 2017 to squash and obscure the witness of real truth-telling writers and journalists, including myself, by avidly tunnel-vision-spotlighting the Talkshoe antics of Ella Free.
My own previous comments on Ella Free’s Hollywood connections and background-supported ability to persuade the most extraordinary guests onto her calls, including such as former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney–who has to date ignored my several requests and invites to come do an interview on my video channel Ramola D Reports–can be found at The Consequences of Infiltration, and other articles and comments I have posted online.
Targeted for Organized Persecution With High-Tech Weapons: Of Course the Government is Involved
On the subject of who is targeting and assaulting TIs, what also surfaced from my emails with Ella Free was that she had sent Steinberg a list of statements about people targeted which her FFTI partner Dr. Matthew Aaron had compiled. Much of this is highly questionable. Both have made statements that government agencies are not involved, when much evidence to the contrary exists. Pretty much everyone knows that large-scale organized social ostracizing, blacklisting, character-assassination, and harassment which includes ground and aerial stalking (involving small planes, drones, and helicopters), non-stop monitoring, neighborhood hostility, and obvious COINTELPRO on the roadways cannot be accomplished without Fusion Center and local government complicity and oversight.
While private individuals and companies may be involved in targeting and covert persecution of people, their participation is both concealed and made possible by Fusion Center (government agency) contracting. NSA whistleblower Bill Binney has expressly spoken of public-private partnerships in mass surveillance and counterterrorism activities which has ensured that thousands of private contractors are being supported and directed by the government.
It is both misdirective and inaccurate therefore to say the government is not involved—and it leads away from the fact that Defense divisions like the US Airforce and US Marine Corps are engaging in field-testing of non-lethal weapons, that the National Institutes of Justice is testing advanced neurotechnologies on an unsuspecting populace, that local police and sheriffs’ departments have and are operating a whole slew of classified non-lethal directed-energy neurotechnologies which include through-wall-radar, and that the CIA and others are engaging in secretive human experimentation, the details of which they refuse to reveal ( Amy Gutmann’s Moral Science Report, 2012): those being targeted and reporting as targeted are victims of all these and more.
Further, in a multiplicity of programs connecting Defense funds to University researchers (DURIP and MURI programs, for instance, as well as the Minerva Research Initiative and new Defense Education Institution and Civilian University Research (DECUR) Partnership) and to research institutions which are increasingly doing away with Informed Consent, citing lies and equivocations like Minimal Risk, Broad Consent, and Benefit to Participant, government monies are being funneled into unethical experimentation involving top Universities, hospitals, research institutions—as Dr. Millicent Black’s experience indicates, and others’ – matters of interest to this writer, to be further investigated and fully reported soon.
So yes—in contradiction to what Ella Free and Dr. Matthew Aaron suggest–these are unethical, inhumane government-run-and-contracted programs. Local governments/police/sheriffs/FBI are clearly fully aware, public and private sector both have been drawn into participating. Please see the plethora of reports at this site and in interviews at Youtube.com/Ramola D Reports that offer much disclosure on this subject.
The Danger of Projecting Cover-Stories that Reporting Victims of Serious Government Crime are Mentally Ill
The grave danger of wrongful casting by Media of reporting victims of serious crime as mentally ill and delusional –mentioned here earlier—is multifaceted and needs to be fully and exhaustively reported within a human rights context, just as Torture has been reported comprehensively by human rights groups like Physicians for Human Rights, as in their reports Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by the US and Deprivation and Despair: The Crisis of Medical Care at Guantanamo.
Suffice to note in this essay that two extremely grave crimes are committed by those journalists and the psychologists/psychiatrists/sociologists they quote who engage in such absolute deception:
- The primary Failure-to-Report-Crime of covering up the base Government crime of wrongful Surveillance watchlisting, and from there, wrongful human trafficking into exploitative and persecutory and terminal (profoundly unethical) medical experimentation programs—and thereby misleading the public while protecting Serious Government Crime.
