Neighbourhood Watch or Community Harassment?
Posted: Wednesday, July 19, 2006
by GmB Bailey
http://www.Harassment101.com
That is the question with regards to the growing phenomenon of gang stalking. At the onset it would appear to be a combination of both watching and harassment, but where neighbourhood watch works for the betterment of society, community harassment or gang stalking is used to harass, sensitise and make innocent targets, have nervous break downs or commit suicide.
Neighbourhood watch might be keeping a friendly eye on an individual, but community harassment or gang stalking is something that is quite different. The goals and outcome are different. One seeks to protect and keep the community safe, the other is to ruin, and to drive a target to breakdown or suicide. The later is a deliberately co-ordinated and targeted campaign, involving sensitising a target to a stimuli, and 24/7 surveillance and noise monitoring campaigns. The participants are inducted into the harassment for various reasons. Some because it makes them feel powerful and they have control over another individual. Others go along with it because they feel that they are doing something good. Others even if they feel it's wrong participate because it's a way to belong or they feel forced or coerced into joining. (Just like any other gang.) Others are threatened into participation, others just see it as a game to play with a human beings life.
Once a target is chosen for the harassment they are over time negatively sensitized or classically conditioned to a stimuli. Eg. Over several months a target is exposed to stimuli in a negative way, thus a negative association is formed. Eg. Call someone a derogatory name and then click your pen loudly each time you say it, get your friends to join in, after a month or two the pen clicking is the same as the derogatory name you used as the stimuli. Other stimuli include, but are not limited to keys jangling, colors, strips, coughing, sneezing, overt physical actions. After the target is sensitised to the stimuli, then foot soldiers, "community citizens" find out everything about the target. They find out where they live, work, play, what they eat, buy at stores, they learn their full routines. This is done because they want the harassment to follow the target everywhere they go. These people if they are not already in the targets neighbourhood they will move in, they will move across the street, next door, in apartments they will move above you, below you and beside you over time. They will conduct noise campaigns, bug your phones, wire tap your house, and monitor computer activity. They will repeat the targets private and personal moments out loud. This gives them a sense of control over the target. They will run interference with the target, bang into them in the grocery story, on the street, cut the target off on the road, tail gate, etc.
These people are so well organised that they will even try to use a targets family (blood associates), or friends to participate in the harassment. Slander campaigns and lies are a big part of what's used to keep the harassment going. People are told that the target is selling or using drugs, a prostitute, a pedophile, or even under surveillance for some "type" of investigation. This form of community harassment is so wide spread that police, fire persons, transit workers, caretakers, store keepers, cable and phone workers have been known to get involved. It's estimated by some that 1 in 25 people in major cities are participating in this type of harassment movement. The harassers come in literally all ages, shapes, sizes and colors. Children, the elderly, woman, men. People get their families involved in the harassment. This is because many of the people think they are working for a decent cause, or harassing a bad individual. The truth however is that many people who are getting targeted in this way are innocent. People such as whistle blowers, dissidents, (single) woman, minorities, gay people are prime targets. However this harassment can and does happen to anyone.
The goal of this type of harassment is not to patrol the neighborhood or keep it safe, which is the goal of neighbourhood watch. The goal of this type of harassment is to demoralise the target, make them paranoid, it's to take away their privacy, and power. It's to leave them destitute and without means, it's to drive them to the point where they break down or commit suicide. This type of harassment is not only illegal, but it's wrong on so many levels. The problem with this harassment is that it's well founded, in part it's believed by the wealthy persons, large corporations, and even possibly the state itself. The participants come from every sector of society: Lawyers, social workers, bankers, psychiatrists, janitors, maids, shop keepers, landlords, etc. It's powerful and it's reach is far and varied, but it's wrong. When a society is willing to ignore it's moral conscience and go along with wrong doings, because power and money are backing it, then something deep and essential to that society has been lost.
A society that does not hold firm to the moral foundations it was formed on will soon have no foundations left to stand on. Participating in this "game" is a choice, for myself and other targets it's a form of bond less slavery that we did not ask to be a part of. I can only ask for myself and other innocent targets, that you take a moment, pause think about what you are doing, and then make the right moral and legal choice.
GmB Bailey.
Internet Entrepreneur
and Net advocate.
