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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Gang Stalking



GANGSTALKING - THE DIABOLIC ATTEMPTS TO SMASH TRUTH AND SPEECH - CLICK ON PICTURE

Gangstalking - The Diabolic attempts to smash truth and speech - click on picture 
The first gangstalker, Satan, stalking Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Satan, like all gangstalkers is a total looser.

ALSO GANGSTALKING

Satan and all gangstalkers hate the Truth.

Ganstalkers protect child murderer/molestors: Antipope John Paul ii Great Deceiver and Bishop Brom
The new Murder, Inc., from below:


What about the future [of Gang Stalking], then? Let me close this review with a chilling quote from David Lawson's first book, Terrorist Stalking in America, reporting what the author learned from some of the leaders:
"The leaders ... are starting to balk at exposing their members to arrest for activities which amount to little gain for the movement. they say that anyone who is a target should be killed, and not just harassed for years."


Vendetta - The story of Justice by Miko




The story of Justice by Miko

Gang Stalking


Gangstalking


Gangstalking

Norma Cross C.A.T.C.H.: osgroups

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C.A.T.C.H. Organized Gang Stalking Operation Video

http://youtu.be/eQ4NkDpdyZs



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Why is this Happening?

What is Technological Harassment?

What Do Victims Experience?

Myths and Facts

A Word About Mental Illness

Statistics

About Us

Contact Us

CATCH Literature

CATCH Presentations

Testimonials

Current Events & News

Resources & Links

Discussion Groups

Book Reviews & Excerpts

Useful Search Terms




What is Community-based Harassment?


Community-based harassment is a grown-up version of school yard bullying. Multiple individuals within a community participate in the harassment and stalking of a single individual. However, rather than attack a victim physically, techniques are used to undermine a person psychologically. This can be far more damaging than a physical attack because not only is it very hard to prove, but it is extremely traumatizing for the victim. (Also known as cause stalking or gang stalking).
What sets community-based harassment apart from the related examples to the right is that the reason it takes place is often obscure to the victim. Without a solid reason for its occurrence, victims are often dismissed as delusional.
In addition, this form of harassment often leaves the target a victim of ridicule among friends and family because of the subtle nature of the attacks, which further compounds the trauma to the victim. It is emotionally draining and isolating to the victims because it is extremely difficult to prove, and virtually impossible to prosecute.
View a video of gang stalking activity. Also, there is a slideshowof stills taken from the video.
Frequently Asked Questions about organized stalking groups.


Why is this Happening?

Although it is difficult for a non-victim to understand, it is not difficult to realize that many schoolyard bullies have never outgrown their unhealthy ways of dealing with conflict and pain.
Reasons may include revenge by people who feel slighted but prefer to remain anonymous. Revenge is more common than you may think, especially with the advent of the internet which allows "revengists" or "avengers" to share their ideas. Seehttp://www.ekran.no/html/revenge/ or do a search on the word "revenge" to see for yourself.
It is also possible that such harassment has developed into a form of "sport" for the individuals who participate, not unlike a schoolyard bullying situation, which tends to center somewhat obsessively and irrationally around one individual who is perceived to be weak.
It is important to realize that our society's understanding of human psychology has grown exponentially over the last 50 years, allowing any hate or vigilante group to take full advantage of such knowledge. "Psychological warfare" is the perfect crime, because it causes the maximum damage to the victim, with the least chance of exposure of the perpetrator(s). Victims can very well be driven to suicide, while the explanation appears to be mental illness, so their claims are never investigated.
Related Activities

Other very similar phenomena include:

(1) Workplace harassment (or "mobbing")

(2) Vigilante style harassmentof individuals such as abortion clinic workers, whistle-blowers and activists. Vigilante groups take the law into their own hands.Click here for two articles on vigilante groups.

Bullying of adults by other adults is a phenomenon which is sharply on the rise, as described by the Toronto Star Articleentitled "Raging parents: The new schoolyard bullies". The article states that "compared to a few years ago [this phenomenon] is everywhere". Parents "can't control their rage" and "there is mounting concern about parents behaving badly". The bullying doesn't take place just one-on-one, but groups of parents gang up on individual teachers in internet chat-rooms by holding "daily instant message bashing sessions about teachers they dislike". Essentially, the bullying is organized, and the internet is a key tool in facilitating that organization.

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"Cause stalking [gang stalking] has been used by extremist groups since the early 1990s. The basic system is alleged to have been developed by the Ku Klux Klan and refined through years of use. The primary characteristic of cause stalking is that it is done by large groups of people. A target will always be followed, but he is unlikely to see the same stalkers very often. Many of these groups include hundreds of people."


