I have been continuing to work to expose the atrocities currently taking place in the United States. There has in fact been some significant progress. Many of the claims I made early on about the technology have, with the help of many researchers, been substantiated. There is, at the least, a bit more understanding that there exists a world of black projects funded at billions of dollars a year and sustained by an enormous conspiracy of lies. Even the word conspiracy is not so subject to ridicule now; perhaps people have looked it up in the dictionary. The US national security complex is a conspiracy by any definition. Unfortunately, it is also evil beyond description. Does it matter to a victim of torture if someone claims that it is only a ``rogue element'' while dismissing the victim and continuing to profit from a reprehensible and corrupt system? Did the US ever extend the ``only a rogue element'' defense to China or the Soviet Union when they were guilty of massive human rights abuses? Perhaps they will now; another ``good idea'' for them to steal.

What happens when a torture victim finally proves that some aspects of his or her case are in fact true? That the technology really exists? Do people nod their heads yes and then look into it further? Do they look at the establishment WHICH SURELY HAS KNOWN ALL ALONG and wonder why they denied the claims and fomented more ridicule? Unfortunately this is not how it works in an information-controlled society. There is never any acknowledgment or even apology, only a fallback to another position in defense of an indefensible, cruel and vicious crime. Did the people who called human radiation experiment victims kooks ever apologize to them? Some in the government even wanted to keep up those lies, which they knew all about and perpetrated for decades. Do I even need to mention Tuskegee and the many ``prominent citizens'' who probably still defend their actions as somehow ``necessary'' or worse ``for the good of science''? I expect there were some people who did not even want Clinton to apologize years later for what he termed shameful acts of the government. I was offended not at the apology but that similar shameful acts are ongoing and unacknowledged.

Let's not be naive here. The words fait accompli and realpolitik are of foreign origin, and it is interesting that there are few native English terms to describe the concepts, but they are the driving principles behind current American politics. I could write about foreign abuses, and other writers have done so for years, but my current focus is on domestic American human rights abuses. The US-sponsored abuses in other countries are informative because they can be reported, at least more freely than can domestic abuses -- although at some peril to the reporters' careers. This is quite an irony, but the principle is that if a governmental and societal crime is large enough it cannot (so they claim) be reported. Perhaps after 50 years when the torturers and experimenters on involuntary human subjects are dead...

The point is twofold. First, similar abuses are being committed here as have been carried out overseas for years, subject to deniability. Does anyone think that all that knowledge of techniques for covertly undermining societies and individuals is kept in some isolated container in current Washington where it does not affect politics? Secondly, when Americans are subject to covert harassment and repression then free speech becomes only a slogan and representative government a charade. If American citizens cannot really control their superpower, who can? At this point there are Americans who cannot even exercise the freedom of thought, in the very most literal sense.

There is some progress happening, though slowly. I will not attempt to describe it all here, because some approaches will inevitably turn out to be dead ends. Nor will I attempt to overstate the positive aspects of the situation. There is some backtracking too, and further entrenchment of fascist forces in the US. This is not just my fight, and never was. It is about fundamental human rights, the principles of the Bill of Rights, and the rule of law in the United States -- if I really have to spell it out. There are further consequences because of the fact that the US is a world leader.

Ignore it at your peril. These are just words of course, and there are people who would have us believe that words no longer mean or count for anything. It is all just a semantic game to play. A clever pseudo-comeback nullifies any description of US crimes against humanity in the modern psyop calculus. Free speech means that you can speak freely and will only covertly be punished for your speech or thought crimes. Frank Donner laid it all out in his books, but where was this vaunted ``public debate'' that is supposed to inform democracy?

Perhaps these words will all be semiotically neutralized by the time you read them. Maybe the effort even started the moment I began to think of these ideas and about publicly writing them out. THAT is one of the key points to keep in mind, and why mind monitoring technology is seen as so important to the corrupt (to use a kind word) people who benefit from it. Preemptive action based on intentions, real or imagined, just as, or even before, a person consciously thinks of some action. I am in fact a bit disgusted that so many people are so bereft of imagination that they cannot conceive of why any government would want to monitor a person's thoughts. Give me a break. (Oh, and my use of the word imagination in that previous sentence was semiotically exploitable in ways that will be left to the reader to imagine.)

I am raped and robbed each and every day. By any literal or legal definition I am used as a slave to be exploited for the profit and benefit of whoever has the connections or the clout to access the workings of my mind (or whatever transcripts or summaries are made available). Does that sound strange? Have you ever really thought about it? Do you know the nature of market research? Do you ever think about how the propagandists get BDA to evaluate their successes? Do you know what I do, or how I think, or how someone might want to steal right from my brain? Can you consider why someone, perhaps idiotically, might decide I need to be repressed? Do you know what fraction of the East German population were Stasi informants? Perhaps it is all my fault: Americans love to blame the victims (especially if the victims do not control the propaganda channels). Do you think it could never happen here because that is what you have been told since before you could talk? Do you think I am the one and only victim? Do you think you could never ever be singled out yourself? Does that make a difference?

Whatever my torturers have taken they have still not taken my dignity -- though they have tried. The efforts only point back at them, and in a larger sense at American culture and society. I hope all victims will continue to resist and will maintain their dignity in the face of hideous, vicious, and frankly childish assaults. Do not identify with any culture that would make you a slave or any religion that would sanction your torture. I urge all people to work to end these particular abuses and to foster greater respect for human rights in general.