- The also primary Abuse-of-Publishing-Powers-Crime of publishing injurious untruths which have extremely deleterious ramifications for reporting #GovtCrime victims within their families, work environments, and communities. Reputations are ruined, characters are smeared, careers are halted. Families and communities believe the published lie, disbelieve and shun the being-abused #GovtCrime victim. Blacklisting, social ostracism, social isolation, and utter ruination of the #GovtCrime victim’s life follow. Families themselves report the #GovtCrime victim as Mentally Ill to Community Services, police, and hospitals, and ruthlessly and cluelessly force their already-persecuted family-member into psychiatric drugging and incarceration—as reported in numerous cases. Medical treatment is compromised; many targets report that doctors IGNORE their actual physical problems and call for psychiatrists. Doctors, in fact, misled by Media Lies, believe the lie and completely dismiss the reports of #GovtCrime victims of radiation assault and implant assault as delusional.
This Question of Targeted Individuals Suffering Mental Illness
The instant-labeling of Targeted Individuals as delusional, precisely the intent and enacted intention of the perpetraitors assaulting and exploiting them, as described earlier, is nothing to endorse and project by any genuine human rights activist seeking to represent, support, or protect them.
But regarding the notion that mental illness can exist among any sector or group of the population, including TIs, here is my base understanding: Yes, from what has been reported to me, and what I have learned, there are some who before they were targeted were being treated for milder issues such as anxiety, or stress, or depression, and continue to take pills for these—but not full-blown schizophrenia or paranoia; there are some who have developed PTSD or stress or anxiety after being targeted—for good reason, given the 24/7 COINTELPRO and neuro/DEW trauma they endure, and that is still not schizophrenia or paranoia; and most vitally, there are some, in fact quite a few crisis actors and infiltrators in the such-as-it-is TI community who write and speak disjointedly, leave weird comments on websites and under videos including mine, espouse bizarre theories and report a-credible occurrences: these are not the genuine targets but the genuine Intel plants deliberately playing mentally-ill in order to help outsiders like Steinberg label TIs as mentally-ill–and apparently feed Ella Free’s unsupported and unscientific notions of 5% of TIs being mentally ill as well.
And then, crowning coup for misleading, abusive, authoritarian Psychiatry: there are some, force-drugged, force-committed, force-false-diagnosed as schizoid, delusional, schizophrenic and on Disability—who are fully mentally-sound, sane and well, but victimized, exploited, persecuted, as described earlier.
Additionally, it is entirely possible–going by the historic Government record of rampant experimentation crime–that people locked away in psychiatric institutions or homes with false diagnoses of serious psychoses and schizophrenia are also being non-consensually experimented on by unethical Military/Intel/Academic researchers, just as prisoners in the nation’s numerous private prisons, including Guantanamo–as testified to by many imprisoned there, no doubt also are.
THE MISO/PSY OP CONSTRUCTED PERCEPTION OF MENTAL ILLNESS: Not to be forgotten is the fact that the entire MISO/Psy Op (Military Information Support Operations/Psychological Operations) of the “Gangstalking” COINTELPRO/MK ULTRA Trauma that targets are subjected to 24/7 in homes, neighborhoods, communities seems to be aimed at eliciting the self-incriminating projected symptoms of mental illness–heightened reaction to constant harassment and provocation, while slyly aimed also at provoking reports of stalking and gaslighting to be easily DSM-dismissed by DSM-indoctrinated psychiatrists as “paranoia” thereby creating the bugaboo “diagnosis” to dog and discredit reporting victims as paranoid and delusional.
Given that mental illness is the precise tool of oppression being used against targets and used to conceal these crimes publicly, it is the one most important aspect to be careful about when speaking to MSM reporters—which Ella Free, self-confessed “leader” (a term she has used to describe herself on her podcasts and conference calls) acting like she is to be considered a primary Voice for TIs, flubbed.
