Counter Attacks - Canada & Commonwealth 2024-2025
2024-2025 PLANNED MASACRES
Counter Attacks - Canada & Commonwealth 2024-2025
VENTRILOQUIST DOLL - FULL BODY
Drone robot technologies
Device at location versus body connected not at location
Ancient wireless technologies brought back into the spot light in secret after the First World War WW1 not long after EEG was standardized in 1920
The technology dates back before Christ as does since suppressed ancient vehicles & aircraft then other technologies which had been recreated or similar options recreated separately
The technology was made officially public held under Havana Syndrome causing technologies January 2016 yet was wildly considered a conspiracy prior to despite different variations of neurological technologies & practices including softwares used in different research programs with same made public in disclosures
Newly Public since January 2016
Full body permanent or detachable
Drone robot puppet ventriloquist doll technologies with memory extraction
Associated software & over 25,000 techniques then average general structure of labs
Previously Public prior to January 2016
EEG - Tablet - Headsets
Brain Chipping
Chipping
The Ex-Poh-Zeh. A global effort
A GLOBAL EXAMPLE IS BEING MADE
The country of Canada. For actions documented 1980's-2024
If the one Ontario neurological technology lab cluster location in question has the body of Dr Nic Bennett - Sydney Nicola Bennett connected to the full body device as they have since before 1999 & be of 1993
Unfortunately denied right to trial destroyed Canada as a country domestically & on the global scale
If you operated at
If you operated with someone that operated at
If you were contacted after having been mentioned & operated involuntarily or voluntarily
Your fu*ked in every area of over 100 countries with a profile of who you are & what you did including your life cycle of experience ages 0-6, 7-11, 12-17, 18-25+
Your past - present Government ID & registered assets, insurance, insurance number & licences then all credentials
A list of those you are or were connected to past - present
TARGETS LOOSING THEIR LIVES
Let's look at documented & recorded evidence of what those operating at or with then separate from the one Ontario neurological technology lab cluster location in question did to the body & life of Dr Nic Bennett - Sydney Nicola Bennett
Birth date: September 1, 1985
Birth location: Scollard Site - North Bay, Ontario, Canada
Daily life between September 1, 1985 - April 20, 2024
Toronto Pearson International Airport
6301 Silver Dart Dr, Mississauga, ON L5P 1B2
Motel 6 Brampton, ON - Toronto
160 Steelwell Rd, Brampton, ON L6T 5T3
Brampton - Animal Hospital & Shelter
475 Chrysler Drive
Brampton, Ontario L6S 6G3
William Osler Health System - Brampton Civic Hospital
2100 Bovaird Dr E, Brampton, ON L6R 3J7
BRAMPTON
Brampton - Salvation Army Shelter
15 Wilkinson Rd, Brampton, ON L6T 4X1
Different drafted groups executes everyone that physically entered & those that had operated at or with labs affecting those that entered this property between August 15, 2022-September 15, 2022
Answer the question. Does Rod Bennett Enterprises 1995-2012 & Nic Bennett Enterprise or H.O.R.B - CIG international investments include these people including staff, areas of Government, volunteers or those clients staying at the shelter? Are they welcome to go through the memories of H.O.R.B invested interests or the four Bennett's?
The shelters are welcome to review the H.I.3 Case within just over 30 Meta: Facebook profiles & 21 Blogger profiles
Corrupt Police Officers, Fire Fighters, EMS - Ambulance Emergency, Medical Professionals & Cleaning staff then others within & visiting then Security separately
The 24 hour mistreatment of Dr Nic Bennett - Sydney Nicola Bennett while wirelessly forced into the Shelter & held in before he could break free with those operating at the lab connecting with people at the Shelter & outside to other areas of Government & connected private interests
TORONTO - NORTH YORK
North York - First Homes Shelter
5800 Yonge St, North York, ON M2M 3T3
Different drafted groups executes everyone that physically entered & those that had operated at or with labs affecting those that entered this property between November 9, 2022-May 4, 2023
Answer the question. Does Rod Bennett Enterprises 1995-2012 & Nic Bennett Enterprise or H.O.R.B - CIG international investments include these people including staff, areas of Government, volunteers or those clients staying at the shelter? Are they welcome to go through the memories of H.O.R.B invested interests or the four Bennett's?
