What Does Police Stalking Look Like?
by Reidar Visser
Some aspects of police stalking conceptually belong to the same class of mistreatment as Chinese water torture. In Chinese water torture, the pain of each little water drop falling on the body of the immobilised victim (usually on the forehead) is probably so small that any doctor would dismiss it as insignificant. And yet the total effect of those water drops is sufficiently strong that the method has been used for centuries as punishment and for interrogation purposes.
Can this be torture?
Before Chinese water torture was generally known, victims who claimed to have suffered unbearable pain after having experienced light water drops falling on their forehead would probably be ridiculed or even dismissed as lunatics. Real torture victims, it would be claimed, should be able to point to severe physical injuries as a result of their mistreatment.
Today, police stalking victims face the same predicament. If someone said that they had been mistreated by a police officer who assaulted them, knocked them to the ground, and violently kicked them, that would be seen as a perfectly believable account of all-too common police brutality. But if you say a plainclothes police officer followed after you with his car, then revved the noisy engine, and finally parked and blinked with the lights in an intimidating way, people will look askance and think you are mad.
Unsuprisingly then, when asked for photographic evidence of the mistreatment, police stalking victims are rarely able to come up with anything terribly spectacular. Sure, you could perhaps publish some pictures of police officers and repeat offenders in the general population who collaborate with them. But the only result of that would be to violate the presumption of innocence, precisely the kind of violation that most police stalking victims have themselves already experienced.
The whole point here is that the concept of police stalking simulates normal behaviour. Many events in a police stalking operation, at least those that take place in public, are situated on a continuum of everyday behaviour and rarely reach the extremes where they would impress others than the victims, who have seen it day after day for months and years. Only in those cases where the police gets a little to eager to prove its point does police stalking stray from the parameters of normal behaviour into the realm of abnormalities that perhaps would raise eyebrows even among members of the general population. It is in that limited window I’ll make an attempt to show some of what is going on in the operation against me. I am certainly not offering these images in the belief they can ever produce a verdict against anyone. Most are poor quality stills from videos, and they are deliberately chosen since the identity of the persons is not easy to establish. For now, I leave the high quality material for the courts. The goal in this post is simply to raise awareness about untraditional policing methods in the hope that ultimately, hard evidence will materialise.
It is logical to start with the use of uniformed police. They are part and parcel of a police stalking operation, but they are often used sparingly. The reason is precisely that because they are uniformed and may be subject to requirements that they identify themselves, they are in some ways the most vulnerable element in a police stalking operation. However, uniformed police has to be there, since the whole point of the operation is to communicate the police’s ownership of the process.
When I was in Maasdam in the Netherlands between January and July this year, I was typically met by two police cars every day during my walks. Remember that I lived in a tiny place with no more than 2,000 inhabitants. Remember also that I was only near the highway for some 10 to 15 minutes every day. I can document an above-the-average frequency of encounters with uniformed police in this area. Still, I am perfectly aware that these observations are not going to impress anyone.
When police cars drive through affluent neighbourhoods in broad daylight without any specific mission, maybe more people might agree this is somewhat out of the ordinary. But perhaps only when uniformed police officers on bikes enter a desolete mountainbike trail a late Friday evening would outsiders agree that there is something odd going on.
Similar continuums from the almost-normal to the slightly unusual can be seen for many of the other components of a police stalking operations. Citizen stalkers will often be unremarkable. Additionally, often those divergences that can be helpful towards understanding what is going on are context-specific and therefore not immediately intelligible to a wider audience. For example, in the Dutch countryside, walking on foot away from specific walkways is seen as highly abnormal. If the Dutch are not in their cars, they cycle. If they walk, they do it as sport and put on prodigious amounts of specialised clothing to the point where they look as if they are about to embark on a North Pole expedition. Accordingly, an old man sweating along a dirt road in the middle of summer is next to paranormal, even though few outside the Dutch context may recognise this. Perhaps the best examples in this category are people who break the traffic laws and other regulations with the consent of the police. Examples include motorcyles on walkpaths or cycling paths, electrical cars in cycle paths, and dogs in areas where they are specifically prohibited (dogs were deliberately used in large numbers by Dutch police in the stalking operation against me).