Psychology Professor David La Porte: Paranoid Individuals Enflamed & Organized by the Internet into “Probably a Delusion”
Then there’s the issue of the Authority Figure. Predictably, as in Mike McPhate’s Psy Op slam-piece in The New York Times, Steinberg cites a psychologist to give credence to this convolution of a “mass delusion” which, the psychologist explains, is fed by the finding-each-other phenomenon the Internet offers:
“People who are paranoid start to latch onto the same kind of delusion,” said David LaPorte, a professor of psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
“This is not uncommon. When airplanes first started, people started having delusions they were being followed by airplanes. The computer has been a huge issue that leaked into paranoid delusions. Every technological advance becomes fodder for paranoid individuals.”
And later:
“They’re well organized because of the Internet,” LaPorte said. “That’s part of the problem. It deepens and entrenches what is probably a delusion.”
Note the “probably” in the previous sentence. Sometimes the improbable does happen. Stalking is real, though usually by individuals, not shady networks.
“No one’s really actually talked to these individuals in a clinical way to establish whether they are nuts,” LaPorte said. “Anybody who has worked in this field for a long period of time, you hear stories of fantastic delusions only to find out it was true. What they’re talking about could be true, but it’s probably not.”
“To establish whether they are nuts,” note. Not, “To find out if what they are saying is true” but to establish whether they are nuts.
I wrote to Professor La Porte, given that his university affiliation was published and email posted online. My intent was to inform and educate him, and assure him he was wrong about his delusion theories in relation to government and military crime victims.
Subject: Re: Your recent comments in Neil Steinberg’s Chicago Sun Times article on “Targeted Individuals” versus the facts
This is the letter, sent to Professor La Porte on April 26, 2019:
From: Ramola D<ramolad@everydayconcerned.net>
Friday, April 26, 2019 1:59 AM
To: David.laporte@iup.edu<David.laporte@iup.edu>
Dear Professor La Porte,
I am an investigative science and technology journalist who has been covering the subjects of current-day science and technology, surveillance, Defense, ethics, and consciousness for the past 5 years, with an educational background in Physics, Business Management, and Writing and a 20-year career in teaching College English, Creative Writing, and Literature, as well as in management consulting and technical communications, and ongoing practice as a fiction-writer, poet, playwright, memoirist, essayist, literary editor, publisher, and journalist, in addition to broadcasts and articles at my media sites and channels, Ramola D Reports and The Everyday Concerned Citizen.
I am writing to you because I have covered the subject of “Targeted Individuals” for five years, and engaged in investigative research with the US military and Intelligence agencies on the subject.
As I have written in my Investigative Reporter Statement for Todd Giffen:
In the course of my investigative reportage, I have studied military and Intelligence documents, spoken with and reported the testimonial of US Government whistleblowers and scientists, including from the NSA, CIA, FBI, Department of Defense, US Air Force, US Navy, NASA, and US Army, as well as former French and Belgian Intelligence; I have researched and reported the work, words, and testimonial of scientists from the CIA, US Navy and UK Navy, as well as widely researched and reported on the work of scientists and militaries worldwide, particularly in the areas of electromagnetic weaponry or DEWs, neurotechnology, EMF/neuroweapons testing, wireless telemetry, and surveillance technology. I have investigated and reported on human subject protections and non-consensual neuro-experimentation among other modern science and technology issues, interviewed a wide variety of professionals including science and technology journalists, authors, academics, neurologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, electronic engineers, scientists, writers, other journalists, and published the testimonials of many people worldwide reporting non-consensual military/Intelligence neuro-experimentation with Radio Frequency and Sonic technologies today. From my perusal of military and Intelligence documents, listening to and reading audio/video/print testimonial of whistleblower scientists and Intelligence analysts, researching the history of weaponized Neuroscience, and speaking personally with whistleblowers, and multiple reporting victims, I can attest to the reality of ongoing Neuro-technology testing and training as well as non-consensual neuro-experimentation with electronic warfare weaponry, Brain Computer Interfaces, and RFID tracking micro/nanotech on civilian populations in the US, Europe, and worldwide.
