Sent to the Committee on Government Reform, Minority Office, US House of Representatives June 17, 2005.

Dear Sir,

An uncounted number of American citizens (including myself and many others that I can introduce you to) are bearing the brunt of a woefully unjust and un-American (yet apparently popular and presumably punative) practice whereby citizens are surveilled within their homes and other places having a reasonable expectation of privacy and forced to endure various forms of unwanted semi-communications and even the induction of pain, sleeplessness and other effects. Also, they are being forced to see anything gleaned from such surveillance (of unknown quality or accuracy) shared with selected members of the public, who are given instructions to bounce those back at targeted citizens in highly deniable ways, usually involving elements of mockery and ridicule and employing everything from innuendo to suggestive object placement to job loss to suggestive email bombardments to interruption of and interference with paid for services.

The guiding principle behind this trend appears to be the preservation of absolute transparency and/or deniability in application such that no authority or individual can be identified (or otherwise proven to be involved) so as to be held accountable and forced to produce any form of justification. Another guiding principle inherent in the first is the structuring of such operations such that targeted citizens are frequently accused of paranoia and delusion and possibly thrust into psychiatric treatment under false circumstances.

This practice clearly runs counter to the traditional, lawful and Constitutional American tradition of accountability by authority, opportunity for a fair self-defense, the right to enjoy a measure of privacy in one's home and in one's private associations, the right to a fair trial prior to any form of prosecution and the right to simply be left alone. And all because various technologies have opened up a 'space between' whereby authorities can operate beyond the reach of accountability for their own actions and because numerous people (including your colleagues in senate and congress) are willing to turn a blind eye to their own roles in this atrocity as long as those roles can be perpetually denied and petitions for redress of grievances ignored.

This situation is clearly unacceptable, is preserved only because targeted individuals are confronted with a virtually impossible task of providing courtroom quality proof of such operations, amounts to a clever form of conspiracy and involves aspects of torture and intentional mental cruelty. It is clearly your duty to the nation that you serve to investigate this American atrocity, these high-tech lynchings, and to provide accountability to victims of these operations both past and present and to expose both those operations in all their details and those who perpetrate them.

Thank you. I and the many other targeted citizens look forward to hearing from you on this matter. We also look forward to rallying in numbers in the nation's capitol later this year as a demonstration of our discontent and our determination to see an ultimate end to this American monstrosity.

Sincerely,
Ted Jackson (website address withheld due to forum policy restrictions)