~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE WASH RAG published by Women Against Sexual Harassment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Available on-line ASAP at http://www.washrag.org/ along with earlier issues ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subscribe to e-mail version of this newsletter by going to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WomenAgainstSexualHarassmentNationaland and joining the group. Recent issues are posted here immediately when completed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Issue 12, Number 3 October, 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contents Job With Government Contractor Leads To Harassment Foreign National U. S. Government Employee Harassment Victim Employee of US Government Harassment Target Don't Forget to Vote! A Warning to Internet Users from the Miles Foundation Media Again Manipulating The Facts A Tale of Internet Woes Interesting new site ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Job With Government Contractor Leads To Harassment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The company I worked for was United Paradyne in Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. I suffered chemical effects from overexposure to JP5 jet fuel. JP4 jet fuel; similar to JP5 was made illegal by the courts in 1994 for having too much Benzene in it. JP4 had 5000 ppm. of benzene and was quite a hazardous substance to the military. Today the Armed Forces does not speak of JP5 but does speak of JP8; a fuel still with 200 times more than the "SAFE STANDARDS" set by OSHA of .1 ppm. over a eight hour work day. See for yourself on USAF Flight Surgeon's Guide: Chapter 21. You may not be able to get into the site. I have now been "locked out" of it. It is at http://wwwsam.brooks.af.mil/af/files/fsguide/HTML/Chapter _21.html. I have contacted Federal authorities about the matter and also Puerto Rico; Federal authorities claim "It has to be addressed though Puerto Rico." Basically, if a company from the states is in trouble, all they have to do is flee the island and they are safe. And besides, I had more than that happen to me and I have proof because I had my apartment complex wired outside. My neighbor was telling my ex-employer that he had to go to the court. Later my ex- employer replies that he did not want to go either. (Regarding my legal case I had filed with the EEOC.) And then they both state about how I (Caroline) do not like them and about both of them leaving the island in one week. Poisoning or Occupational chemicals can contribute to neurological disorders. I suspected during the apartment break-ins and harassment of intentional poisoning by my neighbor and ex-employer for not consenting to their demands. I also at one point suspected I may have been assaulted by my neighbor who is in the military. He was very demanding and became vulgar aggressive/offensive when anyone came to visit me. He "Controlled" my life and manipulated my thinking. I have been stripped of everything in my life, including "my" privacy! Almost like being raped, I have been laughed at for my undergarments that my landowner and ex-employer would be mocking about. And who knows what else they, including my neighbor had been doing in my apartment as I slept and when I was working. It makes a person skeptical as to why. Poisoning or assault come to play. I feared living in my apartment. I made every attempt to move out but was plagued by the fact I could not afford a more expensive apartment or there were no other apartments up for rent. So I stayed, and had to suffer a lot of mental and possibly (physical?) abuse. I don't know if my state of fear led me to have a delusion that I was abused by my neighbor or if it really happened. From the (delusion?) I saw my neighbor in my bedroom and when he noticed I saw him, he slammed my left foot into the corner of the bed . . . and I went to go scream and I was (passed out or something?) and then I suspect an assault occurred. When I woke up the next morning like many mornings, I was dizzy. I was always dizzy though within two hours after working with the fuels. I get dizzy now with the pituitary enlargement every now and then. So it could of just of been that. But ironically within a week or more my left foot swelled up and turned purple. It really makes me wonder what happened, if anything happened at all. I have a video that was left in my camcorder with a Puerto Rician family on it. Also the video displays a spray can of Ectron 2020, some kind of electrical spray cleaner. I cannot seem to figure out what it is. Also I have some other evidence that may indicate it was my ex- employer's spray can. When my foot had swelled up, that is when I was being pushed for full-duty and the harassment began at my job. A witness testifies that my ex-employer and an 18 year old boy spied at a female military's apartment downstairs at her windows as she undressed. The 18 year old boy admits that he saw him doing it and he went along and did it also. I have witnessed my neighbor looking into my window various times in the middle of the night and prowling around and "sneaking" up the steps of the complex. On the tape I recorded he states to my ex-employer (nervous), "We knew she was impregnated!" From collecting facts from witnesses, one witness claims that he had an infatuation with his ex-wife's daughter and got her pregnant when she was about 17 or 18 years old. Furthermore, he would harass a nine year old girl at the complex. Greg Cumberbatch would state, "She looks good." "I will marry you." Neither police nor government agencies never looked into the events. Besides the break-ins though, I eventually concluded that my illnesses had to be the military jet fuels. First I was skeptical but once I came to the states and found that Veterans Hospital records were being withheld and my current Veterans Hospital was withholding evidence to preclude the pituitary swelling, I knew then it was time to do some research. I found the MSDS, Material Safety Data Sheets on the internet