“Targeted Individuals” are the Crime Victims of the Military Intelligence Industrial Complex. The wrongful watchlisting of innocents and the human trafficking of them into military/USAF/Marine Corps Anti-Personnel Non-Lethal Weapons Tests and Neuro Surveillance Beta Testing by the National Institute of Justice/FBI/CIA as well as military and NIH/NSF medical experiments have together unleashed a new era of horrific violence in our midst with Spectrum (EMF/sonic/scalar) weapons being used on people; these people are literally the targets of new emerging military technologies which use Radar, Scalar, and Sonic tech as well as covert RFID/nanotech implants on their bodies to non-consensually test out a variety of concepts from cybernetics, AI, robotics, neurotechnology, behavioral psychology, criminal justice and other sciences.
Your statement here therefore that “They’re well organized because of the Internet. That’s part of the problem. It deepens and entrenches what is probably a delusion.” is untrue.
“Targeted Individuals” are not delusional, nor does the Internet create their condition, the US Military and the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Homeland Security does. They are also victims of Torture, which is illegal by US and International Law, and those who seek to conceal these War Crimes being investigated and reported today by journalists and whistleblowers may well find themselves called to testify soon at new Nuremberg trials for their crimes: today, reporters like Neil Steinberg and others who work for corporate Propaganda Media as well as psychologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists who confirm their biases and propaganda, wittingly or unwittingly, by calling Mil/Intel Crime Victim targets mentally ill without investigating the matter will be culpable.
(Please note, it is people like Steinberg and psychologists who don’t read, don’t investigate the state of the world today re. Surveillance, except in mainstream media channels/fora which suppress the truth of what the Government is doing and conceal the War Crimes the Government is committing who are displaying Confirmatory Bias.)
These matters are discussed in numerous articles at my website, including this one by Dr. Seth Farber, a psychologist:
I also recommend you read the following articles also posted on my website:
NSA Whistleblower Karen Melton-Stewart: Open Letter to Media, NYT on Schizophrenic Coverage of Microwave Weapon Use on US Diplomats in Cuba versus US “Targeted Individuals”/September 13, 2018 at Activist Post; October 4, 2018 at ECC
Ramola D Reports/Report #56: Geral Sosbee, FBI Whistleblower Reports Massive Crime By FBI/April 1, 2018
Estimated Numbers: Targeted Individuals & the Terrorist Watchlist by Richard Lighthouse/Free E-book on Smashwords, Feb 4, 2018
NSA Whistleblower, Karen Stewart: Synopsis of the Silent Holocaust Taking Place in the United States/May 26, 2016
Memorandum to President Donald J. Trump on Domestic US Torture Programs Running Under Cover of Surveillance/January 26, 2017
Geral Sosbee/Call for a New Nuremberg Trial
Notice of Crimes Against Humanity Using Energy & Neuro/Bio Weapons
Community Notice: Notice of Crimes Against Humanity/Patriot Act Crimes
There are many others, both at my site and at Dr. Eric Karlstrom’s sites, gangstalkingmindcontrolcults.com and 911nwo.com.
I especially recommend the extensive post on his home page at the former, and his repost of a Twitter thread I have been publishing this week and which I hope to continue further and complete shortly:
This thread, on Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1114347466667769856.html
On Twitter– https://twitter.com/EccEveryday/status/1114347466667769856:
In addition, I recommend that you watch the many video podcasts I have posted at my Youtube channel RamolaDReports, which include interviews with many “Targeted Individuals”–in truth, Crime Victims of the MIIC.
Finally, please consult the two Investigative Reporter Statements for Todd Giffen and Frederic Laroche at my site for details of whistleblowing and declassified documents attesting to the reality of these War Crimes.
As a journalist publishing the truth of current-day reality, I will be compelled to address the several false and ignorant statements you have made in this article, in print. However, I urge that you inform yourself with deep exploration of this very vital subject, issue a retraction of your amazingly off-base and false statements, and wisely choose not to make the same mistakes in the future.
I also enclose a Ten Step Checklist for Doctors and Psychologists and Psychiatrists I am developing to help bring much-needed medical services for TIs. A primer on human rights is also being developed and I will be glad to send you a copy soon when it is completed.
