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Whether done by ten-year-old children in a schoolyard, or by adults in organized campaigns of psychological attacks, bullying is bullying! I found an article that offered children tips on coping with bullys. However, they can apply just as well to adult victims of directed energy weapons torture and community policing based gang-stalking. The excerpt is posted below. I hope you find it useful!

Help for the Victims

Victims of bullying, particularly the young, face a difficult challenge—that of maintaining balance under pressure. When someone bullies you, he is probably eager to throw you off balance emotionally. He is hoping that you will resort to extremes of anger or show terror. If you fly into a fit of rage or burst into tears and express hurt or fear, the bully is getting what he wants. So he may try to provoke the same reaction again and again.

What can you do? Consider the following suggestions. They are written primarily with the young in mind, but the principles may also apply to adults dealing with bullies.

Keep cool. Don’t give in to rage. The Bible wisely advises: “Let anger alone and leave rage.” (Psalm 37:8) When your temper is out of control, you give the bully power over you, and you are likely to do things you will only regret.—Proverbs 25:28.

Try to put thoughts of revenge out of your mind. Vengeance often backfires. At any rate, revenge is not really satisfying. One girl, who was beaten up by five youths when she was 16 years old, recalls: “I decided in my heart, ‘I will get even with them.’ So I got some help from my friends and took revenge on two of my attackers.” The result? “I was left with an empty feeling,” she says. And her own conduct worsened afterward. Remember the Bible’s wise words: “Return evil for evil to no one.”—Romans 12:17.

When things appear to be getting heated, get away quickly. The Bible says: “Before the quarrel has burst forth, take your leave.” (Proverbs 17:14) In general, try to steer clear of those who tend to bully. Says Proverbs 22:3: “Shrewd is the one that has seen the calamity and proceeds to conceal himself, but the inexperienced have passed along and must suffer the penalty.”

If bullying persists, you may need to speak up for yourself. Choose a moment when you are calm, look the bully in the eye, and speak in a firm, level voice. Tell him that you don’t like what he is doing—that it is not funny and that it hurts. Do not resort to insults or challenges.—Proverbs 15:1.

Talk to a responsible, caring adult about the bullying. Be specific about the problem, and ask for help in handling it. Do the same in your prayers to God, and this can be a wonderful source of help and comfort.—1 Thessalonians 5:17.

Remember that you have value as a person. The bully might want you to think that you don’t matter, that you deserve to be treated badly. But he is not your judge. God is, and he looks for the good in each of us. It is the bully who becomes less worthwhile by resorting to such conduct.

An article entitledInvisible Beam Tops List of Nonlethal Weapons” published June 1, 2004 in the Sacramento Bee, discuses one of the better known microwave (millimeter-wave) based invisible remote beam pain weapons, the Active Denial System.

However, the article makes an interesting observation regarding this new generation of “less-than-lethal” weapons: “Military officials are trying to alleviate fears that the device might be misused to harm civilians or converted into a torture machine that leaves no marks.” To that end, social science graduate students were provided grants to “spend the summer reviewing literature and assessing how Americans and other cultures might react to its use.”

These concerns reflect the most obvious use of this class of wall penetrating weapons—torture. Doug Johnson, Executive Director of the Minneapolis-based Center for Torture Victims is skeptical of the Pentagon’s claims that such devices, which are being tested for use by law enforcement and military, will not be used for torture. “Is it torture if it only creates a sensation of pain, but leaves no marks and no long-term damage? I would say yes. Torture is primarily a psychological device, and finding different ways to use the body against the mind has been the struggle of torture technologies for thousands of years.”

The term millimeter wave can be used interchangeably with the term microwaves. Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic energy, or radiation. In frequency (rate of vibration) and wavelength, microwaves fall in the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared rays and radio waves. The term millimeter wave is descriptive of the wavelength of a microwave (one millimeter).

There are two kinds of electromagnetic radiation: ionizing and nonionizing. Ionizing radiation includes, at one end of the spectrum, X rays and gamma rays. Nonionizing radiation, which makes up the rest of the spectrum, includes ultraviolet light, visible light, infrared rays and radio waves. (And it is between the latter two that we find “microwaves.”) The terms ionizing and nonionizing denote an important difference. Ionizing radiation is capable of dislodging electrons from atoms, creating electrically charged, highly unstable, and chemically reactive atoms called ions. In other words, ionizing radiation invariably damages cells of living tissue and can cause genetic mutations. Any exposure to this kind of radiation, however slight, involves some degree of risk.

Microwaves, on the other hand, are nonionizing energy. They are much less powerful in effect and do not have sufficient energy to dislodge electrons from atoms, which is why man has felt relatively free to utilize this form of energy for its beneficial advantages. The military, by far the largest users of microwave devices in today’s world of electronic warfare, employ microwaves for such things as tracking and scanning radar, guidance systems for nuclear missiles and antimissile missiles, range finders for tanks, and for eavesdropping. We are perhaps most familiar with the in-home use of microwaves to power ovens in the kitchen.