Organized stalking and “mind control” and influence operations: manipulating voters.

Epilepsy warning: this post contains a swirling graphic image

While our governments, our corporations, and our intelligence and law enforcement agencies believe it is their right to steal our data, and use it to maniulate and even abuse certain people and to wage influence operations on us, in secret, I believe in fair warning, in anticipation of un-intended consequences, hence my epilepsy warning above. This is the difference between consensual behavior, and non-consensual behavior, and the NSA/CIA/FBI/DEA data theft pipeline had  15 year head start on all of us.

Except, me, maybe.

Any cursory research into organized gang stalking reveals that politics are a major factor in “who gets targeted with OGS.” While there are varying levels of targeting, ranging from simple “influence” operations through the internet, to extreme cases where local politicians and others gang up on individuals to harass, intimidate, or otherwise coerce them, the most common “targeting” that individuals face is through advertising.

As we saw in the caase of “Moonshot CVE” and in the cases of Twitter monitoring activists and feeding the data to law enforcement and other un-named parties, and programs like DataminR and Media Sonar being used concurrently at Fusion Centers, and the local police department, as well as yet un-named intelligence agency level programs, there is a constant blurring of lines between advertisers, governments, political PAC’s corporations, and then, police and intelligence agencies targeting of activists and others in spying or conformity enforcement operations.

WElcome to PsyOps, and mind control, and “influence by constant suggestion.. Or, this:

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So, to put this in common terms, imagine yourself walking down the sidewalk, dodging blots of chewing gum, and the residue of mop water dumped across your path. These are ordinary pedestrian obstacles, and most people expect some of that when out walking.

As you continue on your  path, all of a sudden, a bicyclist heads straight towards you, so fast that they seem as if they might just run you over. What do you do? Of course, you step aside, thinking-“what a rude prick. I had the right of way- and bicycles are supposed to ride on the street!”

You brush it off, and continue on your path. An the obstacles become more and more: the couple walking along is as wide as the sidewalk, and you step off into the grass to let them pass. And then, five teenagers on skateboards; and then, at a crosswalk, people are bumping into you from all directions as if you are not there.

These scenarios above are what is described by TI’s who are being gang stalked, and particularly in the last example, this is what is known as “community mbbing,” and also “street theater.” TI’s write endlessly about this online, but they are also described by others who “suffer delusional disorders.” What’s the main difference? Proof- proof is required to indicate that such is actual, real, and happening to you.

In OGS, proof is hard to get, because of the design of community harassment and community policing, but online, it is easier to prove, now that we know with certainty that it IS happening, it IS targeted, and it IS political. And, as we see above, it IS attempting to influence you, your behavior, and your choices.

Here, below, from Breitbart News, we see targeted individuals as swing voters, but we also see that language and particularly, coded and slanderous language is used to label, and further harass or otherwise cause harm to individuals who don’t toe a party line.

While on the surface, it cannot be missed that this targeted “outreach” is yet another example of Democrat demagoguery, it also cannot be missed that “hetero-normative white people” are being labeled in ways that can and do trigger the Department of Homeland Security “threat matrix” and “bad words” lists, as “white supremacists are on every list as “hate groups”:

NH Dem Party Chair Calls Rural, Disaffected Voters ‘White Supremacists’

 

This weekend WMUR’s “CloseUp” interviewed the executive director of “Look Ahead America” Matt Braynard, whose new organization is planning outreach to inactive voters in New Hampshire.

Braynard said, “We’ve identified maybe 15,000 inactive voters who we would consider disaffected, patriotic Americans. And potentially 100,000 or more unregistered adults we’re going to reach out to.”

He explained his organization was using “psychometrics,” saying, “Normally it gets applied to likely voters universes for purposes of persuasion. We are applying it towards identifying patriotic Americans who’ve become disaffected and cynical, so we can engage them on issues relevant to them, get them registered, get them educated and turn them out to vote.”

In response, the chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party Ray Buckley said, “The organizing and activating of these extremists, these white supremacists, really could have a detrimental effect on the entire culture of New Hampshire.”