Best wishes for your Continued Education,
Ramola D
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To this, Professor David La Porte responded shortly after:
Friday, April 26, 2019 11:05 AM
From: David La Porte <laporte@iup.edu>
To: Ramola D<ramolad@everydayconcerned.net>
Dear Romola,
thank you for taking the time to write to me and also thanks for send me the links. As is often the case with interviews only a portion of what I said is ever published. I was quoted correctly when I indicated that I’ve heard wild stories from people in the past that on first blush appear to be delusions only to find out that they are completely true. And there is little doubt that in the past the government has done things to citizens without their permission or knowledge. That said, it is still an open question if paranoia is a possible explanation. I try to keep an open mind about such things and it is my intention to do further research on this by interviewing as many TIs as are willing to talk with me. I need to obtain permission from my university’s Institutional Review Board before I do so and hopefully that will occur this summer. I will definitely be looking at the information you sent me once the semester ends.
Best,
DJL
David J. LaPorte, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
1020 Oakland Ave. 220 Uhler Indiana, PA 15705-1068 laporte@iup.edu 724-357-4524
I then wrote back to Professor David LaPorte, copying my letter to Dr. Seth Farber, also a psychologist and insightful scholar and author whose well-known article on the subject of the Psychiatric Metanarrative regarding Targeted Individuals, the Deep State, and shoddy New York Times coverage is noted above.
From: Ramola D<ramolad@everydayconcerned.net>
Sunday, April 28, 2019 3:57 PM
To: David.laporte@iup.edu<David.laporte@iup.edu>
Dear Professor La Porte,
Thank you for your note in response and noted, that only a portion of what you said was published, and that you acknowledge previous stories of delusions you have heard turning out to be true.
I am glad to know you will be further investigating this matter.
However, given the subject matter, and given, as you acknowledge, the nature and history of non-consensual military and medical experimentation, it is my informed opinion that investigating the claims of truly “Targeted Individuals” is not the purview of Psychology alone, but also Journalism, Radiology, Toxicology, Forensic Science, Medical Physics, Neuroscience, and Radio Frequency and Electrical Engineering.
In fact, I would suggest that no psychologist is equipped to undertake a study of Reporting Victims of Military Weapon Use on their own. The material evidence provided by physical scanning for RFID implants via MRIs, X-Rays, Faraday RFID Detection, SCADA scanning for nanotechnology wave guides, and bodily and residence scanning for receiving and emitting radio frequencies, in conjunction with documented photographic and/or videographic evidence of high, pulsed EMFs such as is obtainable with an electrosmog detector or EMF detector app, spectrum analyzer, or other detecting and recording equipment; evidence of burns, blisters, lesions, and scars on body; hair, skin, and nail analysis, blood plasma analysis, as well as recorded footage of repeated Community Oriented Policing or Neighborhood Watch cell-phone-pointers/recorders or COINTELPRO swarming, or repeated drone and helicopter stalking will more readily furnish absolute evidence of EMF/Neuro DEW Targeting & Organized Stalking.
I have personally examined and reported on the scientific scanning reports from private investigators and industrial toxicologists attesting to the reception and/or emission of radio frequencies on different parts of the body (indicating presence of RF implants or RFID nano-clusters) as well as examined MRIs and X-rays and read the radiologists’ reports provided for several TIs, and reported in print on some of these cases. These articles will offer further information:
Your statement therefore, here, about paranoia cannot be tested without physical, medical, radiological analysis alongside. Excluding the Surveillance and Military Experimentation/Weapons Test and completely physical Weapon-Use context when examining the claims of TIs can only lead to false, illogical, and incomplete conclusions: “That said, it is still an open question if paranoia is a possible explanation. I try to keep an open mind about such things and it is my intention to do further research on this by interviewing as many TIs as are willing to talk with me.”
Reporters like Neil Steinberg who work for corporate media adhering to CIA Operation Mockingbird principles of Deception and Propaganda in the interests of Psychological Warfare and Information Warfare on the American citizenry are doing Americans a great disservice by starting, framing, and concluding that MIIC Victims are mental patients needing help from psychiatry–when they completely ignore the exacerbated Surveillance and Military Weapons Testing context (both public-domain knowledge) we are all living within, in contemporary America, and in fact, ridicule and mock it, as if it doesn’t exist. In this, they give away their obvious base allegiances to the Surveillance Abuse State — and their lack of intelligence as journalists.
