Gang Stalking



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What is Gang Stalking?

Gang stalking is a systemic form of control which seeks to destroy every aspect of a targeted individual's life. A notification is sent out to the community at large about the target, who is placed under surveillance and monitored.

Notifications go to apartment rentals, employers, stores the target visits and community services such as police.

Individuals can be flagged designating them as having a history of aggressive or inappropriate behavior. This notification system will follow the target if they move, change jobs, or travel. It lets the community believe that the target is a threat.

In many countries these community notifications might fall under community safety and health laws. While workers have the right to know about dangerous individuals, it is important to remember that this information cannot be indiscriminately distributed. Individuals are being flagged without their knowledge, unlike the public notification system used for convicted criminals. It seems that in some cases innocent individuals are being flagged as a means of personal retaliation, silencing, or controlling them.

Gang stalking is experienced by the targeted individual as psychological attack, intended to immobilise and destroy them over time. The covert methods used to harass, persecute, and falsely defame the targets often leave no evidence to incriminate the civilian spies.

It is similar to workplace mobbing, but takes place outside in the community. Many targeted individuals are flagged, harassed and placed under surveillance in this way for months or even years before they realize that they are being targeted by an organized protocol of harassment.

Psychological harassment of the target is designed to destroy them over years, to make them look crazy and leave them with no form of support. The individuals around the target carry out actions as they are instructed, perhaps without realizing that the operation is designed to destroy the target.

Worldwide programs of control and conformity have been used with equal success and lethality. Countries around the world are currently using a model of policing called Community Oriented Policing. Many targets report that their information is passed and shared between country borders, and that harassment continues even when they travel.



What are the goals of Gang Stalking?

Gang Stalking is officially used as a means of investigating or monitoring individuals who have displayed inappropriate or violent behaviours. The real goal in some cases seems to be to isolate the target from all forms of support, so that the target can be set up in the future for arrest, institutionalisation, or forced suicide. Other goals of this harassment are to destroy the target's reputation and credibility, to make the target destitute, look crazy or unstable.



What are other names for Gang Stalking?

There are many names for this form of systemic control and harassment, such as Community Mobbing, Community Stalking, Stalking by Proxy, Organized Stalking, Cause Stalking, Multi-Stalking. They are all the same community notification harassment protocol.



How are targets chosen?

Officially targets are being flagged and investigated for suspected, or reported behaviours. Unofficially the targets are chosen because of many other reasons. They can be chosen for political views, for whistle-blowing, for belonging to a dissident movement, because they asserted their rights at work, because they made the wrong enemy, or going against the interests of the state, a corporation or other organisation. Every time the target moves, the same information, lies, and slander will be spread out into the new community and the systemic monitoring and harassment will continue.



Who takes part?

People from all walks of life are a part of this system, because once a target is flagged, their information is distributed to a wide range of people, organizations, and communities. Participation is not limited by race, age, class, economics, gender or political affiliation.

People that the targeted individual comes in contact with are given a warning. These community notifications started with good intentions. Workers and the community at large do have a right to be notified if they are going to encounter persons who are dangerous. Citizens want to be able to protect themselves and their communities, however these programs are also being used to falsely target innocent people.

Many do not understand or care that the end consequence of this flagging is to destroy a person. Many people in today's society are scared, they are willing to give up personal freedoms for a false sense of security, and if that means taking away the rights of another individual to accomplish this, they have no problem doing this.



Why people participate in Gang Stalking?

There are many reasons that someone takes part in this.

1. Some do it for the sense of power that it gives them. They feel in control. Many wholeheartedly believe that this lets them know who is bad and who they need to protect themselves and their communities from.

2. Others do this as a way to make and keep friends. It’s something social and fun for them to do. They enjoy sharing a common goal with other people.

3. Others are forced or blackmailed into taking part.

4. They are told that they are part of homeland or national security. They are told that they are being used to help keep an eye on dangerous or emotionally disturbed individuals. They see themselves as patriots or heroic spies for the state.

5. Others are just local thugs or informants who are already being used for other activities, and their energies are simply diverted over into these community safety programs, eg. some may be given the choice of harassing a targeted individual vs. going to jail.

