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by Poverty Scholar/Facilitator; Dee Gray, Teaching Assistant;Alex Cuff

1st ‘reading’ by PSI Poverty Scholar; Jewnbug

1). What was the transubstantive error in the movie?

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Hedi would have a better life in so called “America.”
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Hedi takes her Vietnamese family’s behavior about money as rude.

Hedi is conditioned to view things from a (KKK) white racist perspective and very Americanized not embracing the interdependence in her family in Vietnam.

But wasn’t there transubstantive error on the part of the Vietnamese family? What is it? Explain.

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The Vietnamese family I think interpreted Hedi’s gift giving and her living in ”America” as her being wealthy thus why wouldn’t she help her family out with money and/or because “America” is capitalistic upfrontness about money wouldn’t be taken as rudeness and she wouldn’t be so emotional about it . However Heidi may not be hella wealthy she is still I feel in a financial position she can offer her family the support they are asking. The Mother however did make a comment about how she understood that Hedi has been raised in a different culture(lifestyle) and this talk of support for the family is something she is not being understanding too, but I feel that the Mother is still hurt by her daughter’s response even though she is trying to understand the conditioning that has influenced her daughter’s behavior.
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The Mother showing Hedi the shrine for her grandma/ancestor/elder expecting her to understand/value/honor death in this same manner.

2). What was needed in this situation to have not made the ending so hopeless?

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The daughter brings her Mother with her to meet her grandchildren and stays for a while.
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Heidi goes to Vietnam and brings her husband and two daughters to meet their family.
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Heidi stays in regular contact with her family and rediscovers and embraces her Vietnamese heritage and educates her children, husband and the family that adopted her. She doesn’t deny her heritage to the adopted family and they are confronted about their racism and classism. She builds a very strong bond with her family in Vietnam. She learns and realizes the lies of the American government and the truth, that her Mother never gave her up. She also is reducated about the war from the Vietnamese perspective and reality.
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Heidi helps her family in Vietnam every month and understands the upfrontness about money is her family keeping it real. (In my family we discuss money openly and honestly we have to, it’s the way we survive. It really upsets me she isn’t supporting her family who really loves her and shows it and here she is with all this food etc...and she can’t even give anything. I am on welfare and will still try to help my family out.) Furthermore she is grateful for the constant affection from her Mother and family because she didn’t get that kind of affection from her adopted family she adjusts without being turned off by the physical closeness. She leaves the audience with her brainstorming about moving to Vietnam with husband, daughters or stays every summer in Vietnam.

3). What did you most empathize with and why?

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I cried and cried about (Operation Babylift) children, babies taken away from their family, their Mother. I cried at the end because Hedi don’t even write her family back that’s beeped up. The lies the Mothers were told and this white woman trying to take childern to “America” really angers me.
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I am happy she was reunited with her Mother but angry, frustrated with her attitude towards her family in Vietnam. I am sad for the Mother her pain her mourning over her daughter.
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I dream and cry to meet my family one day. My family in Hawaii who are in contact through letters, pictures and phone but to touch them is something I hunger for. Many people who aren’t even Hawaiian get to travel, live, go to school in the home of my Ancestors my family. I didn’t even have money to go and over a year ago my grandpa died me and my dad, my brother couldn’t afford to go to the funeral. It hurts. I got two brothers who I haven’t even met who live in another state of colonizing and dream of meeting them. Heidi to me had the opportunity of a life time and she acted like a beep.
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I think she acted like a (beep) and still is because she is not writing back and basically it looks like she has totally written them out of her life. I think that her behavior is a result from the following:

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The adopted family never encouraged her to be proud of being Vietnamese/ mixed.
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Believing that her Mother gave her up and probably being taught that by her adopted family.
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Not being able to really identify with anyone or anything as a person who’s a mix of Asian and European heritage in the environment she is being raised in.
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Not gonna be accepted in this society if she represents her Vietnamese heritage therefore assimilates to be an all “white American”. ( I myself as a mixed woman who’s mix is not your so called average mix and being someone who is non white but could pass if I chose to has dealt with white youth only wanting me to represent white and being attacked as a teenager by a white guy who called me a nigger and told me to leave the Sunset and go to Hunter’s Point . I tried to hang out with white youth at one point in time and felt so out of place I stopped hanging out with them but did make connections with youth who were non white who were hanging out with the same crowd. Here I was taking two buses from my hood to go kick it with white youth with the exception of a few youth who were non white. I felt so uncomfortable a lot times that I stopped. When I look back I feel the reason I did this was because I at 16 for the first time had been exposed to white youth who were well to do on a mass level and I was curios plus the parties the houses the cars the drugs the money appealed to me a mixed lite skinned young lady who’s poor, wished at one point could have their life with the exception of some things.) Heidi having this opportunity to not wish but actually was living the life as a youth in a white community who didn’t go with out food, shelter, clothing and could pass chose to for reasons of protection, acceptance and access.
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Heidi didn’t get physical or verbal affection on a daily basis from her adopted family made her in ways a non touching feeling person. She is encouraged not only through lack of affection but the mannerism of this white community to be separated from family to succeed. When she left home she didn’t go live with anyone else in her adopted family not even the grandma. At the end of the movie you see her talking with her adopted grandma saying she knows her best but yet this family didn’t work together to intervene when the adopted Mother kicked her out of the house nor did anyone in the community. She did stay I believe with friends but it seems no one helped restore the relationship with her adopted Mother. This is another example of separatism which influenced her to not empathize with her family in Vietnam’s need for her intervention and support to help them survive. She was taught she had to survive on her own by this white community’s separatism.
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The school she attended spoke on the war in Vietnam yet did they even discuss Operation Babylift and did they educate her on it with a prejudice towards Vietnam. I think perhaps they did therefore she is being conditioned to blame her Mother for having made the decision to have her adopted in “America” not the facts of who the oppressor is in this situation but she takes it out on her Mother. ( Myself can recall being upset with my Mother and Father of why were poor but as time went on I learned my parents are being oppressed and that they are trying to do what they can so we survive. I at that point in time had been conditioned to take it out on my parents instead of the welfare system, capitalism etc… I everyday must unlearn oppression and it’s conditionings.)
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I think that Heidi is part of a community that is based on lies and teaches lies such as racizm, classizm and that individuation is a good thing. She lives around people who aren’t keeping it real who aren’t teaching the truth. Her family in Vietnam keeps it real in terms of where they are coming from and what they need. I think she ain’t used to such honesty and openness.

