Bridging The Gap
By: GmB Bailey
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Introduction
Bridging The Gap is a disturbing, yet poignant look into modern day democratic surveillance societies. The book examines how this structure is used to discredit, disenfranchise, and destroy innocent citizens.
Gang Stalking, The Buzzsaw, Cointelpro, what do these words mean and more importantly what do they have in common? They are names that have been used to describe the systemic apparatus that reaches out to destroy and discredit those declared enemy by the state.
This book will open your eyes to how the informant system has taken over these democratic countries, and how they are being used to further create a surveillance society where no one will be out of reach, should they too become persona non grata by the system.
This book is the culmination of two years of research and investigation. It's a very brief introduction to the subject matter of Gang Stalking. It's a factual account of what Gang Stalking is and the societal mechanisms that are in existence, which allow such a structure to exist.
The research has taken many hours to compile and shift through. This book just touches the surface on a very difficult and disturbing topic.
The first portion of this book will explain what Gang Stalking is. It just happens to be a systemic structure of control and conformity that is used to destroy the lives of those who go outside of these structures.
The next portion of the book tries to help the reader to understand why people take part in something that is destructive and psychologically destroying to another person.
Then we will look at the informant structure which is being used in society today, the informant structure which is responsible for a great deal of crime and corruption, but which is also being used to fuel a surveillance society that has previously been almost unheard of in modern times.
We will see how a system of set up's and betrayals fuel the informant system, and you will begin to understand how far reaching and controlling this system can be.
We will also travel through recent history and review conspiracies and other systems that also allowed these destructive investigations to take place, and destroy the lives of others.
You will learn that there are those in our society that do not play by the same rules as others do. Their goals are to entrap and destroy the life of the next target, and to in turn turn that target into a person that is capable of then becoming a part of the same game, that was used to destroy them.
Lastly we will review the final pieces of the puzzle that fuel this system and helps it continue to stay in place. We will also briefly review what can be done to help curtail what is happening to so many in society.
Chapter 1
Bridging The Gap
How can we bridge the gap? As a individual who has been researching and investigating a practice that is being termed "Gang Stalking" this is the continual question that haunts me. How do I explain in a credible fashion to the general population of so called democratic countries that there are extremely undemocratic practices happening in their own countries? That there are individuals being tortured and harassed to the point of death, suicide, and even extreme acts of violence? How can I do this in a credible fashion that will not leave me sounding like a complete lunatic or conspiracy theorists?
How can I explain that for years these democratic countries have been setting up their own citizens to become the eyes and ears of the state? That within these democratic countries they have created legions of informants the same way that they did in the former East Germany? That these countries have been planning, no plotting to become networks of what in the end will be a global surveillance society that is capable of following and tracking an individual wherever they go?
How can I possibly explain to individuals who are right were I was a couple of years ago, that what they believe about their society in many cases is an illusion or a flat out lie? Two years ago I was deaf, dumb, and blind to the realities of what was happening in my society. I dare say that if someone had tried to explain to me that there were people being tortured in democratic countries and that human rights organizations were not willing to help, I would have looked on the problem with a great deal of disbelief and skepticism.
As a child, teenager and then adult I grew up like many believing that torture does not happen in democratic countries, human torture happens in other countries where they are not free, where people don't have rights. When I think of torture happening, I still think of countries such as China or Russia. Countries such as the U.K., Canada, and even the United States were not the first to come to my mind, and yet these and many democratic countries are at the forefront of the horrors that are being enacted against their own citizens. This is going to be hard for many to comprehend much less believe, but that is what I am going to be setting out to do.
During the course of this book, I am going to try to explain how this is possible. I am going to try to bridge the gap from where I was a couple of years ago, where had you told me this was happening, I would have walked off sarcastically and possibly advised you to seek psychological assistance to where I am today and the realities or rather horrors that are being enacted right inside our very countries, that many of us have come to know and love. I am going to be bridging that gap on a systemic practice that at times will sound like something straight out of the X-Files, or a Science Fiction movie such as The Matrix or another movie, where you wake up to a world that you did not know existed. Where the truths that you were taught are lies and the harsh reality of existence within society is not what many of us have come to expect or even believed to be possible.
I hope that at the end if I am not able to fully convince you of the truth then I will at least be able to enlighten you some of the other things that have been happening and are happening within society. Gang Stalking in it's simplest form is a covert investigation that is opened on an individual. The individual is then placed under overt and covert forms of surveillance. The person is followed around 24/7. Foot patrols and vehicle patrols are used to follow the individual around, as part of the monitoring process. During these patrols a one handed sign language is used to assist the citizen informants with communicating to each other. That's the quick and easy part of Gang Stalking, that's not that hard to understand or believe right? What comes next is the great divide that exists, between Gang Stalking targets and the rest of society.
Gang Stalking is not just a covert investigation. It's also designed to be a systemic form of control that is capable of destroying a persons life. Once you are targeted it seeks to control every aspect of your
life. This covert investigation tries to take over much like a parasite in the brain. You soon find that your life is not your own any more. Friends you thought you could trust, gone. Family that you thought you could rely on, not trustworthy anymore. The same becomes true for coworkers, neighbors,
partners, and many others that you formerly thought you could trust? What happens to these individuals? Their cooperation is begged, borrowed, bullied, bribed, or bargained for. Either way the end result is the same. You soon find that network that you thought you could rely on is not there, and you soon find yourself very much alone.
