The Way of Silence

[LonestarParticipant 333]

More Examples: I knew some secrets about my Ex that her family didn’t know. If they knew this information I knew they would abandon her. So I let it slip into the conversation I had with a blabbermouth in her family. That Let’s just say it had the desired effect.
That wouldn’t have worked with my family.

In war you cut your enemy off from support, then you destroy it.

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key. Eagles

[OldBillParticipant]

NoMore wrote:

Her lawyer will ask you a series of questions to get you into a pattern of agreeing and then ask the trick question.

There are several terms for that technique, one is the inertia of compliance. Salesmen use it, lawyers use it, it’s a well known and dependable psychological technique.

Case in point: Bomb threats. I had a nationwide client who business led to a small but regular number of bomb threats. Every phone which could receive a call from an outside line had a bomb threat check list and pen next to it. Didn’t matter if the phone was in an office on a desk, in a conference room, or on the wall of a lab, the check list and the pen were all right there.

Along with all the check boxes for things like background noise, type of voice, accents, and the like, there was a list of a dozen questions or so to be asked in strict order. The first was When will the bomb go off?, people phoning in threats are doing so because they don’t want people killed. The following questions asked things what the bomb looked like, where it was, what would set it off, and question about similar “helpful” information.

The questions then morphed into asking reasons why the threat was being made, again asking the bomber to give “helpful” information. The final three questions were the real kicker: “Where are you calling from?”, “What’s your address?”, “What’s your name?”

Believe it or not, I listened to taped calls during which the person making the bomb threat answered the last three questions. Why? Because they’d been answering the previous 15 or so innocuous questions.

Whether you’re being deposed or are on the witness stand, answer only the specific question asked, answer only in single words if possible, purposely pause before making any answer, volunteer no information, and keep you mouth shut.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

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