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More commentsgo to the public go on strike put up POSTER BOARDS ON YOUR CAR LET EVERY ONE KNOW YOU ARE BEING HARASED BY CRIME WATCH AND MAYBE THE NEWS WILL FIND OUT FIGHT BACK AND YOU WILL BE HEARD . WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING . DONT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS .THEY DONT HAVE THAT MUCH POWER ONLY GOD..
I'm a person targeted by very bad community harassment. I know it's being generated by two close neighbours, who have a problem with me. It's been going on for years. I suspect strongly they are jealous. The harassment was orginally started by the neighbours. But now it's developed into anyone who I have contact with, these neighbours spread maliscious gossip & try to sabotague my relationships & even earning a living.
I've been constantly stalked both by car & people following me round. My neighbours family have verbally threatened me, tried to bait me so i look like I'm making trouble. I don't bite. I ignore them & carry on walking by. They've stole/damaged my property, spied on me, discredited anyone believing, saying i lie or balmy. I try minding my own business not bothering anyone, But the sight of me seems to make these people angry. I'm so fed up of it, now I'm get depressed. I serious think they're very sick minded being so obsessive about me. I wonder what's so special about me- can't they get obsessed with someone else!
I report incidents to various authorities but they're useless-won't do anything. The authorities don't take stalking seriously. It should be changed. In the mean time, some folk have advised me to move -but I'm stubborn. I've done nothing wrong, so why should I give them the satisaction of driving me away?
AOthers have found the obtaining a firearm- and carrying at all times- will definitely cut down on the foot traffic around your home and when out shopping. However, be very careful to continue your calm/nonresponsive demeanor to their baiting, or the police will target you too... Oh, and if it isn't too late for you already (like it seems to be for me) try making some good friends, maybe from out of town and have them stop by every now and then to visit, the haters will see and feel dumb, like they lost power and control because you've established positive relationships that they cannot tamper with- wish I knew how to make friends I'd heed my own advice. Good Luck :)Amber - I agree with you. These are very sick people. I've been stalked like this for 4 yrs.now. Since being harrassed at work. Community watch group and a powerful small group of "elitist types" in my community (some of which I used to work for) are the ones I believe are doing this. I have my neighbors spying on me. I even had some weird set ups around town. USed to bother me a lot more, Now I just think: yeah! Go write your "notebook" chapters on me and report to the lowlife scum muckty muck about what an exciting person I am! I read books and drink tea! Isn't that just dangerously interesting? Keep on writing neighbors/reporters! If "I" a'm the most exciting person you obserrve? Then hey, you don't get out much!!!!!
What do you think about "gangstalking" coinciding with legitimate Covert Investigation? It seems, at least in certain cases, that police/citizen volunteers are using their authority (green light Go Ahead) to enter a targets home- and then do the most curious things! I cannot imagine that sworn officers could engage in this sort of behavior, so it must be the rookie volunteers. There are many training sites near where I live, surrounding the Huachuca mountains as this area is overshadowed by a major military installation. Again, I feel it must be volunteers, or rogue players because cutting 90 degree angles in all of your plaid sheets, and basically everything they own- doesn't seem like something they teach in police academy- does it? Nope, this is different. The perps specifically target anything plaid, but also rip our pants, tear holes in screens, cut cords, waste products about the home, hurt our animals, destroy our bicycles and car tires, make messes that weren't there, stain our drapes and even recently spray painted a freshly white painted wall in my hallway- all while I was at my son's birthday party across town! I admit, if I could catch them, it would be hard not to tie them up and torture these perps- for weeks or months if they could stand it- after all the thousands of dollars of damage they have done to our personal property, not to mention the STRESS they continually attempt to cause our family. We did catch one woman in the act of breaking in our home- which local sheriff refused to report, considering we "didn't know her name"!?! And then a different time, in the evening, a woman attempted to enter our home when I was at the corner store- my eldest son heard her giggle our door handle. When I returned home, she was still in the area and popped over (it was dark out) saying that she was taking a class and going to interview people to help her get comfortable with public speaking- I told her I was going to call police, and she asked me not to! After all though, with not "knowing her name" what would I hope to accomplish? Anyone have any great ideas (forget the help of neighbors, they're useless generally) to catch them- and then who will listen? The news?