To understand the process that happens it's helpful to understand other concepts. On an emotional and psychological level Gang Stalking has many similarities to workplace mobbing, and workplace mobbing is probably our closest cousin on these levels. Where workplace mobbing starts off and can be specifically traced back to the workplace, Gang Stalking has no one inception point. Gang Stalking can originate just about anywhere, and under a variety of circumstances and conditions.
Before workplace mobbing was studied many targets of this practice were misdiagnosed as having paranoid delusions. This is where targets of workplace mobbing were 15 years ago before credible research was done into the phenomenon. Targets of this practice were often thought to be paranoid, some were locked away or put on medications, but a decade and a half later with more understanding into this deliberate phenomenon we realize that the practice is far reaching and systemic. It's not only a problem in Europe, but in many other democratic countries as well.
When a problem is not understood, especially by outsiders who might have a cold, calculating, or even dispassionate interest in the subject matter it's easy to falsely label something that is not understood. Such as the people that are part of that phenomenon or the phenomenon itself.
Today the concept of workplace mobbing is well understood, and has become more normalized in society, thanks to research by credible professors such as Kenneth Westhues. Professor Westhues found himself a target of workplace mobbing, he was able to ward off the attack that was aimed at him, and then spent the next decade studying the phenomenon and assisting other targets. He is now a widely respected researcher in this field.
When it comes to subject matters such as bullying, gang stalking, workplace mobbing, the world at large is often unaware of the devastating effects this harassment is capable of having on an individual. It is therefore up to the insiders within those communities to bring knowledge and understanding, to the population at large about what is happening within their communities.
10 years ago, bullying was not understood that well, but with the persistence of people such as the lateTim Field, it's now a household word, and a very well understood concept.
The Gang Stalking community are on the precipice of getting their specific targeting understood. The term itself has become more popular and normalized in society, but where the term itself has become more common, there is still a great deal of limited understanding, and at times preconceived prejudices and notions about targets of Gang Stalking, by people in various fields and outside communities.
This was temporarily complicated when the community was falsely labeled as being an extreme community by the New York Times. The Gang Stalking community is not an extreme community, they are a misunderstood community, who have not been properly listened to. Gang Stalking communities are about 3-5 years behind where their fellow counterparts in bullying and workplace mobbing were. More research is needed into the subject matter, but because what is happening is being enacted at official levels, this further complicates exposing this specific targeting to the general population. Only with awareness can we hope to bridge the gap and finally gain some of the assistance, validation and understanding that other communities have received from the world at large.
The Gang Stalking community is at the crossing over stage, and for every move made forward, there are silent watchers in the background, as stated in the New York Times article. They are often misdiagnosing the community, and mislabeling the members of the community, without giving any actual credence to the research being presented and the very real possibility that what targets are saying is true, and that this is in fact really happening.
The key emphasis then still relies on mechanisms within the Gang Stalking community to prove innocence, because the community has been declared by some as guilty, or rather mislabeled as paranoid, delusional, or mentally ill. There is strength in unity, this has been demonstrated with the mobbing community, yet this is still a key point that alludes some portion of the Gang Stalking community due to several key internal factors.
Therefore exposure and awareness remain key elements when it comes to bridging the gap with the rest of society and helping others understand what Gang Stalking is.
Chapter 2
What is Gang Stalking?
In addition to being a covert investigation, Gang Stalking is also a systemic form of control. It has similarities to workplace mobbing, but is called Gang Stalking because it takes place primarily outside in the community, where the target or Targeted Individual is followed around and placed under intrusive and directed surveillance by groups of organized Covert Human Intelligence Sources also known as informants. The target is monitored 24/7.
Mobbing can be understood as the stressor to beat all stressors. It is an impassioned, collective campaign by coworkers to exclude, punish, and humiliate a targeted worker. Initiated most often by a person in a position of power or influence, mobbing is a desperate urge to crush and eliminate the target. The urge travels through the workplace like a virus, infecting one person after another. The target comes to be viewed as absolutely abhorrent, with no redeeming qualities, outside the circle of acceptance and respectability, deserving only of contempt. As the campaign proceeds, a steadily larger range of hostile ploys and communications comes to be seen as legitimate. 54.
Gang Stalking is similar to workplace mobbing on an emotional and psychological level, but where mobbing happens primarily in the workplace, Gang Stalking is a covert investigation that happens in the community. As the Gang Stalking campaign moves forward there is also an increase in hostile ploys which come to be seen as legitimate.
Why would the government of a democratic country target and monitor an innocent person 24/7? Think of the cost involved. The person would have to be guilty to illicit that sort of attention. Average people are not important enough to have that much attention paid to them, much less by the government. These are legitimate reactions, that a person might have upon first hearing about Gang Stalking. It hard for the average person to believe that innocent people are having covert investigations opened on them for months or even years at a time. These are some of the responses, but let's look take a look and see if these reactions are correct.
