WARNING, THESE PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS!

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INSANITY On The Street ~ Clif High

Clif High is known for predictive linguistics and the Web Bot Project. Clif High is a researcher known for developing a technique called predictive linguistics, which involves analyzing internet data to predict future events. He is also associated with the Web Bot

– Because the USAID money dries up and stops going to the bureaucrats and enablers and the invaders, everyone involved will become irrational in their behavior.

– Invader cadres (illegals) will no longer have money in their credit cards. They won’t be able to eat, etc… or know what to do. Their bosses will be on the run and not tell what to do, because their money dried up and stopped, too.

– Clif wants people to be careful in public spaces because of irrational behavior erupting from the invader cadres.

Secrets Revealed – A long time due.

I have lived in the world of Law Enforcement and Special Military Operations for decades. I am astounded at the number of frauds around that pose as everything from Secret Service Agents to Navy SEALs. PHONIES!

In any cooperative defensive group that you become involved with or organize, you must be aware of the PSYCHOPATH. They are the most dangerous of people and will be your death and cause great suffering if you do not identify them.

I believe that MANY people who get to the top in ANY organization, be that Government, Corporations and business, the Military and Law Enforcement, religious organizations are TO SOME DEGREE partially or fully Psychopathic.

Verifying a Person’s Law Enforcement, Military or Intelligence Agency Experience

When choosing Leaders for your Civil Defense Manual Neighborhood Protection Plan^TM (NPP) inform all candidates that you will verify their records by the following four methods. Go by this documentation process to verify candidates… NOTHING ELSE COUNTS.

Photos in uniform, documents, other individuals vouching for them or written affidavits… these DO NOT VERIFY.

DON’T BUY IN TO CLASSIFIED STORIES AS AN EXCUSE FOR THEM NOT SHOWING YOU DOCUMENTS THAT PROVE THEIR TRUE BACKGROUND.

• The DD 214 (The United States Defense Department Military Discharge document) or a DD 214 with a DD 215 amendment will prove military experience. The DD 215 is not a ‘standalone’ document but only an amendment to the DD 214. Fakes use the ‘classified’ bullshytte to cover their fraud… Like “I was in a Classified Special Forces Delta Group but I can’t talk about it!” …or the highest and most secretive Classified Special Forces Group ‘The Unit.’ They will swear that if they speak of this they will be killed or imprisoned and they can’t discuss it because they’re being constantly surveilled. You can check the validity of the DD 214 by contacting Military Personnel Records: 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO 63138-1002 and requesting authentic copies.

• Every Law Enforcement officer will have a P.O.S.T. (Police Officer’s Standards Training) Certificate for their Law Enforcement training certification. Any other documents are supplementary such as ‘SWAT team leader’ or such crap. Look at P.O.S.T. documents first and foremost. You can call their last Sheriff or Police Department to verify they were employed as a P.O.S.T. certified officer. Law Enforcement is extremely political, so try to avoid the kiss @$$ rank climber.
• Do not accept ‘CIA,’ ‘FBI,’ ‘NSA,’ ‘DIA’ or other ‘Intelligence Agency’ documents, as most anyone who shows you them is probably a bullshytte artist. Besides, most people from those agencies have a long and large diameter stick up their posterior all the way to their throat and most are ‘desk jockeys’ with no tactical knowledge. They couldn’t lead a Boy Scout Troop. I have yet to run into an FBI agent who doesn’t think their shytte doesn’t stink. Should be FBA, for Federal Bureau of Arrogance.
• Foreign military and Law Enforcement documents will be difficult to verify so do not accept them. You know what a German Police Training Graduate’s documentation looks like? Let me know if you find out… because I don’t know. Do you speak German to verify it? I don’t. Another High School class I regrettably screwed around in.

You would not believe the ‘Walter Mitty’ wannabes I have run into in my years… some complete with fake badges, handcuffs, real guns, graduates of the United Kingdom’s Sandhurst (The U.K. ‘West Point’) who have never heard of them, some with copies of phony War College Graduation Certificates and staged photos in medal-laden uniforms to ‘proof’ themselves… but they have never spent one day in the military or police. Some use the ‘classified and I can’t talk about it’ excuse not to say much, which gives them great ‘cover’ and mystique that enhances their credibility to those who believe their shytte. Stolen Valor.

I think I’m going to start beating on their knee caps with a baseball bat in addition to verbally haranguing and ridiculing them as I have brutally done in the past in front of their naïve admirers. I’ve witnessed more than one Special Forces fake like this, who shot their mouths off about themselves until they found I was in Special Forces. They then become mutes… real quiet. I can’t pry another word out of them, as they “Have to go to the ‘head,’” using that Navy/Marine/Military term for the toilet, but slip away out the back door like one did at a party I attended after I zeroed in on him. He actually had a woman crying as he told her how his best buddy died in his arms after being shot. When I confronted him, you could actually see the blood draining out of his face. Turned white as a ghost.