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2nd ‘reading’ by Poverty Scholar Valerie Schwartz

1. What was the transubstantive error in the movie?

I believe there were several transubstantive errors in the movie. Beginning with "operation babylift" it was more than evident that the whatever they called themselves, representatives of the American government and adoption agencies. They did not seem to care that they were taking children away from their mothers and brothers, sisters, families and culture. They just knew they were "doing the right thing" without considering the ramifications of their of the program they were implementing and the long range effect it would have on the people involved. They were just doing their job for America is what they probably tell us. Another great American faux pas...

The second transubstantive error is made by Heidi herself, this was as crippling as "operation babylift" itself. She went very impulsively into finding and meeting her mother. I don't believe that she took the time to consider the contrast of culture and life between Viet Nam and the USA . I don't think she put forth much energy thinking about anyone other than herself and perhaps an unrealistic view of how her renuion would go her vision was myopic if not blinded by the thought of how she dreamed it would be.

The third transubstantive error was with her siblings and relatives in their thinking that Heidi would understand the concept of being responsible for her mother, family, and elders. I am sure that they were unaware of how many American treat they parents, siblings, and families in general: they don't understand that Americans have been brought up to believe in individuation and are basically brought up in the school of thought that we have come to know as "me, me, me, mine, mine, mine." I am not suggesting that they
disregard Heidi's behavior but unfortunately it wasn't considered.

2. What was needed in this situation to have not made the ending so hopeless?

I think that Heidi should have taken the time to find out more about her people and culture and especially done a lot of correspondence with her family before going. Americans don't even consider the idea that people in other countries live very differently than we do. Heidi regretfully I think entertained an "orphans dream" meaning that her life was gonna be wrapped up in a wonderful little package once she and her mother reunited that all her life she had wanted a June Clever type mother...ya know the loving TV mom who is always there, knows just what to say, and is very loving and nurturing. Nice thought, but not too real. Not that it couldn't be accomplished with some understanding, love, and work. I believe her mother truly loves her very much and really thought at the time that she did the right thing by giving Heidi up especially with the rumor of the burning of all the Amer-Asian children, but Heidi needs to get real and get off her pity pot. At times I had the definite feeling that her siblings were of little importance to her. I was disgusted by the way she reacted to the thought of helping out financially, she never even seemed to consider how good she has it, that she doesn't struggle from day to day. I guess I feel that Heidi should have put forth a lot more effort and it wouldn't have been so hopeless. She did initiate the reunion therefore I think she should have put more into making it work and tried to be aware of the cultural differences.

3. What did you most empathize with and why?

I can only empathize with Heidi on a small scale. The person or idea that I empathize with is probably with Heidi's mother. She was left with children to care for during a war, her husband gone and she did what she had to do to see that her children/family stayed intact, safe, and alive by being a G.I.'s consort. I know the reality of having to compromise yourself to feed your children. She then thinking she was saving Heidi from death at the hands of Vietnamese soldiers/ new regime, thinking that all the children would be rounded up and killed. What a horrible decision to have to make to make and then wonder for decades if she had done the right thing. I also caught a deep feeling when her family was asking her to help care for her mother and her mother explained to them that Heidi didn't understand, that it was too soon, and they shouldn't make her feel forced. That was truly a mother's compassionate and genuine love even though she was disappointed...she did not give up hope.

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2nd ‘reading’ by Alex Cuff

1. what was the transubstantive error in the movie?

...there were so many. first of all, the vietnam war itself – or most wars, i
think. then, "operation babylift" – assuming that the vietnamese children were
better off with american parents. i feel that both heidi (i can’t remember her real name) and her mother are victims of the transubstantive
errors mentioned above. As far as their own transubstantive errors – yes, they both made the errors. The family asking for money is sort of a cross cultural “error” because americans don’t usually do that but I don’t think it’s a major error as in it didn’t really have much of a negative impact on the receiver of the error, heidi. If anything, getting upset was probably good for her in that it broke the comfort bubble she arrived to vietnam in. Okay so heidi’s transubstantive error was taking something as huge as a reunification with her mother very lightly. She made an error is getting personally insulted by the asking of money instead of learning more about the culture before her arrival. The family laid off when she got upset and didn’t press. They didn’t hold anything against her when she reacted to the request for help.

although i was appalled by heidi’s behavior when she went to visit her family in
vietnam, i can not find a way to blame her except for being super selfish and
badly educated. the latter probably contributing to the prior. i wonder why she
wanted to back to vietnam to meet reunite with her mother. If anything, she wasn’t prepared for what the trip meant.

2. What was needed in situation to have not made the ending so hopeless?

I really don’t know. Maybe more support and education and encouragement from the Filipino woman who escorted heidi to the village and acted for part of the time as translator. Really heidi needed to be different. I don’t want to come down so hard on her and say that she needs to follow through with the entire thing (which is what I feel) but she could have at least continued correspondence with the family, sent pictures of her children, maybe even gone back over with her family or something.

3. Who did you most empathize with and why?

Certainly the mother. Her emotion was so real to me as where heidi seemed cold and disconnected. The mother waited so long to see her daughter – the scene on the beach in the beginning, memories of heidi’s father was probably painful and of course the regret and guilt she probably felt for letting heidi go to the US. I empathize also for the family because they see and live with the mother’s pain and don’t really have a way to console her. The mother is strong through and intelligent, she seems to understand where heidi is coming from SO much more than heidi even tries to see where the mother is coming from. I can empathize with heidi if I try to put myself in her position – her life back home seemed so stale and I feel bad for her cause I feel she’s scared and wants to be comfortable even with the grandmother who doesn’t seem too warm. Heidi doesn’t get the richness she is missing in vietnam.

All in all it’s really a terrible situation. It’s hard to point blame on the victims which I think all of the characters in the movie were. Our invasion of vietnam and the post-transubstantive error of stealing children from their families is the underlying blame.

by Kaponda

An eerie hush passed through the grandiose structure
as Scott and I walked through the doors of the
building at Dr. Carlton Goodlet Street. We had
planned to seize the area bordering the space inhabited
by the Mayor and, therefore, arrived 15 minutes
earlier than his scheduled press conference.

Shrouded in secrecy the entire week, the homeless
voucher plan had been expected to be announced by
Mayor Willie Brown during his press conference on
Friday, March 24, 2000. Advocates of the homeless
had interpreted these private meetings of City officials
as veiled threats.

The homeless voucher plan (hereinafter, "the plan"),
according to inside information, features elements
similar to the ill-fated initiative set forth by Earl
Rynerson, Proposition E. Instead of welfare
payments, the plan would provide vouchers to
homeless people. It would cause people to scurry
throughout the city to find compassionate landlords
who would accept vouchers instead of lucre.