The use of light and noise in the public sphere, two crucial elements of police stalking, calls for particular attention.
With regard noise and its “normality continuum”, most cars participating in police stalking operations may do perfectly normal things (apart from the fact that the same ones stalk you day after day). Accordingly, picture proof is once more of limited value. Often, the only slight exception from a normal traffic situation will be the disproportionate presence of noisy cars. They typically include modified or tuned car (“tuner cars”) – specifically lowered cars, cars with exhaust system modifications, tuned engines that make more noise, impossible rear spoilers etc. Sometimes, it is only the overuse use of heavy motorcycles like Harley Davidsons as well as fourwheelers (ATVs) that can divulge that something is not quite right. Evacuated vehicles left with motor and lights on are also common.
A similar continuum regarding the use of light can be found. A car blinking continuously with all lights could be “normal” when parked in the middle of the street. It could be described as somewhat zealous if parked on the pavement alongside other cars. Perhaps even sceptics would find it odd to see a car with lights blinking in a dead-end alleyway in broad daylight, or cars with high beams or fog light turned on in perfect sunshine. Remember that a victim of a police stalking operation may meet these phenomena every 500 meters or so. Remember also that the use of headlamps is not mandatory in the Netherlands during daylight hours, so overuse of high beams etc. is unusual.
A peculiar component of police stalking is street theatre. Theatre is used for a variety of reasons in police stalking operations, and with differing degrees of sophistication and allegorical logic.
Not all of this is easily penetrable. Ever since I was in the United States, blind people or people with mobility issues have been used by police in the operation in numbers disproportionate to their share of the population. These poor people have already been victimised by the police through their deliberate inclusion in the operation and the apparent intention on the part of the police to communicate a sense of stigma; accordingly, it would make no sense to document their participation in more detail.
By far the most frequent theatrical element in the operation against me relates to my supposed original sin: Photography. Every day, wherever I walk, little photography scenes have been staged. Typically, these are people that stand and wait until I appear, at which point they invariably pull out a camera and begin taking pictures. Again there is a continuum here, with different degrees of eyebrow-raising behaviour. There are people who just happen to take photos whenever I approach. There are people with very elaborate cameras and advanced techniques. And there are people who jump out of a car exactly when I come and then take apparently meaningless pictures of the empty sky, sometimes with cameras pointing directly into the sun. When they ask me to take a picture with their camera, the parallel to medieval stocks is almost perfect.
It can be useful to revert to the image of the water drop that forms the weapon of Chinese water torture. The bigger picture is this:
Water torture
In my case, I cannot provide that picture yet. Just imagine what it would have been like for that victim to try to document his ordeal! Remember also that stalking in the public sphere is perhaps not more than 10% of many police stalking operations, with noise and other harassment directed at private dwellings accounting for most of the police activity. But one day, that bigger picture will emerge.
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Ah, another beautifully written article regarding the subject of the suppression of dissent at the hands of government apparatchiks. It is so refreshing to see this topic explored by someone that isn’t…well…American. When I speak to my fellow Americans about the transformation of law enforcement from “peace officers” to “secret police” they usually have no idea what I am talking about. Regardless, the foundation of the entire global system as based on the tactics and operations of the East German STASI. I highly suggest everyone review the documentary “STASI: East Germany’s Secret Police” produced by Film Europa in 2007. Watch that movie, and your eyes will be opened to not only what they are doing to dissidents, how they are doing it, and perhaps most importantly of all, why the police are motivated to target individuals that have committed no crime.
I will try to address the issues in your post as they are presented. The Chinese Water Torture aspect is related to the STASI concept of “Soft Kill”, specifically enumerated in STASI Directive 1/76, or the infamous “Disintegration Directive”. Not to go into too much detail, but please bear in mind that we live in a world where police kicking, beating, and shoving people can be viewed, in real time, by the entire world. Can anyone say “Public Relations Nightmare”? Sure you can! Put simply, the new goal of the police is destroying someone without the person themselves knowing who the enemy is, or why they are being targeted, and of course leaving the casual observer completely clueless. Again, please review “STASI: East Germany’s Secret Police” for a proper explanation of the soft kill concept.
