Insanity, Defense Mental Illness Or Secret Weapons? and How Do You Tell the Diff

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Insanity, Defense Mental Illness Or

Secret Weapons? and How Do You Tell the Difference When the News Is Crazy?

 

 

Insanity, Defense Mental Illness Or Secret Weapons? and How Do You

Tell the Difference When the News Is Crazy?

 

By Dan Harkins E-mail

 

 

SOUND, MIND AND BODY LeBoeuf says thoughts are beamed into her head.

 

Suz LeBoeuf claims the voices in her head are speaking louder than

ever these days, hammering away at odd times — in the shower, in bed

or as she walks down the street — with gratuitous sexual banter or

terrifying threats of violence. Sometimes it's just meaningless words;

other times, the voices seem to deliver stark clues leading her down a

path toward understanding.

 

She blames the government.

 

At an Akron coffee shop a short walk from her tiny attic apartment,

the 51-year-old sits behind stacks of paper and tapes of homemade TV

segments she's recorded for public access in Youngstown, Warren and

Wadsworth. Most of it is based on research by " scientists " of what the

military calls influence technology, stories by nonaffiliated

" journalists " uncovering ghastly plots. Chemtrails. Acoustic weaponry.

Directed energy weapons. Weather control.

 

Some of the material appears to be connected to legitimate sources,

though — a fact that emboldens her quest to discover what if any of

this is true. Nevertheless, her claims sound like the ramblings of a

wackjob, and therein lies her greatest hurdle: the crazy factor.

 

" I need help. I want to find helpful remedies, to think of ways to

stop this, " she says in her helium voice loud enough to elicit a few

muted guffaws from nearby customers. " Why would I risk sounding like a

complete lunatic? "

 

LeBoeuf is a seemingly educated woman with a checkered past. She's got

a bachelor's degree in journalism from Sacramento State and an online

master's degree in clinical psychology from National University.

Currently, she's working toward an online Ph.D.

 

Since she arrived in Akron a year and a half ago after a short spell

on the road, she's enrolled in master's classes at Akron University,

using her loans to pay rent and utilities, and to purchase computer

and video equipment for her show. She says it's not cost-effective to

get a job because every time she does, the government takes most of

her pay for back child support owed to her 18-year-old daughter in

California, whom she hasn't seen in years. She doesn't want to get

into all that. It's depressing. She says she hasn't seen a shrink in

years but insists she's not crazy.

 

Back at her cluttered apartment, what she calls " the home studio of a

torture victim, " she brings up her Web site, electrowell.com, with

links to her psychedelic-tinged TV segments. In one, she claims that

the machinations of unseen technology (Acoustic sound projectors?

Electromagnetic beams!) are yanking at her head with great force. She

says she first started realizing that something other than nuttiness

was involved when she heard the word " electromagnetic " broadcast

across her neurons. That's when she hit the Internet and found gaggles

of the similarly mind-warped.

 

" That's when I knew something was going on, " she says. " It's like

somebody got a hold of the acoustic equipment and was trying to help

me. But nobody believes me. They refuse to believe the government

would turn this technology on its own people, even though it's all

over the news that they're logging everyone's phone calls. Nobody

wants to do anything. It's totally cruel, totally heartbreaking. "

 

Though behavioral experts say the most ubiquitous manifestation of

paranoid schizophrenia is hearing commanding voices from a seemingly

external source, many also admit the government has gone down this

road before, using humans as guinea pigs for research into things as

disparate as mind-control (known as MKULTRA per open records) and

syphillis (Tuskegee Airmen).

 

Surely, having as pawns a legion of nutcases would make for the

perfect cover. Or the perfect Tom Clancy novel, blending just the

right amount of fiction and fact.

 

LeBeouf thought she had a sympathizer in U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

Just after the terrorist attacks of 2001, he sponsored the Space

Preservation Act (HR2977), which aimed to ban exotic weaponry like

" chemtrails, " " particle beams, " " electromagnetic radiation, "

" plasmas, " " extremely low frequency or ultra low frequency energy

(psychotronics), " " radiation " or " mind-control technologies. " The

legislation went nowhere, and three months later, Kucinich resubmitted

it as HR3616 with all the mentions of those weapons vaporized. Of

course, the legislation still has gone nowhere, but Kucinich's

deletions resonated with the conspiracy-minded.