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What is Technological Harassment?

Technological harassment refers to the use of technology to view, track, monitor and/or harass a person from a distance. The technology may include audio and/or video surveillance, GPS trackers on vehicles, and "non-lethal weapons" (NLWs).
"Non-lethal" weapons are available on the internet and through books. See: High-Tech Harassment: How to Get Even with Anybody Anytime for an example of a simple weapon.
See also:





Ultrasonic devices
Revenge devices
Sonic nausea
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What do victims experience?

Not all victims experience both gang stalking and technological harassment, but many do.
Community-based harassment includes some of the following:

  • Break-ins and small scale vandalism or sabotage
  • Daily,repetitive, antagonistic activities involving multiple stalkers and/or vehicles
  • Multiple daily phone calls with no one on the other end of the phone
  • Noise harassment from neighbors
See www.multistalkervictims.org for more examples.
General characteristics of stalking:
  • When compared with many other intrusive crimes, stalking is difficult to define and classify
  • Stalking has a nebulous quality in that it involves no more than the targeted repetition of ostensibly ordinary behaviours
  • Stalkers often do not overtly threaten, but use behaviour which is ostensibly routine and harmless, and not, in itself, illegal
  • A problematic aspect of support is that, at the start of the stalking period at least, stalking victims are not all taken seriously
  • Stalkers do not always conduct their campaigns single-handedly



Technological harassment can include:

  • Sabotage/hacking of computer equipment and phones
  • Use of audio and/or video surveillance to keep track of the target's whereabouts
  • Banging and tapping of walls, windows and objects inside the house
  • Vibrating objects, such as bed, chair or body parts
  • Inexplicable behavior of anything electronic including TV, computer, car, and appliances (for example, TV turning on or off by itself)
Targets may experience the following physical symptoms:
  • Dizziness, weakness
  • Frequent headaches
  • Extreme fatigue
  • Intense, disruptive ear ringing
  • Buzzing or clicking in the head, ears or sinuses
  • Jolts and jerks to muscles
  • Abdominal pain/nausea
  • Mental confusion/inability to concentrate

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Myths and Facts

Myth #1
  Non-lethal weapons don't exist in the public domain.
Fact
  See the following for examples of "low-tech" non-lethal weapons:




High-Tech Harassment: How to Get Even with Anybody Anytime
Ultrasonic devices
Revenge devices
Sonic nausea
Myth #2
  You have to be important to be a target of such intense and persistent stalking.
Fact
  This is primarily a hate crime, whose targets tend to be neither wealthy nor public figures. Because the target is often no longer able to hold a job, s/he usually lacks the funds to fight back. What makes this different from other hate crimes is that the target is often not made aware if the reason behind it.
Myth #3
  If you think you are targeted, you must be mentally ill.
Fact
  While delusional thinking does exist, these situations have an identifiable pattern to them. This type of harassment has been modelled on past hate crimes and refined through years of use. It is intended to make the target look crazy. In addition, the activity is so traumatizing that many otherwise "mentally healthy" individuals might easily develop mental health issues as a result of the stalking. Hence, mental illness is not an indicator of whether or not the activity is actually taking place.
Myth #4
  If you don't make them angry, they will stop.
Fact
  Like bullies in the school playground, they do not go away if you ignore them. Victims have found, to their dismay, that the targeting can go on for years. Exposure is the way to stop them.


A Word About Mental Illness
This situation is often perceived to be mental illness. Differentiating between mental illness and a true multiple stalking and technological harassment situation takes time. Victims may also have developed mental illness as a result of the trauma. As mentioned on various mobbing websites, this activity is so traumatic that it can cause mental illness in an otherwise healthy individual. Therefore, mental illness is not necessarily an indicator or proof that the situation is not happening.

For these reasons, it is important to give a person the benefit of the doubt and to remain open-minded and receptive to the idea that something is happening that is not merely attributable to a delusion. It took many years for mobbing to become publicly acknowledged, and victims of this crime face the same uphill battle.


The Martha Mitchell Effect

When seeing a helping professional, many victims often experience what is known as the "Martha Mitchell Effect":




"Sometimes improbable reports are erroneously assumed to be symptoms of mental illness (Maher, 1988). The 'Martha Mitchell effect' referred to the tendency of mental health practitioners to not believe the experience of the wife of the American attorney general, whose persistent reports of corruption in the Nixon White House were initially dismissed as evidence of delusional thinking, until later proved correct by the Watergate investigation.