Audio and visual stimulus (bright headlights and loud motorcycles) is simply “anchoring”. Not complicated at all. It helps acclimate the target to the concept that “when you hear or see this stimuli, you will react with fear”. Again , not rocket science at all.
On the issue of being followed by uniformed police, simple intimidation tactics. If you own a mobile phone, it is likely you are being tracked via that device. In a recent court decision here in America, police were granted the right to use mobile phone data without permission from the court. This decision makes the suppression of political dissidents exponentially easy for law enforcement. Not that the police had a hard time before, or even followed the rules, but there you have it. To confirm this, please remove the battery from your phone, then walk or ride your bike to a remote location and wait for an hour or so. Then, plug the battery back in to your phone and see how long it takes for a police officer or informant to find their way to your location. Not very long, I bet.
The use of modified vehicles would denote persons with a criminal history. Punk kids dealing drugs or assaulting people for no good reason. The STASI model is employing armies of informants. Hundreds of informants, thousands of informants, hundreds of thousands of informants! What pool do the police recruit their informants from? Why, CRIMINALS of course. Would anyone expect Catholic nuns or basket-weavers to be the class enemy? Of course not. Using the STASI model, anyone and everyone that commits a crime WILL be pressured to become an informant. In America, informants are given “consideration” for their cooperation with the police. Or, in other words, the more work you do as an informant, the less time in prison you will be subjected to. Again, as always, please review “STASI: East Germany’s Secret Police” for a more detailed explanation into the concept of the creation and deployment of confidential informants from the criminal class.
In summation, my research has helped me discover at least some of the motivations of law enforcement as it pertains to the suppression of dissent, and it all comes down to one word. Fear. Yes, fear. The police, and by default any government that engages in STASI-style suppression, are terrified of their own citizens. How is this so? Please research the East German Uprising of 1953. During that event, the East German people very nearly overthrew their communist oppressors. Only the intervention of Soviet troops stopped the Germans from reuniting, but it also gave birth to the STASI in it’s true form, and codified it’s true mission. Suppress dissent BEFORE it happens. Or, in simple terms…though crime.
In closing, let me share a story. A few weeks ago, after months of research, I conducted a very simple experiment. In order to confirm police involvement in my suppression of my political freedoms, or “gangstalking”, I decided to reach out to a small number of individuals I strongly suspect of being police informants. I put together a simple yet colorful one-page flyer that says POLICE ARE 236% MORE LIKELY TO RAPE! and MOST VICTIMS OF POLICE RAPE ARE CHILDREN! and some other truly horrible statistics are are, oddly enough, completely true and correct, being taken from actual FBI crime statistics. I then included about 30 news reports of police raping infants, engaging in sex-slavery, raping multiple children, torturing and murdering their wives, and all manner of sordid acts. Can you guess what happened next? The vehicle traffic of informants at my home ceased…instantly. For years there has been near constant traffic here on this secluded little road that pretty much leads to nowhere. Now it is virtually empty, weeks later. I chose to stop passing out these flyers for now, as they hinder my ongoing investigation. It is hard to document something that is no longer happening, so be careful when you engage in counter-propaganda operations.
The concept of suppression of political dissent is based on keeping the target on the run, afraid, confused, depressed, and ultimately destroyed. It is all spelled out in black and white in STASI Directive 1/76. But there is a flaw in this program. A fatal flaw, in fact. What if the target refuses to be afraid? What if the target stops, and turns on his attackers. All bullies are cowards, and this includes the police. Once you turn around and give them some of their own medicine, they flee like the chicken-shits they are. Therefore, never leave the house without your hidden camera. Always walk up and engage suspected informants in friendly conversation, learn their faces. Let them know that you are watching them in the same manner as they are watching you. Eventually, one of them will make a critical mistake, and you will be there to record it all…then upload it to YouTube! When thousands of people do this, and collate their evidence, this archaic concept of “gangstalking”, a dinosaur from the last century, will be exposed and obliterated in the same manner as Hitler, Mousilini, and Ceaușescu.
Hi Reidar:
Interesting pictures. How is it that these norweigan police (or whatever thuggish outfit they come from) are allowed to operate like this even in other countries to stalk you?
Have you been able to obtain a lawyer in another host country to ask local authorities to provide you with more details about all of this?