Many people do not realize that under the recent anti-terror laws, governments now have even more legal powers than they did before to invade the privacy of the average person. These laws allow investigations to be opened on private citizens. These laws allow for email, internet, phone and other forms of communication to be intercepted. The laws enable Informants to be hired to spy on average citizens. Investigations can be opened for the most trivial of reasons. These laws are being abused in the many countries.
SCOTTISH COUNCILS ARE USING SURVEILLANCE AND security powers intended to fight terrorism and organized crime in order to spy on ordinary members of the public suspected of petty offences such as breaching the smoking ban, playing music too loudly and dropping litter.
Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), councils have the power to secretly film and bug people, use paid spies to inform on a suspect's activities, and even intercept communications data such as mobile and landline use and information about email traffic. 1
The same abuses were happening on a regular basis in the UK, and other democratic countries as well. In the U.K. the laws were being used to open investigations, and spy on individuals for putting out the garbage on the wrong day, dog fouling, anti-social behaviour, and other minor offenses.
Anti-terror powers were used to spy on a member of the public after his neighbour complained about his noisy wardrobe doors and loud footsteps,
Fife Council was given permission to plant recording equipment in the neighbour's flat in response to concern that his or her human rights were being infringed because of the noise. 2
The article goes on to say that in many cases these investigations are more costly than the crimes they are looking into. Still such investigations are becoming more common and everyday. In another case a family were followed around for three weeks and placed under 24/7 surveillance, because the council believed they had given a false address.
They were spied on by their local council, on suspicion of falsifying their address to get their daughter into the popular local primary school.
Jenny Paton and Tim Joyce: 'We had absolutely no idea we were being watched' This wasn't just a cursory background check.
The details of the three-week surveillance operation read like an MI5 logbook: "Target vehicle pulls up and parks."
"Female and three children enter vehicle." "Curtains open and lights on in premises.”
When subsequently told they had been snooped on, the family were understandably horrified . 54
Many Gang Stalking targets are placed under surveillance in similar ways for months or even years before they too realize that they are being targeted by an organized surveillance apparatus.
What happens during a Gang Stalking surveillance operations is very similar to what happened to many innocent individuals in the former East Germany or Activists and Dissidents in Russia. Many innocent people in the former East Germany would be targeted for these covert investigations, and then their friends, family, and the community at large would be used to monitor, prosecute, and harass them. In Russia it was used by the state to declare activist, dissidents or anyone they thought to be an enemy of the state as mentally unfit and many were institutionalized using this form of systemic control. The movie the lives of others is loosely based on this type of Stasi investigation.
Many in western countries do not realise that the psychiatric reprisal has not just been used in countries such as Russia and China, in many instances this practice is also being used in democratic countries. These psychiatric reprisals are being used on disgruntled workers, whistle-blowers and anyone that management wants to swiftly and quietly deal with.
On October 5, 1998, Norm Crosty sent a letter to the labor relations department at his plant. Crosty, for thirteen years an electrician at Ford Motor Company's Wixom, Michigan, assembly plant, complained that he could not do his job because so many of his bosses were taking the necessary equipment out of the plant to work on their homes or personal businesses.
The next day, the plant director of human resources invoked a Ford program for combating workplace violence to bar Crosty from the factory and ordered him to see a company-paid psychiatrist or lose his job.
A little more than fourteen months later, and 725 miles away, officials at Emory University cited a similar concern about violence to justify using armed guards to escort Dr. James Murtagh off university property when Dr. R. Wayne Alexander, chairman of the department of medicine at Emory, ordered him to see a company-selected psychiatrist or lose his job. Six weeks earlier, Murtagh, a professor of pulmonology at Emory, had filed a false claims suit against the university, alleging that it had misspent millions of dollars in federal grant money. 3
The closest thing to Gang Stalking that democratic countries have seen before this is McCarthyism, Cointelpro, and RED SQUAD programs. Red Squad programs were used for monitoring, and harassment of various groups. They have been in place for over a hundred years, and they also employed the use of informants.
The American Cointelpro program is extremely similar to what we see happening with Gang Stalking. During Cointelpro investigations the government would open files on targets. Everyone in the targets life would be contacted and forced to cooperate with the investigations. The targets of Cointelpro would have their lives disrupted, and destroyed in every way possible. Rumors, slander, break in's, set up's, infiltrations, destruction of personal and professional relationships, false media stories, assassinations. It was one of the worst programs ever invented by any government to destroy dissidence.
During a Gang Stalking investigation informants are recruited from every level and sector of society. Just like with Cointelpro investigations, everyone in the targets life is made a part of the ongoing, never ending, systemic psychological harassment and manipulation of the target. These actions are specifically designed to control the target and to keep them in line. These actions are also designed to destroy the targets credibility over time, make them look crazy and leave them with no form of support.
For the targets of this harassment, Gang Stalking is experienced as a covert psychological, emotional and in some cases physical attack, that is capable of immobilizing and destroying a target over time. For the state it's a way to keep the targets in line, control them, or destroy them.
Other similar programs of control and conformity have been used in countries such as Russia and East Germany with equal success and lethality. What we are seeing now is an almost global coordinated and organized effort of control and conformity.