The person with this particular psychosis… is the Psychopath. In the last decades a ‘nicer’ term that has come to describe and to sugar coat this type of person is the word ‘Sociopath.’ The word ‘sociopath’ doesn’t exist to me as there is nothing ‘nice’ about the Psychopath and no way to ‘sugar coat’ these treacherous and deadly freaks of nature. They’re like trying to have a Cobra or Black Mamba snake for a loving pet. They make you dead! No conscience or compassion at all. If gene editing were to have one purpose to benefit the human race, it should be directed towards absolutely eliminating this type of personality from human beings.

My instinct, when warranted, has almost always been proven true by a name check of this person with Special Operations people I know. My contacts have access to the data bases of legitimate and genuine Special Operations personnel and quietly tell me ‘yes’ or ‘no’ as to the legitimacy of a person’s claim to be Special Operations. This type of fraudulent person would be a disaster in leadership. These psychopaths are the classic bullshitters with the worst character traits… they have a selfish psychopathic character and they are liars and deceitful.

Read the descriptions of frauds…

I have known of a ‘Retired United States Coast Guard helicopter pilot,’ complete with documentation who had no idea, any more than my 4-year-old Grandson, of how to fly a helicopter. The only reason he didn’t crash it was that the co-pilot was a helicopter pilot at dual controls during the checkout of this American fraud on an Iroquois ‘Huey’ chopper in a foreign country. The same for a ‘Retired Australian Coast Guard helicopter pilot.’ Fake… and almost crashed a ten-million-dollar South African Puma chopper. These insane wannabe people are more abundant than you think. They literally have no shame and nothing embarrasses them.

I have known a ‘U.S. Army Ranger’ who wore the Ranger ballcap, talked the talk, “Was a sniper on this operation and that operation.” The only problem with his story was that he ‘washed out’ of Ranger Training and spent just a little over a year in the military, not enough to complete the combined time for basic training and Ranger Selection. I don’t believe he’s out to purposely harm anyone, but I would have respected him more if he told me he’d washed out of Ranger School, because it’s a brutal and barbaric selection process. There is no shame in not making it, as if you try your best, that’s the best you can do.

My Las Vegas woman tailor’s ‘Special Forces’ husband posed for a photo in a U.S. Army Class A Green Uniform with his Green Beret, just after the Vietnam War, ensuring to have it taken in the authentic film of the day… muted tone black and white. Never spent a minute in the military and this all spilled out, after their divorce, for him impregnating their babysitter in addition to being a fraud and psychopath. When I start talking about parachuting, he became strangely silent… because he knew little nothing of it.

One, who I believe actually was a Vietnam combat veteran with multiple Purple Hearts, claimed he was Special Forces, but after I did a name check with our association, it proved he wasn’t. I heard some pretty wild stories from him. This obvious first lie, casts doubt on all of his background to me, further destroys my admiration for whatever he did do in Vietnam and casts doubt on the legitimacy of his Purple Hearts. These people know no boundaries on the whopper tales they tell and the lengths to which they will go for self-aggrandizement.

Another, where I live right now, had a martial arts studio and holds training in small arms and tactics… he has a considerable group of followers. About 30. When I called to meet this guy and he found out I was not an American Special Forces soldier, but was very involved with the association and knew many of them, he began to avoid contact with me. So again, I did a name check on him with my contacts. He may be very capable as an instructor, but his background is a total deception. This guy and his followers will most likely become a threat to all others because he will be leading a localized survival group… his group will most probably become ‘The Takers,’ as a story I wrote into one of my books describes. They will be deadly.

Another ‘poser’ I knew ran for president of a large Real Estate Association, stating as part of his biography that he was in the 10^th Special Forces. He also stated that he was a pilot, which upon discussing this he began to change the subject. I knew he wasn’t a pilot, because I am an airplane and helicopter pilot and he immediately went into damage control mode as he switched on to this. He didn’t know the terms. He soon began to avoid me like I had the Black Plague. I knew by looking at this guy’s calves the first time I saw him in a T-shirt and tropical shorts that he was not Special Ops… he had no arm or leg development… and everyone who is Special Ops has muscular arms and legs, or they didn’t go through the program. But the REALTOR^® association’s members bought this fraud’s story and he was elected president. He was a terrible one at that, as he did ‘everything for himself’ and was extremely corrupt.

The stories of ‘wingnuts’ like this guy would make a separate book… including combat stories so ridiculous and beyond belief, that the book would border on a work of comedy fiction literature. I put all the repetitiveness of these stories in, to beat the point into your brain that you must be suspicious to a ridiculous degree. As suspicious as I am, I have come close to have been taken in by a couple of these lunatics. Most of us want to believe in the good in humans and want trust what they say. Some of that naïve Minnesota farm boy is still lurking in me.