Such examples demonstrate that delusional pathology can often lie in the failure or inability to verify whether the events have actually taken place, no matter how improbable intuitively they might appear to the busy clinician. Clearly there are instances 'where people are pursued by the Mafia' or are 'kept under surveillance by the police', and where they rightly suspect 'that their spouse is unfaithful' (Sedler, 1995). As Joseph H. Berke (1998) wrote, even paranoids have enemies! For understandable and obvious reasons, however, little effort is invested by the clinicians into checking the validity of claims of persecution or harassment, and without such evidence the patient could be labeled delusional." 


(Bell, Vaughan et. al. "Beliefs About Delusions". The Psychologist. Vol. 6 No. 8. August, 2003)

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Statistics






"Stalking-by-proxy occurs when a stalker enlists the aid of other people in order to pursue a victim"Paul Bocij, Journal article on Cyberstalking"Stalking-by-proxy" is the term most commonly used in journal articles to refer to what we call gangstalking or organized stalking. Another commonly used term in stalking studies is "multiple stalkers". Paul Bocij goes on to say that "little is known about the frequency with which stalking by proxy occurs".

Studies on stalking have reported victims claiming more than one stalker:
  1. American Journal of Psychiatry (158:795-798, May 2001):
    Article: Traumatic Distress Among Support-Seeking Female Victims of Stalking (Kamphuis & Emmelkamp)
    • 6/201 (approx. 3%) of respondents reported multiple stalkers

  2. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice (Volume 40, Number 3, August 2001 , pp. 215-234(20)):
    Article: The Course and Nature of Stalking: A Victim Perspective (Sheridan, Davies & Boon)
    • In 5/95 (approx. 5%) of cases perpetrators were part of a group
    • 40% of victims (38) said that friends and or family of their stalker had also been involved in their harassment (stalking-by-proxy)
    • All cases of multiple stalkers involved mixed sex stalker groups
It is curious that research on multiple stalkers has never taken place. In fact, despite these numbers, stalking victims are routinely considered to be mentally ill when describing multiple stalkers to helping professionals.

The second article reported the following statistics related to stalking, which are also common to gang stalking:
  • In 15% of cases, the victim could provide no possible reason for their harassment
  • 13% reported that their homes had been bugged
  • 32% reported that the stalker(s) broke into/damaged the inside of the victim's home
  • 38% reported damage to the outside of the home
  • 30% reported that the stalker(s) stole from the victim,
  • 91% reported being watched
  • 82% reported being followed
  • 60% reported having their character slandered/defamed
  • 84% were victim to repetitive phone calls
  • 60% reported hang up phone calls
  • 57% reported silent calls
  • 46% reported negative attitude from the police, and 51% reported negative actions

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About Us

We are a group of targeted individuals living in Ontario, Canada who have made the decision to help ourselves as well as others by working together on activism projects to expose this crime.

Thanks to the help of our local rape crisis center, we have been able to work at raising public awareness through activities such as presentations and mailings.

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Contact Us

CATCH is not active at the moment. Some members of CATCH may be reached through the Multistalk forum (see below).

Please do not contact the rape crisis centre mentioned in our older literature, as they will not be able to provide you with any information while CATCH is inactive.
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C.A.T.C.H. Literature

Our Information Package
Click to enlargeOur information package was first created for distribution at the Canadian pan-national convention of rape crisis centres in Vancouver in 2005. It is also being used for mailings to introduce ouselves to various groups, including other rape crisis centres, victim's centres, crisis lines and university women's centres.

Click here to view and print our information package

Note: You will need Adobe Acrobat to view and print the files. Adobe Acrobat is free.
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CATCH Presentations

  • CATCH gave a presentation to the Women's Support Network of York Region (WSNYR) on February 15th, 2006. To view the video online, go to http://www.catchcanada.org/videos.htm


  • CATCH gave a presentation to the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) on October 20th, 2005. To view the video online, go to http://www.catchcanada.org/videos.htm


  • To view a 5-minute gang stalking video filmed by the leader of CATCH at her home, click here.


  • Read the presentation we gave to the workers at the our local rape crisis centre on Monday, April 18, 2005, as well as the feedback they gave us. It was well-received.