Community Policing
Many countries around the world are currently using a model of policing called: Community Oriented Policing. It's described as a systemic approach to policing. It focuses on instilling a sense of community within a geographically located neighborhood. Communities come together and discuss what values they would like to have in their community, and it's also a time to discuss any problems that might be happening in a specific area. If a problem is identified an investigation can be opened. Community Oriented Policing is a model of policing, now practiced in many cities around the globe. These local programs in many countries have been forming partnerships with other government run programs at, provincial, state and federal levels. Reports of Gang Stalking are not only coming in from democratic countries, but they are coming in from many other countries as well.
This model of policing has been previously used in communistic countries.
American communitarians promote the same kinds of surveillance and neighborhood informants the communists used to control East Germans. Americans are slowly being taught what East Germans had to learn very quickly. Today the KGB trains "community" police all over America. 4
This model is also used in China, where citizens are used as part of the surveillance apparatus to help control and monitor their society. Just 20 years ago democratic countries would have been alarmed at adapting this form of policing, today it is being embraced and marketed as the only way to truly meet future needs, and effectively see to the needs of all members of the community.
Community policing, the East German system of surveillance and Cointelpro were all funded at higher governmental levels. Systems of control and conformity, or harassment programs such as this are almost always funded at governmental levels. Gang Stalking is a similar type of program, and operates in a similar manner. It's one branch in a system of control and conformity that has been in place for many years. A system of control with many local groups and appendages taking part.
What are the goals of Gang Stalking?
The goals of Gang Stalking are very similar to the goals of Cointelpro, East Germany and Russia. The goal is to maintain state control at all costs. This is facilitated by isolating the targets of this harassment from all forms of support. This way the target can eventually be set up for false arrests,
institutionalization, forced suicide, acts of violence, or government sanctioned poverty. The other goals of this harassment campaign include destroying the targets reputation and credibility. Making the
target look crazy or unstable. These actions are primarily accomplished via slander and rumour campaigns.
Another hard to image goal of this campaign is to sensitize the target. This means getting the target conditioned to react in a negative or adverse manner often to an everyday stimuli. The goal of this technique is to get the target to act out in front of others who do not realise that the target has been deliberately sensitized.
A target can be sensitized in a number of ways, but what primarily happens is that the target is exposed to negative actions or words over a period of time. These negative actions and words are then linked to an every day stimuli such as a pens clicking, keys jangling, or other common everyday actions or activities.
Eg. Joe will be mobbed at work and as part of that daily mobbing his coworkers will loudly cough at him every time they harass him by calling him names like loser, worthless, lame, demented. They will slander him and have others as they are slandering him show disgust by glaring and coughing at him.
They might even bang into his desk, get into his personal space, always using the stimuli in a negative manner.
Out in public they will follow him loudly and obnoxiously coughing at him, even banging into him at times to provoke him. When he goes to stores they will get others to do the same. After months or years of this, unknown to Joe he has become negatively sensitized to this stimuli and it can then be used to harass him without the names and the glaring looks. The association has been formed because of all the other negative associations and harassment.
Once the target is sensitized, the Informants have an easier time identifying the Targeted Individual while they are out in public on patrol.
These types of harassment programs are designed to make the target vulnerable, they want to make the target destitute. The secondary goals seems to be to make the target homeless, jobless, give them a breakdown, and the primary goals seems to be to drive the target to forced suicide. These were some of the same goals and objectives used during the American Cointelpro program that was used against dissidents. It's a useful way of eliminating perceived enemies of the state. Martin Luther King Jr was one such target. The FBI sent him a note suggesting that he kill himself or they would expose an affair that he had been having. He refused to comply.
Congressional leaders were warned "off the record" about alleged dangers posed by Reverend King. The FBI responded to Dr. King's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize by attempting to undermine his reception by foreign heads of state and American ambassadors in the countries that be planned to visit. When Dr. King returned to the United States, steps were taken to reduce support for a huge banquet and a special "day" that were being planned in his honor.
The FBI's program to destroy Dr. King as the leader of the civil rights movement entailed attempts to discredit him with churches, universities, and the press. Steps were taken to attempt to convince the National Council of Churches, the Baptist World Alliance, and leading Protestant ministers to halt financial support of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and to persuade them that "Negro leaders should completely isolate King and remove him from the role he is now occupying in civil rights activities." 6 When the FBI learned that Dr. King intended to visit the Pope, an agent was dispatched to persuade Francis Cardinal Spellman to warn the Pope about "the likely embarrassment that may result to the Pope should he grant King an audience." 7 The FBI sought to influence universities to withhold honorary degrees from Dr. King. Attempts were made to prevent the publication of articles favorable to Dr. King and to find "friendly" news sources that would print unfavorable articles. The FBI offered to play for reporters tape recordings allegedly made from microphone surveillance of Dr. King's hotel rooms.
The FBI mailed Dr. King a tape recording made from its microphone coverage. According to the Chief of the FBI's Domestic Intelligence Division, the tape was intended to precipitate a separation between Dr. King and his wife in the belief that the separation would reduce Dr. King's stature. 7a The tape recording was accompanied by a note which Dr. King and his advisers interpreted as a threat to release the tape recording unless Dr. King committed suicide. 5
Other targets of Cointelpro were eventually driven to suicide and had their reputations ruined. Martin Luther King Jr was viewed as a threat, a potential black messiah that could unite the masses.
