Posted by treelaw45 TI on October 7, 2009 at 6:34pm
#674 Mass Action, Concentration of EffortI was thinking yesterday how frustrating it is that those of us who are targeted for the most part are strong individuals compared to many of the people involved in our attacks. We are survivors in fact. We have lived with this without retaliating or giving in and ending our lives. We live with degradation and humiliation that the average person could never imagine. The fact that they can't imagine that anything so cruel would be happening is actually the worst aspect of being targeted because those we would hope would have our backs like friends, family and even honest law enforcement and public officials can't believe this is happening. Thus, the nature of covert attacks leaves the attackers with plausible denial.People would rather believe it isn't happening than risk, "Vicarious Trauma", by sharing in our trauma or belatedly, Post traumatic Stress Syndrome Disorder", (PTSD). Psychologists who treat torture victims like prisoners of was are actually susceptible to PTSD just by listening to the victims account of their torture. that is while these people would rather not believe us it isn't that they wouldn't want to it is because they are trying to save themselves from the trauma.Conversely we can only heal by talking about it and working through it. This creates that never ending cycle of destruction the CIA wrote about concerning torture victims. "As the victim reaches out to heal others are forced to withdraw to save themselves". The more the torture victim reaches out the more people withdraw and the more they are isolated leading to the spiral of destruction of the victim of the torture".The Internet allows us to find other TIs at distances that were meant to keep us apart and from healing each other so in fact we are healing. We are healing each other by sharing these posts.So the question becomes how do we expose or bring attention to this atrocity that people would rather ignore than share in the trauma, and the truth is if we were not TIs we would react the same because it is human nature to survive.I think the answer is, "Mass Action", or what might be called, "Concentrated Action". What we as a dispersed and limited number of people need to do is concentrate our effort in a way that catches other peoples attention so that they want to know why an odd event happened or that news groups will cover because there nature is to bring news events to the public for ratings and profit.It's time we work with psychology and human nature than against it.I've been imagining what we could do that wouldn't initially run the public and media off but to catch there curiosity and make them want to know more or why and event has happened. the possibilities are actually endless.One though came to me from the bible when the river turned to blood when.They went outside. Aaron struck the river with his rod and the water turned into blood. The fish died and the water was poisonous to drink. But Pharaoh’s magicians also turned water into blood. So Pharaoh refused to listen to Aaron and Moses. For seven days the river ran red and full of poison. Blood was God’s first plague on Egypt.I think a little harmless food coloring in a small water way preferably with an exposed waterfall as a display might do the trick to bring attention. Letter might have to be written and posted a day before the event to clearing tell the reason and cause we are trying to expose peacefully. This could reach the news I think? What does food coloring cost? Maybe we can all order some an send it to a TI near the capital or something.We need to align with other groups to increase our numbers and the effect. Twitter could help if people start to follow,"Mass Action". larger groups could send letters all at once to the home of a relative or a town hall. If Bright colored post cards were made up it would cost less and have a better effect with the cause written on them.People could sit at one of these town hall meetings with their phones on and others could all call at the same time for one minute as a sign that many are listening.I also say we all send flowers letters singing telegrams to the next TI that dies, or the state office where they live, or even the closest news organization.Can you imagine the bag of letters, maybe fluorescent post cards, the floral trucks lined up, the people doing the singing telegram taking turns on the steps?Shit if enough people shined lights at a dark moon they could probably make it glow. We just need to focus our small numbers in the same direction in a way that is harmless but brings attention to this cause that is of importance. Catch their attention harmlessly so people actually smile an want to know why.Peter Rosenholm
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