These people will surround themselves with people who have real experience like real combat experienced soldiers and Special Operations people that are naive. This is to further convince you of their credibility. They are like a turd and will try to convince you which end of the turd that is clean to pick up. Bullshytte. Psychopaths act the part… play the part… but are not the part. But they are good at one thing… fooling and controlling people. They manipulate and have no shame… because they have no conscience… unlike the good people they prey on. You. They can be brutal and barbaric beyond your imagination, once they get in control.

Don’t be shy, ask for this proof. Don’t take the word of a person vouching for their own experience or another’s. Don’t find out the hard way during a Crisis that this person is ‘A story’ from neighbors and Friends circulated in the corner bar or at the subdivision pickle ball court, that put an unqualified person in charge of you. Your group will be relying heavily on this person’s expertise and experience.

Why do I drone on about these people?

So, you’ll understand that these people and their ‘harmless stories’ are not harmless… these people are extremely dangerous. They lie without consciousness… and will lead YOU to your death without consciousness. Like the movie title… ‘They Live!’ staring Keith David and the Late Roddy Piper, so… ‘Psychopaths Are!’ They’re all around you staring in your ongoing movie of real life… just hard to see. They will lead you to your death.

To give you a good idea of the abundance and audacity of psychopaths, I originally had an essay in the Civil Defense Manual from a Doctor of Psychiatry. He put quite a fine article on a website blog for psychiatrists and psychologists who deal in psychopathic personalities. His article was complete with another real Doctor’s quote… that quote…

“Always treat everyone with respect. You never know who is secretly a psychopath.”

All Doctors who read the article this ‘Doctor’ wrote commented on what a great essay it was… and it was good. I went to get permission from this Doctor only to discover this ‘Doctor’ …is not a Doctor. He’s a fraud and… you guessed it… a psychopath.

So, I turned to one of the most concise and explanatory descriptions of psychopaths I have read, from a very intelligent and articulate Author whose book I had the good fortune to read…

Read on…

From Kenneth Royce, aka Boston T. Party…

Reprinted with permission from his copyrighted book “Modules for Manhood,” Volume I…

From “Modules For Manhood, Volume I / Getting Along (Better With People)” Pages 6 / 37 to 6 /52

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THE SOCIOPATH

by Kenneth Royce, aka Boston T. Party…

“It ain’t what ya don’t know that hurts ya. What really puts a hurtin’ on ya is what ya knows for sure, that just ain’t so.” — Uncle Remus

A sociopath (or ‘psychopath’) is an intraspecies predator:

Imagine — if you can — not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken. And pretend that the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem to accept without question, like gullible fools. Now add to this strange fantasy the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup is radically different from theirs. Since everyone simply assumes that conscience is universal among human beings, hiding the fact that you are conscience-free is nearly effortless. You are not held back from any of your desires by guilt or shame, and you are never confronted by others for your cold-bloodedness. The ice water in your veins is so bizarre, so completely outside of their personal experience, that they seldom even guess at your condition.

In other words, you are completely free of internal restraints, and your unhampered liberty to do just as you please, with no pangs of conscience, is conveniently invisible to the world. You can do anything at all, and still your strange advantage over the majority of people, who are kept in line by their consciences, will most likely remain undiscovered. (p.2)

— Martha Stout, Ph.D., The Sociopath Next Door

A sociopath is somebody who, through a combination of heritable condition, genetic predisposition and upbringing, has no sense of interconnectedness (bonding) with living beings and thus no foundation for an active conscience (like the 96% rest of us who do have one). Studies indicate that sociopathy involves an altered processing of emotional stimuli at the level of the cerebral cortex, and they cannot process emotional experience, such as love and caring.

For those of us who have been successfully socialized, imagining the world as the psychopath experiences it is close to impossible.

— Dr. Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us, p. 78

Sociopathy is a non-correctable disfigurement of character

It cannot be cured by therapy. Sociopaths are wired wrong, and not only do they not know it, their disorder (in contrast to narcissism) causes them no anxiety:

Sociopathy stands alone as a ‘disease’ that causes no dis-ease for the person who has it, no subjective discomfort. Sociopaths are often quite satisfied with their lives, and perhaps for this very reason there is no effective treatment. (Stout, p.12)

Psychopaths don’t feel they have psychological or emotional problems, and they see no reason to change their behavior to conform to societal standards with which they do not agree.