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THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON WITH ME SINCE I WAS 12-13 AND IAM 31 NOW THEY VIDEO TAPED ME DOING EMBARRASING THINGS AND ILLEGAL BUT I WAS A KID AND THEY TRIED TO GET ME TO DO IT AGAIN I WAS UNAWARE OF THIS UNTIL I WAS ABOUT 24 THEY TOLD ME WHEN I WAS A KID GOD WAS DOING IT TO ME I TRIED TO COMMIT SUCIDE WHEN I WAS 24 AND MY PARENTS DIDNT TAKE ME TO THE HOSPITAL THATS WHEN I FOUND OUT THEY WAS DOING IT TO I WAS INCOHERENT FOR 5 DAYS AND I WAS SICK FOR ABOUT A MONTH. THEY ACCUSED ME OF RAPPING MY LITTLE COUSIN WHEN I DIDNT EVEN LIVE IN THIS TOWN THIS WAS 2002-2003 UNITL ABOUT FEB. 11 WHEN MY COUSIN SAID MY GRANDFATHER DID IT AND HE SHOT HIMSELF. HE WAS ONE OF THE ONES DOING THIS TO ME. THEY ARE COVERING IT UP THERE HAS BEEN KNOW OBITURARY BUT THE SUCIDE NOTE DOES ADMIT TO GUILT BUT HE DEINES THE RAPE EVEN THOUGH SHE SAID IT WAS HIM. I TOLD MY WIFE THAT I THINK HE IS DOING SOMETHING TO HER IN 2003 CAUSE THEY HAD HER DRESS IN A THONG AND TAKING PICTURES AND TELLING HER TO EXPOSE HERSELF TO ME AND I SAID WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS AND THEY SAID ITS IN MY HEAD. WELL IF ITS IN MY HEAD THAN WHY DID SHE TELL HER PYCHOTRIST THAT HE DID IT AND THE STATE WAS PROSIQUITING AND HE SHOT HIMSELF WHEN HE WAS ORDERED TO TAKE A LIE DETECTOR TEST. MY FAMILY DENIES ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THESE THINGS AND SAYS THEY WAS UNAWARE THAT HE WAS LIKE THAT. I GREW UP IN THIS FAMILY having morbid fantanies and started doing things that was done to me when i was 13 and they video taped it and the people who would randomly come up to me would tell they seem and i believe they was blackmailing me for sex. BUT I LEFT and joined the army when i got old enough and the people in the army was showing pictures of little kids and trying to get me do something. when i was in iraq my unit killed a little girl and blamed it on me and they tried to get me to confess to it and kill myself but i wouldnt and investigation was order and they found out who did it and then covered it up. my unit also told two little girls to take there clothes off over there and they took pictures of it. they would watch my wife and i have sex then tell me about it the next day at work. they bombarded my mind sexual images of children through pictures or they would have children do where clothes likes thongs and tell me to look at it. i started to have wierd thoughts and sign up to go to iraq to die. i told my dad about this and he said its in my head just go to iraq it will get better. well it didnt. now these people are saying none of this happen to me and i need meds. well if it didnt than i must be pyschic cause ive been saying since 2005 that for some reason they are trying to get me to do something to her and im being assulted phycically and they say this is for raping a little girl. i told my pychatrist at the va that they are trying to get me to confess to raping her. and he said maybe you dont remember. i said i dont but everywhere i went people would say have you ever raped a little girl in her sleep. so i went to her and her mother and asked and she broked down and cried and said no i said i would turn myself in and that i had already confessed to it and she no you didnt and they took her to a pychiatrist and she told them who did one of the people doing it to me and they wont stop my family is saying she is a lier behind her back and then saying to her face that there so sorry and that they didnt know. they destroyed my life my mind my marraige and my sexuallity. i had been haveing weird thoughts about this things and but why where they trieing to get me to do this while this was happing. im currently disabled because ive been diagnosed with scizhoprenia and all this is condisered dillusions but my mom said she seen it too. about 2009 my dad told me to tell them that i did it and that the reason i dont remmember is because i blocked it out. well like i said i told them i dont remember doing it but my family is saying i did but now its several months after my grandfather commited sucide and my family is saying they have no idea what im talking about. people still follow me and let me know they see everything i do and say. please help.
