Die bizarrste Geschichte in dem Krieg gegen den Terror

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Jedermann spricht von CIA, aber man spricht selten von das neues Ministerium für Heimatschutz (Department of Homeland Security), die dummste Geheimdienst in der Welt.

Ich will Ihnen die bizarrste Geschichte in Amerikas Krieg gegen den Terror erzählen. Die ist eine wahre Geschichte. Aber eine so verwickelte Geschichte wie diese kann ich nicht auf Deutsch erzählen, dann schreibe ich die Folgende auf Englisch.

Late last year I was the biggest target of the Department of Homeland Security. This happened in Long Beach, California. In August last year I came under DHS surveillance. I knew it since the beginning because they used the same old technique that I had already become familiar with: surveillance agents wearing ear phones with ipods or CD players or using lap tops with bugs in them, etc. By that time I had already been under surveillance by other agencies for over a year and a half and had become quite good at detecting surveillance. In particular I knew about the ipods.

The ipods have their secret history of being doubled as surveillance devices. The first time I saw ipod being so used was May 2006, some months before the story of the Department of Homeland Security began. I was on a flight from Los Angeles to Montreal. At the time I was under FBI surveillance. The FBI decided to take extra caution of me for this flight, and they sent a super-athletic woman -- whose hand was bigger than my head -- to sit on my right and two marines to sit on my left. The woman was wearing earphones with ipods. As the plane was about to take off, she started manipulating her ipod and these words popped up on the screen: "The plane is taking off the ground." I watched the whole thing from behind her shoulder without her noticing.

I'm not here to tell the story of my encounter with the FBI -- how the FBI decided to investigate me -- but only the story of the Department of Homeland Security. I shall only note that the FBI investigation was just a passing phenomenon. The FBI came and went. But they must have left me on some sort of watch list, for when my second flight to Montreal in August 11 last year coincided with timing of the London terror plot, that day I was pulled aside and then put back into line several times at the airport as I was getting ready to board my plane. The Department of Homeland Security must have found the coincidence suspicious and thusly they came into my life.

After I came back from Montreal to Southern California, at first I ran into between 10 to 20 surveillance agents per day: at coffeehouses, at the university campus (Cal State Long Beach), on buses, etc. I bore it but then events started building up momentum. In late September one day when I went to meet with my doctor (who knew I was under surveillance) in Westwood Los Angeles she warned me to stay out of the north side because the President himself was in town for fund-raising activities. I returned to my home in the south but I was escorted by several surveillance agents on the metro rail. The authorities must have thought that problematic individuals like me must be under watch when the President was in town to keep him (the President) safe. The surveillance was not so different than usual but that night I blew up because more than a year and nine months of being considered a threat had finally got to me. I talked angrily on the phone about this with my best friend in Albany, New York, saying that I had enough of all these investigations by one agency after another. The next day I was still angry and talked to someone else about my being annoyed by the constant surveillance. The Department of Homeland Security became alarmed -- they probably thought I was about to snap and do something! -- and increased their surveillance of me, which made me even more angry. The day after I decided to take a trip to ACLU but I rode the bus from downtown L.A. to Beverly Hills and back to downtown again without being able to find it. As I stood at the downtown bus stop frustrated as ever, a man who looked obviously like he came from the military came wearing an ipod to conduct surveillance on me. I felt the situation oppressive and left but then came back to him and started begging him for help, tears running down my cheeks. I asked him to take me to ACLU and when he refused I just clung to his presence and followed him. "You cannot follow me" he said but I in my frustration followed him onto the bus anyway with tears pouring down my face. The surveillance agent man was quite surprised by the development -- I just wouldn't let him go nor stop crying -- while I just thought, since he was there to find out where I wanted to go, and since I couldn't find where I wanted to go, we might as well help each other by having him -- the surveillance agent -- take me to where I wanted to go. But he was not amused by the tactic and he slipped off the bus in Beverly Hills and although I followed him out the bus I lost him. Some passersby did direct me to ACLU, which apparently I passed over near downtown without noticing. I went. On the bus to ACLU the DHS used relays: one surveillance agent would exit the bus while another one would come up. When I came out of ACLU, another surveillance agent, wearing earphones as usual, came next to me at the bus stop. I decided to follow him again as we both exited the bus at downtown. This seems to have alarmed the DHS even more and they sent out a helicopter to track me. I got on another bus with more surveillance agents on board to go to my next destination, my grandfather's place in Alhambra, to discuss the possibility of returning to Taiwan, my home country. When I came back to the downtown transit station late at night a DHS agent came up to me looking bemused and tried to talk with me. Apparently the way I dealt with their surveillance that day -- especially the first agent -- had amused some in the DHS as well.

