On Being Subjected to Unlawful Virtual Confinement in My Home in Melbourne, Australia, Victoria and More

E. Lemma

Part 2, Saturday, 18 May 2024

As it was stated in Part 1 of this article, despite knowing very well that there were no security and criminal reasons for investigating me, for I have been already cleared for these things not only locally, but also internationally, they went ahead initiated investigations anyway - intending to destroy my relationships and my employment opportunities, illegally. Moreover, they also illegally facilitated my rent increase sometime later, thinking it will never come to light – they were right, it wouldn’t have, except for some accidental circumstances.

Upon realising that it is possibly in the process of coming to light, alerted by my letter to the editors of The Age, however, they swung into action, immediately escalating the existing, a year or so old, investigation, by adding to it a very intensive surveillance operation that is still going on after more than five months now. In any case, in trying to prevent the possible exposure of their illegal action, they have focused on three areas: the first was stopping the matter from reaching the media at all cost; thus, their iron grip on my internet and computers.

Moreover, the intensive lookout and following me around closely, using so many agents, wherever I went, were intended to stop me from using or attempting to use other people’s internet facilities and computers including those that are publicly available at various libraries. In general, wherever I am, they would be around closely observing all my actions. This was also designed to prevent me from passing on information to others by other means, for instance, on a USB stick and the like, as well.

Their second set of activities concentrated on getting me out of the unit believing, I guess, once I left my apartment whatever they did would be buried. Accordingly, they have done everything they could including continually interfering and making it extremely difficult paying my rent. Here, in addition to directly interfering with the little super that I had that I have now exhausted trying to pay the rent, at one stage, running out of funds I tried to borrow from some friends and I called around, they also called each and every one of those I called, but I have no idea what they said to any of them - but we could safely assume they weren’t trying to help me.

Their third set of activities focused on mentally destabilizing and undermining me by using various mechanisms, involving completely isolating me. In this regard, first they went after my close friends attempting and turning them into informants and conduits. It seems, some complied, others resisted, but stopped communicating with me knowing, among other things, my phone is continuously being monitored. They then moved on to those whom I casually know including those from my past approaching them, ostensibly, seeking information and such. Moreover, if I called someone, anyone, even to say hello, they would also call them following my call.

They also approached customer service attendants and others such as those at the shops and restaurants that I regularly visit including those at my bank and even at the Barber shop where I get my hair cut, which I thought was all a bit bizarre - what information could these people possibly have to give to them? However, I quickly realised that they are not actually after any information; rather, these activities of theirs were simply part of their crazy making processes, highly integral part of their psychological war against me.

Crucially, it will be much easier for them to get me chucked out of my apartment, if they make me emotionally distraught, unbalanced or irrational first, using those and other mechanisms. It is not exactly easy to get others to listen to you when you are in a normal state of mind, but who would listen to you if you are exhibiting obvious signs of mental health issues, that is, if they have succeeded in making you unbalanced, irrational, or even simply, too emotionally distraught? Well, very few - in which case, they would have gone home free!

In that regard, while totally heartless and sociopathic, through and through, otherwise, these things would have been very effective for obtaining the solution they were after. Unfortunately for them, however, it was not that easy to drive me out of my mind owing to a number of reasons. Accordingly, the only thing they have managed to achieved by their intensive activities, visiting all these places, telling the customer service attendants and others there, whatever they were telling them, was, and still is, to get me stared at a bit longer than usual when I visit these places – the inanity of it all and such, was a bit tiresome to me, that is all.

In any case, after systematically destroying almost all my existing relationships, even those of casual acquaintances, they then proceeded to make it difficult for me to seek assistance from anyone new, possibly, by feeding them ideas about me that would make those I approach reluctant to offer or to render assistance to me – ideas that were designed to activate and excite their fears, anxieties, biases, and to shut down their critical faculties. Accordingly, it became rather futile, even dangerous, to approach and ask some people for assistance, for, among other things, whatever I tell them confidentially was continually going straight to the group, ruining completely the few opportunities that I have had for fighting back or making them ineffective or worse.

That, however, represents a very small part of the use they might put the incendiary ideas and narratives that they have been generating about me. As such, the most important functions of these things would have to be to provide justifications for the extensive financial, manpower and other resources, that they have been, and continue, to expend monitoring me – we have a very dangerous person that we must monitor closely, thus, these expenses are necessary and warranted and so on and so forth. Thus, I am being treated as if I am the biggest criminal master mind in the world, a notorious drug kingpin or some such – which sometimes makes me laugh.

In any case, they have had access to the collection of materials, published and unpublished, I have written over some time. It is quite easy, for them to cherry pick from these collections and juxtapose this and that and manufacture any number of notions that are completely outside the original intent, including fashioning provocative and emotive notions and circulating these in order to incite negative reactions towards me.

The singularity of purpose, dedication and determination with which they have been carrying out what has been described above and more has been and continues to be incredible. If only they were using these things for something good, or even in going after some real enemies of the country, instead of someone who is completely innocent and well-meaning, one who only seeks the best for the country, and desires to contribute positively.

