Terms Other Than Mind Control
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This article is a re-edited version of an earlier mailing list
article. The subject is whether the term "mind control" does more
harm than good. The focus here is word usage.

One problem with the term "mind control" is the "kook" association
reinforced in the popular culture as well as by certain victims (or
provocateurs) who sound "crazy." (The cointelpro-style provocateurs
want to keep the real victims discredited, if possible, because they
work for the victimizers.) Many other people are just citizens who
are kept ignorant of the known and documented history of mind control
and the state of the technology right now. Because of the popular
culture, these people may tend to want to ridicule the term mind
control. On the other hand, not all the popular culture references to
mind control are harmful to the victims; there are some deeper and
sharper popular culture references which take it seriously and raise
the ethical questions. Mind control also has a built-in "name
recognition" in the population, so perhaps someone who once ridiculed
it and learned that it all exists right now would be able to grow up
and consider the matter seriously.

One can either move from term to term as they are worn out, or stick
to the usual term even with its connotational baggage. I tend to use
different terms in different situations, for example avoiding the term
"mind control" in official correspondence except with a caution to the
reader before the term is introduced. But normally I tend to stick to
the popular term "mind control" (don't let the disinfo agents have
it). There is a good argument for not using the term, and good people
can certainly disagree on that point. Obviously not all people have
to use the exact same term if we all know we are talking about the
same thing.

Should the term be based on science? Or law? Or the poetry of
suffering? Or something else?

In science and experimental psychology there are physical quantities
and there are psychophysical quantities. (This is the objective
versus the subjective.) The classic example is of the frequency of a
signal versus its pitch. The frequency is what you measure with a
scientific instrument, while the pitch is the subjective sensation you
perceive. They are different things, but (due to the long evolution
of science) frequency is close enough to pitch when measured
physically versus psychophysically that people sometimes ignore the
distinction.

Many of the microwave hearing articles deal with the issues of "what
are the psychophysical correlates of the beam's physical parameters."
Knowing this one can then technologically create the physical event,
causing the psychophysical event in the person's "mind." That is, you
can modulate a microwave beam with the right pulsed waveform so that
if you "illuminate" a person with the beam he or she perceives as
sound whatever signal has been modulated onto it, including voice
signals.

So should a single scientific term be a physical description or a
psychophysical one? Can you rigorously define a term that encompasses
both?

There are different sorts of mind control, yet we all basically know
what we mean by "mind control victim." It is a specific case of
torture victim, which is a legal term in addition to being understood
in common language. Can we talk about mind control without talking
about victims? Not really, because we are assuming the nonconsensual
application of the technology in the fashion of rape. But in a larger
sense we are dealing with "mind rape" as the violent crime committed
with the nonconsensual use of brain interface technology. Of course
brain interface technology is only one aspect, and might not apply to
some victims of, say, PANDORA-style nonconsensual behavior and
conditioning experiments with microwaves of all sorts. And what about
all the mind control drugging victims like in the LSD experiments?
What about the victims of abusive and intentionally harmful hypnosis
techniques? (Politically there are few enough direct, witting victims
who are willing to talk about it and few enough people who care that
all MC victims need to stick together.)

In the spook business, the IG of the CIA called mind control
operations "clandestine operations to control human behavior" in a
report from the early 1960s.

Finally, would Frederick Douglass have preferred a scientific term in
his powerful speeches for human dignity? This is another area, the
real human experience of the torture victims crying out for freedom
and justice.

I do not think we're going to find a single common term that meets our
needs. We might be able to create or choose one and imbue it with the
same meaning which those on this list already know for the term mind
control. Perhaps in the spirit of science we could do a taxonomy of
all the sorts of mind control and the descriptive term for each, all
under the common root node of an overarching term. A cluster analysis
of victim survey reports might provide some useful info there, but
*good* experimental studies are hard to do, cost money, are subject to
co-optation by victimizers, and victims are not exactly in the best
positions carry them out or trust those claiming to.

There was a thread on some mailing lists a while back about whether
the term mind control is the right one for activists to use. These
are all the terms suggested by various people there, plus a few more.
Remember the target audience in letter writing, etc.


aggravated assault and battery with microwave weapons
assaults with improvised electronic and non-electronic
(pressure driven mechanical) components
assaults with classified weapons
behavior modification torture victims
biological process control
brain bugging
braintapping
conspicuous surveillance
defamation of character
directed energy weapons
electromagnetic harassment victim
electromagnetic pulse weapons
electromagnetic weapons
electronic mind control
electronic torture
high-tech surveillance and harassment victim
human biological process control
mind control torture victims
mind control victim
neuroinfluencing weapon
nonconsensual behavior control operation victim
nonconsensual behavior modification operation victim
nonconsensual behavior modification victim
non-lethal weapons
performance-degrading weapons
psycho-correction technology
psycho-electronics
psychological deception operations
psychological warfare
psychotronics
radio frequency weapons
remote monitoring of EEG sounds
sleep deprivation
sleep-disrupting weapons
targeted individual
thought inference via sensor data analysis
torture
torture-level surveillance and harassment operation victim
torture-level surveillance and harassment victim
torture victims
voice-to-skull covert operation victim
zapping victim


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