By this time the Department of Homeland Security had realized that this target of theirs was wildly resistant to surveillance and started mobilizing more surveillance agents. When I went to the Cal State Long Beach campus, the place would be filled with surveillance agents; and when I went to the alumni office to get my alumni card (I was a graduate of CSULB), the office lady there was scared out of her body to see me. The same with bus drivers. I was pissed off to the extreme by the fact that the DHS had informed the entire town that a major threat was here when I was no such thing at all. My resistance consisted in publicly counting out the surveillance agents; and when the Department of Homeland Security became ever more alarmed and continued to increase the number of surveillance agents around me, it also made it even easier to identify them, since my environment had literally changed. And then for inexplicable reasons -- I think it was because I one day threw out from my wallet a piece of paper with the extension of a phone number on it -- the DHS suddenly went into a state of emergency and the next day they locked down the part of Los Angeles that I traversed through as I rode the bus to meet my doctor. That day I counted 70 or so surveillance agents. As I returned home that night another DHS agent on the rail with me was amused by me as ever and wanted to converse with me. I had again amused the DHS because that day I kept saying hi to their surveillance agents with a dorky smile and telling jokes while many surveillance agents were around recording me, both of which caused not a few of them to burst into laughter. But the DHS only intensified their effort afterwards. My doctor had been for a while required to wear wires to spy on me, and my website went down. (It was hosted on a server in Britain. What is usually done is that the agents here call up the security service in Britain to move the server in question to another server for a day, and then move the content back to the original server; the second server is then carried off for analysis. You would then notice that your website is down during the time of the transfer of the server and that when it comes back on the content you have added to your website during that day of transfer disappeared: it has been carried off.) Gradually coming to understand that I had no terrorist connection, the Department of Homeland Security had also started their sting operation on me on the internet. They started inserting into my search results links they were trying to lure me to visit. For example, when I did a search on some topics of philosophy on Google or Ask.com, interspersed among the links that the search engine produced would be links to terrorist websites that the DHS had artificially inserted. I never took the bait and just skipped these. Once when I did a search on a topic of feminism, the DHS, trying even harder, inserted among the results this link: "Aristotelian Nietzsche Al Quaeda appreciation of North America...", thinking that since I liked philosophy I might take this bait and look at the website. I did get surprised by DHS's control of the search engines. On the outside the Department of Homeland Security continued to increase the number of surveillance agents around me, and I continued to count them out publicly ever more easily. This was partly because their surveillance agents looked more grotesque than ordinary people. By the later half of October, my count of DHS surveillance agents had reached 500.

At this time a vast number of black Cadillac limousines with tainted windows started showing up in my neighborhood, which, as a ghetto, had never seen even one before. Evidently many important people were surprised by my “special ability” to detect surveillance and came to see me in person. In fact the secretary of DHS himself had stepped in, as I later would learn. Just now the Department of Homeland Security geared up for a full-scale surveillance war. When I got on the bus there would be no real passengers at all on it but only their surveillance agents pretending to be passengers. They apparently had evacuated the bus on previous stops and re-filled it with surveillance agents only. The whole city of Long Beach went into a covert state of emergency, as librarians and bus drivers were all told to watch out for me. This was October. My neighborhood had become a circus: everyday when I went out the street would be peopled with strange looking surveillance agents pretending to be homeless or disabled moving about slowly or pretending to be holding up signs (house for sale and so on) or reading newspaper in the car. The neighborhood looked completely abnormal. I talked openly on the phone about this to show them that I still knew what was going on. As the matter progressed finally DHS decided to seal me up permanently in a “surveillance bubble”: everywhere I went the place would be evacuated and re-filled with surveillance agents pretending to be doing whatever. When I went to the university library (at both Cal State Long Beach and UCLA), the place would have been evacuated and re-filled with their bum-looking secret agents pretending to be students studying (most of these were hired temporarily for the occasion, mostly 18 to 19 year-olds, and none of them looked like students at all); the coffeehouse I frequented was permanently evacuated and re-filled with surveillance agents pretending to be employees and customers; in fact the entire neighborhood I was living in seemed evacuated – I don’t know what, but the streets were filled only with surveillance agents pretending to be pedestrians; all nearby stores were evacuated and re-filled with surveillance agents. Where did the original inhabitants go? Perhaps the extraordinary measures that the U.S. government had been preparing for sometime were ridiculously activated for this idiotic occasion and the “real people” had been sent to those FEMA concentration camps. I don’t know. If I went outside the city – such as to West Hollywood once – I’d find that the employee at Subway was already notified about me and about my dietary habits (he with his evil smile spelled out my order before I needed to tell him). This happened numerous times. The bus and metro lines that I rode regularly were permanently evacuated; when I rode them there would never be any real passengers but only surveillance agents on them – there must have been a team going ahead of my bus evacuating all those waiting for the bus at the bus stops and replacing them with surveillance agents – and the bus drivers had always to inform the DHS about where I got off, etc. Often they filled up the metro trains with so many fake passengers that there was hardly any room to breathe, even during the mid-day when normally there would be few people riding it. The DHS would continue to have the problem of “over-doing”.