Here, in addition to the three sets of activities that they have been undertaking with such an incredible energy and dedications, there was also a fourth set of activities that they have been extremely focused on - spending staggering amount of energy and other resources on it. This was blocking me from accessing legal services and speaking to lawyers. Thus, they have been making it impossible for me to access free community legal services by making sure that I was unable to make appointments and cancelling even the appointment that I have already made. The list here is long but includes Fitzroy Legal services, Inner City Melbourne Legal and a host of others.

They have also been very active blocking me from accessing pay for service legal firms. Specifically, if I look up for law firms on the internet, these firms would then be contacted, and when I get there, I would be probed for information, but I will not be allowed to see a lawyer while there or make appointments to see one in any reasonable time or not at all. If I simply turned up at a law firm, they seem to get phone calls from them immediately - that in turn makes those at these firms go through the same process and with the same end results.

After trying for some time, walking around all over the city, and driving around the surrounding suburbs, always with their agents in tow, and getting nowhere, I gave up. As such, I concluded that they are not going to allow me to speak to any lawyer/s, they were, and still are, quite determined in that regard. So, I decided to write a complaint letter instead to IBAC and went to their office to submit it. However, when I get there, the security staff were waiting for me prepared and refused to allow me to submit my complaint or to speak to anyone there.

There is so much more that could be said regarding what has been, and still, going on, however, I have to limit what I write in order not to make an already long document even longer. In any case, in addition to their illegal action in regard to my rent increase, and their thrashing of my computers, three laptops and a tablet, that I cannot afford to replace, by installing persistent rootkit viruses on them that gives them complete administrative control, which they then used to make them do all sorts of senseless and destructive things, and managing to make them useless junks now, they have also been sabotaging my employment opportunities for some time.

One of these was a position working as a research engineer for a company, James Hardies, on one of whose products that I have worked on during my Master’s research at the University of Auckland, but there were also a number of others. Here, these assertions are not mere conjectures - I know the case with the rent to be true with very high degree of confidence, and the case about employment, with absolute certainty. There are several ways to prove these things, the most reliable and trustworthy of these would be the testimony under oath of those who were involved in various capacities – after setting aside the gag orders that has been put on them.

However, that involves taking them to court or an agency such as IBAC investigating the matter, but I am not very hopeful for both - in the case of the first, obviously, I do not have the necessary resources, and, in the case of the second, I wasn’t even able to submit my complaint letter to them or able to speak to anyone at their offices and so forth. In general, what I have witnessed these past few months makes me trust anything and everything much less than I used to. Among other things, I do not know how and why such an entity that operates in the dark, and engages in the activities such as those I have already detailed here and more, was able to amass such an extensive and unchecked power that it was then using to affect a whole lot of things including to get people to comply with its wishes and desires, on the basis of phone calls and such - it will be very interesting to know.

One of the things that those in this group have been and continue to attempt is to find any involvement that I may have had in any crime; that was, when they are not attempting to set me up for some new crimes using the informants that they have terrorised and coerced into becoming one. While these informants have been trying hard to come up with what they are being asked to come up with, they have not been, so far, and are highly unlikely to succeed in any near future, too.

As I have said earlier, I have never been involved in any crime in my whole life. While it has been a long time since I parted ways with organised religion, however, I grew up in a very devout Christian family where certain things have been deeply drilled into every one of us in our family - thus, there is no way for anyone of us to get involved in any crime, even to engage in lying and cheating, these things are simply impossible for us.

In any case, while I, being their primary target, have experienced the worst treatment that they continue to dish out, including their making an attempt on my life, as I have described earlier, and being kept in virtual confinement, in some kind of an open-air prison, and being systematically blocked from getting legal advice, something that even the worst criminals are afforded to, however, there are also a number of others who they have been and continue to treat very badly. In that, coercive tactics including threats of bank closure and asset and other investigations and such were used to recruit them as informants and conduits, among other things.

Some of these individuals appeared terror stricken and trapped and lost when they were initially approached to be informants, and when I spoke to them at the time, though they were unable to tell me what exactly was troubling them. However, the awful terror that I have seen on these individuals faces brought back unwelcome memories from decades back. Specifically, this was that when I was about 15, I was confined to a concentration camp for a whole year by Mengistu Hailemariam regime of Ethiopia, whom they also call the butcher of Addis.

While I, being very young at the time, and knowing almost nothing about the opposition activities that they were interested in, was only roughed up a few times, however, I have seen the terror on the faces those who were tortured and interrogated. I have tried hard to forget these things for long time now; and the last place in the whole world that I thought I would come across anything that would remind me of those times and the terror stricken, lost and haunted faces of the prisoners I saw then was Australia.

Decades later, I have also come to the attention and inhospitable treatment of those who replaced the Mengistu regime, the TPLF, when I went to Ethiopia to try and help the people there by starting a business that would train and employ graduates; possibly, too, engage in teaching engineering, at least part time, at one of the Universities in that country. Once there, I prepared and gave a very well received presentation on energy research and development, at one of the Universities after being asked to.

