There is also safety from external physical and
psychological harassment or intimidation. This is when perpetrators will try and
harass you with telephone calls, stalking, following you in cars, sending mail
and email, trying to get into your house and backyard, etc. This is different
from when perpetrators try to cue programming with particular coded language
etc, although the intimidation maybe attempting to cue the programming.
Psychological intimidation generally abuses communication such as the telephone,
email and the post, but may also include leaving images and words where you
live, work, play or travel. They can be obvious such as “Die if you say
anything”, but perpetrators are more disgusting and abuse either direct
references to family such as sending a photo of your mum or writing places of
abuse such as the name of a military barracks, etc. Then there are more direct
cues such as colours, numbers in progression, coded language, etc. Physical
intimidation also occurs such as perpetrators pretending they are travelling
salesman and entering the house if they work out youre alone. They can also
stalk when the victim/survivor is travelling to work or university,
etc.
There are many straightforward and practical
ways of stopping intimidation.
With postal mail you can get a post box. With
email you can change email addresses to one of the many free or payment ones and use a
pseudonym. It is also advisable to not send important information over the
internet which can be now legally observed by ASIO. With a telephone you can get
a silent number, and use an answering machine to screen calls, but remember
cueing may occur by the number of rings. Also telephone calls may also be
listened to without your consent due to recent supposed anti terrorist
legislation. If you need to tell a trusted person something it is best to
actually go for a walk with them. With housing you can stay/live with a friend
or a share house, have security around the house, don’t answer the door, have a
peephole, or live in a block of flats.
If you are on Social Security, you can have
your postal and home addresses and telephone numbers blocked within the
department. Only the regional manager has to know. This can be done by simply
lodging an application citing that you may be intimidated by a religious cult.
The police are also concerned about
intimidation and you can state that you are being constantly followed or
threatened. You need to list the incidents with time and place to assist the
police. There are actually police who are not involved with government
operations and I have had good assistance with physical intimidation at a flat I
was staying at.
Another way of stopping intimidation is to call
the perpetrators bluff and actually seek assistance from friends, your partner,
your counsellor, the police, a lawyer, etc. Write down and give to a trusted
lawyer, a counsellor, a friend, etc the names and addresses of perpetrators, the
places of abuse, and all the information you can think of. This actually
frightens the perpetrators as it draws attention to them. If you can tell the
perpetrators that you have done this, it is even better.
Going to the media is also very good. It seems
very weird to the police, etc when you are being harassed because you have been
to the media. It gives your story more credibility because why would you be
harassed for no reason?
Intimidation attempts to do either
two things. First there is harassment simply to frighten and stop you talking
about or remembering the abuse. Secondly it maybe trying to cue you by
frightening parts into contacting. It can only work by frightening and
threatening. The perpetrators cannot kill you or friends, or partner or innocent
family or pets, etc. There would be a major investigation by the police and the
media and if you have told someone such as a friend and counsellor about the
abuse then this has to be taken seriously. The government perpetrators cannot
afford to risk this and do nothing to survivors. No survivor I know and I know
at least a hundred has died from perpetrators. And many of these are survivors
who have given public lectures to university students, been on national
television programs, written books, etc. Survivors call the perpetrators bluff
and know nothing can happen because if anything did, the murder would have to be
investigated and all information, including what has been told to a counsellor,
what has been written to a friend, etc has to be revealed. The government
perpetrators cannot afford this and so actually do
nothing.
Intimidation and harassment does stop. I
know a survivor who actually had government perpetrators invade her backyard
while her partner was at work. She would ring the police and the police did
routine checks. The perpetrators didnt come back. After a while, the
perpetrators stop as they cannot spend so much time on what is really a time
wasting thing.