Homeland Security agents started moving into my apartment building, and they regularly had my manager open my door – no, they don’t pick locks – so as to search my home while I was away. I knew this because, other than moving things around without putting them back in order, they regularly stole things from my place: my old cellphone, my phone jacks, my sweater, anything. My apartment was filled with bugs – you knew this when you talked to yourself in the apartment about surveillance techniques and the next day the surveillance would change in reaction to your feedback. The anti-virus software in my computer was disabled, and virus was inserted into my website.

Not only did they have agents sign up for the internet forums I frequented, but once they evacuated physicsforums.com where I was posting my questions and replaced all users with their agents to bombard me with negative comments about my post.

Why did the Department of Homeland Security do this when it had already become clear to them that I had no terrorist connection? I had sealed my fate one Thursday night in early November. I had ridden the bus and metro for four days between Los Angeles and Long Beach with nobody else on them save DHS agents, and I just blew up. That night, knowing that every word I uttered in my apartment was recorded, I addressed angrily the secretary of DHS himself: "Yes I know I know every single person on the bus and metro is fake! Because you don't know how to do it, you dumb mother f**ker!" Referring to Monday night when I entered the UCLA research library to find that all students there had been evacuated and replaced with DHS agents pretending to be students, I pointed out to him that he failed to fool me that night, that his fakery was obvious, because he simply didn’t have the right people. Their red-neck agents that came in to replace the students just didn't look like students. DHS would continue to have the same problem in the future when they'd attempt to create fake libraries to fool me. For example, if you look at the inside of a university library in California, you would see around 30 percent white female, 25 percent white male, 40 percent Asian and a 5 percent others. When DHS evacuated university libraries, they would refill the place with half Asian and half Hispanic and blacks, with very few whites that were furthermore all bum-looking. The people in DHS weren’t sensitive to details in the environment. Just when I finished my criticism, my roommate, blind because of kidney failure and hallucinating everyday because of the medication he had to take daily for his transplanted kidney, stumbled out of his room after hearing me calling out the name of the secretary of DHS and started talking to me: "You must trust in God... that Michael whatever his name is, he's a movie director right? He's movie director." He's hallucinating again and didn't know what he was talking about, but fate had it that he should have hit right on the target, for replacing passengers on the bus and students in the libraries with secret agents, isn't that just like directing a movie? So I shouted in concurrence, "Yeah he's a movie director!" The recording of this conversation would find its way to the ear of the secretary of DHS himself and would greatly enrage him, as later someone else (not from the DHS but who was an insider) would later confirm to me.

Anyone who knows something about the secretary of DHS knows that he has a bad temper and can be very vengeful at times. Now that I had made him look like a fool in front of all the important people and exposed the poor performance of his agency by easily pointing out their “secret agents” in public he would try his best to conduct on me the most pointless exercises in clandestine operation in order to demonstrate his ability to fool me and reclaim his dignity. But the harder his agency tried, the more obvious the deception. For they bombarded me every single day with fake places and fake circumstances, fake customers and fake employees at fake stores, and fake websites on the internet, and had not learned that only a lie embedded in the context of truth could work to deceive.