that state that jet fuels can cause pituitary enlargement. Research on this material can be found on various web sites. If I can find a legal advisor to support my case, they too will benefit from my earnings. I don't care much for the money, as much as I would like to serve justice on those whom caused pain, suffering, and emotional pain to me. If you know of any justice service that would be willing to look into it, let me know. But everyone seems to need money to travel to Puerto Rico to check into it. I have written to my Senators, Governors, Congressman, White House, etc...but no one has responded to my problems. Heck, they would have gotten away with murder if they wanted to. The company that I had worked for fuels for other places such as the Kennedy Space Center and other parts of Florida. They receive large sums of money from the millions for their "good deeds" supporting the government every year. EEOC has not helped me in obtaining a lawyer. One EEOC sends me to another EEOC and back to another and then back to Puerto Rico. No one wants to take any responsibility. As a result, I have probably lost my rights to sue since it is over the deadlines to do so. I filed with my local District Court. But now my time limits have also been exceeded with them since I cannot even get the American Bar Association to do anything. I may have a lawyer now.....well, maybe. But they probably will only be able to sue for medical liability and not the harassment etc.... They are far from home but I cannot find anyone to do anything. But remember, I have many tapes of criminal injustice. The jet fuels I was exposed to caused rashes, dizziness, sleepiness, internal burning, body swellings, phenomena (lungs.), pituitary enlargement, muscular deterioration, muscular spasms, esophagus burning, tongue swelling, eye burning and swelling, hair and eye lash loss, and internal cysts. Esophagus burning and irritation though poison is usually caused by ingestion by the ATSDR studies not though inhalation. There must of been some spill around the base or in the drinking supply. But if so, other people would of experienced the throat swelling. This implies either scientific study deficiencies or intentional poisoning are suspect. Internal burning and partial paralysis happens after overexposure to occupational chemicals. If an Occupational exposure such as jet fuel is not immediately treated though Chelation Therapy or Activated Charcoal, it can lead to permanent problems such as muscular spasms, muscular degeneration, and can over time cause neurological problems. It first starts as burning, swelling, and partial paralysis of the legs. It can be misdiagnosed since jet fuels are known to cause problems to areas first where a surgery took place and can worsen the area where there was a surgery. Then it spreads though the body. If steroid shots are given for inflammation which can lead to infection, pneumonia (lungs) can occur if the person remains idle. But pneumonia (lungs) can too be caused by chemical overexposure. The poison then migrates to the brain where pituitary enlargement occurs and possibly other neurological deficiencies. This can include confusion, dizziness, nausea, etc....Well, I hope this help you in writing a story. I would like to get my story out before elections. I cannot seem to find the resources to do so. Like I said, I have a lot of evidence. I have been followed twice now that I know of since I have been back in the states. A man followed me back to my residential area where I live. Parked up the street, two cars behind me. He did not get out of the truck. He then later drove up the street when he noticed I was watching, parked again to the side of the road, then drove again to a stop light two blocks up....looking as though he was going to turn and then drove back down the road, parking on the other side of the street opposite to me, not getting out of the vehicle and just watched me for over ten minutes when I decided to go back inside the house. I carried my phone with me and as a precaution left a message on someone's machine stating I was being followed. On both occasions the person is holding a "walky-talky or truck radio" or something. It is not a cell phone. It is big and bulky. When the man passed me he was already off his big bulky radio. So if he was looking for a house or something he would have asked me. I know he wasn't. He followed me from the city at a toxicologist office. I believe I also saw him earlier that day. I know I saw him more than once. He was driving in a Terminex vehicle. There were big green stickers on the side of the white truck. The stickers almost looked too new. Furthermore, he had nothing in the back or inside the front of the pick-up truck. No work supplies, nothing. I guess he was going to kill the bugs with his feet or something. The truck looked like one of our old company trucks but just with some big stickers stuck on the side of it. I know my phone is being tapped sometimes. I hear a beeping sound on it only when I call to Puerto Rico for legal help. Caroline ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Foreign National U. S. Government Employee Harassment Victim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have a dear friend who has been a victim of workplace sexual harassment and abuse of power at the hands of her manager for over a year. My friend is an foreign national working for a US government agency as a local national/UE contract employee in her homeland. She and other foreign national females are being harassed on the job. My friend and the others filed a formal complaint (denouncement) through the US agency's EEO, an EEO investigation followed, and higher level officials were informed of findings. However, nothing substantial has happened and the offender, an American US Government employee male manager, with a lot of local power and influence and he continues to harass them with clever reprisals. This issue cannot be addressed to local Foreign/European Union officials as these officials are strongly suspected to be in collusion