Had Mr. Steinberg wished to really conduct a meaningful investigation, he would have spoken to a group of TIs and especially examined their physical evidence, as I have. He also would not have spoken to just one “spokesperson” for TIs–Ella Free–nor told her he did not wish to speak to anyone else (as she reports).
I would suggest that in your University-supported research project, you especially speak with those TIs who can and have furnished evidence of the physicality of this atrocious anti-personnel weapon targeting and nonstop torture, some of whom I have interviewed.
Dr. Seth Farber, whom I copy here, has suggested that I offer personally to be interviewed by you, since I too am reporting Military Weapon use on my person, and have collected much video/photo evidence of such; however, I am still collecting medical and radiological evidence of non-consensual RFID implants even as I continue to publish my own experience in articles and affidavits, and recommend, if you are interested, research of my story online, as published & broadcast in Washington’s Blog and The World Beyond Belief/Pineconeutopia, for more information. There are many others with solid radiological and toxicological evidence.
Sincerely.
Ramola D
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Investigative Sci-Tech Journalist | Writer | Poet | Educator | Activist
Editor & Publisher, The Everyday Concerned Citizen
Reporter, Ramola D Reports on Youtube, Vimeo, Bitchute
Author: Invisible Season, Temporary Lives, For the Sake of the Boy (forthcoming, Paycock Press, 2019)
Twitter: @EccEveryday
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Ignoring the extensive information on ongoing military and Intelligence technology tests, experiments, and war crimes I had provided, including my suggestion that Radiologists, among other technology professionals would be needed to test out the claims of Targeted Individuals, and ignoring the insights and information in Dr. Seth Farber’s meticulously thought-out and referenced article, Professor David La Porte wrote back, working desperately to swing the focus back to Mental Illness:
Monday, April 29, 2019 9:24 AM
From: David LaPorte <laporte@iup.edu>
To: Ramola D <ramolad@everydayconcerned.net>
Ramola,
As a psychologist I cannot, as you point out, investigate the various science and technology aspects of this issue since I have no training in those areas. I’ll leave that to others. You have to understand that to many people the claims of TIs sound “crazy” and that stain will remain until the issue of mental illness is formally addressed. That is my goal: to address the mental state of TIs, since that has not been done to date. Thanks for your offer of an interview and once I have received IBR permission I will certainly take you up on that offer.
Best,
DJL
David J. LaPorte, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
1020 Oakland Ave.
220 Uhler Indiana, PA 15705-1068
laporte@iup.edu
724-357-4524
Considering that I hadn’t offered and wasn’t offering to interview with a psychologist who could not apparently assimilate the information I was providing, I felt obliged to write back to Professor LaPorte and inform him as much. I also forwarded this correspondence (on which Dr. Seth Farber had been copied) to Dr. Eric Karlstrom, Professer Emeritus of Physical Geography from California State University, and NSA whistleblower Karen Stewart, for their information, and Dr. Seth Farber wrote back a detailed letter analyzing and addressing Professor LaPorte’s stance. This email he addressed to this small group, although his letter itself was addressed to me. In addition I understand he wrote to Professor LaPorte separately. Professor LaPorte also wrote back again to me, informing me he was a trained skeptic and intended to hold his blighted pattern. I responded briefly, skeptical myself. All 3 emails are below, with Dr. Farber’s offering the clarifying final word.