Hoover issued another directive: "Prevent the rise of a 'messiah' who could unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement. Malcolm X might have been such a 'messiah'... . Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, and [Nation of Islam leader] Elijah Muhammed [sic] all aspire to this position 6
Who gets targeted?
Targeting can happen to anyone in society. In the past primary targets of programs such as Cointelpro have been minorities. In Russia it was activist, dissidents, and anyone perceived to be an enemy of the state. Targeting however can happen to anyone. Individuals can be targeted for being too outspoken, whistle blowers, dissidents, people who go up against wealthy corporations, woman's groups, (single) women, anti-war proponents, individuals identified or targeted as problems at these community meetings, and other innocent individuals.
The majority of the targets at first are not aware that they have become the targets of a covert investigation. What a target will initially notice is often overt forms of harassment that will cause them to move, or change jobs. However every time a target moves, or changes jobs the same information, lies, and slander will be spread out into the new community and the systemic monitoring and harassment will continue.
The women who are singled out tend to be independent, intelligent, & confident professionals. "There's a heavy predominance of those types of woman in the TI community," affirmed McKinney. Men are in a smaller proportion, & tend to be non- conformists. They usually have a "sense of self-esteem and pride that seems to invite targeting." Remember, the MfS was a criminal federal police force that deliberately singled out people exactly like this on a massive scale.
Others that have been targeted include:
Those who have had a bad breakup with an ex-spouse who has influence
Criminals (This program may have begun targeting only criminals)
Those who have reported a crime where the perpetrator was a member of an organized crime ring Landowners targeted by government or industry for land seizures Gays, minorities
Inventors awaiting a large payoff Mentally disabledThose who have had arguments with neighbors who have connections
Those awaiting a large insurance claim Convenient targets of opportunity Those with special talents or abilities Group members who act in unacceptable ways Independent freethinkers who are not part of the herd Those who are perceived as vulnerable or weak Those opposing the New World Order
The pattern that is unfolding indicates that many targets are people who tend to be emotionally developed, self-confident, independent, free thinkers, artistic, people who don't need the approval of others, and those not prone to corruption. They're people who don't need to be part of a group to feel secure--generally people who are not part of the herd. 7
In his research into the bullying phenomenon Tim Field discovered that those targeted have similar traits. They were leaders, they had a sense of integrity, refused to join the established clique.
being good at your job, often excelling being popular with people (colleagues, customers, clients, pupils, parents, patients, etc) being the expert and the person to whom others come for advice, either personal or professional (ie you get more attention than the bully) having a well-defined set of values which you are unwilling to compromise having a strong sense of integrity (bullies despise integrity, for they have none, and seem compelled to destroy anyone who has integrity) refusing to join an established clique showing independence of thought or deed refusing to become a corporate clone and drone 8
If these are the types of people in society being targeted for bullying, mobbing, and Gang Stalking, then can it be assumed that we might not be doing society a favor by eliminating these vital types of individuals? As this type of person is eliminated via systemic harassment, can we also assume that maybe less qualified individuals are left to fill key and vital roles in society?
Who takes part?
People from all walks of life are being recruited to be the eyes and ears of the state. People from all races, ages, genders. Every sector of society that you can think are being asked to become a part of the states spying apparatus. Informants include, but are not limited to: General labourers, the wealthy, bikers, drug dealers, drug users, street people, punks, hip hop culture, KKK, black activists, church groups, youth groups, Fire Fighters, police officers, lawyers, health care workers, store keepers, maids, janitors, cable installers, phone repair persons, mail carriers, locksmiths, electricians, etc. There really are no exceptions, as to who will be used as informants for the government.
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 informants. 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 U.K. 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 informers 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 organized 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. 50
There are many programs in place at all levels of society that allow citizens to be recruited as informants. Some of these citizens might be recruited via programs such as, Citizen Corp, Weed and Seed, Citizens On Phone Patrol, (COPP), City Watch, T.I.P.S. Many citizens start out with good intentions, to help patrol and monitor their cities and neighbourhoods. citizen informants are recruited in a variety of ways. Some via their families, others at school, others at work, other through newspaper ads Since every sector, class, race in society takes part, recruitment is multi-faceted.
Many informants do not understand, care, or even realise that the end consequence of this harassment protocol is to destroy a person. They are given orders about monitoring or following a target and they will carry out the instructions that are being provided to them.
Why do individuals become Informants?
There are many reasons people become informants.
1. Some do it for the sense of power that it gives them. It's an adventure to be an informant for the state.
2. Others do this as a way to make friends and keep friends. It's something social and fun for them to do. Many in society use the one handed sign language to communicate and it's very effective in breaking down race, gender, age, social barriers.
3. Others are forced, bullied, bribed or blackmailed by the State or the police into taking part. Informants are often used to set up and entrap targets to become informants themselves.
4. They are told that they are part of homeland or national security and being used to help keep and eye on dangerous or emotionally disturbed individuals. They see themselves as heroic spies for the state.
5. Others are just local thugs or Confidential Informants who are already being used for other activities, and their energies are just diverted over into assisting with these community spy programs. Eg. Some may be given the choice of Spying for the State or the police vs going to jail.
6. Others are told outright lies and slander about the target to get them to go along with ruining the targets life.
7. Many are however just average citizens who have been recruited by the state the same way citizens were recruited in the former East Germany and other countries. It's the way the society is.