As we ascended the ritzy stairs to the second floor of
City Hall, Scott and I reviewed one of the many
questions propounded as a reality check for the
Mayor. If Proposition E was soundly and decisively
defeated by the voters of San Francisco, why are you
creating a plan that voters have strongly opposed?
Paul Boden of the Coalition on Homeless mirrored
the sentiments of San Franciscans in his statement,
"San Franciscan voters have recognized what people
tracking housing and treatment trends across
Clinton's America have been saying for years.
Vouchers do not build housing nor can they create
treatment slots."

The inside informant further advised that the proposed plan
would create a state of emergency, as many homeless
welfare recipients would be unable to secure housing or a
place in a shelter. During a daylong symposium on
affordable housing, Lyle Wray, a housing official from
Minnesota was quoted as saying, "It's like the twilight
zone here. By our standards, nothing is affordable in San
Francisco." Mayor Brown also stated at the same
symposium, "....This [San Francisco] is a place where
everyone wants to live and everyone wants to work. It's a
creative challenge to help find enough housing for
everyone."

The only possible rationale, according to inside
information, to institute a voucher policy is that it would be
cost effective, and; therefore, would stack the City's coffer
on the overburdened backs of homeless people. But those
cohorts in this putrid scheme have to understand that a plan
of this magnitude would devastate the very foundation of
this great City. It should be conveyed to the various heads
of agencies that vouchers as a way of paying rent will not
work in any form. They do not work because they are
inherently less valuable than cash. Vouchers do not afford
an individual the opportunity to save money for permanent
housing. Lastly, vouchers will not work because of the
abundance of red tape on both the Department of Human
Services and the prospective property owner.

There were many other questions that needed to be
addressed on this Friday morning. The names of the
participants who helped devise this plan? Also, if those
participants had spoken to the Local Homeless
Coordinating Board, the Coalition on Homelessness, or
shelter clients? Would a voucher guarantee a shelter bed?
From where would the 1,900 additional shelter beds come?
(DHS estimates there are about 3,000 homeless people in
the CAAP programs and there are currently only 1,100
shelter beds for single adults.)

The slender blond appeared caught off guard as Scott and I
inquired concerning the press conference. Ms. Bender,
Mayor Brown's press secretary, located the strategically
placed calendar to make certain that there was no scheduled
press conference. In a pleasant tone, she, again, told us,
"I'm sorry, Mayor Brown does not have a press
conference scheduled this morning."

by Thornton Kimes

“It’s about the gentrification of all aliens
Humans and abroad
They look different to us but I bet we looking odd
About how humanity can just put you in a place
Even where there is no space
And even out of there
They still got chased…”

--District 9 Notes by Ruyata McGlothin

Sometimes I think Peter Jackson is God. I read “The Lord of the Rings” before going into high school, but didn’t really understand it until Jackson started directing the movies and I re-read the whole thing. Tolkein may or may not have understood eco-consciousness, but his Ents sure as hell did, and the Hobbits got theirs back when the Fellowship of the Ring returned from their adventures.

Jackson has struck gold, again, with “District 9”, an original science fiction dystopian present/future movie, a story about aliens crashlanding right in the middle of one of the most infamous poverty-stricken areas on Earth—South African shanty-towns (and places like Lesotho, which I think are still classified as “countries” inside South Africa) which, despite the “end” of Apartheid, haven’t disappeared into economic prosperity for all. Which happens to be true, as well as brutally displayed on the big screen.

There is so much to talk about here, whether or not you like/love science fiction/fantasy (my first love in reading, along with superhero comic books…which I can’t afford to buy anyway…). District 9 reminds me of “Alien Nation” (A. N.), the movie (1988) and the tv series (1989), but the D-9 aliens, nicknamed “Prawns” (replace that with “Wetback”, “Nigger”, “Redneck”, “White Trash”, “Fag”…) aren’t as cuddly and human-looking as the stranded A.N. ex-slaves.

One of the “Alien Nation” aliens became a cop, teamed up with a human. There have been numerous novels written based on video games, tv series (Star Trek, for one), etc. In one “Alien Nation” novel, SLAG LIKE ME (“Slag” was the nasty slang term for the you-know-who), a Black journalist became a Slag via plastic surgery—and was discovered to be a black-skinned human by a White racist…who murdered him.

Simple motives for devastating events like murders tend to generate unintended consequences and ricochet through peoples’ lives like old-school steel pinball game balls.
The last hit between the eyes in SLAG LIKE ME is a public poll, published in a newspaper and yakked about on tv, that reveals that Humans think “Slags” are, well, White People…because they look like White People.

The “Prawns” crash-land and their mother-ship hovers over Johannesburg, South Africa, for 20 years before the events of the movie begin. Anti-gravity anyone? The alien mothership and the alien ghetto have been getting on everyone’s nerves, and encouraging the local crime bosses to ever greater outrages, so the authorities decide to move their uninvited guests to “District 10”, much farther from the city and, at least on tv, “cleaner” and not chaotic.

So you get the idea nobody would hire one of these guys to be a cop. The lie-of-the-budget-cut that POOR Magazine frequently talks about, poor folks given only crumbs, forced to fight other brands of poor folk for the limited supply of crumbs, and then forced to endure things like San Francisco Mayors and California Governors dissing us and slashing the crumbs into ever smaller pieces…comes out brilliantly, and with a subtle visual twist of the knife—a poor Black South African talks to the television news media about hating and fearing the Prawns, because they steal their stuff and then kill them…as a Prawn digs through a dumpster behind the person being interviewed.

The aliens have human names, we never learn any others (echoes of American slavery). Did humans just decide this didn’t matter, or is there some other reason for this unanswered detail?

“Bad News” Bruce Allison, elder scholar and so much more at POOR Magazine, also saw District 9. “People were walking out of the theater, acting like they were looking for ‘Star Wars’, or maybe they’d left their brains at the candy counter,” he said in a conversation with me. “District 9” isn’t “Independence Day”, though I enjoyed that movie. It turned the aliens into the eco-nasties, instead of little ol’ us struggling with self-inflicted global warming, but did anyone notice?

District 9 forces you to take time to understand whazzup. A fictional documentary with bursts of “real life” events as the eviction/gentrification of the Prawns gets rolling, awkwardly and chaotically, the construction of the characters and how much we develop any sort of empathy, dislike, or hatred for them, is as skillfully done as in Slumdog Millionaire.

The Prawns’ language makes it even harder to identify with them. Imagine my shock at discovering how much I did as the movie went along, and the various heroes and villains get under your skin in so many interesting and disturbing ways. I even learned to like and/or respect the man appointed to “lead” the effort to move the Prawns (a man you could trust to maybe do your plumbing, or file your income taxes, but--), a character who I think is the best definition of “fictional love/hate relationship” I’ve so far encountered.

