Re: Are you being Gang Stalked by Stasi tactics ?

Here is some more information about Gang Stalking, from the
http://www.GangStalkingWorld.com/Structure.html website.



Structure of Oppression


The following article will try to put into perspective some of the
societal structures that are most likely responsible for the targeting
some of those in the Targeted Individual community are experiencing.

For years Targeted Individuals have been saying that they are being
followed around, stalked, monitored while at home, and out in public.
They have complained of a system that is capable of 24/7 surveillance,
able to harassment at home, work, in the community, and even while
traveling abroad.

For several years there has been a great deal of disbelief that such
occurrences could even be possible. The following article, will try to
explain referencing sources already available and documented how this
could be happening.

The following article represents the views and opinions of the
GangStalkingWorld.com website and does not necessarily reflect the
views of any other person, or website in the community.

It has long been a widely expressed view that the monitoring is being
done by various groups of citizen informants, members of various
community policing type programs. Based on recent research conducted
it seems most likely that the people being used to follow Targeted
Individuals around are what society and the government in some
countries refer to as, "covert human intelligence sources". They can
also be known as Citizen Informants. Another slang terms that is often
used to describe these individuals is the term Snitch or Snitches.


Covert human intelligence sources


A recent article came out in the London Telegraph, saying that
Children as young as 8 are being employed by the state as “Covert
human intelligence sources” aka Snitches. Targeted Individuals often
complain that the harassment is being perpetrated by all members of
the community including children.

Children are being hired and used by the government to spy on their
neighbors in the Uk. and "being encouraged to photograph or video
neighbors guilty of dog fouling, littering or "bin crimes" The article
says there are "hundreds of Junior Streetwatchers, aged 8-10 years
old, who are trained to identify and report enviro-crime issues such
as graffiti and fly-tipping." The adult spies according to authorities
are recruited via newspaper ads.


"Other local authorities recruit adult volunteers through
advertisements in local newspapers, with at least 4,841 people already
patrolling the streets in their spare time.

Some are assigned James Bond-style code numbers, which they use
instead of their real names when they ring a special informer's
hotline.

This escalation in Britain's growing surveillance state follows an
outcry about the way councils are using powers originally designed to
combat terrorism and organised crime to spy on residents. In one case,
a family was followed by council staff for almost three weeks after
being wrongly accused of breaking rules on school catchment areas." 1



Community Oriented Policing


Though the article primarily focuses on the United Kingdom, it should
be noted that other countries are setting up such community
structures, via community oriented policing programs. These programs
are a


"a systemic approach to policing with the paradigm of instilling and
fostering a sense of community, within a geographical neighborhood, to
improve the quality of life. It achieves this through the
decentralization of the police and the implementation of a synthesis
of three key components:


(1) strategic-oriented policing—the redistribution of traditional
police resources;
(2) neighborhood-oriented policing—the .interaction of police and all
community members to reduce crime and the fear of crime through
indigenous proactive programs; and
(3) problem-oriented policing-a concerted effort to resolve the causes
of crime rather than the symptoms. " 2



Fusion Centers


The ACLU has released a report on Fusion Centers. 800,000 operatives
will be dispersed throughtout every American city and town. Set to
report on even the most common everyday behaviors which will go into
state, local and regional, linked data bases. These linked databases
are not just emerging in the United States, they have already emerged
in many countries around the world in the wake of implied terrorist
threats.


"We pointed out that, while diverse and often still in the early
stages of formation, they often seem to be characterized by ambiguous
lines of authority, excessive secrecy, troubling private-sector and
military participation, and an apparent bent toward suspicionless
information collection and datamining." 3


The article then goes on to point out that in a short space of many of
the warning in the report had come to pass. The article talks about
the fact that this apparatus is responsible for watching and recording
the everyday activity of a growing number of individuals. The reports
are then gathered together and then they are accessible to any law
enforcement agency that is a part of these fusion centers.


"In the six months since our report, new press accounts have borne out
many of our warnings. In just that short time, news accounts have
reported overzealous intelligence gathering, the expansion of
uncontrolled access to data on innocent people, hostility to open
government laws, abusive entanglements between security agencies and
the private sector, and lax protections for personally identifiable
information.

Overall, it is becoming increasingly clear that fusion centers are
part of a new domestic intelligence apparatus. The elements of this
nascent domestic surveillance system include:


Watching and recording the everyday activities of an ever-growing list
of individuals
Channeling the flow of the resulting reports into a centralized
security agency
Sifting through (“data mining”) these reports and databases with
computers to identify individuals for closer scrutiny Such a system,
if allowed to permeate our society, would be nothing less than the
creation of a total surveillance society." 3


These fusion center will have the capacity to circumvent laws that are
in place to limit federal vs local authorities and the access that
each has to specific information.


