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gang (ga[ng]):
A group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual
protection and profit.


stalk (stôk):
To follow or observe (a person) persistently, especially out of
obsession or derangement.


gang stalk°ing:
A group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual
protection and profit to follow or observe (a person) persistently,
especially out of obsession or derangement. Also known as 'cause
stalking' or 'vengeance stalking'.



OVERVIEW

Gang stalking involves the use of multiple individuals to stalk, harass
and taunt a victim, as well as to vandalize personal property.
According to victims, this takes place for many years. It appears that
once a person is targeted, they are often targeted for life. This topic
is covered in the following book review of David Lawson's book:
Terrorist Stalking in America.

Techniques of psychological warfare are used against the target in a
methodical and well orchestrated attack that often leaves the target a
victim of ridicule among his friends and family because this occurrence
is so hard to believe. However, it does occur, and the number of
targets are increasing to the point that they can network with one
another and find out that the same tactics are used everywhere. These
tactics, also used in ritual abuse, are intended to weaken the target
to the point of physical and psychological collapse.

The reasons why a person is initially targeted can vary. Sometimes the
person may be a political activist. Others may have been in the wrong
place at the wrong time. Corporations apparently have even been known
to hire these stalking groups to silence people who were once in their
employ. Many times these stalking gangs may be lied to about the
target, thinking that perhaps the person is a deviant who needs to be
driven out of town. The reasons are only limited to the imagination. In
some cases, according to Lawson, the person has done nothing wrong but
is used as a practice target or as an example to others in the group to
show what will happen to them if they 'defect'. This serves to keep the
members of these stalking groups tied to the group through intense fear
of becoming a target. It is such a terrifying prospect because the gang
members are intimately aware that the lives of the targets are utterly
destroyed.

Many people ask, "Why would anyone engage in this kind of activity?".
The psychology behind it is at least, in part, that it is a form of
revenge. It may be that physically harming a person is considered too
extreme or too risky by the perpetrators. In fact, psychological harm
may be a far more effective form of revenge. It can destroy a person's
life while leaving little or no evidence to incriminate the
perpetrators.

There are added reasons that this goes on, for not every participant in
the harassment will know why a person has been targeted, nor will the
vast majority have any personal stake in harassing the victim. From the
expressions on the faces of some of the perpetrators who come
face-to-face with their targets, there is a vicious kind of pleasure
that they derive from bullying their victim. They like the feeling of
being "in control". Like any form of abusive or controlling behavior,
this is an addiction that needs to be fed, so victims can remain
targets for their entire lives. If they did not, then the numbers of
fresh victims needed to fill the perpetrator's addictions would
potentially attract too much attention. None-the-less, the numbers of
targeted individuals is increasing. Such is the nature of the
bottomless pit within them that thirsts, evermore, for greater and
greater thrills. To the perpetrators, their targets are merely their
prey, in a game that never ends. But make no mistake, whatever the
reasoning behind it, this is a hate crime.


DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES

The types of activities which take place are often subtle, and
sometimes cannot be distinguished from normal everyday things that go
wrong. In the case of a target, however, there are certain behaviors
that are not normal or everyday in nature. It is the anomalous
activities that let a target know they are being stalked. It is a
psychological reign of terror intended to make a victim look crazy and
intended to keep him or her in a constant state of anxiety and stress
as to "what will happen next".

There was a 1944 movie called "Gaslight" about a husband trying to
drive his wife crazy, from which the term "gaslighting" was derived.
According to Slang City, "to gaslight someone is to drive them crazy by
intentionally confusing them. It comes from the 1944 movie Gaslight, in
which sweet heiress Ingrid Bergman marries creepy Charles Boyer, who
hopes to get her inheritance by driving her insane. He convinces her
she's seeing and hearing things that don't exist, including the
gaslights (what they had before light bulbs) going on and off when he
isn't home." The subtle techniques used to make the wife doubt her own
sanity are the same techniques used by these gang stalkers to unnerve a
target. To see a book review by Eleanor White on the topic, click here.


For example, the perpetrators (who appear to always have access to
their targets' homes) may sometimes come into the house while the
target is out and move things around a little bit. The target has the
feeling that something is wrong, but can't quite put his/her finger on
what has changed. This is a clear illustration that this activity is a
psychological game of cat and mouse, and has little to do with any
overt kind of damage that may be caused (such as burning someone's
house down or stealing valuables).

In some cases, the target doesn't know s/he is being targeted. It just
looks as though the world is full of very rude people, and everything
s/he owns breaks constantly ("bad luck"). According to Lawson, the
perpetrators don't need the target to know s/he is targeted in order to
fill the need within themselves that they are in control.


EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITIES


Garbage being strewn on the target's front lawn repeatedly. Not huge
amounts of garbage, but, for example, one thing every day - candy
wrappers, tin cans, coffee cups etc.


Gang symbols, often with a satanic link, such as a pentagram, appearing
near the target's house.


Antagonistic behaviors from people when the target is on foot, such as
giving the target the finger, or similar hand gestures.


Cars parked outside the target's house, often with people inside doing
apparently nothing.
Anecdote:
A limosine was parked outside my house (directly in front of an
elementary school) with the driver inside and the engine running. I was
crossing the street from my house to go to the school and had my back
to the limo driver, but I could hear him turning the car in a U-turn
very quickly. As I climbed the steps to the school, I heard the driver
honk. When I turned around, he was giving me the finger as he drove
away. Note: the car was parked when I left my house, and it drove away
after I giving me the finger. What was he doing there parked? Evidently
he was waiting to give me the finger. Only two days later, a teenager
walking along the street held his hand up in front of my face and
wiggled his fingers to get my attention. When I looked at him, he too
gave me the finger.


Another activity is having neighbors leave and arrive at the same time
as the target.
Anecdote:

The other day I left the house on foot and a woman was rounding the
corner near my house. We were walking towards one another, and I
crossed the street wanting to put some distance between myself and her
(on some level we often sense when a person is a perpetrator before
they do the overt behavior). Without missing a beat, she immediately
crossed the road as well (the timing felt as though she was mirroring
me because I crossed quite suddenly and she followed in a sudden
jerking sort of way). There was nothing on the side of the street I
crossed to except the school (which she walked past), so there was no
reason to behave like that. I found this slightly aggressive, but
thought nothing of it until I was walking back home 15 minutes later
and there she was again in front of my house, walking towards me on the
same side of the road, but from the opposite direction.

Victims report this kind of behavior repeatedly - including the
"mirroring".


A common occurrence is to have people staring at the target in a
leering or mocking way - usually with a smirk on their faces. This is
not one incident in a blue moon, but several incidents during a single
day.


Targets have reported having people say things to them that refer far
too specifically to something within their lives.
Anecdotes:

I was recently discussing with various people the possibility of
counselling targets, since I have training in counselling. While I was
out at a movie, someone said loudly as I walked by, "You can counsel me
any time!"
I was talking to my daughter on the phone about the magnets that are
inside a fridge when I received a phone call from an unknown stranger
who said to me, "So, you have magnets in your fridge".
A complete stranger knew my dog Dusty's name and said under his breath
to me, "I would rather have Dusty".

This is a highly effective way of letting the target know s/he is
somehow under surveillance without actually doing anything illegal.


MANY targets report that their animals either seem to get very sick and
die of unknown causes, or they are directly murdered (i.e. with a
weapon). In each case, the target has left the animal on it's own and
returned to a very sick or dead animal.


Similarly, targets report finding dead animals in front of their house.
This is an indication that satanism may be involved.


People nearby behaving in an absurd manner. Targets report that they
get "crazies" coming up and yelling at them.
Anecdote:
For a while when it all started, I would see 55-year-old caucasian men
dressed like 13-year-old boys-in-the-hood, wearing HUGE baggy jeans,
baseball hats turned backwards and swaggering by. It is an absurd sight
if you happen to notice that the person dressed like this has gray
hair.

Unnerving the target and drawing attention to themselves is part of the
game.


Intense harrassment while driving - all the rude gestures you can think
of on the road, except it happens every single time the target goes
out. This includes tailgating, being cut off, and other hostile
gestures.


Almost all targets report that perpetrators have tried to run them off
the road.
Anecdote:
"Normal" people don't have the same driver repeatedly coming up behind
them very fast and then slamming on their breaks while fishtailing
behind them. This was on a 4-lane road with no one in the other lane,
i.e. nothing was blocking the driver from going past me. I called 911
on my cell phone and the driver came up beside me and tried to
side-swipe me while I was on the phone with the police! After almost
running into me several times, he gave me the finger and drove off.


Placing people in strategic locations to "watch" the target. One target
reports having people dressed in specific "colors" as a signal of who
they are. It is a subtle way of getting the target's attention.
However, it doesn't take the target very long to be able to spot the
perpetrators before the behaviors occur. In some cases, there is an air
of cockiness about them that is often accompanied by direct eye contact
- think of the boys (a.k.a. demons) with the hockey sticks in the movie
"Dogma" and you get a sense for the way these people carry themselves.
This is not always the case - there is also the case where the
perpetrator will have a blank, zombie-like expression on their face.
This is more common when direct, overt actions are taking place so that
the target doesn't know for sure if this is a perpetrator or just one
of those incidents that will happen every so often that are unrelated.
The cocky expressions usually accompany staring without any overt
behavior. By keeping actions subtle, the target is kept confused and
doubting themselves.