The shelters are welcome to review the H.I.3 Case within just over 30 Meta: Facebook profiles & 21 Blogger profiles
Corrupt Police Officers, Fire Fighters, EMS - Ambulance Emergency, Medical Professionals & Cleaning staff then others within & visiting then Security separately
The 24 hour mistreatment of Dr Nic Bennett - Sydney Nicola Bennett while wirelessly forced into the Shelter & held in before he could break free with those operating at the lab connecting with people at the Shelter & outside to other areas of Government & connected private interests
SCARBOROUGH
Scarborough - First Homes Shelter
702 Kennedy Rd, Toronto, ON M1K 2B5
Different drafted groups executes everyone that physically entered & those that had operated at or with labs affecting those that entered this property between May 4, 2023-November 1, 2022
Answer the question. Does Rod Bennett Enterprises 1995-2012 & Nic Bennett Enterprise or H.O.R.B - CIG international investments include these people including staff, areas of Government, volunteers or those clients staying at the shelter? Are they welcome to go through the memories of H.O.R.B invested interests or the four Bennett's?
The shelters are welcome to review the H.I.3 Case within just over 30 Meta: Facebook profiles & 21 Blogger profiles
Corrupt Police Officers, Fire Fighters, EMS - Ambulance Emergency, Medical Professionals & Cleaning staff then others within & visiting then Security separately
The 24 hour mistreatment of Dr Nic Bennett - Sydney Nicola Bennett while wirelessly forced into the Shelter & held in before he could break free with those operating at the lab connecting with people at the Shelter & outside to other areas of Government & connected private interests
TORONTO INTAKE
Everyone that worked within or connected to Toronto Intake loose their lives before 2029 alongside 90-99% of everyone that had & does work in the Government of Ontario in Canada including Shelters for the Homeless in all areas of the Province
https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/housing-shelter/homeless-help/central-intake
EVERY COMPANY CONFIRMED
If those at the company where Dr Nic Bennett - Sydney Nicola Bennett had worked prior to 1999 or post had operated at or with the one Ontario neurological technology lab cluster location in question which had the body of Dr Nic Bennett - Sydney Nicola Bennett connected to the full body device as they have since before 1999 & be of 1993 then there are serious legal & private consequences
Multiple companies versus others connected to H.O.R.B - CIG
113 Clearskye Way, Red Deer, AB T4E 0A1
Pursuit Collection - Brewster Inc
100 Gopher St Suite 2, Banff, AB T1L 1J3
Diversified Transportation - Edmonton & Fort McMurray - McKay
920 Memorial Dr, Fort McMurray, AB T9K 0N9
Golden Arrow - Bus - Edmonton & Fort McMurray - McKay
20204 111 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5S 2G8
GLOBAL POPULATION NUMBERS
8.1 Billion
We share connecting with 2-5+ billion in over 100 countries
Government - Banking - Private Sector
Greater Toronto Area - Counter Attacks
Patrick Brown - Mayor of Brampton
Olivia Chow - Mayor of Toronto
Bonnie Crombie - Mississauga
Bonds & Equity - Growing disinterest in Canadian Investment due to the Canadian labs
https://betterdwelling.com/canada-sees-domestic-foreign-investors-pull-out-at-a-record-pace/
VENTRILOQUIST DOLL - FULL BODY
Drone robot technologies
Device at location versus body connected not at location
Ancient wireless technologies brought back into the spot light in secret after the First World War WW1 not long after EEG was standardized in 1920
The technology dates back before Christ as does since suppressed ancient vehicles & aircraft then other technologies which had been recreated or similar options recreated separately
The technology was made officially public held under Havana Syndrome causing technologies January 2016 yet was wildly considered a conspiracy prior to despite different variations of neurological technologies & practices including softwares used in different research programs with same made public in disclosures
Newly Public since January 2016
Full body permanent or detachable
Drone robot puppet ventriloquist doll technologies with memory extraction
Associated software & over 25,000 techniques then average general structure of labs
Previously Public prior to January 2016
EEG - Tablet - Headsets
Brain Chipping
H.O.R.B - CIG - M.S.P-M.C.G Murder City
Neuro-strike & Neuro-defence program
Research
Government Ops
Hostages
Connected third party labs
Threat levels 3-4 of 4
Severe mental illness
We have an accumulative number of over 2 billion empty detachable mind packets with plans to have available over 10 billion by 2026 with an advanced network system
Ability to trace signals from an affected persons brain to the GPS location housing the device & investigate those entering & exiting past-present then others connecting 24/7 past-present
The only way to block a signal is to have a redirect from an underground bunker or a large building yet it can still be traced
It takes longer to trace a redirect to the accurate GPS location after investigating redirect locations versus point of the redirect
KARMA IS & A GOOD SCREAMING
Recordings reiterated into the skull - ears & through the mouths while internal organs & the body head to toe is tasered with contractions & expanding muscles causing mild, moderate to severe or extreme pain draining energy
A demonization effort revoking bodily function from unmanned to partial & full control
People taking turns. Ages 0-17 & 18-100+
