On The Body Of The Condemned And The Scaffolding Of Torture As A Spectacle

Karen Barna
5 min readDec 21, 2021

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Updated: December 22, 2021; 12:18PM

Being something of a woman-hater, I have found it no hardship to keeping mostly at a distance from the sex. ~Thomas Harding, The Mayor of Cambridge (1886)

At the end of the 1700s and beginning in the 1800s, the torture of the condemned as spectacle began to disappear. The ceremonial punishment survived only as an administrative practice. In the 21st century, 2021, the age old pillory of torture re-manifested itself in the invisible breadth of the electromagnetic margin of cyber space.

Today, psychiatric patients have become the “new prisoners” of a new kind of pillory and one that may be actually be causing the patients symptoms. In the history of experimental, unethical, and inhumane treatment of people for advancement in medicine, the purpose of this technology is to support abelism. That is, the narcissistic support for abled bodies and discrimination against those with disabilities/ illness.

I think it was Machiavelli who said, “The hearts of men change little.” And in the sport of the idle and the vicious, men’s sadism is incensed by the “aggressor.” Taking violent unethical and inhumane revenge upon the innocent, they wield their invisible sword against the powerless. This all done to prevent them from returning injuries that might be inflicted upon them. Where once iron collars and chains were placed upon these prisoners, to be dragged along while they perform their degrading service to their humiliators. The eyes of the new keepers are now armed with electromagnetic weapons that seek to disable, degrade, destroy, and deny the “prisoners” from carrying out acts of perceived harm, thereby overstating the actual harm done. Thus, the new “chain-gang,” complete with pad lock chains has been reinvented and is one New Age Prisoners will have to fight against will be an invisible foe who, reigning over them with a cloak and dagger, hide their identity to seek revenge and reek havoc on world order through cyber space.

Where punishment once gradually ceased to be a spectacle, the new age inquisitorial guards stage theatrical entertainment for their own cruel and heartless pleasure violating the basic human and civil rights of their targets by making the new tortured prisoner a spectacle and object of ridicule for those onlookers who are listening and watching with surveillance technologies utilized, for purposes of espionage, new advances in technology so that new markets might be established in service and security settings.

The punishment-body relation is not the same as it once was in the torture of the body during public executions. The body now serves as an intermediary, that is, if one intervenes upon it, to imprison it, or to make it work. But in the act of espionage (evesdropping surveillance), who are the New Age Iquisitorial Guards of wireless electronic targeted physical torture working for? It is obviously done in order to deprive the individuals of liberty that is regarded both as a right and to their own bodies, the individual’s property.

This new harbinger known as the phenomenon of Group (Gang) Stalking with electronic wireless targeted assaults and psychotronic torture is the new age scaffolding for the spectacle, the object of humiliation, functioning for the theatrical purpose of entertaining the victim’s tormentors while peering in on the victim’s private personal life.

This new murder of the body and the mind through repeated electromagnetic intrusion, through radio frequency, is repeated in cold blood murder for the victim’s soul; A Soul Murder. Wireless electronic targeted physical assaults and psychotronic torture illustrates the mechanics of new age violence victim’s are poorly equipped to defend themselves against.

This phenomenon is a throw back harbinger from man’s historical past, and one that has re-manifested man’s ferocity, malevolent sadism, and brutal viciousness when dealing with matters discipling whether it be do to penal reasons or psychiatric issues. Where once the scaffolding was man-made physical wooden platforms and Inquisitorial devices that carried out physical torture in the real world like the methods of old used in the execution of Damiens the regicide. Today man-made scaffold for the Inquisitorial processes does not kill the condemned body of the prisoner as in the Greater Tradition of Specialized Torture used during the eighteenth century. Rather it is a long and drawn out process, slowly torturing the victim in the style of the Lesser Tradition of Specialized Torture making it more an act of Soul Murder of Spirit and one where no physical hands touch upon the condemned body. Today, the scaffolding is of a new age medium (computer technology). One that doesn’t exist in physical space, but cyber space. The use of these new technologies are to manipulate and exploit perceived threats through repeated Disabling, Disrupting, Degrading, and finally Destroying the victim’s spirit and ultimately their soul.

Man’s sadistic Inquisitorial impulse still thrives as in the sentiments of the anonymous author “Hanging not Punishment Enough” (1701), by which the condemned man would be broken on the wheel, then flogged until he fainted, then hung up with chains, then finally left to die slowly of hunger. There are no longer any of those executions in which the condemned man was dragged along on a hurdle to prevent his head from smashing the cobble-stones, in which his belly was opened up, his entrails quickly ripped out, so that he had time to see them, with his own eyes, being thrown on the fire; in which he was finally decapitated and his body quartered.

Today’s scaffolding for specialized torture involves imprisoning the mind through the use of advancing technology (wireless electronic targeted physical assaults and psychotronic torture) so the person becomes chronic and aware of their mental imprisonment.

Although eighteenth century methods are no longer seen as “civilized” within a “refined culture”, the sadistic impulse remains alive and well in man, and so, we find frequent re-manifestations of cruel and unusual punishments regarding revenge and disciplinary torture of victim’s. Guantanamo Bay has taught us that “God’s Jury” does in fact make up the modern world. Where once the officers of the watch witnessed and documented the Inquisitorial tortures of the condemned body, recording the burning and tearing of flesh from the human body, his flesh burnt with sulfur, molten lead, boiling oil, burning resin, wax and sulfur being poured into the fresh torn open wounds. We now have a different kind of torture that inflicts pain and suffering from a distance through service security surveillance technologies.

Considering the opening quote and the affects of wireless electronic targeted physical assaults and psychotronic torture it can be concluded Group (Gang) Stalking with electronic torture is a hate crime against those targeted for some perceived wrong doing. It’s like the practice of smothering of infants by their parents, a practice that took place before birth control and legalized abortion. It’s like the selling off of a side by her husband because legalized divorce could only be realized by the wealthy.

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Karen Barna
Karen Barna

Written by Karen Barna

I am a Targeted Individual suffering electronic harassment. I write about gender difference and object relations and feminism. I am Gen. X

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