The Department of Homeland Security was now learning the art of clandestine operation from somewhere else and was using me as guinea pig. They once had someone I knew lure me to a small “fake” concert in Universal City where the dozen or so audience and employees were their secret agents doing the pretending (the singers were pretenders from another agency working with them). They also enlisted the help of ordinary people in the campaign to deceive me. Once I took a detour bus and went to a French restaurant in Manhattan Beach (not my usual stop) to celebrate my birthday with myself, but the DHS had evidently called up the owner and managed to have her greet in front of me their surveillance agents just coming in in order to fool me that they were real customers. When I went to the Taiwanese government office they would try the same: getting the officers there to pretend to handle documents of the surveillance agents coming in in order to make me think they were really there for visa purposes. At my church they had implanted several of their agents and they obligated some of the church officials to try to hook me up with one undercover agent, getting these good Christians to lie to me that the agent in question was a long time church member (I was a new member there).

The immediate problem the DHS had was still not having the right people to play fakery. They simply couldn't recruit the right people from outside the class of the economically dispossessed. Once when I went to visit my grandfather in Alhambra (a district of mostly Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants) the entire neighborhood was evacuated and refilled with Korean, black, and Hispanic agent-extras pretending to be shopping and strolling and banking.

Later they grasped the problem. In December first for example I went to the LA Phil Harmonic to take a break as I did the previous two times -- this place wasn’t evacuated before -- but this time the DHS did decide to evacuate the place and fill it up with fake audience. They evidently had noted that the audience there were usually classy or upper class whites, so they got agents to come in from other agencies which had whites to do the pretending. They tried so hard that night that they even evacuated the two restaurants nearby and replaced the original eaters there with extras temporarily hired to play fakes. It created a funny scene for all the "customers" in the restaurant suddenly looked much fatter than usual.

The DHS campaign against me continued throughout the month of November and I was surrounded by about 1,000 surveillance agents and extras per day with few repeats. For DHS I must have become a super monster genius who was too dangerous to be allowed to interact with ordinary people, all because of my insult of their head and because of my “special ability” to be able to identify their “secret agents” by the mere sight of them. In reality I doubted anyone would have difficulty identifying them when the entire population in the environment was literally switched over. Most of these surveillance agents were clearly hired on the spot just for this because they were either disgruntled males who couldn’t get a job elsewhere or poor immigrants or ex-gang bangers and old folks “recruited” out of jail houses and nursing homes. What was surprising to me was that among the surveillance agents were even Japanese foreign students.

As if the thousands of surveillance agents weren't enough of an exaggeration, once when I returned home late at night and the street was short on surveillance agents (perhaps they were changing shift) the Department of Homeland Security got a police helicopter to fly above me (again!) to conduct surveillance on me until I entered my apartment.

Even when I went to a strip club once (the famous Jet Strip) the customers there were evacuated and replaced with a couple of red-neck DHS agents pretending to be customers. But thank God the strippers didn’t seem replaced, for they were pretty as usual.

What made me really uncomfortable however was that the Department of Homeland Security took great interest in my dietary habits. Their surveillance agents at the coffeehouse constantly asked me what brand of juice I was drinking or what brand of cigarettes I smoked, etc. I suspected that the restaurants I dined at all had to report to DHS what food I just ordered. Why would they want all this information in their dossier on me unless they were planning to poison me?

But the event which had exacerbated me the most in this long month of November is my discovery in the last day of the month that the entire web domain on which my website was hosted was moved from its original server in Britain to one server in California that was registered under an Asian guy's name. A search on the internet for the name revealed that the man was a notorious spammer. Apparently the man was recently convicted and came into the employment of the Department of Homeland Security -- too typical of this monstrous agency to employ all the ex-cons available -- and now he had control of my precious website on which I had saved years of academic hard work. The thought that the Department of Homeland Security needed to own my entire life produced an unbearable sense of oppression. The "bubble" was complete. I now lived entirely inside the artificial world of DHS.