Walking a mile in someone’s shoes, or traveling light years that way, is a staple of magic realism and science fiction. Think Kafka and the man who became a cockroach. There are science fiction tales that take Kafka’s cockroach for a ride on that boobytrapped bus in “Speed”, but few better than this one. If it is difficult for you, the reader, to wrap your head around someone wanting to be a different sex, how about being forced to change species?

You think he’s the perfect man to take the fall for his boss when things inevitably go wrong, but when this gentrification-on-steroids goes bad, it becomes what POOR Magazine staff writer Vivian Hain calls “Wrongology”. You think he’s a really shallow,
evil person, then you find out he isn’t, then you find out he can be a good guy and a bad guy and somebody seeming to lose his mind so thoroughly he doesn’t believe he’ll ever find it again.

If Peter Jackson never makes a “District 10” sequel, that’s okay with me. The reverberations and what-came-next ruminations will be rattling around in my head like dice for a long time. The only thing currently moving in any sort of perceptible forward-like direction in my life is POOR Magazine and POOR Press—DISTRICT 9 came along at a good time, doing what art is supposed to do, kick (insert appropriate name or pronoun) in the metaphorical ass.

Ruyata’s poem does the same thing:

“We didn’t create them yet and still we put them up
In South Africa
After they torn down shanti towns
For the World Cup
How one of us slowly became one of them
And just how his value depleaded
All down to one limb
About change, and how ready for it we aint”

by Leroy Moore, Darla Lennox, Maria Palacios, Zilwood, Tiny

Its X-mas, and we'r stressd yes, cus we'r the financially weak Brits/_But at least students wont be outside the University handing me Leaflets/__And Pointless flyers/ for "great" bargain buyers/ _Taxi Hires/and free drink coupons that you cant use cus there liers/_But it's that time of year t...hat always tiers/ __Where Mass corporations enslave december/ _"Holidays Are Coming" is now Coca-Cola's Agenda/_and the meaning of Xmas is to get pissed up on the Bender/_and stuffed with that Turkey so Tender/

Zillwood from London, England (Christmas 2009)

by Joe B.

King’s Living Legacy

Martin Luther King’s birthday is Monday its also a Federal Holiday.

King’s dream of character over color still isn’t realized but we the spiritual son’s and daughter’s the King Legacy won’t give up or into this fall into the past by Selected President B Jr.

King’s own son’s and daughter’s thrive with children of their own so both legacies continue strong into the early 21st century.

Christ like honorable, courageous,bold,and insightful his assassination only creates more people who will not let go the struggle, teaching siblings,and their progeny to remember why our leaders died in the first place.

There’s not much more to say only remember why Mr. M.L. King and others died and continue to die for the free will and freedom of all.

Speaking of death, supreme sacrifice,isn’t it time we try to live our lives as best we can studying how to further the human life span.

President Bush’s return and moon base speech is less Kennedy than "thousand light thing" of his former President Bush Sr.

It sounded like a desperate grasping at straws for a legitimate re-election bid.

Instead of the Turkey surprise troop visit to Baghdad photo op why take many or all of those hard working, GI’s home to families and friends.

He could’ve used his presidential cache to go out on the limb saying "There’s been too much destruction,death, of soldier’s,and innocent women,men,and children; Let’s challenge our best thinkers not only in America but around the globe to go after the worst super predator stalking Mankind – Death."

Starting now in late 2003 and 2004 and beyond a non stop effort to eliminate sickness, disease,and conquer death once and for all and in its place life extension, cryonics and eventual immortality to everyone."

Ok,its probably a political ploy for re-election and in his heart he's not 'feelin it but you know what happens in spite of his doubts?

Scientists young,old, their students from college,high and middle school from all over the world will be galvanized to the near impossible to set the goal earlier than humanity would believe!

It would make discovery of the double helix, Moon shot,Russian-America handshake in space,and even manned voyage to Mars pale in comparison.

The announcement does not have to be made by a sitting President but from Senator,to Congress men/ women can do the same, others can begin speaking out until the idea becomes popular and widespread.

Hey,it’s a thought.

Myself silently fuming as one of the older less cash folk and closet cryonics and immoralist I cannot wait for the have folks to "get it" then not leave ‘po folks out of the equation.

Guess my way will be to scramble,make money different all legal (mostly)and being an organization that’s non political dedicated to the proposition "Immortality belongs to all,those not wanting it can live their lives but don’t prevent, or otherwise interfere with life extension/ immoralist efforts of friends,families or strangers."

Yes,it would be an open secret organization crossing all political, religious,racial, cultural,and sexual orientation lines.

From liquid gels,drugs, pills, cocktails,to genetic manipulation of DNA and deeper into the molecular strands and germ lines.

Until life extended individuals, Aging) people and immortals-by-genetic birthright are more of the population than Norm-A (Normal Aging) humans.

Because like mutants humans and normal there could be a literal killing war of ideas about what natural life and death is and the deathward-ly mobile will fight to keep their beliefs though antiquated alive trying to reconvert confused on-the-fence x-tension folks from taking that pill,drug,or gene therapy that will add centuries or render them immortal and a member in the fraternity of eternal or E-Women and Men.

I might have to fake a death and move on as others take charge of immortal making world wide and only return when 99% of humanity true birthright is automatic immortality at certain age-stops from 24 to 90 of course because of age slowing,retarding, and regenerative regiments a 90 year old could look 25, have disease resistance of 12,and sexual energies of 14,18,20 year olds and their health will remain fit and high.

The new vampires are us,immortals walking in day light sucking on life itself not on others life’s blood.

Who knows I or others with more money,time,and imagination might succeed but someone has to get life extension to eventual immortality going.

It’s the only way go off world living on other planetary bodies,space habitats,or time travel forward or back.

Now that’s something I’d like to do if immortality is earned by me. I’d have to be circumspect,be invisible, and observe without changing history which involves falling in live with famous or soon to be famous or infamous women, avoiding certain men, groups,wars,or other situations.

Not being on the ‘Mary Celeste'-1884, Titanic- 1912, Lusitania-1915,or Andrea Doria-1956,also on planes,trains,cars, busses,for example I wouldn’t want to accidentally trade places with Mr. Wally Post or Will Rogers fateful plane trip of 1935 but not being able to keep all those tragedies in my head means one or more of those fatal accidents will get me.

What I’m saying is I’d rather wait for life eternal than be a time traveling mortal.

First immortality then time travel because barring accident, homicide,or being in an non survivable event or war immortality comes handy if I avoided all the pitfalls including a jilted wife or former girl friend who’d want to kill me for simply living, staying,young,dating, marrying,and raising children while she aged.
(its from an old Twilight Zone episode staring Kevin McCarthy as a quiet professor,who was given the gift of eternal life.)

Its just a few of my ramblings,what would you do man or woman given the gift of perfect health mentally,physically and never age,get sick. A grade A true immortal!

