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1996 (English and English Edition)

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In the mid-1990s, our first stepping stone to justice was the article titled "Microwave Harassment and Mind Control Experimentation" by Julianne McKinney, raven1.net/microwav.htm

Our second stepping stone was (and is) the exhaustive and scholarly research into "non-lethal weapons," (clearly the birthplace of the living nightmare Ms. Naylor and an estimated three million North Americans are living,) ... of law student Cheryl Welsh, mindjustice.org

The third stepping stone was the 2001 book about vigilante stalking by David Lawson, a private investigator, titled "Terrorist Stalking in America", reviewed here: multistalkervictims.org/terstalk.htm

Ms. Naylor's book, with some material provided by Cheryl Welsh, is clearly a fourth and major stepping stone, by which the targets of vigilante stalking and electronic mind/body harassment hope to see the day the criminals are stripped of their cover, and justice will be served.

I read this book because I love Gloria Naylor. I hadn't heard about any of her travesties from 1996 before reading this book. I found it frightening at times, but it was so compelling, I couldn't put it down. Of course, certain parts are fictionalized, but Ms. Naylor obviously did a lot of research on domestic intelligence and mind control while writing this book. I recommend it for all Gloria Naylor fans and for anyone wishing to know more about the capabilities of the U.S. government.

Acclaimed author Gloria Naylor has returned to the literary world after a seven-year hiatus with a fictionalized memoir detailing her experiences in 1996 after vacationing in St. Helena Island to focus on her writing. After an altercation with her neighbor and requests for her to keep her cats off her property, Gloria sets out some poison that kills one of the neighbor's beloved cats. Unfortunately, her neighbor has a brother who works in the National Security Agency, and she reports Gloria as a drug dealer to get back at her. This starts a chain of events and investigations from not only the local police department and Jewish organizations, but also federal agencies.

Gloria starts to notice weird things going on around her and her house, to include lots of traffic on her secluded part of the island. She also realizes she's being followed and that someone is entering her house and tapping into her computer. It gets to a point where Gloria can't trust her friends or converse with those online because she's afraid of who's watching her. When she can't take the harassment any longer, she cuts her time on the island short and moves back home to her brownstone in New York. Sadly, things do not end and Gloria must find a way to return to the normalcy of her life.

While reading 1996, the reader is fully aware that this book is a memoir of sorts as it's written in first person, giving Naylor's actual experiences through this ordeal, in which she's the main character. However, it's also fictionalized in that she obviously doesn't really know what's going on next door, across the street or at the NSA for example. It is an intriguing story, reminiscent of conspiracy theory type movies popular in the last few decades. While I can say the story definitely makes you say hmmmmm, some parts of it will make the average reader question the validity of Naylor's allegations while others will merely view it as entertainment only.

It is the third-person accounts that I couldn't really follow, coupled with parts of the story which could've been tightened, edited a bit more, and the abrupt ending should've been a bit more conclusive. The characters, with the exception of Naylor, weren't developed as well as I would've liked, but overall, I did enjoy the story. While there are many speculations on what the federal government has the capability to do, and cases and documentation against them, it's a bit unfortunate that these types of allegations are lumped with UFO sightings and alien abductions.

Reviewed by Tee C. Royal
of The RAWSISTAZ™ Reviewers

I can assure you that Gloria's account of mind control is not some form of breakdown-but an accurate account of what 'we' the victims of mind control go through on a daily basis. I applaud her efforts and I am refreashingly relieved that she in her own suffering found the time to write this book ..bravo 1996...lets pray that in the year 2006...her book will be one more thread in piecing together the inhuman scientists and politiciians behind this atrocity. This will be our 'Watergate'
Thank you Gloria-
Teresa M. Taylor
journalist and mind control victim

I anxiously await the release of Gloria Naylor's new book "1996" and applaud her for the courage it took to address an issue that profoundly impacts the lives of so many people in our world but is still considered a politically-incorrect topic of discussion. Personal accounts of electronic harassment and terrorist stalking are not only discounted but blatantly "discouraged" even though evidence and legislation clearly acknowledge their existence. Hopefully, after reading this book, many understandably hesitant individuals will find the strength to come forward and say "hey, as weird as it seems, this sounds like MY life!" and unite to find a solution.

Strange that this book has become unavailible from Amazon.com when it was only published in 11-2005. What Naylor writes about as fiction is happening to many people in their live's, mine included. Even my family are participants in this high-tech harassment, as their behaviours have become very evasive whenever I complain to them. That innocent citizens are being tormented like in Naylor's book, or worse in many cases, as an ongoing daily event is both depraved and venal. Worse yet, many politicians know about this and aren't doing anything. Read it as as non-fiction to understand what is really going on under the guise of spying on citizens ffor national secuity reasons and related invasive technologies.

You face a prospect of receiving literally hundreds of "reviews" from people in this country (and abroad) who are experiencing the same phenomena now reported in Ms. Naylor's book. I find it curious that the sale and distribution of this book is being obstructed. That type of tactic, instead of suppressing potentially disturbing information, serves more to affirm Ms. Naylor's allegations.

Miss Naylor, have done a wonderfull work in mentioning Voice To Skull technology thats currently being used on people. She have taken the initiative to mention concerns related to abuses of this technology.

Thanks

I am with her all the way. Visit www.voicetoskull.com.

That's advice Emily Dickinson offered to writers. Gloria Naylor does just that in her "nonfiction/novel," "1996." As yet another
person subjected to this sort of harassment by government-paid creeps willing to do anything they're told-- and isn't that what the military (for one obvious example) is about, surrendering one's free will and judgment to those in charge, just as happens in a "cult"??-- I want to congratulate Gloria Naylor on an amazing piece of work.

I have to say, as a professional writer and editor, that Gloria Naylor could have used a better editing job to showcase her work. I imagine bigger publishing houses were frightened of this, not able to discern what is truth and what is fiction here... and scared to dig deeper. Denial is not just a river in Egypt, si?

Gloria Naylor simply "stepped in something" here, in having come afoul of a control-freak neighbor with family connections in the NSA... if that is indeed the whole story.

She wrote it at this slant, obviously, because it was clear to her that to speak openly in the Kafka-esque labyrinth of today's political minefield is flat-out dangerous.

Another recent novel that tells the truth in this fashion, I believe, is John LeCarre's "The Constant Gardener," which Fernando Mireilles made into an excellent film about the depradations of "big pharma" in the Third World.

Others among us are a tad closer to the bone than Ms. Naylor, having stumbled unaware on truths the government would rather keep secret.

As with any inconvenient truth, however, the rolling weight of accumulating evidence eventually trumps the will to conceal. The number of lay reviewers here corroborating Ms. Naylor's experience ought to give any serious educated reader pause.

Let me recommend also Carol Rutz's "A Nation Betrayed." Privately printed and deserving of far broader circulation, Ms. Rutz's book tells a tale that is several levels deeper into the sub-basement of government mind control adventurism, using tiny children (who have now become middle-aged adults, including Ms. Rutz and persons very dear to me) as unconsenting subjects in the pursuit of the same sadistic power as Ms. Naylor's "chirping"
and game-playing mercenary creeps.

Bravo to Third World Press for producing this (even if imperfectly) and bravo to Gloria for telling the truth. Miss Emily Dickinson would be proud of her.

--Amalie Bear

I enjoyed this book very much and am grateful to Gloria Naylor for having the courage to write it. I had to write a review to state that in no way is her book anti-semitic. From what I can remember of the book, she simply observed and noted the reality that many of her stalkers were Jewish-American. That doesn't make her an anti-Semite. It's very weird and creepy how these negative reviewers are trying so hard to distort her book.