Testimonials:

"Thank you for making this available to the victims and your work on educating the public. I really felt a breath of fresh air when I heard the presentation."- Nancy

"I cannot thank you enough for your work in this nightmarish field of gang stalking. Had it not been for you, it would have been impossible for me to have my horrid experiences validated down in Tasmania - Australia's only island state. Tasmanian Domestic Violence counselors and friends went to your site and finally had at least some idea of the torture I have experienced from the criminals here. It HAS been torture. I do not even know what all has been done to my body. I now have a state DV consultant batting for me and ready to make an issue about legal aid's dropping me - partially thanks to you! The DV counselors have been great and would not have been as much so without your booklet." - Deborah

"I have to say that the CATCH video works. I was finally able to get through to someone by showing them the CATCH video. I think the person that I showed it to could relate to the person in the video. I think the person I showed it related to things that were not so obvious. The person that I showed it to was my mother. She has been completely in denial that her son is being gang stalked, or that even such a thing exists. My mother being a teacher, related to the speaker. The speaker was similar in age to her, and looks very much like a teacher would. My mother was also impressed with the organization of the presentation, and the fact that the group is related to the rape victim group. She did not once question the credibility of the speaker, as she came through as credible in the way she presented. She didn't think the speaker possibly had a mental illness either. I felt that the information presented answered a lot of questions, and the information was presented in a well thought out, organized manner. This single video helped me finally get through to someone. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, as you have no idea how good it felt to see my mothers mind begin accepting the idea that this could be happening to her son (me)." - David

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Current Events & News

Are 'they' watching?

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Resources & Links

www.multistalkervictims.org

www.gangstalking.ca

www.freedomfchs.com (very active)

www.gangstalkingworld.com

Cyberstalking articles by Paul Bocij (includes references to stalking-by-proxy)

www.stalkingbyproxy.com (Blog - new)

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Discussion Groups

(1) Cause Stalkinghttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cause_Stalking/

(2) Electronic Violencehttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/Electronic_Violence/

(3) multistalk - for victims of gang stalking. Discussion of electronics not permitted in this group. For more info see: www.multistalkervictims.org.

(4) Conference Call - "Freedom from Covert Harassment & Surveillance" holds regular conference calls.

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Online Book Reviews & Excerpts


Terrorist Stalking in America   by David Lawson

Gaslighting  by Victor Santoro

Victims of Dargle Cottage    by Dr. Armen Victorian.

High-Tech Harassment: How to Get Even with Anybody Anytime    by Scott French.

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Useful Search Terms

"criminal harassment"
"stalking-by-proxy"
"multiple stalkers"
"organized stalking"
"group stalking"
"cause stalking"
"gang stalking"
"vigilante stalking"
"psychological harassment"
"psychological violence"
mobbing
bullying
revenge
stalking


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David Lawson's Investigation Into Organized Stalking

This page updated March 7, 2009



"Watcher" perpetrators on station in a
quiet Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood
Click here to see the 5-minute video from which the "watcher" image above was taken.
American private investigator David Lawson spent approximately 12 years investigating stalking groups in the United States and Canada, mainly in the 1990s. He wrote about his experiences "riding with" these networked community harassment groups in two books.
The first, released in 2001, was:

Terrorist Stalking in America
ISBN: 0-9703092-0-1
That book is now out of print. Lawson then produced an updated book on the same subject in March 2007:
Cause Stalking
ISBN-13: 978-0-9703092-3-5
While group harassment in the workplace is fairly common, and well documented in this book:
Mobbing: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace
By Dr. Noa Davenport, Ruth Distler Schwartz, Gail Pursell Elliott
Copyright 1999
ISBN 0-9671803-0-9
... the community-based counterpart, organized stalking, is not well known to the average member of the public. This paper is to share some of David Lawson's findings so the reader can begin to grasp what appears to be a relatively new type of crime. So new, in fact, that targets of organized stalking have great difficulty getting law enforcement officials to take it seriously.Before sharing David Lawson's findings, it should be pointed out that Lawson's books contain two types of information: his observations, and his conclusions.
David Lawson's observations of the activities of the community organized stalking groups are a perfect match for the types of harassment reported by organized stalking targets. However, Lawson's conclusions as to who is mainly responsible are puzzling to targets who have read his books.
David Lawson claims that foreign terrorists and "anti-government" groups are responsible for the growing organized stalking crimes. Very few targets of organized stalking see evidence that Lawson's conclusions match the targets' experience. Lawson may have discovered those groups operating when he rode with the harassment groups, but anyone interested in finding the backers of local harassment groups would do well to suspend judgement on Lawson's conclusions.
Right up front, targets of organized stalking report that LIES circulated about the targets are what fuel local hatred for the targets. One of the favourite lies being circulated is that the target is a child molester. This is routinely used against female targets as well as targeted men.
Other lies are that the target has a serious criminal record, or is into the drug trade, or is a prostitute. So for those reading this paper who aren't familiar with organized stalking, keep in mind that the obvious answer to "Why would people harass targets who are nobodies?" ... is that once lies are circulated that the target is a major criminal, that target is no longer a "nobody."
As to why certain people are chosen as targets, targets' reports show that whistleblowers and activists are sometimes subjected to organized stalking as "punishment" for their activities. Other cases occur when a target is in line for a large inheritance, or has turned in a well-connected spouse for criminal activity such as pedophilia, or sometimes the target just "ticked off" someone who is well-connected to groups willing to do organized stalking.
According to David Lawson, some targets are simply chosen for 'practice.'
Click here for a paragraph from a book by Dr. Debra A. Pinals, MD, which describes the personality type of some of the stalkers described by David Lawson. It is important to know that people capable of doing Lawson-type stalking really do exist and have been recognized by the field of psychiatry.
Here below are selected quotes from both of David Lawson's books, starting with a "Concepts Table" for quick-click access to relevant sections:
Police awareness of organized stalkers
How David Lawson got involved
Characteristics of stalker recruits
Quotes from the stalkers
Stalker motivation statistics
Involvement of firemen and police
Stalkers' attitude towards their cause
Stalking group leaders
Stalking group finances
Distinction, initial reasons vs. ongoing reasons
Lawson's targeted group list
Sampling of stalking operations
Perps use adjacent apartments
Synchronized sounds
Stalkers entry into targets' homes
Failure to recognize organized stalking
Vehicular harassment
Harassment on foot
Destruction of relationships
Noise campaigns
Synchronized movements (apartments)
Synchronized leaving home
Conclusion
SELECTED QUOTES:
Quotes are from David Lawson's currently available book "Cause Stalking" except where noted from his original book, "Terrorist Stalking in America."
Author David Lawson did interview perpetrators, ("perps"), targetted people ("targets"), and the police. Here is what the author heard from the police he interviewed:
[pg 79] "I also spoke with a few police officers from across the country. They confirmed the existence of stalking groups across the country. In general, they said that 'cause stalking' is primarily a civil problem where the plaintiff has to prove financial loss. They also said that there are free speech and grass roots issues involved. In fact, the police themselves are targets of these groups. In small towns, the number of members in these groups can easily exceed the number of police officers. In general, the police will not talk about stalking groups. One officer did say there is a storm brewing as groups become larger and more numerous."
Author Lawson explains here how he got involved and began to interact with the 'cause stalking' perpetrators:
"One day, several years ago, I was sitting in my house, and checking out the activity on my scanner. I heard a woman say that she was following a certain vehicle. She gave the location, the make and model of the car and the license plate number. A few days later, I heard the same woman on the same frequency (84) request backup at a certain location. A few days after that I again heard her broadcasting the position and details about another vehicle she was following. I listened to other people talking on that frequency and they didn't give any indication that they were with any government agency but they were talking about arresting people.""On another occasion, on the same business band frequency, I heard someone complain that an African American man was crossing the street. "All we could get him for is jaywalking" responded the leader. "Leave him for the police."
"People in the group would discuss where they would go for supper, after their shift was over, so I [the author] went too. I listened to a group of people openly discussing various activities as if they were the police.
"Real police officers were also sitting in the restaurant, listening to them. I later learned that their presence was not a coincidence.
"One man who had supper with the group drove a van marked with the call letters of a local AM radio station. I started listening to it. Most of the guests were people who said they had new revelations about Waco or Ruby Ridge, or had some inside story about government corruption. It is called hate radio. I also heard advertisements for the meetings of a local political group and I attended some.
"At the first meeting I attended, one young man flashed a phony police badge at me. No one paid any attention. Some of those in attendance were the people I had seen in the local restaurant. This was my introduction to the creepy world of anti-government extremists."
David Lawson goes on to explain that he has observed "extremist groups" for several years while living in New York State, Florida, and Canada. He monitored the stalking groups' public communications, attended meetings, and rode with them.The author defines the basic reason for being for these citizen stalking groups as CAUSE STALKING. Cause stalking means the group is assembled, under a leader with a "shadowy past", for some specific cause.