 

At an Akron rally a few months ago with peace activist Cindy Sheehan,

LeBeouf says she approached the congressman. " I said, 'I'm the

bioelectric torture lady in Akron and I sent you that video,' " LeBeouf

recalls. " He just sort of turned away, kind of like he definitely

didn't want to be around me. "

 

Kucinich spokesman Doug Gordon says the language changed with

Kucinich's understanding.

 

" Since the bill was introduced, we've seen more evidence that the Air

Force is seeking to weaponize space and the Congressman is strongly

opposed to this, " Gordon says. Referring to the exotic weaponry, he

adds, " We have no current proof of such technology being used. "

 

No current proof? Was there proof that can no longer be discussed?

" I'm just going to leave it at that, " Gordon answers. A request to

discuss the legislation with Kucinich was ignored.

 

Green Party-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Bob Fitrakis, a Columbus

lawyer, journalist, political science professor and author, believes

much of what the government is up to is deep undercover. He points to

the military's Joint Vision for 2020 program which describes

preparation for aggressive war and total dominance of air, land, sea,

space and information.

 

" There's a lot of unstable people out there, but it's also to the

government's advantage if they can get enough unstable people, so when

they legitimately get caught doing this stuff you have a cover, " he says.

 

Nich Begich is focusing not on the victims but the alleged

perpetrators. Begich is executive director of the Lay Institute for

Technology, founded by the heiress to the Lay potato chip fortune to

ferret out the truth behind government secrecy. He compiles evidence

from patents, mainstream media articles and government disclosures.

 

His sources appear legit. Trade journal Defense News, as well as

Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report, have reported on emerging

technologies like directed energy and acoustic weaponry. Generals have

gathered for conferences on directed-energy weaponry and other exotic

technologies. Patents have been awarded for sound-throwing devices and

microwave conductors that allegedly can alter states of being.

 

Begich says sound-transfer equipment is already developed. In the late

'90s, he showed the European Parliament how it's done. He also

presented his case about weather manipulation technology as well as

non-lethal microwave and electromagnetic weapons, which he says could

be developed to cause not just burning sensations in targets but also

lethargy or even death. In 1999, the parliament passed a resolution

calling for an international ban on weapons that would enable the

manipulation of the human brain.

 

" Our intention is to look for ways to address problems with advancing

technologies at least through disclosure and education, " he says. " A

lot of this knowledge holds keys to human physiology. We could develop

that technology, for instance, for the deaf [or] in other ways much

more productive than what it's being used for now. But to do it safely

and responsibly, you have to open the door. "

 

The military takes the what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about stance.

 

Defense Department spokeswoman Lainez goes right for the

jugular: " We get calls from people saying they know who killed J.F.K.,

too. It sounds like that movie … what was it? With Julia Roberts and

Mel Gibson. That was really good. "

 

In a statement, Lainez is less antagonistic: " We cannot speak for the

Department of Homeland Security. The DoD Defense Research &

Engineering office knows of no technologies currently in use or

planned by the Department of Defense to read or control people's minds. "

 

Marines Capt. Jay Delarosa at the Joint Non-Lethal Weaponsate, which tests emerging technologies, claims he's never

heard of most of these exotic weapons either. " Sounds very odd, like

they've been watching too much SciFi Channel, " he says.

 

He acknowledges the development of long-range acoustic devices, which

can direct sound to deafen the enemy or mimic bombings to disorient.

Radiowave technology, he says, is still far from battlefield ready,

though.

 

" Laboratory curiosities, " is how John Pike, former director of the

Space Policy Project for the Federation of American Scientists,

characterizes much of the technology in question. People like LeBeouf,

he says, are trying like everyone to make sense of the world, and with

an undercurrent of distrust in government and legitimate reports on

some emerging technology, it isn't hard to drift into a nightmare:

" This administration is of the view that no one is above suspicion and

that everyone is potentially a suspect. It's very Orwellian. I call it

America 2.0. "

 

Still, Pike adds, " You have to wonder, before all this technology came

along, how did people explain it, the voices in their heads? "

 

LeBeouf has heard it before. She'll be at a Washington D.C. rally on

June 16 and 17 with like-minded Americans who believe the government

is up to no good. Call her crazy. A long-used, conspiracy-buff mantra

rolls off her tongue: " Just because we're paranoid doesn't mean

they're not after us. "

 

 

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