You attacked Dr Nic Bennett - Sydney Nicola Bennett in his professional & private life. For going to work. During times in public & outside of work
Unfortunately karma involves those responsible & all others involved & connected experiencing the same mistreatment then over 1000 times worse on record for denied right to trial prior to 1999 & post
DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE
The one Ontario neurological technology lab cluster location housing the device connected to Dr Nic Bennett - Sydney Nicola Bennett prior to 1993 & 1999 used in the 2012-2024 rape-torture & terror attacks on Dr Nic Bennett - Sydney Nicola Bennett
We have had people we found entering & exiting connected to M.S.P-M.C.G Murder City neurological technology equipment ao we could silently film the interior of the location without the person or others operating at the location knowing
This enabled us to accurately film the entire interior & exterior during the advanced investigation
Government - Banking - Private Sector
Colleges - University
High Profile - Celebrity
Actors, actresses, dancers, artists, musicians, bands & different connected interests
People using such. The actual people
Those involved directly or connected then others not responsible aware or unaware
Benjamin Plener as Michael "Monkey Ears"Amy Smith as Chrissy Frazer (seasons 1 & 2) Jesse Nilsson as Justin (season 1) Omari Moore as Troy Edwards (seasons 1 & 2) Keram Malicki-Sanchez as "The Lizard", aka. "The Liz" (seasons 1, 3 & 4) Keith White as Petrocelli (seasons 1, 3 & 4) Karl Pruner as Stephen Bennett (season 1) Ross Hull as Danny Masters (seasons 2–3)Amos Crawley as Bernie Sagittarius "Sag" Chearney (seasons 3 & 4) Ryan Gosling as Matt Kalinsky (season 4)Jason Deline as Ernie Lipnit (season 4)Tamara Podemski as Carla (seasons 4 & 5) Kari Matchett as Sheila Ramone (seasons 4 & 5) Daniel Enright as Milan (season 5)
Government - Banking - Private Sector
Colleges - University
High Profile - Celebrity
Actors, actresses, dancers, artists, musicians, bands & different connected interests
People using such. The actual people
Those involved directly or connected then others not responsible aware or unaware
Just like everyone else that had operated at neurological technology lab locations affecting minors ages 0-17 & those ages 18-100+ then those since turned age 18+
No court order & health board
You loose your fu*king life regardless of your career
Professional - Private Life
We will be executing everyone involved in media that had operated at or with then separate from the one Ontario neurological technology lab cluster location in question affecting Dr Nic Bennett - Sydney Nicola Bennett prior to 1993 & 1999
Stakeholders - Device
Supervisors
Operating Handlers
Past - present 24 hour rotational with volunteers with guests flown in & driven in
Accomplices
Persons & groups connected then those contacted & everyone connected
Guilty go down legally or privately
Swarms of privately & advanced technological killings
The people in which operated at or with which expected they had some form of legal or private right to express their opinions
To us wirelessly
Into our skull - ears
Through our mouths
In efforts to attempt to govern us wirelessly expecting us to forgo our own conscious opinions & to focus on their demands as opinions
The four Bennett's did not want the opinions of anyone other than themselves consciously directly or through other people including through offline, online, mobile & telephone channels in their professional & private lives
Collective opinions at private life relationships relevant to that role within the confines of domestic & international laws include acceptable means of communication face to face or digitally
We do want to hear your opinions vocally into our skull - ears or through our mouths wirelessly
We do not want you locking in our consciousness partially to almost fully to send your voice through our mouths for us
We do not want you invading our privacy spying on us through our eyes & monitoring all past - present on-going thought, imagination & memory from birth to present time
Sexual & non-sexual abuse, assault, harassment, traditional & wireless rape, forceful confinement - entrapment, torture, terror - terrorism
Uttering threats on our behalf & towards
Conspiracy to commit murder - murder plots
Attempted murder
Bashing, trashing, mocking & immaturely or crafted efforts to provoke & aggravate
Psychological suppression & warfare
Physical restraint
Detention practices
Execution practices
Invasion of privacy - eyesight & hearing
Invasion of privacy - thought & imagination
Invasion of privacy - memory
Non-standardardized labs
Threat labs & labs that become a threat
Over 25,000 handling techniques
Ability to revoke ability to think clearly - naturally & take control of the physical body in thousands of ways to take control of the body vocally, physically & psychologically - mentally
A safe controlled environment & treatment for self preservation, education then daily use for effective effort to improve the life of the subject candidate with
Unsafe at any moment 24/7 for total control over the subject candidate by force
Brainwashing (also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and forced re-education) is the concept that the human mind can be altered or controlled by certain psychological techniques. Brainwashing is said to reduce its subject's ability to think critically or independently, to allow the introduction of new, unwanted thoughts and ideas into their minds, as well as to change their attitudes, values, and beliefs.