What would you folks do with it?

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Life Extension APPROPRIATE AGED IMMORTALITYor Age Appropriate Immortality is the more correct wording.

What does that mean?

Unlike Kate Wilhelm’s "Welcome Chaos" or John
Wyndham’s
"The Trouble With Lichen" or other stories about humanity gaining immortality before they're able to deal with its ramifications is a scary concept yet its logical that our society will someday face this fictionalized scenario.

In ancient Rome and 18 or 24 or more was the limit any older like 34 or 40 and people were deemed ancient.

No wonder Alexander The Great did so much before he turned 35, his life span was so short and he had to pack so much in a short life.

To be 10, 15, or younger forever or 90 years old permanently is equally just as bad.

But if humans learned expertly to fine-tune brain, hormonal, metabolism, and biological from pre-birth adapting the pre-embryo to where minute changes so at various ages at each stage of life they become stronger, healthier, resistant to most illnesses, regenerate quicker from cuts scrapes, even broken bones that heal without scars.

For older adults their aging could be made to be slowed until their bodies are slowly replaced with newer improved flesh and metal parts.

Possibly the Electro-chemical memory residing in the brain was transferred to an exact though new and improved twin or clone of the original body upgraded from the molecular level.

What I am saying is if we became more precise in improving our bodies and brains we could have age stops from 22 to 90 or older but biologically slowed aging will make chronological aging meaningless.

With Age Appropriate Immortality from birth to grave, reversed, slowed, or stopped age becomes irreverent in that and 50 or 90 year old looking and feeling decades younger would be like looking at someone 25 or 35.

For example: a 170 year stunner of a woman could be throbbing the cradle with some 50 year old youth, to her a mere child.

Their ages would mean nothing, a quaint, old fashioned chronological tradition.

Age Appropriate Immortality should be life extensions new frontier before full-blown immortality arrives with all its dread and worries about what death means when people choose to live long as they choose.

Its just a few ideas to kick around on life, death, living, dying, and the possible avoiding of the long gray scythe of Grim reapers blade.

What do you budding Immoralists, Cryonicists, Eternals, and Neptune Society, and Death With Dignity folks think about it?

Talk among yourselves, form new political parties based on Life Extended to Immortal and Right To Die.

I can only be a conduit, a wilderness voice hoping other people are thinking similar or more advanced than I; be safe, live long, folks… Bye.

by Marlon Crump

“We didn’t have a name, we didn’t have an identity, but our action gave us an identity.” Ashraf Cassiem, lead organizer, chairperson of Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, explaining the birth of the community organization.

Earlier this year, my family of POOR Magazine/PNN learned of their struggles within the South African communities of Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg, among others. Since then, a series has been produced for their silenced, unheard voices.

In a May 7th, PNN article, “Fighting Foreclosure in South Africa: An Open Letter to U.S. Activists” sought to bring forth awareness of the struggle:

“Beware of all those in power--even those who seem like they are on your side. Beware of money, especially NGO money, which seeks to pacify and prevent direct action. Beware of media, even alternative media written by the middle class on behalf of the poor. Create your own media.”

“To provide for the progressive elimination of slums in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal; to provide for measures for the prevention of the re-emergence of slums; to provide for the upgrading and control of existing slums; and to provide for matters connected therewith.”

(A provision from Section 16 of the“Slums Act” in South Africa.)

This section was struck down on October 14th, by the constitutional court, of South Africa against the Kwazulu-Natal provincial government, in favor of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the South African Shack Dwellers Movement. Abahlali baseMjondolo means “shack dweller” in language from the Zulu people.

Though this section was destroyed, there is still more struggle ahead for the movement to permanently be rid of this entire law, which is easily equivalent to gentrification.

Removal of just one of its sections and/or subdivisions won’t do any good.“Is there a huge momentum push to get rid of the Slums Act in general?” I asked Ashraf Cassiem during an interview on Pirate Cat Radio, here in San Francisco.

“When it was proposed, the movement (Abahlali baseMjondolo) went to the magistrate court to have it declared illegal.” Cassiem replied. “The magistrate upheld the Slums Act. It was only because of the tenacity of Abahlali baseMjondolo that they applied to the constitutional court to explain the problem that we had with the Slums Act.”

Just like poor and landless people here in the U.S.A. alleged as the “land of the free”. For the landless of South Africa, their ongoing decade struggle continues to defy subsequent, systematic strategies, of relentless objectives aimed for their removal by the Cape Town government

Dis-placing them into parts, unknown, and re-placing them with owners, unknown. It's been the beliefs and ignorance to many that “Post-Apartheid South Africa” ended in 1994. Rude awakeningly, it has not.

"Today we found out, about seven hours ago that the police broke inside someone's house, looking for someone. When they were confronted by the community, they started shooting." Raj Patel, activist, author, journalist, and supporter for the movement would later state before the interview with Ashraf Cassiem. The incident took place at the Pemary Ridge settlement in Reservoir Hills.

Me and the audience learned of this horrible news on this November 13th chilly Friday evening. He was briefy interviewed before Cassiem. On this evening, I was here to interview him, in our re-porting and su-pporting of the movement.

“Currently if poor children are found living on the streets are put in jail for weeks at a time, if tourists are expected to come to Durban.” “Tiny” Lisa Gray-Garcia, co-founder of POOR Magazine/PNN in her November 10th, 2009. “The War on the Poor from San Francisco to South Africa has a new foe!”

Tiny frequently speaks about the true state-of-emergency to “move off the grid” and to “take back the land.” With increased efforts by governments to displace the poverty prone, universally, who could debate this?

“The Homefulness Project needs to happen!” she would exclaim. This project would mean for everyone who’re houseless and in poverty to finally own their share of land, bearing peace of mind. To equally have equity, undetermined by race, sex, religion, and especially income status.

No more dreaded pieces of paper calling themselves “Notice To Vacate” from landlords, slumlords assisted with sheriff deputies, to serve their tenants. Like a warden accompanied with prison guards to serve a death warrant to a condemned prisoner.

Freedom from foreclosures by banks, who disperse families of the poor, working class, and privileged (locally and globally) then having the audacity to apply for “Corporate Welfare” or a “Bailout” quickly given to them by U.S. Congress. No more dis-placement and re-placement!

Ashraf Cassiem arrived at Pirate Cat Radio Cafe, approximately a half hour before radio broadcast segment went underway. Cassiem was here to to spread the word of the relentless war against the poor taking place through South African cities, such as Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, etc, etc.

They face terror 24/7 by the po-lice, laws containing clause severities, and governmental oppression, overall.