Hence by December the constant bombardment of fakery and surveillance bubble had passed all limits of toleration and at the same time I had become so concerned with possible poisoning that I decided to “run away”. I first planed to go to Albany NY to see my friend and then to go up to Montreal. I ditched the plan at the airport – which was evacuated – and took a shuttle down to my parents’ place to pick up my old Taiwanese passport. Both the shuttle driver and the other passenger of course were in fact working for DHS and the other passenger got off at a certain Art Institute in Santa Ana where I got off too. I tried to call up a taxi from there but the taxi company could not find any listing for the place. I looked around and saw a large number of surveillance agents (their agents, as usual, from mostly poor minorities, didn’t look like students at all). That’s when I realized that this was another one of the tactics they were learning from somewhere else: to use fake institutions as front. Deep inside this Art Institute was actually their operation center. As I left I could see a swarm of surveillance agents wearing their typical ipods and sun glasses coming out to watch me leave. When I got to my parents’ place I discovered that my ancient Taiwanese passport was vandalized: picture was torn off and birthday changed. Apparently DHS agents had searched my parents’ home already and vandalized it. Next day I bought a ticket from L. A. to Montreal just one day before the flight. When I got to the airport (LAX) – that was December 8 or so – the place seemed again evacuated, empty with only a few people who looked like surveillance agents. On the plane I wondered if the passengers around me were real or fake. When I got to Montreal, lo and behold, the entire downtown seemed blocked off and evacuated. St. Catherine, normally filled with people even late into the night, had but few pedestrians. I was pretty sure that for three days the coffeehouse at St. Laurent (next to the Second Cup) was evacuated and re-filled with their locally recruited surveillance agents, with ear phones and surveillance lap tops, pretending to be studying and waiting for me to come in. The Grande Bibliotheque at Berri-UQAM was evacuated the first night and refilled with fake patrons. The metro system seemed entirely evacuated and filled with fake passengers going back and forth waiting for me to get on. The policemen in the metro station were making jokes on me, having obviously been informed about me and ticked off by the comical situation. I asked two officers to escort me on the metro, and when we got off one of them tried to set me up with a prostitute-looking girl, having obviously been informed by DHS about my liking of a sex-worker in Montreal. Next day I went outside of downtown to Verdun but surveillance agents soon appeared there; if I went into a shop to buy cigarettes a surveillance agent would soon follow in to take note of what I was buying. Their close attention to my dietary habits freaked me out. I went into a catholic sermon and the priest almost peed his pants when he saw me. Many of the population were obviously told to watch out for me. When I got back to UQAM -- a school I once attended briefly -- the underground campus was filled with surveillance agents wearing ipods, which before this had never been seen in this school. The library of UQAM was evacuated with few people in it and the librarians kept coming to me to offer their help, obviously told by DHS to find out what I was up to. I was so terrified that the secretary of DHS had such power that he could evacuate Canada for this chicken shit matter (me the “monster genius”), that I decided to “escape” to Ottawa, thinking that he couldn’t possibly evacuate the Canadian capital for one single person who was not connected with anything but had merely insulted him and exposed the stupidity of his agency. The bus station at Berri-UQAM seemed evacuated, and on my bus I seemed to be the only real passenger while everyone else seemed to be extras pretending to be bus-riders. I got to Ottawa, and as soon as I got onto the bus there, I could see that it was filled with surveillance agents wearing their ear phones. The bus driver was obviously informed about me, constantly asking me where I was trying to go. I got off at the downtown area and saw that, although the street was filled with surveillance agents, the city did not seem evacuated. But I was frightened by the fact that every taxi-driver and bus-driver was told to watch for me and inform me on where I was going. There I bought a ticket to Taiwan, my home country, and returned to Montreal to meet up with some old friends and to take the flight. On the way back so many agent-extras filled up my bus that the bus company had to send in another one to pick up the rest of us. My old friends, obviously cooperating with DHS, nevertheless tried to comfort me and coax me to ignore what was happening, for the secretary of DHS was simply upset about his inability to fool me and the more I noticed, the more they would continue. When I got to the airport of Montreal, it was almost empty. I guessed it was evacuated as usual.

What is noteworthy about the DHS operation at Montreal is that they seem to have had better luck in recruiting. Most of the surveillance agent-extras were local ordinary Quebeckers, not the downtrodden and poor immigrants and ex-criminals and retired old people as it is in Los Angeles. At Toronto where I transferred my flight to Taiwan, however, the surveillance agents reverted back to being poor “colored” people, indicating that this city was like Los Angeles in having a much greater divide in wealth.