To elaborate, psychopaths are generally well satisfied with themselves and with their inner landscape, bleak as it may seem to outside observers. They see nothing wrong with themselves, experience little personal distress, and find their behavior rational, rewarding, and satisfying; they never look back with regret or forward with concern. They perceive themselves as superior beings in a hostile, dog-eat-dog world in which others in order to obtain their ‘rights,’ and their social interactions are planned to outmaneuver the malevolence they see in others. Given these attitudes, it is not surprising that the purpose of most psychotherapeutic approaches is lost on sociopaths. (Hare, p.195)

Morals, ethics, etc. are foreign concepts never having been internalized as personal boundaries:

About one in twenty-five individuals are sociopathic . . . It is not that this group fails to grasp the difference between good and bad; it is that the distinction fails to limit their behavior. (Stout)

These ‘people’ are fairly rare, yet still common enough at 4% of adults. (It is generally believed by experts that 3% of men and 1% of women are sociopaths.) In the case of a former best friend, I was shocked to learn that he was a full-blown sociopath (e.g., a pathological liar, serial thief, and shameless war vet fraud). Covetous of anybody with actual experience and reputation exceeding his own, ‘Jack’ tried to destroy what he couldn’t have. What drives them is power over other people, and they achieve this through very clever manipulation. Sociopaths cannot be even occasionally trusted.

Sociopaths and morality

Dr. M. Scott Peck’s seminal book The People of The Lie contains the best definition of evil I’ve yet read. To paraphrase:

– The evil hide their motives with lies.

– Evil people want to appear to be good.

– When confronted by evil, the wisest and most secure adult will usually experience confusion.

– Evil seeks to discourage self-thinking (fosters dependency).

– We must have an ongoing dedication to reality at all cost.

Guiltlessness was in fact the first personality disorder to be recognized by psychiatry, and terms that have been used at times in the past century include manie sans d’lire, psychopathic inferiority, moral insanity, and moral imbecility.

According to the current bible of psychiatric labels, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV of the APA, the clinical diagnosis of ‘antisocial personality disorder’ should be considered when an individual possesses at least three of the following seven characteristics:

1. Failure to conform to social norms
2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness
3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead
4. Irritability, aggressiveness
5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others
6. Consistent irresponsibility
7. Lack of remorse after having hurt or stolen from others

They understand the difference between right and wrong, but are not emotionally constrained by it. This is outlandish to moral people. Just so you aren’t tempted to believe that I’m exaggerating things, read an illuminating forum exchange between three sociopaths. (Typos/misspellings are theirs.)

It sickens me the whole way criminals are treated in this country. Nobody is able to grasp the idea that there’s no objective evil in the world, and that evil actions are caused by imbalance...

— sociopath A

If there is no objective evil, then there can be no objective good, either. Sociopaths truly believe that morality is just a construct, used to hinder them. They believe that nobody is actually moral, and those who claim to be are just hypocrites. The sociopath sees himself the superior being because he does not voluntarily restrain himself to such shackles. Now read the ghoulish responses that post received:

“My cravings . . . involve extreme violence and inflicting as much physical and psychological suffering as possible. i haven’t acted on them, so they’re just really detailed thoughts/dreams for me also.”

“Personally, I feel society should be punished as thoroughly and frequently as possible. no amount of tears would ever be enough. people should live in a permanent state of terror. they have marginalized people like me . . .”

— sociopath B

“I get a sort of sadistic glee anytime I circumvent the conventions or do something deemed ‘immoral’, and the more I do such a thing, the better.”

— sociopath A

Society tries to punish the sociopath with its fake morals, hence the sociopath is justified in fighting back as a scumbag. At this point, sociopath C can’t resist joining in:

“I don’t get the point of whining about how society is. I, off course, would like to live far away from humans, from thier laws, morals and money. But since it ain’t easy, I prefer seeing this society as a big playground. I assure you that because people are hedonist, delusional, ”good”, idiot and happy . . . they are much more ”enjoyable”. By this I’m talking about the manipulation and all those games you would probably ”enjoy”.”

— sociopath C

Notice their use of quotation marks for ‘good’ and ‘bad’? Again, morality does not exist; there’s no objective evil. They honestly believe this, and trying to explain morality to them is like describing colors to a blind man. So, to recap their demented ethos:

• The sociopath is not bound by rules which penalize him
• Anything goes to achieve selfish desires
• Whoever gets manipulated and burned is at fault for weakness

In 2008 the University of Chicago tested sociopaths with fMRI scans and discovered that their brains light up with pleasure at the suffering of others. Their empathy pathways showed no abnormality, which suggests that sociopaths are empathic . . . but in a sadistic sense. (They enjoy hurting because it confirms they are achieving power.)

Coleridge called Shakespeare’s Iago a “motiveless malignancy.” This is why sociopaths are so hard for most people to understand . . . at first. They are completely counterintuitive to basic human decency. Being evil for the sheer sake of evil is a foreign idea to us. However, once you’ve ‘wrapped your mind’ around their nature (and it’s a predictable one, too), sociopaths are easy to understand. They’ll do what they can get away with.

The sociopath’s characteristic exploitiveness

It is a high level of exploitiveness that most singularly exposes the sociopath.