The term "brainwashing" was first used in English by Edward Hunter in 1950 to describe how the Chinese government appeared to make people cooperate with them during the Korean War. Research into the concept also looked at Nazi Germany and present-day North Korea, at some criminal cases in the United States, and at the actions of human traffickers. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the CIA's MKUltra experiments failed with no operational use of the subjects. Scientific and legal debate followed, as well as media attention, about the possibility of brainwashing being a factor when lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was used, or in the conversion of people to groups which are considered to be cults.
Brainwashing has become a common theme in popular culture, especially in science fiction. In casual speech, "brainwashing" and its verb form, "brainwash", are used figuratively to describe the use of propaganda to persuade or sway public opinion.
Marketing
Behavior modification
Indoctrination
Manipulation (psychology)
Abusive power and control
Psychological warfare
Undue influence
Hypnosis
Political abuse of psychiatry
Reality distortion field
Coercion
Unethical human experimentation in the United States
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
China and the Korean War
The Chinese term xǐnǎo (洗腦, "wash brain") was originally used to describe the coercive persuasion used under the Maoist government in China, which aimed to transform "reactionary" people into "right-thinking" members of the new Chinese social system. The term punned on the Taoist custom of "cleansing / washing the heart / mind" (xǐxīn, 洗心) before conducting ceremonies or entering holy places.
The earliest known English-language usage of the word "brainwashing" in an article by a journalist Edward Hunter, in Miami News, published in September 1950. Hunter was an outspoken anticommunist and was alleged to be a CIA agent working undercover as a journalist. Hunter and others used the Chinese term to explain why, during the Korean War (1950–1953), some American prisoners of war (POWs) cooperated with their Chinese captors, and even in a few cases defected to their side. British radio operator Robert W. Ford and British army Colonel James Carne also claimed that the Chinese subjected them to brainwashing techniques during their imprisonment.
The U.S. military and government laid charges of brainwashing in an effort to undermine confessions made by POWs to war crimes, including biological warfare. After Chinese radio broadcasts claimed to quote Frank Schwable, Chief of Staff of the First Marine Air Wing admitting to participating in germ warfare, United Nations commander General Mark W. Clark asserted: "Whether these statements ever passed the lips of these unfortunate men is doubtful. If they did, however, too familiar are the mind-annihilating methods of these Communists in extorting whatever words they want ... The men themselves are not to blame, and they have my deepest sympathy for having been used in this abominable way."
Beginning in 1953, Robert Jay Lifton interviewed American servicemen who had been POWs during the Korean War as well as priests, students, and teachers who had been held in prison in China after 1951. In addition to interviews with 25 Americans and Europeans, Lifton interviewed 15 Chinese citizens who had fled after having been subjected to indoctrination in Chinese universities. (Lifton's 1961 book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China, was based on this research.) Lifton found that when the POWs returned to the United States their thinking soon returned to normal, contrary to the popular image of "brainwashing."
