Profile Of A Stalker

National Stalking Awareness month is coming to an end but this blog will be focusing on this topic all year in an effort to educate the public on this horrific crime.

All of my past posts on this topic can be viewed by scrolling down to the Labels section and selecting the term “stalking”.

What is a stalker and why does someone stalk?

According to Katherine Ramsland, author of Stalkers: The Psychological Terrorists:

“Another method of categorizing stalkers comes from the team who wrote the FBI's Crime Classification Manual:

1. Non-domestic stalker, who has no personal relationship with the victim
2. Organized (based in a calculated, controlled aggression)
3. Delusional (based in a fixation like erotomania)
4. Domestic stalker, who has had a prior relationship with the victim and feels motivated to continue the relationship; this constitutes around 60 percent of stalkers and the aggression often culminates in violence.

Stalkers tend to be unemployed or underemployed, but are smarter than other criminals. They often have a history of failed intimate relationships. They tend to devalue their victims and to sexualize them. They also idealize certain people, minimize what they are doing to resist, project onto people motives and actions that have no basis in truth, and rationalize that the target person deserves to be harassed and violated.”

This description is relatively consistent with the descriptions provided by victims of stalking whether they know who is stalking them or not. Oftentimes victims are unaware of who is stalking them or what they may have done to incite such behaviour. Most, if not all, victims did nothing to justify this except in the often deranged minds of the stalker themselves.

 

As per Ms. Ramsland:

“Stalkers who are also psychopaths, Meloy says, experience only low levels of empathy or an absence of it altogether. Their relationships tend to be sadistic, based in power over others. He said he believes that this is associated with a lack of early attachment to others in the family. Meloy claims that psychopaths are biologically predisposed to antisocial activity because they have a hyper-reactive autonomic nervous system. Crime or exploiting others excites them. That means they're motivated to do things that heighten their nervous system and have no real conscience about hurting others.

The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that every year over a million and a half people are stalked, over two-thirds of them women. Ninety percent of women killed by husbands or boyfriends had first been stalked. One in 12 women and one in 45 men in the U.S. - about 10 million people - has been or will be stalked sometime in the future. . (Among celebrities and other high-profile people alone, one security company has amassed over 300,000 communications. 

While many stalkers only threaten harm, a small percentage carry out their threats, damaging property or harming pets. With the rise in popularity of the Internet, cyber-stalking has become yet another avenue of danger. Many stalkers have a prior criminal record and show evidence of substance abuse, a mood disorder, a personality disorder, or psychosis. At least half of all stalkers threaten their victims, which increases the possibility of violence. Frequency of violence averages 25 to 35 percent, with most violence occurring between people who have been romantically involved in the past.”

Some American police departments, not all, also understand and recognize the crime of Organized Stalking where groups of people are recruited from the community through community groups such as Churches, Neighbourhood Watch organizations, Recreational organizations such as the YMCA/YWCA as well local organized gangs (both youth and adult), etc. to participate in and to encourage their social groups to participate in malicious persecution and harassment campaigns against the victim. This crime is not recognized either by Canadian Law or any Canadian police forces to my knowledge. Not as a single crime anyway. Many of the individual acts are criminal though.

And yet there is solid evidence that this crime occurs in exactly the way that victims are describing that it occurs.  That is, groups of people are recruited to fabricate malicious stories about victims and report those lies to the police (or other officials) to incite police (or other official) action against the victim on false grounds amongst other things.

 

 

In cases, where the stalking group (usually operated like a cult) is run by someone who is wealthy, corporations, organized crime or some other organized structure or group which is well-financed and well-connected, government, police, intelligence, military, corporate and union executives and other high level people can be recruited through either bribery involving cash or favours, or blackmail to participate in this crime. This is often done on the basis of fabricated "greater good" reasons based on malicious lies fabricated against the person. These officials provide credibility to the illegal and criminal requests made of members in the community resulting in them being more amenable and cooperative about committing the crimes. 

 

As the following video demonstrates this is not difficult to do when the right person is asking a gullible member of the community to commit a criminal act against the stalking victim. It doesn’t appear to occur to these gullible saps that it is illegal for a police officer to ask a citizen to commit a criminal act against another citizen. Nor does it occur to them to verify the identity of the person claiming to be acting in an official capacity and asking them to commit criminal acts against people they don’t know.