I was a witness once long ago and it appears that the person in charge of that investigation was also part of C-PACT when I went to work for one of their main retail partners. That was 2007. Events that followed became scary, humiliating, and eventually I quit. Some of the same employees involved in what I call bullying were also part of a community watch program hat this huge chain participates in -- all of this found out after the fact. It was these people that drove me out of my job and I still have no understanding of why. I was a witness in Germany only against some German criminals that went to jail. In the U.S. my employer made a deal with Justice so he had only a small fine. I was not involved in any crime to my knowledge and when I got an attorney because of problems with one particular person that lied and kept coming into my home, ruining my life and as a single mom, bringing concerns about my child's safety into the mix. When I got the attorney only to protect us from the situation, I was screamed at and all sorts of intimidation. I suppose that thought I was stupid or something but I had no understanding of the bad blood between Customs and Commerce which, later via Internet, Now, moving back to the State where all this happened years later, working hard to keep my home, hoping to enjoy my first real home as a Senior Citizen, my life is really very difficult. I have had experiences with people taking photos, being yelled at by strangers, gangs of cars monitoring what I do, no matter how routine. Sensitizing, throwing garbage at me from cars, throwing stuff in my driveway (like a used Kotex), really nasty and awful behavior. Most of the harrassment is from the same people. My confidence is gone. I don't try to find a job. I dread going anywhere and I fear that now that they know where my son and his wife live that that will become a focus. Most of my friends that helped 14 years ago are gone. I am getting more and more depressed and my blood pressure is very; high. I finally told my doctor but I am sure he thinks I am batty. I think that is what the objective is. What is most difficult is that as a kid, I was beaten pretty badly and I overcame the neurological trauma and ended up getting a college degree and at least taking care of my son. Not too good at marriage I guess. Not too good at dealing with violence and yelling. But now it seems that I cry am ost every day because I have no place to go. I have decided that staying here is not possible. Nothing I do, no matter how much I try to be a good person and help people or even ask for help, does it matter. It is really humiliating and now I have panic attacks almost every day. I guess this is the same thing you describe although I do not see people moving into the area -- it is the people that are here that belong to the stalkers. At my job the first week one guy said "You must have lots of money." Why? I had no money. Then a man I used to know called me at my job. I eventually found out he was dead for 2 years. I could not travel on my day off to see friends in another city because people from the job would be in their cars on a country road passing by as I made a turn. Why? When I finally asked management they said "to protect you" -- that is why I think this is harrassment from the man that ran that investigation. Maybe I am wrong but why would these folks be involved in this? Now that I have complained, they have retailiated. They make no attempt to hide their hand signals, etc. They are intrusive, mean spirited and I still do not know what I am supposed to have done. I have already packed up much of what I own and I have given stuff away. I see very few options ahead but thankfully if I stop taking medications, it will end soon.
They win.
So true! This type of harassment has its tole. I am one of the targeted one! While, it does not give me pleasure to know some other people are harassed in this manner, it makes me feel, I am not alone.
Im being stalked harassed property damage and braking and entering police helping them how do you catch them? Im going to start puting a sign in my car!
I have been the target of slander and mobbing for quite a number of years now. The people involved work at my local CoOP store. For some reason two of them just hated me for no reason I can understand. It came to a head about three years ago when these two employess started making nasty and very overt facial gestures at me while I was on my own shopping. I did what any shopper would have done; I reported them to their manager.
It wasn't long before the mobbing and slander started and the whole store has now joined in with the mobbing. This usually takes the form of shunning and rude, offhanded treatment, including trying it on in the street.
It wasn't long before I realised that some of the managers were joining in with the bullies so it is no use going to them now.
I stopped using the store a while ago and now shop out of the community a long way away.
In fact these people (who are effectively strangers) display such a degree of malice towards me, that it really does remind me of 'demons,' or demonic behaviour.
I don't know whether evil entities exist, but if they do, then it seems they are able to influence some people for ill.
In any case, whether it comes from within them, or outside them, or both, it is evil nonetheless.
We plan to move one day, but next time I shall to 'keep my head down,' as they say. I no longer see any point in trying to make close friends; something I seem not to be too brilliant at, anyway.
Also, it is very difficult for me to trust anyone now, so I don't know if the scars will ever heal.
i have this happing to me right now..they have bugged my house my cars.they have caused me two jobs and countless car repair..take in to get it fixed and they tear something else up.this really take a toll on you and sick of it..i am not a mean person but boy do i want to be.
takes a lot of praying to not me mad all the time..what can i do about it ..was told it would take a million dollars to fight them//i just cant beleive this is happing to me ..living in a nightmare for eleven years.when will it end..thanks for reading this..d
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