What are some techniques used against targets?
There are dozens of techniques that are used to disrupt and destroy the targets life over time. Some are very subtle, while others are more overt and meant to be noticed. Here are a few of the most common techniques used.
a) Classical conditioning.
Getting a Targeted Individual sensitized to an everyday stimuli. The Targeted Individual over a period of months, or even years is negatively sensitized to an everyday stimuli, which is then used to harass them. It's used out in public to let them know they are constantly being monitored. Some examples of everyday stimulus that might be used include: sounds, colors, patterns, actions. Eg. Red, white, yellow, strips, pens clicking, key jangling, loud coughing, loud whistling, loud smacking or clapping of hands together, cell phones, laptops, etc.
b) 24/7 Surveillance.
The target is first profiled to see where they live, work, shop, play, who their friends, family, coworkers, neighbours are. The target is then followed around 24/7. Vehicle and foot patrols are used while the target is out in public. If a target lives in an apartment it will involve requesting the cooperation of neighbours, or asking to use their flats or apartments, while they relocate elsewhere. If you are a home owner they will see if they can enlist the aid of your neighbours. Informants will try to get close to targets or those around them. They will try to encircle the target. The cooperation of friends, family, neighbours and coworkers will be gained. The targets communications will also be monitored. This includes all telecommunication devices, computer activity, and mail.
Surveillance is defined as 'monitoring, observing or listening to persons, their movement, their conversations or their activities or communications, recording any such matters and surveillance by or with a surveillance device.' Surveillance is considered covert if it is carried out in a manner calculated to ensure that the persons subject to the surveillance are unaware that it is taking place. There are 3 types of covert surveillance, 9
c) Isolation of said target.
For this campaign to be successful, the target needs to be isolated from their circle of support. This is done via slander campaigns, rumours, innuendos, and lies. People in the targets community, friends, family, coworkers, etc, will be told that the target is under investigation. In many cases they will be told what the target is under investigation for. They might be told that the target is being investigated for drugs, theft, terrorism, a person of interest, pedophilia, mentally unstable, emotionally disturbed, prostitute, etc. The concerned family and friends are asked to not say anything about the investigation and they are asked to cooperate by monitoring the target.
d) Noise and mimicking campaigns.
With these covert investigations, disrupting the targets life is a part of the protocol that is used. The targets sleep will be interrupted with: loud power tools, construction, stereos, doors slamming, electronic harassment, stomping on floors, banging, etc. Mimicking the actions of the target. informants are primarily disrupting the targets ability to function properly. If the target has less sleep or no sleep, they are vulnerable for car accidents. They are more likely to get angry in public if provoked. They are less likely to arrive on time for work, or be able to hold down a job. The daily interferences are nothing that would be considered too overt. Many times the target might find it strange, but then they will dismiss it as just rude individuals or inconsiderate neighbours. The actions are often not noticeable to the untrained eye, but they could be psychologically degrading and damaging to the target over time.
e) Everyday life breaks and street theater.
Targeted Individuals also complain about flat tires, sleep deprivation, drugging of their food, putting dirt on their property, home break in's. Strangers doing things in public to deliberately annoy them. These informants will be told to be at a specific place and time, and to perform a specific action.
Targeted Individuals also complain about strangers in public talking about private things in their lives. Portions of telephone conversations will be repeated, private discussions held in the home will be alluded to. The informants use this to create a sense of paranoia in the target.
These actions individually might seem harmless to these Citizen Informants, but collectively these actions could be causing great psychological trauma for the target. Eg. Blocking targets path, getting ahead of them in line, cutting or boxing them in on the road, saying or doing things to elicit a response from targets. Etc. It's like the death of a thousand paper cuts. One or two minor incidents will not cause any harm to the target, but over time the target is slowly worn down.
Where does the support or funding for this come from?
Though Gang Stalking itself is unethical in nature, similar programs such as this in democratic countries, and none democratic countries have always been funded by the Government. They are the only ones with enough money, coordination, and power to keep such a system in place. These coordinated efforts then join hands with others for this systemic form of control and harassment.
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. 10
Under the guise of community oriented programs these unions are happening in many countries around the world. There is also governmental corporation happening across many countries. This is why when targets move they can be consistently tracked from one location to the next.
How do participants communicate?
Informants communicate in a number of ways. The following are some methods that informants use to prepare for covert foot surveillance. As you will see there are guidelines that informants should be following. As many targets are aware however, these guidelines are not always adhered to.
This unit is about performing covert foot surveillance operations in order to gather information, intelligence and/or evidence.
You must be able to deploy from a vehicle and conduct a foot surveillance on a subject using approved techniques to gather information, intelligence and/or evidence, negotiating hazards whilst remaining covert at all times and assisting your team members to remain covert also. You are expected to use a range of equipment suitable for the task (e.g. cameras, radios, image intensifiers). You must maintain communication within the team using approved and recognized methods and be able to rejoin a vehicle covertly. The accurate recording of any information, intelligence and/or evidence gathered during the operation is also required.
The purpose of conducting surveillance operations is to gather information,intelligence or evidence and therefore this unit links to unit 2A1 'Gather and submit information that has the potential to assist policing objectives'.