"Cause stalking has been used by extremist groups since the early 1990s. The basic system is alleged to have been developed by the Ku Klux Klan and refined through years of use."
Some details about the typical cause stalking recruit:
"Recruits tend to be blue collar workers who are at the bottom end of the job scale. They are janitors in apartments, hotels, etc., who have keys to get in any locked doors. They are security guards, who can let fellow members into places where they would not normally be allowed to go. They are city workers, who can, in many cities, follow a target around all day in their vehicles or have a noisy project underway near his [target's] residence. They are taxi drivers, who are a network that is always on the road. They are cable, telephone and electric company employees who can interfere with a target's service and spend time on patrol with the group, while they are on the job."
Those are the author's words. Here are a few quotes from the perpetrators themselves, from the original book:
[From Terrorist Stalking in America] "We are like the police except we are ABOVE the police."[From Terrorist Stalking in America] "We are a citizen's group that helps the police. We are trying to alert people in the area about this person [the target] before he gets to do what he did in the last place he lived." [Eleanor White talking: All the cause stalking targets I know well did not commit ANY offenses. The stalkers are filled with LIES by their leaders.]
[From Terrorist Stalking in America] "When I get the call, I go to whatever the address is. It doesn't matter what they [targets] do, they can never get away from us."
[From Terrorist Stalking in America] "Who are we? We drive the ambulances that take you to the emergency room. When your house is burning, we put out the fire. We are security guards. We protect you at night. You only have electricity, phone and cable service because of us. We are janitors. We have the keys. We fix your cars. You don't want to mess with us."
In "Cause Stalking", David Lawson provides some details about the motivations of stalking group members not in the first book:
- 25% follow the nominal "cause" they were recruited under
- 25% actually participate in the harassment
- 75% harass occasionally or not at all
- 10% join out of fear of being harassed themselves
That 10% joining out of fear of harassment is quite interesting, as one of the most difficult barriers to educating the general public about organized stalking is why anyone would volunteer to harass others.Lawson describes recruits to these groups as "... those who feel powerless, inferior and angry." Common sense is that naturally, such people would be easy to recruit for street and adjacent to the target's home harassment, but I would comment that lots of professionals put us (targets) down at every opportunity, declaring us mentally ill for even suggesting organized stalking is possible. These professionals don't "feel powerless, inferior, and angry."
And I doubt the many utility and city employees who participate feel "powerless, inferior, and angry" either. So while David Lawson has done a great job, some aspects of organized stalking have apparently escaped him.One comment Lawson makes is that "Firemen across the country, and even some police officers, support these groups."
I have heard a number of reports that vehicular harassment has involved an above average number of vehicles that bear stickers of firefighters, or, a few targets have traced perpetrator identities to firemen. One target discovered that a number of vehicular harassment cars, identified by licence number, were parked in a police station parking lot.
My personal take on why some firemen and police might back these groups is that many have a heightened sense of community service. If they can be persuaded that the target has a criminal record, the worst case being that of a pedophile, it would be natural for firefighters and police to "help keep the target in line".
The author concludes, as explained at a number of places in the book, that the "cause" the typical group is "working toward" is mainly an excuse to get the groups together. The main motivation of members who stay with these groups is the sense of power and belonging the group members derive. Having a "cause" enhances the feelings of power and righteousness, but group members, according to the author, are most concerned with how their fellow group stalkers feel about their "work" and accept them.
Lawson explains the attitude of the typical stalking group member towards the "cause" this way:
"Most active group members have only a general idea of the ideology of the group but they don't particularly care."
These groups come into being and are run by leaders. Here is what the author says about them in this book, a bit different and more clearly, when compared with the original book:
"Group leaders do have political goals and the belief that the end justifies the means."Lawson describes leaders as considering their members "disposable."
Lawson states that some leaders work for corporations and politicians (original book didn't mention politicians.)
Lawson states that leaders identify targets but don't directly supervise the harassment group members.
Lawson describes leaders as having an "air of mystery", "having worked for the CIA, NSA, or some other intelligence agency that doesn't reveal information about their employees." Lawson states that this "background" is likely mythology.
How about financing these groups?Although the author states that the pay is low, there are still very large expenses to harass people as thoroughly as targets report. Here is an example of what I mean by "large expenses":
"Groups are well financed. They can afford to rent property wherever the target lives. If he drives across the country, he will be followed by supporters of similar groups in that area. If he travels by plane, group members will meet him wherever he lands in the U.S. They may even accompany him on a plane if they know his travel plan, and there is a good chance that they do."
Here is what the author learned about their financing:

[From Terrorist Stalking in America] "The operations of many extremist groups are actually financed by corporations which use them to stalk their enemies or potential enemies. The groups are used as the private armies of those corporations. Some countries kill dissidents and in others they are jailed. In the United States, someone who is threatening to corporations or industries, like a whistleblower or activist, is likely to become the target of an extremist group."
The author makes several statements that these criminal stalking groups not only harass targets specified by their leaders, but also are FOR HIRE - a kind of "revenge service" for those wealthy enough to hire them.There are two distinct reasons why targets are harassed:
- The initial reason targets are placed on the stalking groups' "list"
- The reason the stalkers keep it up (always involves lies)
Those two reasons should always be kept separate in your mind, reader. David Lawson's focus is mainly on the reason the stalkers continue to harass targets.
David Lawson's chapter on Selection of Targets may well be true, but it certainly doesn't describe the thousands of people who don't fit his list of targeted categories. Here are some of the categories of targets Lawson records in "Cause Stalking":
- Abortion clinic workers
- People guilty of mistreatment of animals
- County clerks and local politicians
- Police officers
- Judges
- IRS and Treasury agents
- Civil rights activists
- Government or corporate whistleblowers
One thing David Lawson makes clear in describing the targets is that "The ultimate goal of the groups is to destroy the targets." Those who have been stalked by organized citizen groups which are fed lies report that these groups do destroy targets with great efficiency.Next, let's look at some of the typical OPERATIONS these groups carry out. Here, I have retained a number of quotes from the original book because I feel they state the situation as well or better than the new book:
  • The first step, after a target has been selected, is to establish a personality profile "... which will involve an assessment of IQ, personality type, and history."
  • "A target may also notice being photographed."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "The primary characteristic of cause stalking is that it is done by large groups of people. A target will always be followed, but he is unlikely to see the same stalkers very often." ...[From Terrorist Stalking in America] "Many of these groups include hundreds of people."
  • "Some authors refer to cause stalking as terrorist stalking. Groups do not just stalk individuals. They employ organized programs of harassment which include break-ins, property damage, assault and occasionally, even death. The children of a target are a favorite."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "Firemen across the country, and even some police departments have a long history of supporting extremist groups. Fire trucks can sometimes be seen riding in extremist convoys, with their flashing lights turned on and their sirens screaming. They will also race to greet a convoy which is entering their town. The participation of firemen, city workers and utility company workers helps give group members an illusion of legitimacy and power."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "City employees can be used to harass a target in many ways including tearing up the road in front of a target's home. Employees of pest control businesses who have access to the keys for apartments and those who work for alarm and locksmith companies are also of interest."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "Groups also attack targets of convenience. These people are selected because they are convenient targets, and not for any other reason. These include loners who tend to be more vulnerable to their harassment tactics than those with family and friends around them. Targets of convenience are used for practice."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "In order to establish bases of operation, they will enlist the assistance of neighbors. In many areas, they can do this by intimidation. Those who do not co-operate can be targetted, which includes harassment of their families and damage to their homes and vehicles."If they are dealing with individuals who do not know them, they can also appeal to their sense of patriotism and they can offer drugs, friendship, home repair, free taxi rides and what ever else they have to. In some cases they may even be able to get a key to the residence from a 'patriotic' landlord."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "Surveillance is conducted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When a target leaves his residence they will alert the group, either by cell phone or by business band radio. Other members, who are patrolling the perimeter to watch for police and other vehicles driving in the area, will race to the location to begin pursuit. In small towns, where business band radio is widely used, these activities are a local sport among a small group. Anyone with a scanner can join in. Some targets have reported hearing an announcement on their scanners as soon as they turn their lights on in the morning."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "In a typical apartment setting, they will attempt to lease, sublet, or otherwise have access to apartments above, below, and on both sides of the target. They will also "guard" the vehicles of a target in the parking lot."[From Terrorist Stalking in America] If [the target] flushes a toilet, he may hear a car horn honk, the sound of a power tool or hammering, for example. There will also be a large number of people coming and going, and accompanying rowdiness and noise."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "A common ruse used by these groups is that they are a 'citizens group' which assists the police and they are 'just keeping track of' a certain individual, for whatever reason. The illusion is reinforced by the case files they carry which are complete with photos of the target and look like those used by police."
  • "During a search [of the target's home or apartment] members who are on patrol anyway establish a perimeter around the residence to watch for police vehicles. In an apartment setting, entry will likely be gained through a member of the janitorial staff, pest control or alarm technician, since they have a right to enter. They may even be able to approach a landlord and gain his co-operation, after convincing him of their 'higher purpose'. He may also co-operate out of fear."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "Others do not recognize that they are being harassed by an organized group. They just think that there are a lot of rude people in the world."