"Even more troubling is the fact that these centers are networked
together and seamlessly exchange information with the intelligence
community through the Director of National Intelligence’s Information
Sharing Environment (ISE).

The Washington Post report was based on a document produced from a
survey of fusion centers, which shows their intent to maximize the
access each of the fusion centers has to the various databases. This
would allow a state fusion center that under state law or local policy
is prohibited from buying credit reports, as an example, to circumvent
its own restrictions by simply calling a fusion center in Pennsylvania
to and asking Pennsylvania authorities to access the records it wants
to analyze.

This “policy shopping” process guts state and local privacy
protections and gives the participating agencies, including the
federal intelligence community, access to information they may not
legally have on their own." 3


These centers if allowed to expand will create a one way justice
system. Your information, even your daily activities will be allowed
to be gathered, collected, and possibly used against you. When you
then request information to confirm if you are a target of
surveillance, the information will be stored in a secret database and
not available for you to access.


"Even as fusion centers are positioned to learn more and more about
the American public, authorities are moving to ensure that the public
knows less and less about fusion centers. In particular, there appears
to be an effort by the federal government to coerce states into
exempting their fusion centers from state open government laws.31 For
those living in Virginia, it’s already too late; the Virginia General
Assembly passed a law in April 2008 exempting the state’s fusion
center from the Freedom of Information Act.32

According to comments by the commander of the Virginia State Police
Criminal Intelligence Division and the administrative head of the
center, the federal government pressured Virginia into passing the
law, with the threat of withholding classified information if it
didn’t.33 Such efforts suggest there is a real danger fusion centers
will become a “one-way mirror” in which citizens are subject to ever-
greater scrutiny by the authorities, even while the authorities are
increasingly protected from scrutiny by the public." 3



Public Employees


The next aspect of the targeted that has been reported by the Targeted
Individual community is the fact that public servants seem to be
taking a part in the continuous monitoring and harassment private
citizens. American Civil servants, firefighters, police officers,
Corporate Employees, learning to collect data and spy. The information
then goes into secret data bases. They will also communicate in code.
Many targets have expressed a belief not only that they are being
tracked, but that their stalkers are communicating via a one handed
sign language similar to that which the Stasi used.

Terrorism Liason Officers


"They are entrusted with hunting for “suspicious activity,” and then
they report their findings, which end up in secret government
databases.

What constitutes “suspicious activity,” of course, is in the eye of
the beholder. But a draft Justice Department memo on the subject says
that such things as “taking photos of no apparent aesthetic value” or
“making notes” could constitute suspicious activity, Finley wrote. " 4


Not only will this program used the civil servant already mentioned,
but it will expand who is used in the program. They will have secret
sources of communication available to them. The members of these
programs will connect with the fusion centers. None disclosure
agreement or a confidential disclosure agreements will be signed by
many in these programs to ensure that the information is protected.


"And the private sector would be involved, too. “The program would
eventually be expanded to include Health Care personnel and
representatives from private, critical infrastructure entities, with
communication systems specifically tailored to their needs.”

In this regard, Terrorism Liaison Officers resemble InfraGard members.
(See “The FBI Deputizes Business”.) This FBI-private sector liaison
group now consists of more than 26,000 members, who have their own
secure channels of communication and are shielded, as much as
possible, from scrutiny.

Terrorism Liaison Officers connect up with so-called “Fusion Centers”:
intelligence sharing among public safety agencies as well as the
private sector. The Department of Justice has come up with “Fusion
Center Guidelines” that discuss the role of private sector
participants.

“The private sector can offer fusion centers a variety of resources,”
it says, including “suspicious incidents and activity information.”

It also recommends shielding the private sector. “To aid in sharing
this sensitive information, a Non-Disclosure Agreement may be used.
The NDA provides private sector entities an additional layer of
security, ensuring the security of private sector proprietary
information and trade secrets,” the document states." 4


Other than the United States many other countries have similar
programs in place where they have requested that public servants in
the course of doing their day to day activities keep an eye out on
what is happening.


Stalking and Monitoring.


Though I do not in believe the family in this video are targets of
Gang Stalking I will say that the example shown explains very well how
someone could be stalked, monitored and spied on 24/7 as this family
was. I do not believe they are targets of Gang Stalking, because Gang
Stalking is often covert, what this family experienced was extremely
overt and left behind lot's of verification and proof, the harassment
targeted individuals experience does not often offer any overt
evidence.

The stalking they believe was done primarily using their cell-phone.
They were followed 24/7. Their phone conversations listened to. When
the mother was in the kitchen making lemonade, the phone rang, and the
caller told her, he preferred limes.