 

This type of stalking is basically Stalking on Steroids and involves groups of people led by either one Stalker who is likely a Psychopath or groups of stalkers who fit one or more of the profile components above. Usually elements 1 and/or 2 since the victims are almost always unknown to most of the group and sometimes all of the group.

The organizers of such groups are inevitably and often seriously mentally ill whether this is obvious to their social circles or not. It takes a mentally ill mind to come up with this type of strategy. And while Psychopathy is not yet included in the DSM V, I think most psychiatrists and psychologists do agree that it's a form of mental illness which includes other mental illnesses like obsessive disorders and narcissism.

Ironically, the leaders of such cults and many of their members frequently come across as "nice", "charismatic", "charming", etc. This is part of their illness. They've practiced their masks for years and they're very good at maintaining those masks. It's what they do, and want others to do on their behalf that gives them away. Not to mention the numerous pathological lies they shamelessly tell and the bizarre/weird rationalizations they give to engage in the bizarre and weird activities that they engage in and recruit others to engage in.

Members of the community, employees and the general public need to be aware and alert to these types of scams so that they don't get manipulated by psychopathic stalkers who are demonstrably mentally ill, to bully, harass and maliciously persecute innocent victims in their communities and work places.

Don't believe everything you hear. Even if the information is coming from a friend, can you really be sure that your friend hasn't been duped? Don't participate in malicious persecution campaigns against people who have done you no wrong. And if someone claims that a person has committed a wrong against you, get the facts before reacting. There are numerous ways to incite hatred against innocent people in your communities and work places. These methods are being used every day in Canada.

And even if someone is guilty of something, do you really think that you have the right to engage in extra-legal activity to bully, harass and maliciously persecute them?

Legally you don't. No matter who asks you to do it. And if someone in an official capacity asks you to commit a crime in order to maliciously persecute someone, they are most likely engaging in abuse of power and have been corrupted through either bribery of blackmail.

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Book Review: Unorthodox

Unorthodox, the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots: a memoir by Deborah Feldman is an intimate portrayal of a young woman growing up in an environment of religious constraint and slowly freeing herself from that environment.

That is her story, on the surface. If you read it from that perspective it will enlighten and provide you with an insight into her particular religious environment and beliefs. Her personal journey will also stand as an inspiration and testament to anyone else who wishes to move out of the confines of their particular religious constraints.

However, I recognize Deborah. In my opinion, she is much more than that and her story involves much more than that, in reality. So I’m not surprised that there is some controversy over her book and challenges to it.

She is one of us. She is the rebel, the square peg who can’t fit into the round hole, the person who is never satisfied and cannot be satisfied with the status quo, whatever it is. Whether that status quo be the constraints of creed (religious or otherwise), culture, gender, etc.

Her drive to be free, that hunger for freedom runs deep and it is firmly founded in her strong natural curiosity about everything.

That is what makes Deborah different. It’s what makes me and numerous others different. People like us exist across all cultures, creeds, genders, etc. And no matter what our environment is we do not and cannot fit into the status quo of that environment.

I can’t explain why. I don’t understand it myself. I only know that we exist and that we can identify and empathize with each other. Once we understand that we can’t fit in and don’t try to fit in, we can begin the process of accepting and appreciating ourselves for who we are. When we can do that, others will accept and appreciate us for who we are. Well, at least some will.

It’s okay not to fit in.  It’s okay to be different. We can’t be any other way no matter how much humiliation and abuse is heaped on us; no matter how many constraints are placed on us in our respective environments; no matter how much we are smeared for speaking our truths.

We don’t understand the sheeple and their passive acceptance of the status quo.

We are the innovators, the artists, the creative thinkers, the one’s that can think outside of the box. We are the ethicists, the one’s who consider social injustice an outrage and we can’t be silent about it. We have a driving need to change the status quo to better our world for ourselves and those around us.

We produce what we love to produce whether we get paid to produce or not. Our lives are driven by our passions and not by personal gain. Once we accept our difference and don’t allow it to stand in the way of our self-confidence (“faith in ourselves”) personal gain almost always comes along with the ride at some point because we are good at whatever it is that we choose to do.