Conduct covert foot surveillance operations
Performance Criteria
To meet the standard, you
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provide researched, flexible and plausible cover stories consistent with your appearance and the operational environment
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make appropriate use of any clothing and props necessary to remain covert
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make an effective use of cover, distance, timing and positions during surveillance operations
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react to changing situations by employing appropriate tactics
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employ close control techniques where necessary to gather information, intelligence and evidence covertly
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employ other appropriate surveillance techniques where necessary to gather information, intelligence and evidence covertly
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assist other team members in remaining covert throughout the surveillance operation
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carry out all roles in recognized foot surveillance systems effectively, efficiently and covertly
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where appropriate, coordinate your actions and communicate with other teams and individuals to maintain effective surveillance operations
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deploy from and rejoin vehicles covertly where used
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recognize the limits of the authority for the surveillance operation and take the appropriate action in respect of changing circumstances
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appropriately document all actions, information, intelligence and evidence in accordance with current policy and legislation
Communicate
a by radio
B by telephone
C by using hand signals 53.
They also communicate by using a one handed sign language that is very similar in nature to what the Stasi in East Germany used. Many targets have described these hand signals as baseball or other signals, but they are most similar to what the Satsi used.
Chapter 3
Covert Techniques
The following techniques are several types that are often used against Targeted Individuals. There are other techniques used, but these are some of the primary ones. The techniques are listed in alphabetical order.
Air Stalking
Helicopters are sometimes used to track targets that are on foot, or in cars. They fly over head and follow the targets from one location to the next. Some will monitor the targets shortly after they leave their homes. The use of airplanes and helicopters are considered legitimate and can be used during surveillance operations.
Brighting
As targets walk on the street, usually at night, informants will turn on their high beams. This might be flashed once or twice at targets. The idea is to intimidate the target and let them know they are being watched at all times. The idea is to create a sense of paranoia and fear in the target.
Cell Phone Stalking
Using a targets cellphone to track and monitor them. The microphone and video cameras on cellphones can be used to monitor targets. Even when the phone is off, the microphone can be used to listen into conversations. The camera can be used to view activity in the room. Cellphones can also be used in conjunction with several Internet programs to locate the Targeted Individuals within a few feet. Recently a family appeared on the Tyra Banks show to say that they had been stalked and monitored 24/7 using their cameraphone. The stalking had happened to two other families in the area as well. A mob boss was also arrested after the microphone on his cellphone, was used to listen into his conversations. Software was downloaded to his cellphone from his cellphone provider at the request of the FBI. They then listened into his private conversations even when the phone was turned off.
Crowding/Mobbing
When a target is in public, informants will usually try to box the target in. Eg. They will surround the target in a square like formation if possible. They will stand too close to the target, or swarm them. The idea is to surround the target on all four sides.
Directed Conversations
These are conversations that informants will have out in public relating to the target and their personal lives. The informants will repeat things a target said in their home, or on the phone. They will let drop very personal details into the conversation, that could only be related to the target.
Eg. Informant#1. It's a shame Uncle Ed won't be able to come. Informant #2. Yeah since he died golfing on Saturday. The target will just have leant about the death of a favored uncle, (possibly named Ed.) while out golfing.
Electronic Harassment
Electronic weapons are used on targets in their homes. A variety of weapons are used, including electromagnetic, microwave, acoustic, lasers and other weapons. The purpose of using the EMF (Electromagnetic Frequency) on targets and their belonging are multifaceted. Electronic frequencies can destroy electronic equipment.
Electronic frequencies can be used for monitoring and tracking inside the home, and at work. It can also be used for purposes of sleep disturbance. When those conducting these covert investigations feel that they have psychologically destroyed the target to where they are near breakdown they will start to use these weapons.
Emotional Sapping
This is similar to the concept of an energy or psychic vampire.Negative individuals who drain the targets energy on a daily basis, or who are good at transferring negative energy to the target. Targeted Individuals are being exposed to dozens of people on a daily basis, many of them who do not wish them well, or want to hurt them even though they don't know them.
Without realizing it targets are being emotionally, mentally, and spiritually harmed on a daily basis. After some time this can weaken defences. Targets at this stage are more susceptible to this form of energy drain.There are emotional shielding techniques that can be used to help try to prevent this. There are also lot's of books being written about these types of negative energy draining people.
Entrapment
To lure into dangerous, difficult, or a compromising situations. The Informants will try to lure targets into various situations for the sole purpose of setting them up. Setting up targets could involve getting them arrested, institutionalized, set up on fake sexual harassment charges, drug charges, illegal pornographic materials, etc. Once this happens it puts the targets at risk of becoming an informant themselves.
Files
During covert investigations files are opened on targets. These files might be shown to people in the targets close circle to help try to convince them to cooperate with the investigation.
Gaslighting
Informants constantly perform various actions to make the target paranoid or in other cases think that they might be going crazy. These actions often include entering the targets home while they are out and moving things about, or taking small items that have no value, but that will be noticeable to the the target.
Gassing/Poisoning
Informants will spray fumes or scents into a targets home to harass them. They will tamper with the targets food to make them become ill.