When the family heard someone at their door in the middle of the night
banging, they called the police, when the police arrived the invaders
had already left. After the police left this happened again, the
family called the police, the invaders had left, this happened a third
time and finally the family stopped trying.

After filing a complaint with the police, the family were sent a
recording of their conversation with the police, by the stalker. They
installed a camera system, the stalker called to say that he already
knew the code.

The list goes on, and apparently there were a total of three families
in the area that the cell phone stalking happened to. The case has
received wide media attention, including the Tyra Banks show.

There is technology out there designed to do this. A company which I
will not name in this report, has a service for cheating spouses,
where you can use a phone to know where they are and listen into their
conversations. There are also programs which will allow the camera on
a phone to be used to spy on the person with the camera phone.

Cellphone Stalking


"The families say the calls come in at all hours of the night,
threatening to kill their children, their pets and grandparents. Voice
mails arrive, playing recordings of their private conversations,
including one with a local police detective. "

"The caller knows, the families said, what they're wearing and what
they're doing. And after months of investigating, police seem
powerless to stop them. "

"It got worse. The Kuykendalls and two other Fircrest families told
ABC News that they believe the callers are using their cell phones to
spy on them. They say the hackers know their every move: where they
are, what they're doing and what they're wearing. The callers have
recorded private conversations, the families and police said,
including a meeting with a local detective. " 5


Not all members of the Targeted Individual community have a
cameraphone, but this example is just to show how one family could be
terrorized by an encounter such as this. What we experience is
ongoing, and often just as upsetting, but we often do not have the
same proof that this family had, which enabled them to go to the
police.


"Recently, the stalkers have begun to come to their home in the early
hours of the morning, banging on their doors. The mother said that the
first time they came, she immediately called 911, but as soon as the
police arrived, the stalkers had fled. The police, unable to do
anything, left, and the stalkers returned right away. She said every
time this happens she contacts the police, but after about the third
call and then the third return, she just stops trying." 6



Regulation of Investigatory Powers


Regulation of Investigatory Powers is a United Kingdom law, which
enables public bodies to carry out investigations and surveillance on
individuals. Authorities can use directed surveillance or intrusive
surveillance for months or years. These types of operations often
employ “covert human intelligence sources’. Recently these laws were
abused by using them to spy on families for anti-social behaviours and
noise complaints.


"Directed surveillance’ is covert surveillance of individuals during a
specific but non-intrusive investigation’ (our emphasis). Surveillance
is covert where it is carried out in such a way to ensure that those
targeted are unaware that it is taking place (cl.25(8)).
‘Surveillance’ is defined as including any monitoring, observing and
listening to persons, their movements, conversations or other
activities or communications. It also includes any recording of such
activity and surveillance by or with assistance of a device."

" Intrusive surveillance’ is defined as covert surveillance in
relation to anything taking place on residential premises or a private
vehicle. It may be carried out either by a person or device inside
residential premises or a private vehicle or by a device placed
outside" 7



Secret Databases


A new story also came out this year claiming that information is being
kept on Canadians, in secret databases that they have no access to.


"Jennifer Stoddart, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has released a
48-page report warning that the RCMP (Canada’s national police force)
is keeping thousands of files on regular citizens in secret databases
which cannot be seen by the accused.

One of the many disturbing facets of Stoddart's report are the
examples she cites of information for these secret files coming from
citizen informants. In one case a man was put into the secret database
because a resident of his daughter's school neighborhood saw him
entering a rooming house and—believing drugs were involved—called the
police. The police investigation concluded that the man had only
stepped out of his car to have a cigarette, but the file was still in
the national security databank seven years later.

Another incident cited in the Stoddart report involved a neighbour who
saw two men carrying "something that resembled a large drum, wrapped
in canvas" into their house. Police were called to investigate but
found nothing resembling the reported item, yet the data was still
sitting in a top secret databank five years later. As Stoddart points
out in the CBC story on the report, this is potentially disastrous for
the individuals named in the files, because it "could potentially
affect someone trying to obtain an employment security clearance, or
impede an individual's ability to cross the border." 8



References:


1. 8 year old as Covert Human Intellegence Sources.

2. Community Oriented Policing. A Systemic Approch.

3. ACLU document on Fusion Centers.

4. Terrorism Liaison Officers

5. Cellphone Stalkers harass family.

6. Cellphone Stalkers harass family 2.

7. REGULATION OF INVESTIGATORY POWERS BILL

8. Stasi-style secret police forming in Canada, Britain, US

Other Sources:

1. Spying on noisy children

2. Cellphone Stalking

3. Use of anti-terror laws to spy on ordinary people
.