From: Ramola D <ramolad@everydayconcerned.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2019 10:19 PM
To: David LaPorte
Subject: Re: Your recent comments in Neil Steinberg’s Chicago Sun Times article on “Targeted Individuals” versus the facts Dear Professor La Porte,
Thanks for your note and apologies for my late response. However, I felt I should clarify I wasn’t offering to interview with you, particularly since you fixate on mental illness in the face of the blatant Surveillance/Military Context as well as solid scientific evidence I was striving to call your attention to. Dr. Seth Farber wrote you the most apt response and I will not repeat myself. Suffice to say your efforts to address “the mental state of TIs” are an insult to the earnest efforts of (perfectly sane and mentally well) reporting victims of Military/Intelligence/Industry crime, and your determined ignoring of absolute fact AND evidence regarding the use of Anti-Personnel DEWs in testing and operation by DOD/DOJ suggests nothing less than pre-planned agenda, well in support of Mainstream Media Propaganda. I have published extensively on this subject; the information is out there for all sufficiently intelligent to avail of it.
Take care,
Ramola
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From Professor La Porte:
From: David LaPorte <laporte@iup.edu>
To: Ramola D <ramolad@everydayconcerned.net>
Friday, May 3, 2019 9:34 AM
Dear Ramola,I certainly understand your position and respect your wishes. I take issue with the intimation that I have a pre-planned agenda here. As a scientist I am skeptical by nature and training. So my agenda is to seek answers not to promote one position over another.
Best regards,
DJL
David J. LaPorte, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
I did write back to Professor LaPorte, although by this point I was tired of this being-ignored attempt to educate and inform him.
From: Ramola D <ramolad@everydayconcerned.net>
Sent: Friday, May 3, 2019 10:14 AM
To: David LaPorte
Dear Professor La Porte,
This is hardly an issue of promoting positions but unearthing facts, which I certainly do not believe can be accomplished by a psychologist alone in a void of factual and physical scientific context, and a stated pre-determined focus, which is precisely what invokes the possibility of pre-planned agenda.
I continue to investigate and publish on the subject myself, as noted earlier, as do others, and will look forward to more real scientists, including psychologists capable of assimilating physical evidence stepping forward to support the hard-core physical reality of non-consensual RFID, WBAN, BioMEM, Nanotech & BCI implants, RF transmissions, and acoustic and radiation weapon use on people, which is the reality “Targeted Individuals” AKA Military/Intelligence Weapons-Testing Crime Victims report.
Ramola
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Ramola D
Investigative Sci-Tech Journalist | Writer | Poet | Educator | Activist
Editor & Publisher, The Everyday Concerned Citizen
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Finally, the brilliant Dr. Seth Farber’s incisive, scholarly, and considered response, referred to in my final emails to Professor LaPorte:
Monday, April 29, 2019 9:08 PM, Dr. Seth Farber wrote:
Ramola
These conventional psychologists are all the same…He writes, “You have to understand that to many people the claims of TIs sound “crazy” and that stain will remain until the issue of mental illness is formally addressed.”
This is a non-sequitur. It tells me that LaPorte has no intention of removing the stain– a stain reified by mental health professionals.
If a person–say a self-described TI– hears punitive voices that have no referent in the external world then by psychiatric standards and by common sense she is “mentally ill.” (I don’t accept the disease paradigm–so I would use a different formulation to describe her emotional crisis) If she says the CIA creates the voices in her head through advanced cyber technology to harass her, then (by psychiatric standards) she is a “paranoid schizophrenic.”
But if the CIA is in fact using directed energy weapons and experimenting on her brain then obviously her assertions are veridical and she is not paranoid–even by psychiatric standards.
LaPorte’s idea that he can determine whether someone is ‘mentally ill” without determining whether the putative technology –of which they claim to be victims– exists or not makes no sense. He does not need training to determine the latter—he only needs to be willing to look at the evidence.
He did not answer my letter because I pointed out the pseudo-scientific nature of “psychodiagnosis” which bases its finding of “psychosis” not upon scientific knowledge, but upon ‘”common sense” about what is possible. Psychiatry/Psychology substitutes psychiatrists’ consensus about what is delusional for a view of reality that actually corresponds to the “real world” as confirmed by empirical investigation. For example the veracity of TIs’ claims about group stalking could easily be confirmed or vitiated by hiring a private detective to investigate their claims. THat is an easy way to assess whether a TI is delusional.
But as psychologist Bruce Levine says they do not want to know the truth.