From your descriptions and pictures, I understand that they are using photography to torment you.
However, wouldn’t you agree that when they are stalking you in another country, your alleged offense of street photography is likely not sufficient enough reason for a foreign country to allow stalking behavior by visiting norweigan thugs?
Are you not curious as to what Norway is telling local authorities about you? Could you not obtain restraining orders to force these thugs from being within X number of meters from you?
regards,
M
Mohammed, most of the participants are local people. Although the Norwegians participated actively at first, their role is now mostly to liaise it seems. As you hint at, it is rather strange that foreign police services and citizens accept to participate in the operation. The jurisprudential logic of the police is certainly undermined in these daily scenarios where I photograph the photographers and even the police and the only thing that is illegal is what they are doing (stalking). But my sad finding is that 99% of people in most countries appear to be happy to blindly follow the instructions of police even when they are being asked to commit illegalities!
Hi Reidar:
I understand that there are many blind followers, but as a concerned reader and cyber-friend of yours, it would be helpful to understand a bit more about what efforts you have made in the countries you visit to put an end to this stalking.
If you were in the USA, and you notice people following you, shouldn’t you be able to ask the police what is going on? Why are there people following me? If the people who happen to be following you are US law enforcement people, then couldn’t you get a lawyer in the USA to help figure out WHY they are following you?
The same goes for any other country that at least claims to follow some rule of law.
A) Can a resident in a country petition the police to figure out why he is being followed?
B) Have you gone right up to these people who follow you and ask them why they are following you (in a foreign country)?
C) Do you have reason to suspect that your stalking is not just limited to being followed in person, but they are also monitoring you online (your emails, credit card use, etc)? For example, let’s say you decide to relocate in another country X, but not announce it publicly. Will your stalker follow you to the airport and buy a ticket on the same flight on the spot? How would they know where you are going? How about if you bought the last seat on the flight? In other words, are you even trying to throw them off track?
regards,
M
The police will not officially confirm that they are doing the operation. For example, in January I did receive an official letter from the Oslo police that they had no case against me. It is all tongue in cheek on their part since they continue the operation anyway, but as long as it is not official, neither lawyers nor independent police commissions are prepared to even consider the case.
Oh, and they follow all my online activity, credit cards etc – even probably have CCTV where I am staying. Your suggestion reminded me about my own first attempt to flee from them in March 2011. I thought I had been very clever and booked an air ticket at Schiphol in the Netherlands within 30 mins of the touchdown of my flight from Norway and was on my way to London within the following hour. A Norwegian police officer whom I can name waited on me as I boarded the flight to London… So there is no point in running.
Around 1999,I sent my file to the conseil the l’Europe hoping they will take on my case and several hundred pages describing my nightmarish life in Camden and in London UK. 3 fascist judges decided not to take any action against the city police, the Camden police and the drug dealer who are handsomely paid by Camden and Islington council who keep harassing me and have set up their local drug dealers and entire drug dealing families against me and my family. My son was kicked in the head when he fell over after leaving a pub and being pursued by 8 of their thugs and left for dead, I was attacked by a neighbours also linked to drug dealer George in Cornwallis square Maria M and her lover Jayden S. Each time I opened the front door all hell broke loose cacophony of sirens from the Hornsey road police and the firemen there + the so-called ambulancemen from the Whittington hospital who together would appear and make a racket also when I was in any park, as soon as I left the house they would appear like a demented patrol of huns out for my /our blood, and would follow us to park where loud alarms would be started deafening us till we left any park while the mad kkk would go up and down following us around there sirens screaming senselessly. Inside supermarkets same things with this lot parked right outside sirens or some weapons of hearing destructions spreading their enormous amount of deadly decibles. Every day they would be at it like the folly of the last brigade, sirens would even be started outside my friends house, loud deafening roaring of helicopters hoverhead roaming the sky above, as well as these killers rev-ving their engines in order to deprive us of rest, enjoyment and sleep when we are at home where carpenters, drug dealers, racists would bang on walls, slam doors over and over , use heavy duty drills, sanders, road diggers in houses and flats round the clock to drive us out so they can come in and ransack the