Many targets report very frequent problems with their cars and other
machinery.
Anecdote:
When my car was still practically new, with only 30,000 miles on it, I
had to have the engine rebuilt at a cost of $2,400. It appeared that
the oil had been drained from it after the last time it was taken in
for service. It was, coincidentally, only 1 month out of warranty when
this happened.


Many targets have suspected that "fake" service people have been sent
to their homes. In one victim's case, she had more than just a
suspicion after the following incident.
Anecdote:
I scheduled to have my windows cleaned by a company that I've used in
the past. When the company phoned and said they were going out of
business and could they send another company in their place, I felt
apprehensive but agreed. When the people came to my house, they began
an elaborate game of trying to "psych" me out by telling me that a
woman was passed out in my back yard. This made no sense to me, so I
didn't respond to them. After several more attempts to make me go into
my back yard, I then overheard them talking about how to kill me. When
I picked up the phone to call the police, the "window washers" fled.


Crowding and mobbing a person when they're out, i.e. having people
enter the person's "personal space".
Anecdote:
I recently had a problem when I started aerobics classes. Someone in
the class was getting far too close to me, i.e. within a few inches of
me, moving as much as 10 feet across the room to stay close to me. When
I asked her to give me some room, she said angrily, "You move!" After I
moved, she too moved away, leaving a 20 foot gap. However, as soon as I
moved in to fill the gap, she immediately moved back as well. After a
few repeat performances, it became clear that this was being done
intentionally.


Destruction or theft of items that are of sentimental value to the
target.
Anecdote:
I don't have any jewelry except a sapphire ring that my father gave me
many years ago. One day the ring simply disappeared from my house and I
never saw it again. I looked for it when I moved, and it was definitely
nowhere in the house.


Targets often struggle with health problems - extreme fatigue,
dizziness, headaches, abdominal pain and muscle pain. Although the
stress may be the only reason, there may be other factors involved,
including an electronic component to the harassment. If you think this
is the case, see electronic harassment.


"Brighting" - a tactic of ritual abuse (i.e satanism) as well as
torture. This involves shining bright lights on the target - either
from oncoming cars or from neighboring houses.
Anecdote:
Since I became aware that I was being stalked, in every single place I
have stayed (three including my own house which I fled), there has been
a neighboring house with a spotlight that was directed towards my
bedroom window. In one case, I knew that the neighbor was definitely
not a perpetrator. However, all that is necessary is for someone to
re-aim the lights outside someone's house - the perpetrator doesn't
actually have to be living there. Also, if I am walking home after
dark, 9/10 times a car will be parked on the street (in the roughly
same spot every time) with the lights on and facing me. It will drive
away as I near the car.


Crowding or mobbing using cars. It can happen when you're on foot or in
a car. Some have reported being surrounded by a convoy of cars when
they've been driving.
Anecdote:
When I am on foot when walking home, there will be an exhorbitant
number of cars on one small side street which I walk down. It has
happened so many times that it is no longer a coincidence. The last
time I was walking along that street, my son was with me and it was
close to 11 p.m. on a Wednesday night. Without my ever having mentioned
my own suspicions, my son said, "There sure are a lot of cars around
here for so late at night". We were on the suspect side street when he
said it. (The side street had a dead end, and all the cars drove
towards or came from the dead end.)
Many of the above activities are mentioned in David Lawson's book
Terrorist Stalking in America.

Also, see two newspaper articles on extremist group vigilante type
behavior which follows the same model as described above.





Gang Stalking Caught on Video
This video leaves very little doubt that gang stalking is a reality.

You can also view the slideshow.





SENSITIZATION: HOW IT HAPPENS

Be careful of assuming that people are perpetrators. Familiarize
yourself with the concept of "sensitization" because this is how they
condition you.

There are activites that are designed specifically to let you know that
someone is a perpetrator. They will do this intentionally in order for
you to know that you are being stalked. For example, let's say that for
a period of time you saw people with compasses everywhere, and then it
stopped. It is very unlikely that this is just a coincidence because
virtually no portion of the population carries compasses with them and
uses them randomly in public (Note: you are not in a campground or at a
Scout meeting when this happens). So when you see someone using a
compass, it is to communicate a non-verbal message that you are being
stalked.

Similarly, someone who gives me the finger when I am on foot is 99.9%
likely to be a perpetrator, since I am not doing any behaviors that
would cause someone to give me the finger, such as driving aggressively
or even looking disapprovingly at someone (that's stretching it a bit,
but just to illustrate that it is not a "provoked" finger).