— Steve Becker, LCSW

I also believe this. Sociopaths are all about manipulation and exploitation. I recall an anecdote of ‘Jack’ regarding a family photo. His three brothers all had goofy faces, while he was only smug. Just before the shutter clicked, he suggested they all should ‘look like retards.’ They went along with it — he didn’t. Even at just 10 years old, he was already an accomplished manipulator of his family.

Mimicry of appropriate emotions and morality

The psychopath is like a color-blind person who sees the world in shades of gray but who has learned how to function in a colored world. He has learned that the light signal for ‘stop’ is at the top of the traffic signal. When the color-blind person tells you he stopped at the red light, he really means he stopped at the top light. He has difficulty in discussing the color of things but may have learned all sorts of ways to compensate for this problem, and in some cases even those who know him well may not know that he cannot see colors. (p.129)

Like a tourist using high-school French to ask directions in Paris, psychopaths have trouble putting into words emotional ideas because they are vague and poorly understood. In this sense, emotion is like a second language to the psychopath. (Hare, p.136)

This emotional mimicry can often come across as forced or fake. Recall from the movie Bladerunner the detailed test given to suspected androids to pierce through their artificial emotional landscape. A superior ‘Replicant’ required over 100 questions, the last being ‘The entrée consisted of boiled dog.’ Accomplished sociopaths are like that. Sometimes it takes months or even years to unmask them, and even when you do many of your mutual friends won’t easily believe it.

Do sociopaths feel love or hate?

Apparently not. fMRI scans show that sociopaths respond to the linguistic brain section but not to the feeling section.

Do sociopaths feel fear?

Not really, as this has been linked to dysfunctions of the amygdala. High risk situations do not much affect sociopaths, as they focus on the reward and not the likely consequences.

Do sociopaths feel guilt?

Generally not, and if they somehow do it is blocked out by disassociation and compartmentalization. (I.e., their victims somehow deserved being hurt.) They also are very good at focusing on their source of reward while ignoring punishment.

A sociopath always lies, and how he does it

Lies are the foundation of all evil. Avoid liars, period. If somebody is a known liar, then who knows what nasty business he’ll embark on next? To feel powerful and superior to normal decent folk, the sociopath must manipulate them as their puppeteer. He feels something like a sexual thrill from this:

. . . this is power, especially when the people you manipulate are superior to you in some way. Most invigorating of all is to bring down people who are smarter or more accomplished than you, or perhaps classier, more attractive or popular or morally admirable. This is not only good fun; it is existential vengeance. (p.4)

No manipulation is possible without lying. Lies are core to all sociopaths. They will lie just for the thrill of being believed.

How the sociopath succeeds in lying, and lying BIG

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, because the vast masses of a nation are, in the depths of their hearts, more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad.

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them more easy victims of a big lie than a small one, because they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones. Such a form of lying would never enter their heads. They would never credit others with the possibility of such great impudence as the complete reversal of facts.

Even explanations would long leave them in doubt and hesitation, and any trifling reason would dispose them to accept a thing as true. Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.

— Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf

Everybody is subject to something called ‘egocentrism’ where you believe that other people are basically like you. If you are honest, a sociopath will know it and use it against you.

In my case, ‘Jack’ had set up such an outlandish theft scam on me, that it didn’t seem like a scam. Couldn’t be a scam because friends don’t scam friends. (My egocentrism working against me.) However, it was such a huge and ridiculous story that it quickly unraveled after my first suspicion. The hard part was not disproving his tale, but trying to understand why he had done it (and in such a risky manner). My classic mistake was trying to understand it from a morally sane perspective. Only by later learning about sociopathy did any (and all) of it make sense. All the classic clues had been there over the three years of ‘friendship’, had I known what to look for.

A sociopath always lies, and always without shame

Normal people are embarrassed when caught in a lie. This is wholly untrue with a sociopath. Since they cannot feel shame (though sometimes humiliation), catching them in a lie will not garner you an apology. Rather, he usually will attack your lack of trust in him. If not that, then he will oddly and smoothly move on to the next lie.

It doesn’t matter to him if he’s caught in a lie — only that the lie no longer works with you. He’ll just go to another lie. It’s very weird when you experience it, and you’ll begin to wonder if you’re dealing with an alien. (In a way, you are.)

The sociopath’s algorithm of reversal

To lie believably, the sociopath understands that nothing lies like the truth. His trick, however, is to co-opt the flattering truth about others as his own. For example, sociopath ‘Jack’ claimed many skills and experiences of others never his own:

-800+ hours of fighter jet combat, with dozens of aerial kills shot down, yet (dramatically) escaped as a POW

-A subsequent career in ‘Special Forces’

-Arabic translator for a U.S. Ambassador, and then the FBI

-The saving of life with his EMT skills

-A B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering

-The heroic shooting of a charging elephant in Africa

-What he projected from himself on others included:

-Drunkenness, lying, thievery

-Racist and anti-Semitic remarks

-Horribly bad credit with looming home foreclosure

In both reversals ‘Jack’ was able to initially sound very credible because he had the basic facts straight — he just changed the names. When word got out, he just moved on to other lies.

