Is the Proposed “Civilian Registry” of Havana Syndrome Victims a Double Edged Blade?

By Janet Phelan

In what is being framed as an effort to force “agencies like the FBI to investigate civilian domestic cases, and to inform Congressmen at the State and the US Level about this growing public health issue, and produce bills necessary for our protection,” Targeted Justice has announced Registry for Civilians Diagnosed with NKBI/”Havana Syndrome” the creation of a Civilian Registry of “Havana Syndrome” (or “non-kinetic brain injury”) victims.

The US government has, up until now, only recognized Havana Syndrome as impacting diplomats and related government workers and has ignored the fact that there are now thousands of everyday US citizens claiming the same or similar injuries. The Havana Act of 2021 Text – S.1828 – 117th Congress (2021-2022): HAVANA Act of 2021 specifically earmarks funds for the medical care of US government employees, diplomats and intelligence officers, who have been diagnosed with Havana Syndrome, which may include debilitating brain injury and other health issues.

The creation of a “Civilian Registry” appears on its surface to be an attempt to inform and compel the US government to take notice and to provide redress for these everyday citizens.
However, there is a darker side to publicly announcing that you have a brain injury. Although Targeted Justice’s public release states the following—

“We, at Targeted Justice take Creating of Civilian Registry very seriously. Every civilian who wishes to volunteer to be listed in the Civilian Registry, will be given a detailed form outlining your rights and conditions, which would be signed by a civilian, and by a Board Member for Targeted Justice. Our legal counsel helped me to make the form most favorable to the civilian. We guarantee that we will never share your sensitive information with any third party without your explicit consent and participation”

the legal form itself provides no such protection, as it states that “Even though neither Targeted Justice nor Dr. Len Ber meet the criteria of the persons and entities covered under HIPPAA (sic), I give full consent to their use of the information I provided for the purposes stated above and under the limitations contained herein.” HIPAA provides broad protections to the misuse of health data, and the form (Voluntary Statement for Civilian HS Registry – PDF) specifically nullifies these protections.

So the question needs to be stated as clearly as possible—”What potential problem may occur due to one stating that one has a brain injury?”

The answer, unfortunately, is “Plenty!”

You Can Destroy Your Credibility

First of all, announcing that you have a brain injury can and will diminish your credibility. By agreeing to inclusion on a list of medically determined brain injured, you are de facto declaring that your perceptions and statements cannot be trusted. At a time when there is considerable governmental pushback concerning the existence of civilian victims, such a declaration can clearly be used against you.

You Open Yourself Up to Further Legal Attack

But there is an even darker side than this. By announcing that you are brain injured, you open yourself up to legal attack via guardianship or even civil commitment. You have just agreed that your brain does not function appropriately, and Mother Government has a fix for this, via court-authorized guardianship, which removes all your rights, all access to your funds and all your decision-making capabilities. Upon initiation of a guardianship, you become a non person, subject to the whims and predation of the guardian. You also open yourself up to commitment proceedings may end up on a locked ward.

You’ve Just Given up Your Privacy Rights

Repeated protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, by submitting this form you have given up your privacy rights as regards this medical information. Targeted Justice states clearly on this form that your privacy protections, guaranteed by HIPAA, do not apply here. According to input from retired attorney Ken Ditkowsky, the only possible bare privacy protections that could be afforded here might be guaranteed by Targeted Justice’s attorney declaring that she has put her bar license on the line here to protect these privacy rights, which she obviously has not done. And as Ditkowsky points out, the legal remedy for an attorney violating this potential promise is almost non existent. And a guardianized or civilly committed person would encounter enormous legal obstacles in suing for this violation.

The Upside?

If you think, under the current political climate, that making a public and unprotected declaration that you have been brain injured by these weapons will actually put pressure on the government to acknowledge that civilian victims exist, consider the evidence that the government is not taking the plight of civilian victims seriously. Article after article has been published in which civilian victims are lampooned, told they are “crazy” and otherwise dismissed.

And consider the history of the organization which is promoting this civilian registry—a history which includes exhortations to “dox” public employees (a practice which has landed some unfortunate souls in prison), further exhortations to provide false information to the FBI, making unsupported public statements conflating the list of targeted individuals with the list of terrorism suspects, sending out demands for millions of dollars to someone’s elderly mother after an individual went ahead and sued the organization (PDF), and repeated correspondences intimidating and defaming its detractors.

Len Ber, MD, (retired) who is with Targeted Justice, was contacted with concerns about the failure of the form to adequately protect privacy and replied thus, “This contract grants privacy,” he asserted. He went on to state that

“HIPPAA (sic) is not applicable for this voluntary exchange of private information. HIPPAA ‘applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain health care transactions electronically.’ We are neither one of those.”

Janet Phelan has been on the trail of the biological weapons agenda since the new millennium. Her book on the pandemic, At the Breaking Point of History: How Decades of US Duplicity Enabled the Pandemic, has been published in 2021 by Trine Day and is available on Amazon and elsewhere. Her articles on this issue have appeared in Activist Post, New Eastern Outlook, Infowars and elsewhere. Educated at Grinnell College, UC Berkeley and the University of Missouri Graduate School of Journalism, Janet “jumped ship” and since 2004 has been writing exclusively for independent media. Her articles previously appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Oui Magazine, Orange Coast Magazine, the Long Beach Press Telegram, the Santa Monica Daily Press and other publications. She is the author of the groundbreaking expose, EXILE and two books of poetry. She resides abroad. You may follow Janet on Parler here @JanetPhelan and Twitter @JanetPhelan14. To support her work, please go to JanetPhelan.

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