James Tilly Matthews (1770 – 10 January 1815) believed that a gang of criminals and spies skilled in pneumatic chemistry had taken up residence at London Wall in Moorfields (close to Bethlem) and were tormenting him by means of rays emitted by a machine called the "Air Loom" ...

The "Machine" is a word used by the confused patient to try to define the threat that is very much real but that he cannot understand and is confused about, understandably . When you're being brainwashed it's expectable that you are not at the peak of your mental capabilities to express what is happening to you when the program purposefully aims for that, painting you as a fucking lunatic. The technology is there. It has been researched and improved for over 70 years. The people are "random" as you put it. It is necessary for their R&D to research on people of every culture, religion, country (language) and political beliefs or the lack thereof. To disquise the masquerade, they will also invest extra effort on irrelevant people (it's called "camouflage") to make it seem absurd to people that victims try to warn. "Wny you ? That doesn't make any sense".

"Is it the government ?" That is hard to answer because this is a simplification. They are owned and under control. Black Projects. Military industial complex. Intelligence agencies. Etc.

The experiments often last until you kill yourself or die of old age. I somehow got let off.

I'm not trying to argue in an agressive way, I simply want to share information in a sane manner. I will be unavailable for a bit. But if you truly want to know more, I have a lot of data to back up what I'm saying. Until then.

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