In 1956, after reexamining the concept of brainwashing following the Korean War, the U.S. Army published a report entitled Communist Interrogation, Indoctrination, and Exploitation of Prisoners of War, which called brainwashing a "popular misconception". The report concludes that "exhaustive research of several government agencies failed to reveal even one conclusively documented case of 'brainwashing' of an American prisoner of war in Korea."
Legal cases and the "brainwashing defense"
Bank robbery by Patty Hearst and Symbionese Liberation Army members
The concept of brainwashing has been raised in defense of criminal charges. The 1969 to 1971 case of Charles Manson, who was said to have brainwashed his followers to commit murder and other crimes, brought the issue to renewed public attention.
In 1974, Patty Hearst, a member of the wealthy Hearst family, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a left-wing militant organization. After several weeks of captivity, she agreed to join the group and took part in their activities. In 1975, she was arrested and charged with bank robbery and the use of a gun in committing a felony. Her attorney, F. Lee Bailey, argued in her trial that she should not be held responsible for her actions since her treatment by her captors was the equivalent of the alleged brainwashing of Korean War POWs (see also Diminished responsibility). Bailey developed his case in conjunction with psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West and psychologist Margaret Singer. They had both studied the experiences of Korean War POWs. (In 1996, Singer published her theories in her best-selling book Cults in Our Midst.) Despite this defense, Hearst was found guilty.
In 1990, Steven Fishman, who was a member of the Church of Scientology, was charged with mail fraud for conducting a scheme to sue large corporations via conspiring with minority stockholders in shareholder class action lawsuits. Afterward, he would sign settlements that left those stockholders empty-handed. Fishman's attorneys notified the court that they intended to rely on an insanity defense, using the theories of brainwashing and the expert witnesses of Singer and Richard Ofshe to claim that the Church of Scientology had practiced brainwashing on him, which left him unsuitable to make independent decisions. The court ruled that the use of brainwashing theories is inadmissible in expert witnesses, citing the Frye standard, which states that scientific theories utilized by expert witnesses must be generally accepted in their respective fields. Since then, United States courts have consistently rejected testimony about mind control or brainwashing on the grounds that these theories are not part of accepted science under the Frye standard.
In 2003, the brainwashing defense was used unsuccessfully in defense of Lee Boyd Malvo, who was charged with murder for his part in the D.C. sniper attacks.
Thomas Andrew Green, in his 2014 book Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in American Legal Thought, argues that the brainwashing defense undermines the law's fundamental premise of free will. In 2003, forensic psychologist Dick Anthony said that "no reasonable person would question that there are situations where people can be influenced against their best interests, but those arguments are evaluated based on fact, not bogus expert testimony."
Allegations of brainwashing have also been raised by plaintiffs in child custody cases.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the anti-cult movement applied the concept of brainwashing to explain seemingly sudden and dramatic religious conversions to various new religious movements (NRMs) and other groups that they considered cults. News media reports tended to accept their view and social scientists sympathetic to the anti-cult movement, who were usually psychologists, developed revised models of mind control. While some psychologists were receptive to the concept, sociologists were, for the most part, skeptical of its ability to explain conversion to NRMs.
Philip Zimbardo defined mind control as "the process by which individual or collective freedom of choice and action is compromised by agents or agencies that modify or distort perception, motivation, affect, cognition or behavioral outcomes," and he suggested that any human being is susceptible to such manipulation.
Benjamin Zablocki, late professor or sociology at Rutgers university said that the number of people who attest to brainwashing in interviews (performed in accordance with guidelines of the National Institute of Mental Health and National Science Foundation) is too large to result from anything other than a genuine phenomenon. He said that in the two most prestigious journals dedicated to the sociology of religion there have been no articles "supporting the brainwashing perspective," while over one hundred such articles have been published in other journals "marginal to the field." He concluded that the concept of brainwashing had been blacklisted.
Eileen Barker criticized the concept of mind control because it functioned to justify costly interventions such as deprogramming or exit counseling. She has also criticized some mental health professionals, including Singer, for accepting expert witness jobs in court cases involving NRMs. Her 1984 book, The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing?, describes the religious conversion process to the Unification Church (whose members are sometimes informally referred to as Moonies), which had been one of the best-known groups said to practice brainwashing. Barker spent close to seven years studying Unification Church members and wrote that she rejects the "brainwashing" theory because it does not explain why many people attended a recruitment meeting and did not become members nor why so many members voluntarily disaffiliate or leave groups. Critics of Mormonism have accused it of brainwashing its adherents.