Their too-pat and incredible life story

From several sociopaths I’ve known, one thing they all had in common was the early insistence to program others with their fanciful story. (I call it ‘setting the stage.’) They do this to weed out the suspicious and identify the trusting, and it’s very effective for that. Beware the overly impressive set-stage life history.

The indispensable pity ploy

What I like better than anything else is when people feel sorry for me. The thing I really want more than anything else out of life is people’s pity.

— a convicted swindler, quoted by Dr. Martha Stout

Pity? Why would a sociopath want pity? Because it deactivates your B.S. detector. You cannot pity somebody and simultaneously be suspicious of them. If you learn anything about sociopaths, learn that. ‘Jack’ was notorious about the pity ploy. Whenever he was late, he’d claim a massive plumbing leak on a jobsite. His most blatant pity ploy (none of it true, of course) was emailed to me by a friend:

Some months ago ‘Jack’ called me and told me that he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer. He went on to describe in intricate detail the radiation treatment he was getting and how this was creating a great financial strain on him because he was also paying for all of his girlfriend’s medical bills. Of course this information was told to me with the usual caveat of swearing not to tell another soul that he had cancer, especially his girlfriend.

Protecting yourself from a possible sociopath

How can we recognize them? Fortunately, they cannot perfectly emulate healthy human beings:

When deciding whom to trust, bear in mind that the combination of consistently bad or egregiously inadequate behavior with frequent plays for your pity is as close to a warning mark on a conscienceless person’s forehead as you will ever be given. [Though rarely violent, such a person is] probably not someone you should closely befriend, take on as your business partner, ask to take care of your children, or marry. (p.109)

— Dr. Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

Stout recommends ceasing all contact after experiencing a total of just three: lies, no-shows, or irresponsible acts. This is excellent advice which will drastically limit the damage:

When considering a new relationship of any kind, practice the Rule of Threes regarding the claims and promises a person makes, and the responsibilities he or she has. Make the Rule of Threes your personal policy.

One lie, one broken promise, or a single neglected responsibility may be a misunderstanding instead. Two may involve a serious mistake. But three lies says you’re dealing with a liar, and deceit is the linchpin of conscienceless behavior. Cut your losses and get out as soon as you can. Leaving, though it may be hard, will be easier now than later, and less costly.

Do not give your money, your work, your secrets, or your affection to a three-timer. Your valuable gifts will be wasted.

I’d recommend that you quietly keep count, and not confront the suspect along the way. Once you’ve reached your three, simply cease all contact without any explanation. This will deny the sociopath a valuable feedback loop, and force him to thereafter wonder.

Some tips for discerning the sociopath

The major red flags are grandiosity, shameless lies, unreliability, lack of empathy, and a flair for manipulation. Here are some multiple signs of sociopaths which I gleaned from books, and from bitterly earned personal experience:

– Grossly inflated view of their self-worth and importance, a truly astounding egocentricity and sense of entitlement

– Unusually magnetic charm or charisma, excellent at impression management

– Polished acting skills, immediately presentable

– Often try to overwhelm others with flattery, feigned concern, kindness, or generosity

– Make excellent use of social/professional roles and titles to dissuade dissent, scrutiny, or confrontation

– Uncanny ability to spot decent and trusting people, the fertile soil of a sociopathic weed

– Will find and exploit others’ psychological weaknesses

– Require our regular pity (especially with claims of being over-worked, cheated, or victimized) to keep our blinders on regarding their behavior (i.e., one cannot pity a person and simultaneously suspect them of deceit)

– Tell grandiose/unlikely-yet-convincing stories, usually putting themselves in the best light (this is common with new acquaintances). Known for ‘too incredible to believe’ tales about themselves of luck, courage, stamina, wit, quick-thinking, etc. These stories have very little depth if you scratch the surface (disproven in 5 minutes on the Net).

– Are deceitful to an incredible extreme (“I lie like I breathe, one as much as the other.”). They will baldly lie and deny with great colorfulness and detail, even when the truth is obvious to all and/or when lying serves no clear benefit.

– Their lies, while convincing on the surface, often contain contradictory or logically inconsistent statements (which unfortunately escape initial detection because truthful people have no conception of such casual, regular, and thoughtless deceit)

– Quite prone to regular and seemingly mindless or risky thievery, especially in the case of ‘covetous psychopaths’ (who will steal mostly for the denying vs. the having)

– When challenged/confronted, will either deny everything, rationalize their behavior, or counter “Why would I do something like that? What would be the reason?”

