These subtle whispering sneer attacks, & verbal barbs attacks may work best when done repeatedly, & after a person been loosened up with a more overt type of harassment such as noise campaigns, collisions, crowding, & sensitivity tactics. Within a conversation, certain weighted words can be emphasized. Volume, tone & tempo can be changed so that some words are slightly louder & spoken longer than the others. This can completely change the meaning of a message.

The following is a quotation regarding imbedded questions & suggestions as outlined in the book, Patterns Of The Hypnotic Techniques Of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., by NLP experts Richard Bandler & John Grinder. The example at the bottom titled Indirect Imbedded Command is exactly as it appears on page 173, where the weighted words (suggestions) that are to be emphasized when spoken are bolded. Note: When Erickson speaks of the dominant & nondominant hemisphere, he is referring to the conscious & unconscious mind respectively.

Below is an example of how groups use these suggestions to harass people. Bolded words indicate ones that are emphasized.

You ve been blitzed with noise campaigns, crowding & collisions on your way to the bus stop. You feel like you ve been through a minefield & have been hit multiple times (you have). Your heart is pumping. You sit down on the bus  begin to relax. A couple sits down across from you & begin a conversation. You overhear bits & pieces of it.

You: You think, My car is in the shop.

You: What a coincidence, my car is getting a new battery, you say to yourself.

Now that they have your attention, the conversation unfolds like this

Person 2: That s HORRIBLE What s wrong with it?Person 1: It just keeps

Person 2: I don t want to be in that car in case it should just flip out!

Person 1: He s crazy for keeping it. He knows it just keeps breaking down.Person 2: I know

Person 1: Not to be paranoid, but he should just give up on it.Person 2: You re not

Person 1: Is that crazy or what, is that being insane?

Collisions & Cut-offs

With some artificially induced cut-offs, the perpetrator is seen at a distance. You & the perpetrator(s) are heading toward the same focal point. It may be a corner, a very small walkway, or a path that cannot accommodate both of you.

They will adjust their timing & rhythm to yours so that they always meet you at that point, so that you will have to squeeze through, stop, or go around because of their deliberate adjustment of timing. The idea is to get your attention & make you uncomfortable. If you re a target, their timing will mirror yours so that a collision will occur.

For example:

[You re on foot & approaching a corner of an intersection, which you are about to cross. You see a vehicle approaching the street you need to cross. There is plenty of time & distance to avoid this collision. Anticipating this, you either speed up or slow down. The vehicle mirrors your actions. You start to think that maybe this person is occupied with something else & you begin to cross the street. As you step off the curb, the vehicle speeds up & meets you at the intersection. The vehicle stops ten feet from you & the man inside waves you on. After this you might fee slightly angry because you know the whole event could have been avoided.]

In a normal situation, both parties will naturally adjust their timing & rhythm to avoid this situation. The main objective is to cause an unnecessary inconvenience. Again, these are usually not physical collisions, they re designed to invade your space & make you unconformable. In addition, people have reported staged accidents with their cars & narrowly escaping death.(101, 200)

Frequency, duration, location & proximity. Early in the morning on a day that is not crowded, it is not normal to have people repeatedly cutting you off inside stores with their shopping carts, or jumping in front of you as you enter a checkout line, or out in the street. These collisions amount to an obstacle course that follows you wherever you go.

And this is only a part of the harassment.

Blocking, Swarming & Space invasion

In parking lots, on foot, on the road, in stores & restaurants. These are staged events that may temporarily prevent you from leaving if you re in a parking lot.(7) You will always have people who you have to go around, or say excuse me to, & people stopping short in front of you to tie their shoe or pick up a coin.

Body language is more accurate & reliable than verbal communication.(5) A majority of these non-verbal behaviors such as mirroring, echoing, & pointing take place without conscious awareness.(5, 6) We point with our feet, our torso, our arms & hands, usually toward an object we’re interested in. Also, our eyes have a natural tendency to follow hand movement toward an object being pointed at. Most of this non-verbal communication is unconscious, that is, unless

Some tactics used to keep you Blacklisted include interfering with communications, & slander. Also there are lists & software packages used to check these lists for suspected terrorists, threats to national security, etc.(109)

Apparently this is a flourishing business & some organizations are required by law to use it.

Federal law enforcement have sent watch lists to corporations containing names of individuals that were not under official investigation or wanted, but that the agency just had an interest in.(390) We already know that some of these agencies are targeting & harassing citizens. Would it not be reasonable to conclude that they are misusing this resource as well?

In addition to slander & keeping you unemployed, they may also use companies or recruiters in harassment campaigns (Mobbing). This is particularly the case with recruiters. It appears that they are often used to try to further traumatize a person using Mobbing tactics during interviews. For instance, they may ask you a series of questions for which you have to answer no to, such as asking you for credentials that you did not list on your resume.

They may ask you if you possess skill-sets which were not listed on the AD they had placed. This is designed to further humiliate you. These things happen to everyone once in a while. But with Mobbing, these things are done repeatedly by multiple people, time after time. There is basically a safe zone that these people can harass you from with little fear of being caught.

One common ploy used by recruiters is that they ll tell you that they don t have your resume in front of them. This tactic may widen the harassment scope by allowing them to ask potentially painful questions that are already answered on your resume. These questions are asked with ACCUSING, or MOCKING tones. They are designed to try to stir up negative emotions associated with a previously painful work environment. They may ask these questions repeatedly using a slightly different syntax such as, What was your last job?” Are you still there?” [When they know you're not]

“How was the environment?” [If you were Mobbed] “So, you ve been unemployed since?” “So…you ve done nothing at all since?” “Why aren t you working?” [Accusing tone] “Haven t you been looking for work? Recruiters are paid by corporations to provide a service, (people). When you think about it, recruiters are actually employees of corporations, only they work in remote offices. Just as an in-house employee will participate in Mobbing out of fear of termination, or retaliation, these virtual employees are easily co-opted.