with the offending manager. Please understand, my friend is very pro- American and desires not to have this matter be inflamed and possibly damage US and Foreign relations, if this were to become public knowledge. Again, she and the others have tried to resolve this matter through proper channels but to no effect. The suffering of these women must be stopped and the offender justly punished. The result of the agency's own EEO investigation amounted to nothing less than a verbal warning and woefully inadequate. I realize there are cultural differences and there are mentalities that may factor into this matter which from a certain perspective would tend to trivialize the suffering of these foreign national women, however, as Americans, we ought not condone such criminal treatment of these women for fear of upsetting political sensitivities, especially as employees of one of our overseas government agencies. Please, if your organization could offer support and guidance on this matter, let me know. Or, direct me where I can address this matter. I would greatly appreciate your positive support. Thanks for taking the time to read this long e-mail and I look forward to your reply. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Employee of US Government Harassment Target ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'll just tell you my situation. I very unfortunately worked for the "fed gov't" seasonal at the IRS in `91, `92, `93, `99 and 2000 "Pistol Service" for a measly 7 months (7 months too long) from April—December `96. Anyway, after about 5 months I was eligible to join the union, so I did. I didn't know if the timing was coincidence, but right after that at the "pistol" service (as I call it) I started receiving major discrimination and harassment, by far mainly through the computer, they didn't/don't have courage to do their stuff face to face, I endured the wrong, illegal, harassment for about a month and a half then I resigned. I stayed home after that for a few months and then in early `97 it was evident to me that they were "there" messing with me at home right in my bedroom. I have experienced interception of TV, radio, phone, etc. and have been made aware that I am under complete surveillance like I said, since early `97. I didn't know of this happening to anyone else until just recently, December 2003 one of my many moments of frustration I typed "mind crimes" into the search of my webTV and Eleanor White's website (raven1.net) came up. It blew my mind to finally after several years of knowing about this, that it was happening to others (I knew it must be happening to others if it was happening to me) and that they knew about it and were communicating about it including to each other. Since then I have communicated through e-mail to several of them/us victims of this problem/crime. I think of us in this situation as technologically targeted individuals, the main term out there for some reason is "mind control." It's not the best or most accurate term, for some reason it seem to prevail in terminology for this problem/crime and I have communicated over the phone with a few others of "us" the only thing I could relate to was all of them were religious, so on Liza's site, I requested correspondence with others of us who are atheist or at least agnostic, since then I have e-mail communicated with a few of us who are atheist or at least agnostic. Now as for me, I am female, pro-female, lesbian, atheist, and pro-America. All these make me a so-called "mind Criminal". Anyway, not only do I not believe in RELIGION, but I have to say that I am genuinely against it. There will not and can not be progress with RELIGION in fact blatantly the opposite hereof and in this country called "America" ("GODBLESSAMERICA" as I call it) until there is separation of CHURCH and state, it has been made to be bullshit (I cuss) but is not BS, like I said, it just has been made to be BS (before I knew about "GODBLESSAMERICA" I knew that had been made to be BS -- I just should have known that it is everything down the line in what this country called "America" stands for). Anyway, they have their right to have their thing in their (CHURCHES, ETC.) places of worship, in their homes and in the homes of others of their RELIGION/CULT. My view, and I totally believe it to be true is: all religions are cults. The only "difference" is that "RELIGIONS" are CULTS that have organized and have prevailed and have POWER. So they get called RELIGION instead of cultism. The problem though (particularly in this nation called "America" with this topic) is that they will not keep their CULTISM/RELIGION to themselves where it belongs, instead it is very important to them for others to be subjected to IT. The only thing that makes it "true" is that people believe in IT so therefore they feel so "threatened" when IT is not forced on others. They don't think there should be any actual system (or anything for that matter) above their CULTISM/RELIGION/IDEOLOGY, they in fact can't handle that, all they can handle is being mindless, simple/narrow/weak-minded, ignorant followers, and their "compensation" is to be fervent, fanatic, whacked out nuts, of course there can not be any logic to correlate with this and therefore going forward in the direction of good, right and normal- progressive– is obviously at the very least hindered. I started doubting when I was 12 and then became actual atheist at 13, and I haven't strayed from that since. Now I am early 20-something, unfortunately live with my mother and can not find a job (sabotaged, denied equal opportunity in every part of my life—GODBLESSAMERICA!), I have a fax# in my room (559) 434-8741, I live in Fresno, CA and have all of my life visited San Fran Bay area every chance I get. The last several years of knowing about this (it was happening before I knew about it, but I didn't know when it started) the thing I think (know) and have thought (known) to be the most important in this situation is that these are major wrongs, illegal and anti-America crimes and therefore it is blatantly obvious that a lawsuit is needed. JULIA jul724(bleep)webtv.net Julia has truly got a different voice, one that needs to be heard, and there is a lot of truth in what she says, if truth is worth anything now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Don't Forget to Vote! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sometime before the election in November, I want each and every one of you to make the effort to be sure you are registered, and if it difficult for you to get to the poll to vote, to pick up an absentee ballot from your county auditor and get it back to them before election day. There has never been such a need for women to cast their ballot against a sinister power which has usurped the presidency and is misusing their mandate to foist off an offensive political agenda on all of us. If you have never voted before, vote this year, if you only care about a few candidates, vote for them and leave the other portions blank. Do it for me. Do it for yourself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Warning to Internet Users from the Miles Foundation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are writing in order to provide a CONSUMER ALERT following numerous inquiries from survivors of domestic and sexual violence associated with the military. Numerous survivors have encountered misleading and inaccurate information or materials on various websites-and unscrupulous individuals. Several survivors have suffered additional trauma due to encounters with less than credible websites individuals, groups, organizations or advocates. For example, a survivor reports that her contact information was distributed without regard for her safety. A survivor reports that she contacted an organization for assistance and was solicited for a contribution, rather than being provided any assistance or information. A survivor reports that she contacted an organization for assistance and a membership fee was necessary prior to obtaining any assistance. A survivor reports that she contacted an organization for assistance, received no assistance, but she received several calls from media outlets after the organization disclosed her contact information. A survivor reports that she contacted an organization via the Internet only to receive a call back from military officials about her encounter with that organization. A survivor reports that she contacted a crisis hotline only to be told to contact military authorities. A survivor reports that she has received messages containing misinformation about various organizations, members of Congress and others dedicated to assisting survivors associated with the military. A survivor reports that she was encouraged by an advocate to share the misinformation noted above by contacting other groups, organizations and media. A survivor reports that materials and resources provided by an organization have been plagiarized on several websites. The following questions may assist you in determining the creditability, professionalism, and ethics of groups, organizations, or advocates:- How long has the group, organization or individual been working in the field of domestic and/or sexual violence? How long has the group, organization or individual been working with the community of victims and survivors associated with the military? How many cases, victims, survivors, advocates, counselors has the office provided services? To whom does the office report these numbers? How are the numbers verified? What type of abuse does the group, organization or individual deal with most frequently? Domestic violence? Spouse abuse? Sexual harassment? Sexual assault? Rape? Child abuse? Child maltreatment and/or neglect? Intimate partner violence? Who serves on the staff of the organization? Professionals, if so what professions? Semiprofessionals? Attorneys, on staff or by referral? Advocates? Survivors? Counselors? How long have they been in their respective professions? What is the education and training of staff and volunteers? Are they certified? Are they members of professional organizations, such as the National Association of Social Workers? Do staff and volunteers receive training? Continuing education? What presentations have members of the staff made? To what organizations? What articles, chapters or books have members of the staff published in scholarly or academic publications? What? When? Where? What testimony has been presented to members of Congress? When? To what committee or subcommittee? How is the organization supported or financed? Private? Nonprofit? Semiprivate or public? Public funding? Grants from Department of Justice? Contracts with Department of Defense? Other organizations? If a grant or contract recipient, from whom, for what purpose, and length of grant or contract? Foundation/s? Who serves on the Board of Directors? What are the professions represented on the Board of Directors? What organizations are represented on the Board of Directors? What contractors are represented on the Board of Directors? With whom does the group, organization or individual partner? International? National? State? Local? What references are available for the group, organization or individual? What type of advocacy is provided by the group, organization or individual? Legal? Medical? Counseling? Information? Referral/s? What services are available? Are services available to victims and survivors? Are services available to perpetrators? Is there a fee for service? Without fee, pro bono? Sliding fee based upon income? Retainer fees? Initial consultation fee? Membership fee? There is more, but we have run out of space. We do have a warning on our contact information, we are in the process of putting another warning on our site, and will put more information about WASH up on it so people know who they are dealing with. Also a link to more information about me, which I have not included because it seemed egotistical. Milesfdn(bleep)aol.com for more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Media Again Manipulating The Facts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On