  • "Interception of mail is standard practice." ... "Typically, targets notice that their mail is arriving late or they do not receive certain pieces of mail. They [targets] may overhear people at a nearby table in a restaurant talking about certain mail, and realize it is theirs, or someone may drive by [the target] waving their mail at them."
  • "Interception of phone calls is also standard practice. This is done by telephone company employees who support the [stalking] group for ideological reasons or because they obtain some benefit." Eleanor White comment: I'd add to that one of the most likely reasons, because the phone technicians are told lies about targets.
  • "An objective is to isolate the target from his family and friends. He can tell them about all the strange things happening around him, but they will not understand and perhaps will think he is crazy. Sometimes other members of the family will receive the same treatment."
  • "When a target is driving, standard practice is to surround his vehicle and attempt to control his speed. He will not be followed in close proximity by the same vehicles for a long distance. They do frequent trade-offs. Vehicles line up behind the target to take their turn.""In many parts of the country it is common to see groups of six to 30 or more vehicles driving around in convoys with their high beams on during the day. This is one of the ways a convoy can be identified."
  • "Standard practice is to watch the target's vehicles and this subjects them to damage including slashed tires, scratched paint, stolen license plates, etc. Typically they would not cut the brake lines on vehicles or commit other similar acts of sabotage, but they would drain the oil or antifreeze over a period of time."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "A target will be followed on foot wherever he goes. Anyone can go to the same public places he goes, and they will attempt to get into any other restricted places he goes, including hospitals, places of employment, etc. It has been said that it is possible to go nearly anywhere if you have a clipboard in your hand and it is almost true. They also like to wear name badges on a lanyard, and some carry phony police badges."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "Common harassment tactics used by those on foot include pen clicking, in which they repeatedly click a ball point pen, key rattling, and rattling change in their pockets while standing behind the target. Many tactics are tried and the result is observed. Those which evoke a response from the target are repeated. When a target sits anywhere in public, group members will attempt to sit behind him in order to create noise, by whatever means, including tapping their feet on the target's chair. The objective is to harass the target constantly."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "Groups attempt to interfere with any business and personal relationships which the target has. Typically, this interference involves character assassination from some anonymous individual and is not usually taken seriously by those who know the target. It can be effective with people who don't know the target."
  • "At work, the target will also experience character assassination. If he works in any position where he has to deal with the public, there will be a steady stream of customers who complain about him. If he is a real estate agent, he will have a steady stream of prospects who occupy his time but never make an offer."Let me, Eleanor White, give you an example of how brutal and serious this "character assassination" can be.
    One of our members, who prefers to remain anonymous, moved in with her husband and children to a house which, unkown to them, had been a methamphetamine lab. The chemicals used to brew meth apparently cause distinctive symptoms in the mouth. This family's dentist felt he was "helping law enforcement" by reporting them to local law enforcement as meth users. This was absolutely untrue, but the family didn't even know the report had been made and had no way to correct it. (In fact, in some places, dentists are REQUIRED to report suspected cases of meth use.)
    Law enforcement in that area was apparently tied in to the citizen groups, and the family was harassed for many years. The husband died, apparently from exposure to these chemicals.
    The lady, now a grandmother, steadfastly did detective work and eventually found out about her family's reputation, with some help from a policeman who was a personal friend, from a different jurisdiction. This policeman admitted off the record that "meth mouth" can result in people being submitted to citizen harassment groups for harassment.
    Character assassination is complete, and has life-destroying consequences!
  • "A common tactic use by groups is noise campaigns. Group members will drive by the target's residence or work place, honking their horns, squealing tires, and making whatever other noise they can.""They will also make noise from whatever nearby properties they have access to. Typically, they will make noise when the target goes outside. Group members will also frequently knock on his door for whatever peculiar reasons they can dream up."
  • "In an apartment setting, targets can expect to hear tapping on the walls in the middle of the night, hammering etc. from the upper and/or lower apartments, and possibly the apartments on both sides. They will continue to 'work' on these activities for as long as they can get away with them."
  • [From Terrorist Stalking in America] "... It is not uncommon, in an apartment setting, for a target to hear someone moving from room to room as he does, from the upper or lower apartment. [Eleanor White talking: This requires commercial through wall radar or more advanced technology in many cases.]
  • "Often they occupy a nearby apartment [or houses in Vista, CA], part time, when the owner is not there and he receives some benefit. A target may notice someone leaving a nearby apartment when he leaves his, and arrive when he arrives. In addition, he will often be accompanied in elevators by a steady stream of different individuals who go to the apartments being used by the group."
What about the future [of Gang Stalking], then? Let me close this review with a chilling quote from David Lawson's first book, Terrorist Stalking in America, reporting what the author learned from some of the leaders:
"The leaders ... are starting to balk at exposing their members to arrest for activities which amount to little gain for the movement. they say that anyone who is a target should be killed, and not just harassed for years."
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