– Are notorious for not answering the question posed at them, or being evasive and unresponsive. They are masters at circumventing discussion of their own behavior.

– Masters of misdirection; shifting focus/blame on accusers

– Known for “if you throw enough shit, some of it will stick”

– Minimize or deny consequences of their actions to others (“They have insurance, and probably made money on the loss!”)

– Frequently successful in talking their way out of trouble, even during confrontations with the criminal justice system

– Seldom embarrassed at their own financial, legal, or personal problems — they haven’t basic humanity to even be ashamed

– Smooth lack of concern if found out (BIG red flag to sociopathy!), because shame or guilt is not only an emotion, but one linked to conscience. (“The psychopath’s indifference to being identified as a liar is truly extraordinary; it causes the listener to wonder about the speaker’s sanity. More often, though, the listener is taken in.” Hare, p.48)

– Known for their impulsiveness to achieve immediate satisfaction, pleasure, or relief

– Known for ‘consistent irresponsibility’ extending to every part of their lives. They do not honor formal or implied commitments to people, organizations, or principles.

– Usually with horrendously bad credit histories.

– Often late (and usually with unassailable and/or dramatic excuses). They don’t care about other people’s schedules, and resent having to conform to social rules of punctuality.

– Often fail to conform to social norms, and often recklessly so

– Inability to tolerate routine, as they are easily bored

– Exhibit a profound general lack of empathy (the ability to ‘walk in another’s shoes’ by constructing a mental and emotional facsimile of others)

– Cannot genuinely bond with others, and their relationships are invariably loveless, one-sided, and short-term

– See children as an inconvenience, and will scar their own

-They can be described as ‘deceitful’ and ‘manipulative’ and ‘spooky’

-“tend to see any social exchange as a ‘feeding’ opportunity, a contest, or a test of wills, in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.” (Hare, p.145)

-Able to tailor stories about the same event or person to others, and under the guise of ‘confidence’ so that those deceived do not readily speak with each other and piece things together

– Are masters at social compartmentalization, keeping victims mutually unaware of each other, or even mutually antagonistic by slyly pitting them against each other — all the while considering the psychopath as their ‘friend’

– Just as they often try to evoke pity for themselves, they create or further poor impressions of others in a sort of pre-emptive self-protection for when others eventually discover the psychopath friend to be a liar, thief, and manipulator.

– See life as one big chess board, with people as pieces to move about. (“Whoever is weak is also a sucker; that is, someone who demands to be exploited.”)

– Sometimes able to fool elaborate psychological tests, such as the MMPI, and appear normal

– Exhibit shallow ‘paint-by-the-numbers’ emotions (they know the words, but not the music, of emotional life)

– Usually lack physiological responses associated with fear or anxiety, and are known for preternatural calm and composure during intense situations (e.g., police stops with a dead body in the trunk)

– Have a greater need for stimulation (in order to feel alive at all), and thus assume greater risks/dangers

– Incapable of actual remorse, and rarely even try to fake it

– Do not know that they are evil (it’s an alien concept to them), and thus feel fine about themselves.

– Avoid other sociopaths (because they cannot be easily fooled), and the last thing an egocentric, selfish, demanding, callous person wants is someone just like himself

– Are often suspected by police officers (“I never did like that guy!”) who deal with sociopaths every day

– Once finally outed, are known to blithely move on to new people (i.e., chess pieces), hobbies, and places

– Generally immune to psychotherapy because they see nothing wrong with themselves — no problem need be addressed.

Over time, we can recognize their lives for their careening emptiness and hollowness (and often by their remarkably dead eyes), marked by innumerable deceits and irresponsibilities. While they cannot be cured or fixed, knowing who they are by the trail of human wreckage is sufficient warning for the curious, who then wisely shun such ‘people.’

The sociopath’s M.O.

Imagine the ocean is full of dolphins. And [the main character] Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin. He could maneuver among the dolphins and the dolphins would say “Welcome!” in dolphin talk. And then, one night, he’d start eating them._— PROFIT co-creator John McNamara

PROFIT follows the corporate skullduggery of junior V.P. Jim Profit, a full-blown sociopath. In his labyrinthine predation, he breaks up marriages, sets up a senior exec for a felony arrest and prison term, and even compromises the psychiatrist of his archenemy (a woman head of corporate security who sees Profit for what he is) to get inside her head during hypnosis. (And all that is post-childhood, after he set afire his father.) Teaming up with Profit is his also-sociopathic stepmother, as if one perfect sociopath weren’t enough. The actor who played this sociopath thought it all rather cute:

I don’t see him as an amoral or immoral individual. I think he had a superior set of moral values that enabled him to act with relative impunity. Adrian Pasdar, ‘Jim Profit’