James Richardson said that if the new religious movements had access to powerful brainwashing techniques, one would expect that they would have high growth rates, yet in fact, most have not had notable success in recruiting or retaining members. For this and other reasons, sociologists of religion including David Bromley and Anson Shupe consider the idea that "cults" are brainwashing American youth to be "implausible." Thomas Robbins, Massimo Introvigne, Lorne Dawson, Gordon Melton, Marc Galanter, and Saul Levine, amongst other scholars researching NRMs, have argued and established to the satisfaction of courts, relevant professional associations and scientific communities that there exists no generally accepted scientific theory, based upon methodologically sound research, that supports the concept of brainwashing.
In 1999, forensic psychologist Dick Anthony criticized another adherent to this view, Jean-Marie Abgrall, for allegedly employing a pseudoscientific approach and lacking any evidence that anyone's worldview was substantially changed by these coercive methods. He claimed that the concept and the fear surrounding it was used as a tool for the anti-cult movement to rationalize the persecution of minority religious groups. Additionally, Dick Anthony, in his book Misunderstanding Cults, argues that the term "brainwashing" has such sensationalist connotations that its use is detrimental to any further scientific inquiry.
In the 1980s there was a wave of 'brainwashing' claims, and then parliaments around the world examined the issue, courts around the world examined the issue, and reached a clear ruling: That there is no such thing as cults…that the people making these claims are often not experts on the issue. And in the end courts, including in Israel, rejected expert witnesses who claimed there is "brainwashing."
Research by the U.S. government
For 20 years, starting in the early 1950s, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the United States Department of Defense conducted secret research, including Project MKUltra, in an attempt to develop practical brainwashing techniques; These experiments ranged "from electroshock to high doses of LSD". The full extent of the results are unknown. The director Sidney Gottlieb and his team were apparently able to "blast away the existing mind" of a human being by using torture techniques; however, reprogramming, in terms of finding "a way to insert a new mind into that resulting void", was not so successful.
Controversial psychiatrist Colin A. Ross claims that the CIA was successful in creating programmable so-called "Manchurian Candidates" even at the time. The CIA experiments using various psychedelic drugs such as LSD and Mescaline drew from previous Nazi human experimentation.
In 1979, John D. Marks wrote in his book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate that until the MKUltra program was effectively terminated in 1963, the agency's researchers had found no reliable way to brainwash another person, as all experiments at some stage always ended in either amnesia or catatonia, making any operational use impossible.
A bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee report, released in part in December 2008 and in full in April 2009, reported that U.S. military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 had based an interrogation class on a chart copied from a 1957 Air Force study of "Chinese Communist" brainwashing techniques used to elicit false confessions from American POWs during the Korean War. The report showed how the Secretary of Defense's 2002 authorization of the aggressive techniques at Guantánamo led to their use in Afghanistan and in Iraq, including at Abu Ghraib.
American Psychological Association Task Force
In 1983, the American Psychological Association (APA) asked Singer to chair a task force called the APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control (DIMPAC) to investigate whether brainwashing or coercive persuasion did indeed play a role in recruitment by NRMs. The Task Force concluded that:
Cults and large group awareness trainings have generated considerable controversy because of their widespread use of deceptive and indirect techniques of persuasion and control. These techniques can compromise individual freedom, and their use has resulted in serious harm to thousands of individuals and families. This report reviews the literature on this subject, proposes a new way of conceptualizing influence techniques, explores the ethical ramifications of deceptive and indirect techniques of persuasion and control, and makes recommendations addressing the problems described in the report.
However, On 11 May 1987, the APA's Board of Social and Ethical Responsibility for Psychology (BSERP) rejected the DIMPAC report because the report "lacks the scientific rigor and evenhanded critical approach necessary for APA imprimatur" and concluded that "after much consideration, BSERP does not believe that we have sufficient information available to guide us in taking a position on this issue."