In Taiwan I had a break. The airport was evacuated when I got off the plane, but Taipei was not evacuated, it couldn’t be given the enormous density of the population and traffic. But the whole city was of course filled with surveillance agents, in the metro especially. Not a few of them were not of Asian stock: whites and blacks. All the civil servants were already notified about me. Again, I was constantly asked where I wanted to go by every employee I ran into. I was also followed in the old fashion way by the Taiwanese agents. I was bent on recovering my citizenship papers, so I went to the government office as soon as I could. Surveillance agents were there waiting for me with their lap tops, and the civil servants were evidently instructed to obstruct my process, so I was sent away with nothing and extremely depressed about the fact that the Department of Homeland Security had mobilized half of the planet against me to leave me no room on earth. The next day as I tried again, however, my process was facilitated. I obtained my papers and now had to go back to California to continue applying for my passport. The Taiwanese government was evidently under political pressure to see me leave: that’s the impression I got from all the civil servants I met and all the taxi-drivers who surrounded me during my last day to try to direct me to the airport without my asking.

During my second night in Taiwan I googled for a cheap hostel to pass the night and when I went there the place seemed to be filled with Homeland Security agents pretending to be lodgers and employees and with their ipods and lap tops. I slept in the living quarter and the agents took turn to watch me, doing some doodling on paper to try to stay awake. Apparently they had created a fake website about a hostel, and stuck it into google search ranking system to come up first in the search (they had complete control of google system), in order to lure me into a fake hostel they had prepared to trap me.

I came back to Los Angeles around December 20 or so. When I got to the metro station from the airport a Hispanic DHS agent (license plate 4DCX070) was sitting in his car parked next to the station and waiting for me. (I would see him again in the future.) When he saw me he made a call from his cellphone and soon a hundred or so DHS extras came in in a bus to fill up the metro train I was in. The surveillance bubble would continue for another month.

By January this year I moved out of my bug-filled apartment and started a homeless life in the UCLA area. The area was filled with surveillance agents and the residents seemed already notified about me. People talked behind my back and children ran away at the sight of me. I had been ostracized from society. Then the bubble stopped.

The last noteworthy event happened in mid-January. I was sick and I went to the emergency room of UCLA medical center. The hospital went into a state of emergency and the doctors started evacuating all the patients. DHS extras pretending to be patients started rushing in to replace them. It took the hospital six hours to get ready for me, and it’s sad for me to see all the doctors and nurses having to pretend treating them and feign not knowing me even though they were already notified about me the greatest threat the USA had ever faced in its history. For all that effort I was merely given a cup of juice and an antibiotic pill by the doctor and sent away.

I estimated that in these two months I ran into about 40,000 surveillance agents and extras hired for the occasion to play fake. If I had run into only one out of ten of the people mobilized (a good estimate), that means around 400,000 people in total were mobilized against me. Then we have to count all the taxi- and bus-drivers and civil servants in three different countries that were told to help in. It was the biggest mobilization in human history against one person. My estimate was that DHS has spent approximately 500 million dollars on me. Never in the history of humankind has a single person been under so much surveillance.

Today I am still under occasional DHS surveillance. And even though the bubble had stopped, many of the DHS agents that were earlier imbedded in stores in the Westwood/ UCLA area to play fake were still there. DHS presence was permanently installed in businesses in the area I was “active”. Their surveillance techniques remain the same: getting ordinary people to wear surveillance ipods, CD players, and ear phones, or to pretend to have broken arms or legs and wear casts wherein recording devices are hidden, etc.

The incident had also impacted my best friend. He is a PhD student at SUNY Albany. In December after I returned to California from Taiwan he also came back home to Santa Ana to pass Christmas with his parents. When he went back to Albany in mid-January this year, his neighbor told him that there were people searching his apartment when he was away, and he noticed also that some of the things in his apartment were broken or moved around. Later, sometimes when he returned home he would find that his heater was on even though he had turned if off when he left the place. And suddenly his friends and colleagues in his university department all shunned him. Evidently, DHS agents had decided to investigate him also on account of his association with me, searched his apartment, and interviewed all the people that knew him, which scared them off. (They were of curse under the Patriot Act forbidden to reveal this to him.) He has been like me ostracized from society.