The (deservedly) cancelled series PROFIT is a fine educational tool for discerning sociopathy, especially for those who don’t grasp how sociopaths operate — and who won’t believe your descriptions, either. (They could read Othello for the sociopath Iago, but that’s probably expecting too much these days.) The sociopath’s M.O. is very competently dramatized in this series (with helpful voice-overs), offering many key lessons:

1. Sociopaths scheme further ahead than moral people anticipate
2. They A/V record their victims much more often than vice versa
3. If victims tip off their plans for justice, sociopaths make it backfire
4. Sociopaths see sudden adversity as a challenge; they thrive on it
5. They always act behind the scenes, which is difficult to discern
6. They are masters of manipulation through compartmentalization
7. Most people are clueless (or in denial) about local sociopaths
8. Those who warn others are often ignored as Cassandras

Dealing with a confirmed sociopath

What is so damnably frustrating to moral folks, is that sociopaths seem to be coated in Teflon, rarely caught and punished for any significant percentage of their abuses. They can apparently talk and connive their way out of any scrape. This will remain true until moral folks begin to network together and expose their local sociopaths.

An excellent website to understand their intricate and evil games is www.psychopathfree.com. (I agree with them that No Contact! is the best general strategy. Silence provides sociopaths no energy to feed from, no information to use against you, no words to throw back in your face. Silence confounds them, and they move on.)

Reverse-engineering the sociopathic M.O. learned from the series PROFIT, here are some tips on how to protect yourself:

1. Record every conversation you have with known sociopaths
2. Get co-victims talking to each other and ‘comparing notes’
3. NEVER tip your hand how you plan to expose the sociopath
4. Avoid appearing ‘obsessed’ about warning others and/or getting justice — it will greatly weaken your cause
5. Create situations for others to discern being manipulated
6. Form alliances, and foment action by others — i.e., don’t do it all alone
7. Trust only those who’ve also been hurt by the same sociopath
8. Take your time in gathering evidence from all angles, anticipating his oiliness
9. Honestly evaluate your own weaknesses and how they’ve been exploited
10. Don’t drop one ball at a time; drop several at once

Sociopaths swim throughout the human sea, and the sooner you begin to recognize their hidden shark-fin, the less damage they can do. But, it’s up to you to act, because:

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Optical illusions: sociopath autostereograms

Go to the below link for an essay I wrote for the excellent website www.lovefraud.com which informs about sociopaths.

www.lovefraud.com/blog/2007/05/20/optical-illusions-autostereograms-and-sociopaths/

Optical illusions: autostereograms and sociopaths

Sociopaths elsewhere (the ‘kunlangeta’)

That is what the Yupi Eskimo call a man who repeatedly lies, cheats, steals, and sexually takes advantage of women. When anthropologist Jane Murphy inquired what was done about these kunlangeta, one Eskimo man replied, “Somebody would have pushed him off the ice when nobody else was looking.”

That so, it seems highly unlikely that their kunlangeta ever amount to our 3% of men in society!

Final thoughts on sociopaths

He remembers also that every rational being is his kinsman, and that to care for all men is natural to man; and that a man should not care for the opinion of everybody but of those only who live according to nature. As for those who live not so, he bears always in mind what kind of men they are both at home and abroad, both by night and by day, and what they are, and with what companions they live their evil life.

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

I expounded for these past 10+pages because sociopaths are the one class of people which you absolutely cannot trust. Good character development requires these three things: the ability to love, impulse control, and moral reasoning. Sociopaths have none of them. (The rest of us have at least one!)

A psychopath will never feel that sense of accomplishment at a job well done. They spend their lives always scheming, working angles, manipulating people and situations. They are never satisfied with what they have. There always has to be more, better. They usually FAIL because they simply can’t get it right. And then they blame others for their failures. That lack of personal insight is no win. It guarantees that they will never grow and learn as people.

— www.psychopathfree.com

Most normal folks you can trust with certain information, or during particular moments, and they respond naturally over time and friendship. You understand their self-interest and ethical bounds. As long as you do not mistake a sociopath for a person of character, you are generally safe from those whom you rightfully consider your friends.

From the Author of the Civil Defense Manual…

Choosing your Leaders by military experience

You don’t want an association of insanity, driven by a madman operating under the license of leading your Neighborhood Protection Plan^TM (NPP). This is where the NPP Council proposed in the Civil Defense Manual and the soon to be available The Civil Defense Primer, comes in… they act as a ‘Check and Balance’ with their vote sufficient to remove a despotic leader from his position with the backing of every armed Neighborhood Guardian (NPP Group Members), by vote then under their command, until new leaders can be decided on.

Which brings me to this… when A Collapse Of Society occurs and everything goes to shite, psychopaths will not be democratic… they will be the start of ‘The New Warlords’ dispensing terror and fear more than anything Warlords did in ancient days. And they will not be ‘nice’ Warlords, undeveloped arms and legs… or not.

Jack Lawson