Joost Meerloo, a Dutch psychiatrist, was an early proponent of the concept of brainwashing. "Menticide" is a neologism he coined meaning "killing of the mind". Meerloo's view was influenced by his experiences during the German occupation of his country during the Second World War and his work with the Dutch government and the American military in the interrogation of accused Nazi war criminals. He later emigrated to the United States and taught at Columbia University. His best-selling 1956 book, The Rape of the Mind, concludes by saying:
Russian historian Daniel Romanovsky, who interviewed survivors and eyewitnesses in the 1970s, reported on what he called "Nazi brainwashing" of the people of Belarus by the occupying Germans during the Second World War, which took place through both mass propaganda and intense re-education, especially in schools. Romanovsky noted that very soon, most people had adopted the Nazi view that the Jews were an inferior race and were closely tied to the Soviet government, views that had not been at all common before the German occupation.
Italy has had controversy over the concept of plagio, a crime consisting in an absolute psychological—and eventually physical—domination of a person. The effect is said to be the annihilation of the subject's freedom and self-determination and the consequent negation of his or her personality. The crime of plagio has rarely been prosecuted in Italy, and only one person was ever convicted. In 1981, an Italian court found that the concept is imprecise, lacks coherence and is liable to arbitrary application.
Recent scientific book publications in the field of the mental disorder "dissociative identity disorder" (DID) mention torture-based brainwashing by criminal networks and malevolent actors as a deliberate means to create multiple "programmable" personalities in a person to exploit this individual for sexual and financial reasons. Earlier scientific debates in the 1980s and 1990s about torture-based ritual abuse in cults was known as "satanic ritual abuse," which was mainly viewed as a "moral panic."
Kathleen Barry, co-founder of the United Nations NGO, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), prompted international awareness of human sex trafficking in her 1979 book Female Sexual Slavery. In his 1986 book Woman Abuse: Facts Replacing Myths, Lewis Okun reported that: "Kathleen Barry shows in Female Sexual Slavery that forced female prostitution involves coercive control practices very similar to thought reform." In their 1996 book, Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States, Rita Nakashima Brock and Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite report that the methods commonly used by pimps to control their victims "closely resemble the brainwashing techniques of terrorists and paranoid cults."
In her 2004 popular science book, Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control, neuroscientist and physiologist Kathleen Taylor reviewed the history of mind control theories, as well as notable incidents. In it, she theorized that persons under the influence of brainwashing may have more rigid neurological pathways, and that can make it more difficult to rethink situations or to be able to later reorganize these pathways.
In popular culture
Laurence Harvey and Frank Sinatra in The Manchurian Candidate
In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the main character is subjected to imprisonment, isolation, and torture to conform his thoughts and emotions to the wishes of the rulers of the book's fictional future totalitarian society. The torturer, representing the authorities, says to that character, "we make the brain perfect before we blow it out...Everyone is washed clean." Orwell's vision influenced Hunter and is still reflected in the popular concept of brainwashing.
In the 1950s, some American films were made that featured brainwashing of POWs, including The Rack, The Bamboo Prison, Toward the Unknown, and The Fearmakers. Forbidden Area told the story of Soviet secret agents who had been brainwashed through classical conditioning by their own government so they wouldn't reveal their identities. In 1962, The Manchurian Candidate (based on the 1959 novel by Richard Condon) "put brainwashing front and center" by featuring a plot by the Soviet government to take over the United States by using a brainwashed sleeper agent for political assassination. The concept of brainwashing became popularly associated with the research of Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov, which mostly involved dogs as subjects. In The Manchurian Candidate, the head brainwasher is "Dr. Yen Lo, of the Pavlov Institute."
The science fiction stories of Cordwainer Smith (pen name of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (1913–1966), a U.S. Army officer who specialized in military intelligence and psychological warfare during the Second World War and the Korean War) depict brainwashing to remove memories of traumatic events as a normal and benign part of future medical practice.
Mind control remains an important theme in science fiction. A subgenre is corporate mind control, in which a future society is run by one or more business corporations that dominate society, using advertising and mass media to control the population's thoughts and feelings.Terry O'Brien commented: "Mind control is such a powerful image that if hypnotism did not exist, then something similar would have to have been invented: The plot device is too useful for any writer to ignore. The fear of mind control is equally as powerful an image."
Literary reference
Lifton, Robert J. (1961). Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China. New York: Norton. ISBN 978-0-8078-4253-9.; Reprinted, with a new preface: University of North Carolina Press, 1989 (Online at Internet Archive).
Lifton, Robert J. (2000). Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism. Owl Books.
Meerloo, Joost (1956). "The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing". World Publishing Company.
Taylor, Kathleen (2004). Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control. Oxford University Press.
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