Since many seasoned Department of Homeland Security agents are ex-cons, their tactics tend to steep very low. If you have heard of the story of Michael Ruppert (From the Wilderness) – how he was harassed and his office burglarized and he escaped to Venezuela and then was robbed and poisoned there – know that he was targeted by the Department of Homeland Security and not by the FBI or CIA. Although DHS was formed in the name of anti-terrorism, most of the people it goes after – about 700 at any one time – are animal rights activists, 911 conspiracy theorists, war protestors and the like. I am a special case, since I’m neither a terrorist nor an activist nor have anything to do with anything. How this started is another story, but what kept it going was my continual insult of them.

Because the Department of Homeland Security was created instantly and is a new agency, it has had to hire a large number of people all at once. The intelligent people already have a job, so the DHS can only get its hands on those that have below average intelligence and couldn’t get a job elsewhere. DHS is basically a welfare system keeping the jobless employed. Otherwise it is the home of the ex-cons. We have to thank God that an agency so without morals has such poor performance at the same time. But then only then would they blow a chicken shit matter that my case was into the greatest mobilization of “intelligence operation” in human history.

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The Department of Homeland Security was now learning the art of clandestine operation from somewhere else and was using me as guinea pig. They once had someone I knew lure me to a small “fake” concert in Universal City where the dozen or so audience and employees were their secret agents doing the pretending (the singers were pretenders from another agency working with them). They also enlisted the help of ordinary people in the campaign to deceive me. Once I took a detour bus and went to a French restaurant in Manhattan Beach (not my usual stop) to celebrate my birthday with myself, but the DHS had evidently called up the owner and managed to have her greet in front of me their surveillance agents just coming in in order to fool me that they were real customers. When I went to the Taiwanese government office they would try the same: getting the officers there to pretend to handle documents of the surveillance agents coming in in order to make me think they were really there for visa purposes. At my church they had implanted several of their agents and they obligated some of the church officials to try to hook me up with one undercover agent, getting these good Christians to lie to me that the agent in question was a long time church member (I was a new member there).

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This technique -- taking over a store or institution at any time when knowing that you are about to go there, evacuating everyone therein and then filling up the place with secret agents pretending to be the employees and customers in order to trap you -- is part of the art of clandestine operation and the Department of Homeland Security was now learning it from somewhere else and was using me as guinea pig. For example, when once in early November I was walking to the Borders Bookstore in downtown Long Beach and telling my best friend about where I was going on the cellphone, the DHS, monitoring my phone conversation, went ahead of me and immediately evacuated everyone in the bookstore and sent in their agents to pretend to be the customers and employees. When I arrived the "fake" employees interacted with me, answering my questions about the books I was seeking just as in normal days. It was of course not hard to detect that all was fake because, once again, the racial composition of the customers and employees had all changed and the place had this eerie atmosphere of emptiness. What's the point of the operation? The head of DHS simply wanted to show that he could do it. At another time they had someone I knew lure me to a small “fake” concert in Universal City where the dozen or so audience and employees were their secret agents doing the pretending (the singers were pretenders from another agency working with them). They also enlisted the help of ordinary people in the campaign to deceive me. Once I took a detour bus and went to a French restaurant in Manhattan Beach (not my usual stop) to celebrate my birthday with myself, but the DHS had evidently called up the owner and managed to have her greet in front of me their surveillance agents just coming in in order to fool me that they were real customers. When I went to the Taiwanese government office they would try the same: getting the officers there to pretend to handle documents of the surveillance agents coming in in order to make me think they were really there for visa purposes. At my church they had implanted several of their agents and they obligated some of the church officials to try to hook me up with one undercover agent, getting these good Christians to lie to me that the agent in question was a long time church member (I was a new member there).

[NicolasHofer]

Was eine Bleiwüste... und natürlich copy/paste:
http://www.politic.co.uk/war-terror/...ar-terror.html

Bitte verzeih mir meine Skepsis. Aber warum genau wurde dieser Aufwand betrieben? Hab ich das nur überlesen, oder ist dir der Grund selbst nicht bekannt?

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I'm the one who posted the same story at politics.co.uk. I posted my story at several forums, several English, one French, and two German.

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Verzeihen mir I muss auf Englisch schreiben.

The most annoying part of the aftermath of my run-in with the Department of Homeland Security is how the Department is getting the people around me to constantly lie to me that I am not a target of their surveillance. The most bizarre instance of this involves my aunt and uncle.