Pirate Cat Radio Host, and member of the “League of Pissed Off Voters”, Andy Blue opened up the interview with Raj Patel, who is in full support of the struggle. Patel vocalized a summary overview of the historical background of South Africa. He stated how “people in the U.S. are told two different stories about Africa that kind of circulate.”

“One is about how after Nelson Mandela was released (from a long prison term), the country sang beautiful songs, everyone danced under the rainbow flag, and everything went happily ever after.” When Patel said this, one thing quickly came to my mind was last year’s election with President Barack Obama’s historical win.

While there are those who might’ve believed that apartheid in South Africa ended in 1994, it clearly had not, which was confirmed by Patel, “If you look at things like education, healthcare, income, South Africa has become a worst place.”

He further explained how so many people get the darkest stories of South Africa, in reference to some of the criminal activities that take place: Violence, rape against women, drugs, etc, etc. and that the concern by people was that South Africa was going to turn into this “dark continent” because people don’t know what else to do.

Patel countered those stories. “South Africa has a rich history of resistance of people fighting back.” In light of the horrific news given to us regarding the po-lice shooting community members, Patel talked about their resistance when they fled to the top of the road, then burned tires to keep the po-lice out.

In one area of Durban, a middle class section with a small percentage of people living in shacks, and low income, the police are shooting anyone who even looks low income. “That’s alive right now. That’s part of the immediate struggle that Ashraf is in.”

After Patel concluded his interview, he introduced Ashraf Cassiem, who talked about the background of the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign.

“In October of 2000, the City of Cape Town used the the sheriff to evict many members of community. One in particular was a man in a wheel chair, and his whole family, who had a two month old baby. The community responded by getting together to resist that particular eviction, but it did not go with out incident.”

Cassiem said there were six people arrested that day, and multiple law enforcement units, including the army had arrived to the scene. Ashraf was one of the first to be assaulted. He sustained numerous injuries to his body from dog bites, and had his front teeth kicked in. A truce even took place among the five gangs that lived in his area.

“There were five different gangs who were fighting each other all the time.” He said. But on this day of evictions, the rival gangs formed an alliance and joined the movement, after seeing what was happening to their community.

The community occupied the police station for two hours, with over 7,000 strong until everyone, including the family of the man in the wheelchair were finally released to the community and reinstated back to their homes.

“On that day, we decided that no one would ever be evicted again.” Cassiem said. Unfortunately, the community of Cape Town found themselves involved in another battle, called the “water wars” three months later.

The City of Cape Town, because we couldn’t afford water, they came and disconnected us. They disconnected families from having water.” There were many confrontations, because the person sent to disconnect were accompanied by police.

When disconnections took place, re-connections would follow by the community members, affected. 1,300 families were being denied from the fundamental human right to have water.

“We decided that at every morning at 4:00 a.m. we would get up in the entrances of our community, light some tires and stayed there the whole day.” Other communities received words about these incidents and the acts of resistance, because of the similar experiences they all shared.

Invitations were extended to them to join their cause. Alliances were formed, and an un-planned community based organization was born: The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign.

Their goal is to be strictly spontaneous in its function to the forefront for the poor. They refuse to engage with academics, influences with hidden agendas, and politics in general, since there is no help given to them by the government.

“No Land, No House, No Vote!”

Revolution chants expressed by the movement displayed towards the government, showing their refusal to participate in its elections or any political parties.

In 2002, they sought to bring a suit against the city regarding disconnections of their water. A lawyer and an advocate were more than willing to take their case. Later, however, due to politics and conflict of interests issues, they declined to help them.

With no legal representation, their suit never made it to court. The “water wars” and evictions raged on. They did, however, discover a clause in the constitution that allowed them to represent their community members in various other cases, as an association. “We are not attorneys or advocates.” Cassiem explained.

As a “Revolutionary Legal Scholar” I know the experience of self-representation, and not having a degree. I co-founded the “Revolutionary Legal Advocacy Project” two years ago, a revolutionary legal project of POOR to give accessibility to low income people the resources they need to fight the legal system.

Cassiem detailed the restructure of the constitution, during the Mandela Administration, where more problems surfaced. There were signed off policies that apartheid used to benefit from, leading to a devastating impact on the poor.

Commodifications, and prioritizations from these policies, during his adminstration led to problems with healthcare, education, housing, evictions, marginalizations, and displacements among the poor.

All of which resulted from the languages scripted in the constitution; which were misinterpreted by the poor to sign written agreements because they sounded legitimate.

In 2007, the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign got involved with a plan from then-Minister of Housing for the N2 Gateway Projects, Lindiwe Sisuli. The plan was the removal of settlements on the freeways, and place them in affordable housing. “We call them squatter camps Cassiem said, in reference to the settlements. The main targets were the ones by the international airport so that tourists would not see them.

Plans for the FIFA World Cup next year, and anticipated arrivals of tourists increased the removal of squatter camps. Such are the efforts by the City of San Francisco to push for a new San Francisco 49’ers Football Stadium in the Bayview Hunter’s Point Neighborhood.

The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign and the community once again refused to be forcibly removed. Their ground was stood in the face of po-lice attacks, shootings, and arrests of trumped up charges. The courts would later dismissed those charges, due to lack of evidence to support them.

Evictions were executed to 25,000 families that lived on the freeways. Sisuli suggested that they be moved (or physically be moved) to an unfavorable area of about 20 kilometers away. “We resisted and went to court. I actually did the representation.” Cassiem said.

To his surprise, and on this particular day, the judge wanted Cassiem to excuse himself from representing the squatter camp community. “Look, you’re not a lawyer, you’re not an advocate, and you’re not allowed to talk in my court. Who gives you the right to say what you’re saying?!"

Cassiem replied that it was not in his own interest, except in the interest of 25,000 other people. He recently visited other U.S. cities, including a poor community in Chicago to hear their testimonies, of evictions, displacement, and gentrification.

To read more about his visit, among other stories regarding the Abahlali baseMjondolo shack dwellers movement, and the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign are featured at the below website, http://www.abahlali.org/node/5678

In addition, Pirate Cat Radio face problems with the Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C). To read more, please go to www.piratecatradio.com

“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.” Boxing legend, Muhammad Ali

by Staff Writer

To all the tenants that reside,
Inside a C.H.P. dwelling;
I wrote this to let you know,
Of something quite compelling.
You've known me as an advocate,
Defender of homeless and poor;
But now I'm informing you,
Of problems an the front Door.
It seems as though a house rule,
Has changed the face of residence;
Involving a security issue,
as though we are ex-presidents.
Front door traffic has increased,
And runs like water from hoses;
Tenants want guests respected,
C.H.P. smell the roses.