6. Others are told outright lies and slander about the target to get them to go along with ruining the target's life. Many caring families are told that the individual has displayed symptoms of mental health issues, or other socially unacceptable behaviours and might be a danger to themselves or the community at large, and that the notification is necessary for keeping the community safe. They are asked not to disclose this.

7. Many are however just average citizens who in the course of going about their day to day jobs, are being used to keep an eye out, and if a flagged target does come into their vicinity, they are asked to watch, monitor and observe the target. This flagging system allows the community to treat the target as less than they are, someone they are allowed to harass, and victimise. It gives them a license to do unspeakable things to innocent targets, and their families.



What are some techniques used against targets?

A few of the most common techniques are listed below.

a) Classical conditioning. Sensitising a targeted individual to an everyday stimuli. Over a period of months, or even years, the target is negatively sensitized to an everyday stimuli, which is then used to harass them. It can be used in public to let them know they are constantly being harassed and monitored. Some examples of everyday stimulus that might be used include: certain words or sounds, colors, patterns, actions, ie. pens clicking, key jangling, loud coughing, whistling, et c.

b) Surveillance. This will involve flagging and following the target everywhere they go. Learning about the target. Where they shop, work, play, who their friends and family are. Getting close to the target, moving into the community or apartment complex where they live, across the street. Monitoring the target's phone, house, and computer activity.

c) Isolation of the target. The flagging is meant to warn the community, but they act as little more than slander campaigns. They present a one-sided assessment of the target's behavior and activity. The target isn't allowed to tell their side of the story or to clear their name. This one-sided assessment can include false reports, lies, and legitimate incidents where the target was set up. People in the community are told that the target is crazy, dangerous, a thief, a drug user, a prostitute, child molester, in trouble for something, needs to be watched. This flagging in and of itself is capable of creating paranoia and false interpretation of everyday incidents.

This blanket notification propagates the belief that there are more "predators" in the community than ever before, and fearful attitudes among members of the public are reinforced. A vicious cycle results: widespread notification leads to an increase in the community's fear of crime which, in turn, leads to more calls for notification.

d) Noise and mimicking campaigns. Disrupting the target's life, sleep with loud noises such as power tools, construction, stereos, et c. Talking in public about private things in the target's life. Mimicking actions of the target. Basically letting the target know that they are in the target's life. Daily interferences, nothing that would be too overt to the untrained eye, but psychologically degrading and damaging to the target over time.

e) Everyday life breaks and street theatre. Flat tires, sleep deprivation, drugging food, stealing or damaging property. Grafitti. Mass strangers doing things in public that are significant to or annoy the target. These strangers might get text messaged to be at a specific time and place, and perform a specific action.

f) Electronic Harassment. Electronic means can be used to create the illusion that the target is having a mental breakdown. Devices such as high frequency emitters can be used to constantly agitate the target. Many of these devices are easy to access, and almost impossible for an unaware target to describe in a credible manner, without sounding as if they have had a mental breakdown.



Harassment

These actions might seem harmless to informant citizens, but in reality the actions could be causing great psychological trauma for the target, eg. blocking the target's path, cutting or boxing them in on the road, saying or doing things to elicit a response from targets, e tc. It's like the death of a thousand paper cuts. One or two minor incidents will not cause any harm to the target, the intent is to wear the target down slowly.



Ruling the community

"Ruling the community with an iron fist. "Savvy law enforcement types realized that under the community policing rubric, cops, community groups, local companies, private foundations, citizen informants and federal agencies could form alliances without causing public outcry." Covert Action Quarterly, summer 1997."

"You mean to tell me that it is legal for corporations from the private sector to team up with local law enforcement officials in efforts to spy on innocent members of our society? You also mean to tell me that the synthesis of law enforcement authority and the drive of for-profit companies operate under little to no guidelines or restrictions and it is unclear to whom they are responsible to?" ACLU Blog



What can you do to help?

They can objectively investigate the complaints, and become familiar with the electronic means of monitoring and harassment that are being used. Laws are just starting to catch up to the technology, eg. europe is considering a ban on the mosquito device, because it infringes on the human rights of children.

7. You can offer your support to someone who is being unfairly treated.

8. You can bring up the subject of gang stalking or targeted individuals.



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