Illegal Entry
During the course of covert investigations, targets might find that their homes or premises have been entered without their consent. It's used to help profile the target. To set up illegal surveillance. It's a way to find out intimate details about the targets. This can be used later to set up the target by using
people in photo albums, or by directed conversations about things in the targets apartment.
Illegal Surveillance
This involves setting up audio and some visual surveillance of the target. These methods are considered legal and frequently used during covert investigations.
Other methods include, bugging the targets phone. Surveillance in the targets residence Listening to cell phone and hard line conversations. Hacking into their computers and learning all about what the target is doing, sites they frequent. This also helps to build a profile of the target, and it's also used later to psychological attack the target.
Intimate Infiltration
This is where informants will go out of their way to get into a targets life. They will try to form friendships with targets. They will try to form intimate relationships with targets.
They will get close to people that are affiliated with targets. Years before the target ever realizes they are targets, they will try to get into a targets life. The East Germany Stasi used "romeo spies" frequently to get close to female targets.
Eg. If they can't get into your life, but you have a best friend, their new significant other might just be an informant. The same goes for siblings and the people that enter their lives. These methods were also used during Cointelpro and in East Germany with the Stasi.
Isolation
For this harassment to be successful, it's important to be able to isolate the target from friends, family members, coworkers and even spouses. To accomplish this isolation many methods are used including, but not limited to: slander, lies, fake files, sabotage, anything that will get the target into a situation where they have no support system. This is important for them to succeed. These methods were also common during Cointelpro.
Laser Microphones
Laser microphones are microphones with a laser beam. They detect vibrations with a laser and convert it to a digital signal. Lasers are usually bounced off a window, or off any object near to the conversation monitored. Any object which can resonate/vibrate (for example, a picture on a wall) will do so in response to the pressure waves created by noises present in a room.
This technology can be used to secretly eavesdrop on people with minimal chance of exposure. However, specialized light sensors may be used to detect the light from the beam. (Soruce Wikepedia)
Mail and Email tampering
Informants will steal or intercept mail. They will delay the delivery of your mail, and they will also make sure that your mail does not arrive. The other thing they are known for is the tampering of email. They will delay email, delete email, and stop email that you have sent from arriving
Mimicking
Informants will try to mimick the actions and activities of their targets.
Informants will at times leave when a target leaves, they will sometimes try to dress like the target dresses. They will throw out the garbage when the target throws out the garbage. They might flush the toilet when the target flushes the toilet. They will at times try to mimck whatever the target is doing.
This is all designed to be psychological warfare, so that the target again feels like they are under observation at all times.
Noise Disturbance
This will include anything from doors slamming above and below the target. Garbage disposal doors, car doors, loud stereos, stomping, moaning at specific times, loud coughing, pots slamming, water running, cupboard doors being slammed, fridge motor running all night, power tools, etc.
Profiling
Targets will be observed and profiled long before they ever become aware that they are targeted for this sort of harassment. Profiles will be created on targets by:
Following them. Following people close to them. Breaking into their homes and going through their possessions. Listening to their calls. Hacking into their computers. Gathering information from friends, and family. Seeing where they like to shop and eat. What their weaknesses are. The things that they like and dislike. What can you bribe them with? What can you blackmail them with? How can you bully them? How can they best be controlled?
This will all be used to put together a profile of the target and then to get them into situations for their detriment, and entrapment.
Random Encounters
This will be people on the street who you randomly and unexpectedly run into. It looks completely natural and it seems to be a random encounter.
They might ask for your phone number after engaging you in conversation. Ask you out, or just ask you where you are going. Anything from small talk to lengthier conversations.
All with the purpose of finding out something about you, or even just getting you to do something.
Ruined Relationships
When targets are in a relationship, the informants will try to ruin that relationship. This could be friendships, family or significant others.
If it's a romantic relationship, they will find out what your significant other likes and try to get them to cheat, or leave you.
If it's a friendship they will tell lies to come between you. The same goes for family. This is done so that targets will have no means of support, once they do realise that something is going wrong in their lives.
Sensitization
This is getting targets sensitive to an everyday stimuli. Eg. Colors, patterns or everyday actions. Eg. Red, stripes, pens, whistles, loud coughing, clapping, waves, keys jingling.
Eg. Joe will be mobbed at work and as part of that daily mobbing his coworkers will loudly cough at him every time they harass him by calling him names like loser, worthless, lame, demented. They will slander him and have others as they are slandering him show disgust by glaring and coughing at him.
Out in public they will follow him loudly and obnoxiously coughing at him. When he goes to stores they will get others to do the same. After months or years of this, Joe has become sensitive to this stimuli and it can be used to harass him without the names and the glaring looks. The association has been formed because of all the other harassment.
Eg. A girl is sexually assaulted and a sock is shoved in her mouth , during the assault. To keep her quite or stop her from pressing charges, the assailant, his friends and family will follow her around and throw socks in her path, mention it everywhere she goes and show her their socks every chance they get. She will get the message they are sending. Because of the brutal attack, she and what's happened after she is now sensitized.
Sensors
These are used around the home or the apartment of a target to let others know the location or room that the target is in. These can also be used on auto pilot. Eg. When a target trips a sensor it can turn on a silent alarm or even the sound of running water. This effect can be used when targets are in the bathroom to let them think that their movements are being watched and observed.