October 4, 2004, I watched CSI Miami. It was a story line about a successful advertising executive (male) who was being stalked by an obsessed female. While I am sure that men are at times stalked by women, it doesn't seem to be a major problem for men. There was a similar scenario on a recent Law and Order Criminal Intent. In Both cases, the women committed murders of individuals who were in some way inconvenient for their targets. In both cases, they only did supportive things for their targets. As a 40 year victim of stalkers, I want to be perfectly clear that males who stalk women are entirely different from the female stalkers depicted in these two TV dramas. They vandalize and steal property, poison and threaten their targets, the families of their victims and even their pets. Their victims never experience a moment's peace, for they use electronic surveillance to dog their every footstep. If this is a difference between male and female stalkers, I couldn't say, because the only contacts we have had has been with women who are victims of male stalkers. If these two dramas were based on an actual incident, as they often are, I should apologize in advance, because both struck me as cheap attempts to trivialize the misery experienced by women who are targeted by male stalkers. Not only that, but I do believe that the vast majority of stalking victims are women, often impoverished women without resources to protect themselves. I suppose it is the same as the female school teacher who had sex with her 5th grade male student. (This was another story used by Law and Order in another context.) Every day a dozen girls under 18 are victimized by male teachers, but the single case in recorded history when a female teacher exploited a male student is run by us on one news magazine or another once or twice a month, and the media shows no interest in letting it go. Because one female in ten million has committed the same act as every tenth male does, we are expected to feel less victimized. Bull. Stalking and pedophilia are largely the male domain. Anyone who thinks otherwise, or is trying to prove otherwise, is out of touch with reality. Janet Leih ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Tale of Internet Woes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am very sorry that this issue is late, but I have spent the past months in an Internet Hell. First, my e-mail disappeared early in 2004. Because I was not getting feedback from my web sites, I switched e-mail on my web sites five times. Every time I did so, I would get my feedback for a few days, then it would stop again. I finally ended up getting e- mail on the server for my domains. The technical staff that was trying to figure out why we could not get the e-mail account open finally discovered that my registrar (domainpeople) was forwarding my web site traffic not to my web site, but to a telephone company in Puerto Rico and a satellite disk company. Neither has e-mail or postal mail addresses given. I never made this change, it could have been done by someone at the registrar or by hackers, a couple of weeks later, another domainpeople client contacted me to ask why my administrative information was on his account. Enough events like this and one starts to get whacked out. Once that was corrected, I was able to open the e-mail on my server, and I was delighted to discover that they logged the IP address of everyone who logs into my e-mail. Almost immediately, I discovered a strange IP address in my log, which turned out to be a client of Bizland, a server in Massachusetts. I did report this to them but never got any reply. I have since identified yet another unknown visitor to my e-mail, a client of Aliant Telecom in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada but their abuse contact says they have to have information I don't have access to in order to pin down which of their clients was responsible. If that was not enough, I ran a tracert on my URL, and found that after the trace made 13 links to my server, the trace went on for another 17 links to someplace unknown, for which no description was available as the trace "timed out" on every one (pretty convenient, huh?) So I went to my account on my server and found that they said I had a sub-domain at Internap Network Services and the whois information has no e-mail or postal mail addresses. I have never authorized a sub-domain, I'm not even sure what the purpose for a sub-domain is. So I have reported this to both my server and my registrar (I am trying to move my domains to the registrar associated with my server, which may improve my situation) and the Microsoft users group for Internet Technologies hoping they know how to prevent this from happening. Anyway, I'm still not getting my e-mail and I received the item on page 6 from Miles Foundation some of which may be caused by my missing e-mail and traffic. Am I concerned? Ask the tech reps at the various registrars, servers and help lines about that, I have ranted at them. But the truth is, this indicates that someone finds my work a threat, and frankly, when filth like this finds you threatening, you can't help but take it as a compliment. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interesting new site ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Trummel, Associate Professor Communication and Rhetoric Contra Cabal http://contracabal.org/ Elder Abuse - Preface http://contracabal.org/801-40-00.html Forthcoming: a special WASH group notice about some internet tools anyone with problems might find useful. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WE'RE ON THE WEB http://www.washrag.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This on-line version of THE WASHRAG is being sent to you free. A print version can be obtained by subscribing. In the US, send $10.00 to Women Against Sexual Harassment, P. O. Box 164, Canton, SD 57013-0164. Outside the US, send $20.00 to join. For a sample issue, send a #10 sized SASE. 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