If we didn’t exist, society would never advance because there would be no driving force for change.

Welcome to the club, Deborah. I look forward to reading more of what you have to offer.

Deborah Feldman dot com

 

 

STOP SOPA in Canada!

The following is the content of an online Petition located at the Petition Site:

Don't let the U.S. Send SOPA to Canada.

With SOPA and PIPA dead in the U.S., lobbyists may be working behind the scenes to pass similar legislation in Canada.

Because of the music industry's proposed changes to copyright reform bill C-11, Canada could be "a prime target for SOPA style rules," warns Ottawa law professor Michael Geist.

The main point of contention is the industry's push to expand and add statutory damages to an "enabler provision" that would target a wider range of websites and run liability into the millions of dollars for a target website. Other groups are pushing for language that some fear could be used to shut down sites like YouTube.

The massive public protest over the SOPA and PIPA provisions was due to their threat to the Internet and freedom of speech. The same protest is needed to stop SOPA-like changes to Canada's C-11 bill.

Don't let the U.S. Send SOPA to Canada.

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Byron Sonne Hacktivist on Trial

Byron Sonne’s trial is currently in progress and I have been following it as closely as I can without actually being there. I blogged on this issue during the G8/G20. 

Byron Sonne is a hacktivist who was black box testing the security surrounding the G8/G20.

I initially thought that Sonne had been recruited to participate in the Dirty Tricks campaign that I believe occurred at the time. However, friends of Sonne contacted me and assured me that I was wrong and that Sonne was an innocent victim.

Note that there is now evidence coming out that my general assessment of what occurred during the G8/G20 in 2008 was actually a direct result of a Dirty Tricks campaign,was correct even though it appears that I was wrong about Sonne.

If the media keep digging I don’t doubt the rest of the story could be revealed. If they don’t well then an opportunity to expose some pretty ugly corruption will have fallen by the wayside. Of course, the fact that Elliott was the Commissioner during that period also means that much of the evidence could have been destroyed or fabricated to be intentionally misleading.

Based on what I’ve seen to date I would have to agree with Sonne’s friends about his innocence.

I publicly admit my error and apologize to Sonne.

It appears that their trust in their friend was well founded. Sonne does indeed appear to be an innocent victim of this particularly ugly Dirty Tricks campaign, and I thank his friends for calmly and rationally presenting their case and giving me the time to evaluate it based on it’s own merits.

One of my reasons for saying that Sonne appears to be an innocent victim is the published interrogation of Byron Sonne by Tam Bui. There are several things that become obvious in that interview and indicate that Bui was trying to make a lot more out of Byron’s actions than the evidence itself indicated. His questions about Byrons attitudes and beliefs towards the Jewish community as well as the one's related to an alleged conspiracy were baseless because there was no evidence to support them.

June 23, 2008: First interrogation of Byron Sonne by Tam Bui

June 26, 2008: Second interrogation of Byron Sonne by Tam Bui

Given that a Ms. Bich Bui is a donor to Mount Sinai Hospital (a relative of Tam Bui?) one has to wonder if Sonne was arrested and held without bail, simply because Tam Bui and/or his personal friends held a personal bias based on nothing more than Sonne downloading a document.

One has to wonder if they held a personal bias which resulted in Sonne unjustly being held in prison without bail for three hundred days and charged for numerous offenses for which there was no evidentiary foundation?

If anyone bothered to research Sonne and read his online stuff it’s pretty clear that he isn’t antisemitic. Unless one thinks that reading something automatically means that the reader must believe it or agree with it.

That would be a pretty absurd conclusion for a presumably experienced lead police investigator to come to and one would have to question his competence if he did that.

Was Sonne simply being punished because someone, somewhere came to baseless and therefore wrong conclusions about his political beliefs and decided to make him pay irrespective of his clear and unambiguous explanations in the interrogations?

It's Ontario. Why wouldn't that surprise me.

(Please note that the above is not a commentary on the good people of Ontario. It is directed towards a specific circle in the wealthy elite here who has effectively bought the Liberal government and for whom the Liberals work exclusively at the expense of not only other members of the wealthy elite but the citizens of Ontario).

Sonne’s trial can be followed on the following site: Free Byron Sonne!