In times of financial shortage,
all types of assets are used;
Tenants are aware of policies,
And try to keep them unbruised.
Friends and relatives come by,
When tenants budgets are weak;
Gifts and arrangements blend,
For entertainment guests seek.
Recently an obstacle surfaced,
Interfering with traffic flow;
No one can enter the building,
With no Desk Clerk in the show.
But if a tenant is waiting,
And aware they're not Moses;
They expect to be let in,
C.H.P. smell the roses.

If there is someone leaving,
This building that tenants rent;
The tenant should be let in,
If it's a guest that's waiting,
They know that the only choice;
Is let the Clerk make contact,
Okay from the tenant voice.
But if the Clerk is not there,
The guest is still stuck outside;
Street atmosphere changes fast,
Challenging patience and pride.
Upon the Desk Clerk's return,
Confrontation imposes;
C.H.P. smell the roses.

when the visitor is let in,
Conversations are heated;
The tenant comes questioning,
The way their guest was treated.
The Clerk-on-duty is alone,
While keeping House Rules on track:
On the Swing and Graveyard Shift,
And wonders, who has their "back".
There is a dark history,
Of incidents that weren't cool;
Of Desk Clerks risking safety,
On an unfriendly house rule.
Each resulted in an attack,
Under some managers noses;
Injuries were inflicted,
C.H.P. smell the roses.

During 1998,
Two attacks in a Clerk space;
Inside the San Cristina,
Injuries in the same place.
Hit hard in his head while tired;
Defended himself from harm,
He was wrongfully fired.
Next was an On-Call Floater,
A tenant who did his best;
Tolerated a face punch,
From an "altered-minded" guest.
Did all proper procedures,
And followed all supposes;
Not long afterwards he quit,
C.H.P. smell the roses

by Marlon Crump/PNN

"It is heart-wrenching to realize that you have become a mind control experiment by your own government. It�s something that I am still putting up with and coming to terms with. I don�t have any drug history. I also have no criminal background and no DUI�s. (Driving Under the Influence) My background is very clean so I am guessing I was just unlucky.� (D. T.: Targeted Individual).

"They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less."

Matthew Green, poet

�As for the so called protest, is it some lame ass conference call again? How is that going to get anything done let alone intimidate perps?�

Callous remarks from a discovered infiltrator name on a Yahoo Website safe haven for victims, called �Targeted Individuals.�

His objective was to discourage, disrupt, and dismantle any attempts by the T.I. victims towards organizing a protest crisis call to action. I informed him with a chronology of obnoxious remarks that he failed on all accounts in his mission.

An empty air drafts an individual when an invisible trouble follows them every where they go. People who drifting off into the day, the night to a lake, a wooded area, or simply down a hallway. The immediate uncomfortable feeling of an unknown danger of the covert persuasion places them into immediate heart-pounding fear.

When that danger is discovered, the individual quickly fetch the nearest pay phone (if they are without a phone of their own) or a concerned citizen who just happens to witness the situation.

They feeling of relief enters their heart them when a police squad car pulls up to assist them.

(Or are they really able or even willing to assist them?)

The individual turns to their local governmental authority to urge them to stop these acts from continuing. They are either assured that �an investigation will be underway� or they are simply told that there is nothing that they can do.

They then find themselves in more frightening situations where they�re targeted and stalked--by means of manufactured sophisticated technologies used for terrorism, conquering, and control.

A control wave of invisible psychological concentration camps, by an unknown Fuhrer (leader) continues its reign. Many victims have actually called this the �silent Holocaust.�

Covert stalkers often greet their victims literally right above their noses, some wearing smiles like wolves hiding behind sheep: Costumed as passer bys, people asking victims strange questions, police officers (the worst), doctors, and even a postal worker.

�On August 31st, 2009 at 3:00p.m., I approached the counter to have a piece of mail sent �certified.� A T.I explained to me. (she requested to remain anonymous.) The postal worker looked angry, and as I placed my letter on the counter she stuck her tongue out at me.� The T.I described, �in a very strong gesture, straight out of her mouth.�

Amidst the bizarre behavior by the postal worker, and the T.I trying to avoid an unnecessary situation that was getting uglier by the minute, the woman said something terrifying: �WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE!�

It becomes blatantly obvious that a person like T.I has unwittingly become A �Targeted Individual!�

The T.I later explained that she was on a �hate list� after inquiring to the F.B.I. Are the covert stalkers fully aware of that fact?

The family of POOR Magazine/POOR News Network, including me, are targeted 24/7, because of the work that we do.

Poor communities of color vs land grabbers, youths vs the police vs the legal system, poor single mothers vs Child Protective Services vs corrupt judges, and unheard voices vs corporate mainstream media gives a frightening detail of the word itself, and not only from a covert persuasion.

Origins of covert perpetrators and stalkers who participate in these "operations" are usually people who willfully engage or are brainwashed in a structured, hate-filled environment.

The acts (and especially weapons) in question, comes from methods invented, used, and abused by primary U.S. �law enforcement� agencies and not just holocaustic hate groups, like the Ku Klux Klan:

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (F.B.I) (and its activist attacking operation program, COINTELPRO) Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A) National Security Association (NSA) and the highly opposed warrant less use of numerous surveillance cameras �Big Brother.�

The weapons and devices of technological terror commonly used by the some of the above said law enforcement agencies and military armies are as follows:

Directed Energy Weapons (D.E.W.S) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon

.Satellites www.surveillanceissues.com

.V2K (Voice to Skull/Mind Control) www.voicetoskull.com/Perps.htm

.Microwave Weapons www.mondovista.com/microwave.html

(Among many others)

In my follow up article of, �Electronic Harassment� the voices of victims who are gang stalked, electronically harassed, attacked, and targeted in general, continue to echo into ears for help.

Sadly, many of those ears voluntarily remain deaf when it comes to their situations, particularly political figures who disguise themselves as �public servants.�

I stated in �Electronic Harassment� of the Age of Technology Terror, �These victim's voices are seldom taken seriously due to the ignorance, disbelieving, scrutiny, and even ridicule resulting from such acts actually taking place leading many governmental authorities and their counterparts to conclude that such mysterious acts are "absurd" or "preposterous."

Unfortunately, there are living testimonies that state otherwise.

�The people that do not know about this are the ones who help reinforce the notion that all of us are delusional.� Dr. John Hall, author of �A New Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America stated to me via email, �I am hoping to remedy some of that through education.�

Dr. Hall, a T.I, (Targeted Individual) himself, risked his entire career towards exposing this form of seemingly-invisible technological terror in his book. Unfortunately, these perpetrators covert themselves behind the ignorance of society.

"However, before one comes to that conclusion, you've usually told your boss, family or physician that you're hearing voices or being attacked with unseen weapons. They, in turn, start the psychiatric ball rolling and before you know it you've been diagnosed as delusional and are totally discredited. Victims organizing and educating the public will be our way out.�

Damien T., a T.I had a job with a multi-national aerospace manufacturer, global security, and advanced technology company. Consequently, he had to deal with a hostile work environment before he was laid off in 2007.