house, steal what they like and destroy furniture, stain beddings, walls, tear clothes and sheets, steal plant pots and jewellery be it costume jewellery or gold and silver. All my complaints to the police fell on death ears and most of the time they use to turn up the next day and tell me my problems weren’t important. They watch the house all day long, cut me/us off countless times, they as well as their stasi ie our neighbours some in front of the house flash torches towards my living-room and my bedroom, rev-their engines for hours on end, toot countless times, bang, hammer to their heart’s content day in day out, appear in front of me, some family wear red jacket all the 3 mother, father and son and follow me, go out at the same time, others in the flat below participate in the terror and take part in these acts of terrorism for money. The neighbour in flat a makes furniture all day sometimes with the help of 2 other men and slamming doors repeatedly, banging on a piano from the house adjacent to mine repeated tunes goes on for up to 3 hours, also 2 men arrive in a jeep every 2 weeks to do up their house, explosive noises as soon as I go in from powerful weapons of hearing and nerve destruction which have cost me my health so far. The woman who attacked me Maria M or S who has since moved to Colchester and her accomplice Siobhan D from cornwallis square n19 were given 2 jeeps one blue and one red and with these they tried to ram them into my daughter’s car on many occasions. We made a complaints to the police but they refused to follow the case through and take action because these 2 are linked to the occupants of 36 cornwallis square drug dealers just like Andrew Sof Starcross street nw21 who also threatened to kill me, my son and my daughter countless times and helped destroy and steal many things in my home with the local thugs. Lately 2 policemen were walking behind me whistling away one had number 242 on his left shoulder. They followed me from the community center when I left at 12 am on a monday and where they rubbished me to the people I know there and talk a lot of shit, tell them stories invented in order to make me out to be an enemy. I do not care what they say,they have been doing this for many years, screaming in front of me, behind me, their terribly loud sirens screaming outside restaurants, colleges, at the entrance of any tube, underneath and near my friends flats or houses or this to scare me and destroy my relationship with my colleagues, friends and isolate me from everyone. They even start sudden deafening sirens when I or members of my family are in the shower, in the bath or on the loo, whenever I open a window, when we are eating or talking in order to be the nuisance they have always been, using fear and disgusting tricks to start their bloody wars against innocent poeple in order to rob their of their private property and their natural resources like they do in North Africa and the Middle east. I say this because I am Algerian and they have chosen me thinking I was going to be an easy target for destruction and killing this after robbing me of everything I have and using their army of agents to do their dirty work for them. Unfortunately for these murderers I am still hear to tell the world what is going on, I am no longer afraid of their slaves and mercenaries, I will carry on telling everyone I know that they are a bunch of cowards and liars who cannot do anything on their own and have to pay other to commit crimes for them.
Djamila Boutebba
97b Tabley road
N 7 0NB
I had to move house 5 times since the break-up of my marriage and the worst time ever were when I came to live in drug-ridden Camden and Islington council. All their workers were set up against me and work were not carried out, there was sabotage like their stasi coming in and destroying my washing machines, leaving screws and washers lying on the floor, destroying any electrical appliance, mixers hardly or never used, hoovers, workers from Mears leaving pipes open on purpose instead of stopping terrible noises from faulty valves in the cistern, destroying clothes, carpets, staining walls, water coming down from the light ceiling, others coming with dog mess and tar in their shoes to mess up new carpets, making us go to shops over and over to replace destroyed property, plumbers leaving pipes open and water from the toilet cistern running outside in the garden, water leaking from everywhere whenever we returned from holiday, wooden bed frames cracked and broken as thugs would have come in with the blessing of the local police to cause us countless amounts of money in damages. We were never compensated for these destruction and the loss of our tools, cutlery, hundred of plates, vases, many things damaged by those warmongers and their agents which amount to a huge amount of people at their beck and call and ready for anything including destroying many cameras, damaging and stealing hundreds of photos, an all out war in a country which doesn’t seem to have enough of them, enough of the misery and mass killings, of tortures it has unleashed on our person, on our world, enough of the destruction and terrorism directed towards us, towards me, my friends and my children depriving us of sleep, or normal life, of enjoyment of our home and garden and of normal relationships, doing their best to squash us like insects under their feet.
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