In my presentation, I happen to spend a few minutes discussing the country’s ranking in the world in electrical energy use, which at 14 watts per day, per person, was almost at the very bottom, and outlining ways on how to improve that and so on and so forth. However, the TPLF regime who has always been exaggerating the development of the country took exception to my stating this common fact – and, on the basis, I was banned from starting the business I was planning to, also from teaching.

I was put under surveillance though it was not anywhere as intensive and intrusive as what I am being subjected to right now. They also quietly sabotaged anything and everything that I have tried to do including business and employment opportunities, even those in other parts of Africa using their security connections. There were also several attempts to entrap me in corruption but these things were all in vain. With all that and more, I was very surprised by how extremely thin-skinned they were; their vindictiveness and continued aggression towards me even after banning me and so on - and I wondered what was fuelling these things. In this regard, it was very interesting to read what Skoll and Wolf wrote:

“Aggression, when employed in the pursuit of maturely experienced causes, is not limitless. However vigorously this aggression is mobilized, its aim is limited and definite: the defeat of the enemy who blocks the way to a cherished goal. As soon as the aim is reached, the rage is gone.”

“The narcissistically injured on the other hand, cannot rest until he has blotted out a vaguely experienced offender who dared to oppose him, to disagree with him, or to outshine him. It can never find rest because it can never wipe out the evidence that has contradicted its conviction it is unique and perfect. This archaic rage goes on and on and on.

Furthermore, the enemy who calls forth the archaic rage of the narcissistically vulnerable is seen by him not as an autonomous source of impulsions, but as a flaw in a narcissistically perceived reality. The enemy is experienced as a recalcitrant part of an expanded self over which the narcissistically vulnerable person had expected to exercise full control.”

Wolf’s analysis above explains TPLF’s relentless aggression towards me at the time splendidly – an aggression that was triggered by their narcissistic vulnerability. They banned me from undertaking what I planned to undertake for the silliest of reasons, but there was nothing I could do about what the brutes decreed. So, I simply tried to move on and do other things, but they were having none of that - they kept coming at me, even sending someone pretending to be a madman, with a painted face and all, and with a heavy rock in each of his hands, I suppose, to kill me, but I survived the attempt because of some fortunate circumstances. Which all demonstrate that TPLF was not going to rest until they completely blotted me out, using here Wolf’s terminology.

While those things were a bit extreme, in general one could not expect much from a group whose members are mostly barely literate, violent ex-rebels, with very little wisdom or maturity, drunk with power and self-love. It was beyond ridiculous for anyone to react to something so mundane as someone mentioning a common fact in a presentation as they have done. Still, they were generally known for their inability to deal with disagreements and differing opinions – all very good indicators of narcissism and immaturity. In any case, there was nothing for me to do subsequently except cutting short my stay there and harrying back home to Australia, which I did.

That was about seven years back. Well, what can I say? It seems tyrants, and would be tyrants and such ‘love me’ – ‘lucky, lucky, lucky me!’ As such, first, there was Mengistu Haile Mariam, under whom I was held in a concentration camp for a whole year at the age of fifteen. Then, decades later, the tyrants who replaced him, the TPLF, chose to subject me to a very inhospitable treatment and even made an attempt on my life.

We have now another group, but this time in the unlikeliest of all places, Australia, who has been subjecting me to virtual confinement, and even made an attempt on my life - just as the TPLF did seven years back. Still, they have used different methods, as such, the TPLF used someone pretending to be a madman to make its attempt on my life, the group here used a more advanced method, a biological agent that chokes you to death, and got much further than the TPLF did in its attempt.

I survived the butcher of Addis, Mengistu Hailemariam, and the notorious criminal group from Mekelle, the TPLF, it would have been supreme, supreme irony, if I have perished, as I have come close to, in the country where I felt safe, very safe - in the hands of some sort of government entity. What’s more, Comparing the surveillances that I have experienced, the TPLF’s directed one in Ethiopia was a cakewalk compared to that of the group in Australia. At times, this surveillance was so intense, so unrelenting, it was almost hard to breathe.

In general, while one would not be surprised at all by the likes of the TPLF descending in to any level of criminality, however, it is very hard to even imagine a group like the one who has been tormenting me for five or six months now would be allowed to operate with such an impunity in Australia – a well-respected, highly developed, democratic country, a country of laws, not the lawless wilderness that the TPLF used to reign over.

Here, as I was writing earlier, the TPLF was aggressive towards me for the silliest of reasons, with an aggression that was fuelled by its narcissistic vulnerability. It is also possible, in fact, highly likely, that similarly silly reasons and the same narcissistic vulnerability were responsible for the relentless aggressions towards me that was demonstrated by the entity targeting me in this country – an entity whose actions and methods and all do not resemble in any way that of any responsible authority in any democratic country at all.

In any case, it might be true that ethnicism and racism are likely to be prominent elements among those making up the toxic mixture that motivated the aggressions of the TPLF seven years back, and motivating now the group that has been relentlessly behaving aggressively towards me in Australia, respectively. However, in both cases, narcissistic vulnerabilities are much more likely to be more prominent than anything else constituting that toxic mixture fuelling the relentless aggressions that both these groups have demonstrated towards me.