My aunt and uncle work at Northrop Grumman. Once late October last year they came to my church at Long Beach (California) to pick me up for lunch. That, remember, is just the time when the Department of Homeland Security had put the city of Long Beach under a covert state of emergency but had not yet sealed me completely in a "surveillance bubble". As we arrived at the Chinese restaurant Haixienge in Westminster in Orange County and were waiting outside for seats, a DHS surveillance agent (a young Chinese guy) went behind my aunt to try to record her conversation. I waved my hand in front of his face. My aunt turned around and asked me what was going on. I told her about the whole DHS deal, how they would evacuate the entire bus and refill it with surveillance agents only when I needed to take the bus, and how their surveillance agents were so easily identifiable, sometimes just by looking at their face. My aunt and uncle were stunned, withdrew the reservation at the restaurant, took me instead to the Mexican place next to my apartment in Long Beach, and were super-courteous to all the surveillance agents that filled up the whole restaurant there. Apparently they must have heard of my story at work -- Nothrop Grumman having all those business dealings with the Department of Homeland Security -- how one insignificant guy completely exposed the weakness of DHS surveillance program and the incompetence of the Department and humiliated their Secretary, save that they didn't know the guy in question happened to be their very nephew.

At first they simply told me that whether or not the DHS was conducting surveillance on me it was not my business. Good Evangelical Christians they may be, from then on they were progressively instructed by the DHS on how exactly to lie to me: how I was not important enough for the DHS -- as if DHS ever did anything important -- then how I simply imagined the whole thing -- as if I could imagine up more than 40,000 surveillance agents -- and how DHS could still get me if I go live in a foreign country -- now that is true. When with my other family members they were obliged to change the episode just described into my hitting on a little girl at a restaurant, which greatly angered my grand father. It is only too bizarre that the government would be responsible for creating so much tension between me and the rest of my family. To this day my aunt and uncle were instructed to lie to me and to the rest of my family that I have never been a target of DHS. They are, in other words, no longer good Christians.

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Allow me to recount what happened to my roommate:

Up til the early part of November last year my roommate, blind and often left alone in his room all day, did not know what was happening all around. Before all this sometimes his best friend would come to visit him. In its frenzy of mobilizing every means possible to bombard me with surveillance, the Department of Homeland Security had also recruited this best friend of my roommate's to come to my place to snoop on me, going through my papers and my books. Thereupon I rejected his coming in the future. Toward mid-November the Department of Homeland Security had finally decided to get to my roommate, to inform him on what a major national security threat I was, and probably to interrogate him about me. He got so scared that he left my apartment hurrily with the help of his parents and was never seen again, leaving behind a ton of his belonging which I had to dispose of later. He had not even paid his rent for the month yet, and I had to get it from his social worker later on. After he left I discovered a soda bottle half-filled with what looked like grape juice, and when I dumped it in the sink I discovered that it was actually dish-washing detergent mixed with grape juice to make it look like soda-juice. Was that a DHS attempt to poison me? The lowness and ruthlessness of the tactic was surely the signiture of some of their agents who were ex-convicts. The social worker of my roommate at the Westside Center for Independent Living in Venice, through whom I received him as a roommate, was meanwhile instructed by the Department of Homeland Security to set me up with one of their temporary agents in a roommate-finding meeting over at the Center. That day when I arrived at the Center, I found the whole place evacuated of all its usual clients and re-filled with twenty something DHS agents pretending to be the clients of the place, and the social worker approached me to offer that DHS agent (a middle age black man) as my new roommate. The set up was so obvious that I immediately refused the offer, knowing what a disaster living with a DHS agent would bring -- he would perhaps put things in my food, even.

I also had second thought about what really happened in the hostel in Taiwan. Remember that during my first night in Taiwan I passed the night in a cyber cafe with surveillance agents that followed me in. I googled for a cheap hostel and when I went there the second day the place seemed to be filled with Homeland Security agents pretending to be lodgers and employees and with their ipods and lap tops. What has really happened was probably that, after monitoring my internet activities and seeing what websites I had visited, the Department of Homeland Security went ahead of me to the hostel, evacuated the place, and refilled it with their agents to start the pretending and wait for me.

This year I had travelled to Montreal in late January and Belgium in mid-April, on both occasions I was under quite a lot of surveillance. Right now I'm in Los Angeles, and the surveillance continues, though not round the clock. Next week I'm going to Albany NY and Montreal, and I expect the surveillance to continue.