The validity of a view of reality is established by the generation of predictions that are subjected to testing and confirmed—not by taking a straw poll among psychiatrists and psychologists! Had scientists taken LaPorte’s approach in 20th century, quantum (physics) never would have been discovered.
I pointed out in my letter to LaPorte that once Hemingway’s friend/biographer read the FBI files on Hemingway 25 years later, he changed his assessment of Ernest. This may be the reason LaPorte wants to address the issue of “mental illness” without even glancing to see if there is an elephant in the room. He’s a phony. If he admitted there was an elephant in the room, how could he declare that people pointing to the elephant were all mentally ill, all delusional??
What if there was a tiger in the room? If a person’s sympathetic nervous system is aroused for no reason, he probably had a panic attack. If in addition he sees things that are not there, he is “psychotic” by psychiatric standards. But if there is a tiger in the room he would be “mentally ill” if his sympathetic nervous system were not aroused! LaPorte intends to look at signs of arousal without examining the environment.
The fact that Dr LaPorte thinks he can assess one’s mental health in abstraction from social context shows that like his cohorts he is involved in stigmatizing persons–any deviation from the status quo is deemed pathological, including any dissident (“extreme”) political views.
Psychiatry is an effort to discredit people by declaring them “psychotic.” In the case of TIs this requires ignoring the elephants and the tigers in the room. Then after the frightened person, the TI, is declared psychotic his claims about the deep state can be dismissed and the mental health profession can continue to serve–wittingly or unwittingly– the social control objectives of the deep state.
Sincerely,
Seth Farber, PhD
As Dr. Farber so aptly pointed out, the stance that David LaPorte, Ph.D takes is to ignore the actual physical context and fixate on his primary and unsubstantiated obsession that reporting victims of high-tech Government crime must be mentally ill, that being the premise and lens to regard #TargetedIndividuals through. If that’s not a pre-planned agenda, I’d like to know what is.
Neil Steinberg’s glib recourse to LaPorte’s unexplainable premise advertises itself therefore doubly as government-protecting propaganda, and part of a sustained, determined, Information Warfare and Psychological Warfare operation being conducted against Americans–and by extension and in replication, citizens worldwide–by #MengeleMen in the US Department of Defense and CIA, operating through their larger umbrella of academics, journalists, brain-experimenters, weapons-testers, medical researchers, Intel analysts, insider activists and outsider reporters to conceal their incredibly appalling roster of extremely unethical #WarCrimes and Crimes Against Humanity via illicit targeting, surveillance, and injurious, intrusive, human-rights-violative non-consensual experimentation. Many people are involved in this criminal Psy Op, many agencies, many government, military and Intelligence divisions. Those losing out here are the innocent people of integrity, wrongfully targeted and trafficked.
The only way forward is to continuously expose all of it.
Ramola D is an award-winning author, poet, journalist, educator, publisher, and human rights activist who continues to report extrajudicial targeting with neuro/bio/energy weaponry by an out-of-control and corrupt US government mechanism and has become increasingly interested in exposing the media treachery and deceit which protects it. Her own true-story of being wrongfully targeted may be found widely online, including in the opening part of this to-be-continued series: Parallel Construction To Project #FBILies About Stand-Out Americans in Order to Target Them for Life-Takedown & Deadly Anti-Personnel NLW/Neurotech Assaults
Her fiction, poetry, and writer-interviews have been widely published. Subscribe to her video-channel at Youtube.com/RamolaDReports for ongoing science and tech, investigative, and human rights journalism. Stay tuned for the revival of her literary review Delphi Quarterly and author website ramolad.com, the launching of a literary press, and a new book of short fiction whose publication has been mysteriously delayed. If you are a whistleblower, activist, journalist or other wrongfully targeted who wishes to publicize via podcast interview or have information to share for an article, please write to her with your story at ramolad@everydayconcerned.net. If you appreciate her voice and work, please support her no-holds-barred, truth-seeking, and clear-speaking journalism via Patreon.com/RamolaD or via the Paypal Donate link here.
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