Sensitization has a domino-like effect. The perpetrators only have to
push the first domino down because the rest will fall by themselves.
These people are capitalizing on human psychology. Once you are made
aware that you are being stalked, the tactics can become more subtle
and can even become indistinguishable from normal, everyday
occurrences. Chances are that you will lose perspective on what is
"normal" after a while and begin to react to things that are no longer
perp-related. Here is an example.

For a period of time, perhaps 1 month, they send many perpetrators
around you with laptops. They do some obvious things like stare at you
for very long periods of time, or smile mockingly to get your
attention, or even do bizarre hand movements - something out of the
ordinary to grab your attention. As a result of this "blitz" campaign,
the laptops then become associated with perpetrators in your mind. This
is the intention of the perpetrators. You are now "sensitized". (Or the
first domino has been pushed down by the perpetrators).

After this, they can reduce the number of people around you who are
carrying laptops and acting bizarrely to the point where they may stop
altogether. This is because now you ASSUME that anyone carrying a
laptop is a perpetrator. (The rest of the dominos fall by themselves).
The problem is that a certain part of the population naturally carries
laptops with them. However, if they have conditioned you so well that
you lose track of what is "normal", you are going to feel stressed
everytime you see a stranger with a laptop. The more laptops you see,
the higher your anxiety (and anger) will climb. If you are very
stressed, then they can have the added benefit of watching you attack
someone carrying a laptop, and maybe even get you charged with assault.
In the end, it doesn't matter if that person is a perpetrator or not -
you have been conditioned to think he is.

This applies to any kind of conditioning. It could be white vans that
they condition you to. It could be red t-shirts that they sensitize you
to. It doesn't matter because once you are sensitized, YOU will be your
own worst enemy.

We have to be constantly vigilant to remember what is "normal", and not
assume that every white van, or every person in a red t-shirt is a
perpetrator. We have to resist becoming sensitized. If you can say to
yourself, "This may not be a perpetrator - I can't make that
assumption," then it forces the perpetrators to show their hand very
blatantly in order to get your attention. This means that they risk
exposure. But if you react to the smallest thing, then the
sensitization has gotten the better of you and the perpetrators have
won. It is possible to resist becoming sensitized, so don't give up
trying.


HOW WE CAN FIGHT THIS

The best way to fight this is by getting together and supporting one
another. By keeping the victims isolated, the perpetrators have little
fear of their activities being discovered. But together we have
strength. Little by little we can raise the awareness in the public
that this is happening. In therapeutic circles this is called
"normalizing". That is what happens when someone says, "It's OK for you
to say you are being gang stalked because it is taking place". In other
words, something considered "abnormal" by a skeptical public is made
"normal" by the weight of our testimonies. Like women who once were too
ashamed to tell people that they had been raped because it carried a
serious social stigma, people who are gang stalked are seen as
immediately crazy without being given the benefit of the doubt. What
will give us the credibility and acknowedgement that we have a right to
is the "normalization" of the idea that gang stalking happens.

There is a risk in networking because of the nature of the perpetrators
to overwhelm victims, but we can't let that stop us. Otherwise, we may
wait a very long time to be believed, if ever.

There is an online forum created by Eleanor White
(www.multistalkervictims.org). Eleanor is a dedicated activist who
works relentessly to get the word out to people that this is happening.
Please see her site for the instructions to join the forum. On my other
site Electronic Harassment: www.eharassment.ca, I have created a
victim's network to help people network with one another. Almost all
victims of electronic harassment are also victims of gang stalking. I'm
not sure how much the reverse is true. I've spoken to many victims of
both.

If you would like to email your comments, suggestions, etc., send email
to: admin(a)gangstalking.ca.



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Websites:

Multi-Stalker Victims: www.multistalkervictims.org (Yahoo forum here)

Citizens Against Technological and Community-based Harassment:
www.c-a-t-c-h.ca

Electronic Harassment: www.eharassment.ca

Stop Covert War: www.stopcovertwar.com


Articles on Gang Stalking and Related Topics:

Suddenly, It Has A Name: "Gang Stalking" (Backup copy here)

Why? Gang stalking perhaps? (Backup copy here)

Psychological Harassment Information Association


Discussion Groups:

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

(2) Electronic Violence:
http://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) mcforums - for mind control victims, victims of electronic
harassment and gang stalking. For more info see:
www.mindcontrolforums.com.

(Note: Some forums contain a lot of verbal abuse and mind games
within the group. If you find that you are feeling worse after joining
a particular forum, I would highly recommend leaving it and seeking out
a different one.)

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Useful Search Terms:

stalking-by-proxy
stalking
mobbing
bullying
"psychological harassment"
"psychological violence"




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