Things about his personal life were blurted out in conversations, even from his supervisor. This is what has been happening according to Torres�s account:

�My manager would talk about things that I would do on the weekend while talking with other co-workers.

He wouldn�t specify my name, but it was things he would blurt out for no reason; things that I would do on the weekends in my own home. These conversations were made close enough to my cubicle so that I would hear them. It�s obvious these incidents were intentional.�

Damien later began to experience things of the technological terror persuasion.

�I first realized I was targeted back around late 2008. From what I remember, it was around September. I noticed noise campaigns from my Asian neighbors. There were incidents such as constant door slamming, stomping in front of my bedroom window, trash thrown around our condo, graffiti on our garage door. Also, I noticed a lot of unfamiliar faces at restaurants and bars.

Groups of people would walk in and sit around my area constantly looking towards my way. I also noticed them talking about my habits there were personal. Some remarks were personal in nature. It seemed to die down around December 2008.�

But much to the surprise of Damien, they apparently had not.

�Towards the end of December 2008, I noticed odd noises throughout our condo unit, noises that followed me through my home.� he said. �I would leave my bedroom and I would hear thumps (in the walls/ceilings) as I walked through the hallway and into the front room.

These odd noises still continue to this very day throughout my mother�s condo unit.

All of her furniture, walls/ceilings, appliances, etc are constantly being hit with a sonic wave of varying frequencies. For example, the thump will sound louder depending on what�s being hit and how forceful the sonic wave is.

I learned that computers (or digital computers) can be used to send out ultrasonic waves for harassment purposes. I am guessing these computers are used in tandem with our own government satellites (NSA). I can�t imagine how some nut job in our government could come up with such an idea to specifically harass someone.�

Damien believes he is a victim of V2K (Voice to Skull). His is based on some odd noises he�s heard inside his head that sounded like a cheap-low frequency radio transmitter.

�The noises and voices also seem to be multi-directional.� He explained. �It turns out that the V2K were coming from my own next door neighbors. The voices seemed to have an Asian accent. They would say words in Asian which I wouldn�t understand or they would talk to me in English.�

What the apparent motive (and strange eviction tactic) by his neighbors was to force him to move out since he has been unemployed for awhile.

Another T.I, name Diana M. a housewife with strong religious faith has underwent so much technological terroristic trauma that she herself began to question the level of her sanity. She bombarded me with a variety of supporting documents indicating no insanity.

Diana believes that the people involved are members of the K.K.K.(Ku Klux Klan) What she is undergoing is a form of mental rape and/or control. This was an account of what happened to her, seven years ago:

�The first time I new something was wrong was the day I couldn't walk forward.� She explained. �I could walk backwards and sideways, but something was not allowing me to move forward at all.

I finally had to sit down and have an old acquaintance go get his car, walk backwards into it until I arrived at his home, then I could walk. Now trust me, I totally thought it was me.�

Then the V2K period came for her, about two years later.

�I was sitting in my kitchen and all of a sudden, I heard a baseball game out of nowhere. Now I don�t watch baseball or ever listen to it. I checked with my husband, but he had no idea. Every time I would turn my head a certain direction, I would hear a ball game.

This went on for I believe maybe � hour at the most then the talking began. They wanted to make it seem completely spiritual, like I was walking down a certain spiritual path (shamanism) to be exact.�

Ironically, this was during a period where Diana was on a path towards spirituality.

�I also remember in the beginning someone kept recording something that I said, or they said and switched it around. They completely started messing with my mind. The things that they do to a person, I know is something that my own mind would not make up.�

Diana has had sleep deprivation, body swelling, and other forms of pain because of these acts. She even states that her and her husband tried to retreat underground in mines, but to no avail, the sounds actually followed her there. These methods by the unknown perps were to also destroy her marriage.

�They fill you with absolute fear, a vicious fear to look at yourself or anyone else even my husband. Through all of these attacks, I have been baptized confirmed, and married within the last five years.�

To my knowledge and testimonies by the above T.Is, these attacks are ongoing.

In �Electronic Harassment� I listed a T.I as being anonymous, due to her fear for retaliation. Christine Lynn Harris, T.I and Anti-Organized Stalking activist decided to no longer be ruled by fear. She strongly believes her attackers involve a property manager, a law firm, and a member of the San Francisco Police Department Mission District Station.

All the attacks that occurred upon Christine, was after her �Notice of Complaint� was sent by her to the Attorney General Office, last year.

Her courage grew immensely when she took it really personal when her organs were hit with untold amounts of radiation. �I can handle the mental issue, but when you attack my body well now it�s personal!�
She was a constant E.R patient to a point where her organs have been significantly been damaged.

Although I originally listed Christine as being �anonymous� it did not take long for her enemies to figure out who story it was. They began to retaliate.

Her car was �towed� a short time after it was published, even though her parking didn�t violate any parking and safety laws. The S.F City Attorney�s Office reimbursed her the monies she paid to retrieve her car.

A C.D was placed by her car marked �murder� beside her car. Her computer has been hacked. A second attempt to �tow� her car took place, only to be thwarted by her upon discovering their weird activities outside. After taking their sketchy picture, she posted it online at YouTube.

The big question by us both was �Since when do tow truck companies ride around looking for expired license plates of parked cars? Isn�t that a job for a police or a traffic safety officer?�

Christine believes that her car may have some sort of tracking or listening device hidden in her car based on the unexplained events around her.

She�s outreached, spent her own money, and appealed to numerous politicians across the nation to put an end to these acts of terror and control. Very little has been done to eliminate the problem. Christine has even been on an online show regarding targeted victims, and told her story, but the problems still persist.

Not too long ago, I sent a letter (and published it online) to the White House, urging President Barack Obama and his administration to investigate these crimes. �Those responsible should be held accountable for these crimes.� I said.

Only time will tell if the Obama Administration will step up to the task.

Like many T.I.s who are gripped by fear, isolation, anxiety, discouragement, and despair; they come to realize that only they can take action. Reluctant, fearful, and emotional, the inner strength and rage is what collectively combines their voices to combat the covert terror they meet each day.

Today exists a wide T.I network ranging locally and globally plan to protest a nationwide crises call to action, (throughout the month of October) as a first step to end this covert terror.

Targeted Individuals� have decided to appeal to themselves for help by communicating and outreaching online on Yahoo, YouTube, Mind Justice (www.mindjustice.org/victims.htm, etc, etc. Their only hope to finally get society to see the covert hands that cover their voices.

�Persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.�
2 Corinthians 4:9