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In England and Wales "coercive control" isn't a dictionary definition: it is now a criminal offence; at least one serving police officer has been convicted of this.

In the past few years, some American civil rights groups have been claiming that legal and investment firms are effectively offering a service whereby local and student newspaper archives can be taken out of the public domain if they hold something that an offender or his family is willing to pay money to censor.

This came to light when a college newspaper contained an allegation of rape against a rich student who subsequently became much richer: the defunct paper's assets, including the archive, were purchased for a pretty nominal fee (a lot less than the legal costs of a defamation suit) and the new owners simply declined to allow any access to the archives at all, even to unconnected material.

It was also clear, some years ago, that whenever the "Cornbread Mafia" in Kentucky wanted to obscure a matter of public record, the relevant dates in newspaper archives would be changed to the wrong month or even year, so that journalists and other researchers, or even Federal agents, would have great difficulty in tracking down the official records; or even the empty space left behind when the official records were destroyed.

As for people disappearing from the internet overnight:

more than a decade ago, there was a Russian blogger called "Eva" who used to try and befriend victims of the sort of gangstalking and gaslighting which the Reitmans and the Cornbreads practice, in order to brainwash them into accepting that they were victims of a "NATO Intelligence" plot. They were victims of a plot alright, but why, exactly, did it have to be a NATO plot and not a Reitman plot, a Cornbread plot, an FBI plot or a CIA plot?

After noticing one evening that successive comments from "Eva" on Medawar's Cornflakes had been posted, within a few minutes of each other, from four different IPs in widely-separated parts of Germany, Medawar innocently pointed out, in a blog comment, just how unlikely it was that a small group of deskbound satellite imaging experts in Brussels would be interested in stalking people around LA, Skane (Sweden), Toronto, Harrodsburg (Kentucky), Eagle Island (in the Carolinas) and so on. Could it not be the case that "NATO Intelligence" simply had "NATO" in its title and that there was one organisation in particular funded to create and feed anti-NATO sentiment and theories. How long, therefore, had Eva been working for the FSB?

Within 24 hours, every trace of "Eva" had vanished from the internet. At least four different people wrote and posted as "Eva" either to an agreed script, or one handed down by their superiors. It was also painfully obvious that none of them was female!

A few years later, the same thumbnail portrait that Eva had used popped up again, on a blog, supposedly by a South American blogger, giving lots of economic facts and figures about Argentina which may have been pretty light on actual facts.

Medawar can't swear to this, but Eva's portrait reminded him of one of the political/religious prisoners (Galina Barats-Kokhan) who was incarcerated with the poet Irina Ratushkinskaya in the "small zone" concentration camp in Moldova during the Gorbachev era. Irina and all her fellow small zone prisoners are now dead, largely because all their food was deliberately doctored with excess salt until their kidneys were damaged. The KGB/FSB took their freedom, and perhaps even in some cases their faces.

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