In the aricle above, note the use of the word “psychometrics” which literally means ” the measure of psychological effects in order to cause persuasion.” This is not insignificant, as we see that “influence” is the goal, and that “psychology” is applied as a tool.

In relatively harmless incidents such as this, we must ask ourselves if “influence operations” are harmful, and most likely come up with the answer that they are mildly intrusive, but not necessarily “causing harm.”

However, in these cases, when we add the fact that the data used is derived from the “profiles” that our own ISP’s have sold to outside organizations; and that these profiles are shared and re-sold across gvernment, private industry, political PAC’s, the Five Eyes Alliance, and even in the case of Israel, that our profiles are literally given to a theocratic, apartheid nation state that has not signed any nuclear treaty or even officially disclosed that it is a nuclear power the story of harm versus “no harm” becomes a question that few are willing  to ask out loud; being used against their and it becomes a question where the individual this targeted must make a stand, or simply succumb to being used against their free will in such a manner.

So, this issue of “supremacy” becomes for some of us, a crucial and key point wherein we must ask “whose white supremacy” is being targeted and whose white supremacy is not (most Israeli’s and other supremacist Jews still encourage their daughters to marry only white men). And certainly, other theocratic, nationalistic, racial, and psychological  supremacy becomes part of each persons targeting as well. So-whose decisions are we actually making when we are under chronic and constant “influence operations”?

Regardless of the answer, there is one other level of questionable targeting: the fact that beyond advertisers profiling us, we also have intelligence agencies profiling us, and then, targeting us as well, individually n levels that only nazi maad scientists were able to conceive of in decades past.

Because the past is the present is the future with intelligence agencies, we know with certainty that other, more nefarious and unethical targeting takes place, and that this takes place in secret, without our informed consent- that this entire internet entrapment scheme that has made everyone a target, has now morphed into a wider scheme of political targeting on the ‘consumer’ level; and that despite the consumer’s awareness that it is them, being consumed first, and targeted advertising only after that.

So beyond the citizens rights to protest or even to withdraw from these big data schemes, or the use of our data to make us targets, multiple levels of targeting are taking place at all times, and our decisions are under constant and chronic attack.

Organized stalking and police surveillance of social media: ACLU notes that targeted ‘influencers,’ activists and other TI’s are ‘real’

Police Use of Social Media Surveillance Software is Escalating, and Activists are in the Digital Crosshairs

By: Nicole A. Ozer
Map of California, with dots marking the areas where local law enforcement has acquired social media monitoring software

It goes without saying that speaking out against police violence or government overreach shouldn’t land you in a surveillance database. But it can, and it does.

The ACLU of California has received thousands of pages of public records revealing that law enforcement agencies across the state are secretly acquiring social media spying software that can sweep activists into a web of digital surveillance.

This set of public records requests is part of our ongoing work with community groups to shine a light on surveillance technologies and call for community control in decision-making around policing. Last year, we worked with local activists in Fresno to reveal that its police department was using a MediaSonar social media surveillance tool that boasted the capacity to identify so-called “threats to public safety” by monitoring hashtags such as #BlackLivesMatter, #DontShoot, #ImUnarmed, #PoliceBrutality, and #ItsTimeforChange.

But we had a hunch that Fresno was not an isolated case.

So this summer, we requested records from 63 police departments, sheriffs, and district attorneys across California. And what we learned from the documents was alarming.

Of the responses we’ve received, 40% of the agencies (20 in total) have acquired social networking surveillance tools — many of them in the last year.

We found no evidence in the documents of any public notice, debate, community input, or lawmaker vote about use of this invasive surveillance.

And no agency produced a use policy that would limit how the tools were used and help protect civil rights and civil liberties.

The utter lack of transparency, accountability, and oversight is particularly troubling because social media surveillance software used by California law enforcement — tools like MediaSonarX1 Social Discovery, and Geofeedia — are powerful. And our records from Fresno and several other communities reveal that some have been marketed in ways to target protesters.

Our records show that Geofeedia’s marketing materials, for instance, refer to unions and activist groups as “overt threats,” and suggest the product can be used in ways that target activists of color. At least 13 California law enforcement agencies have used or acquired Geofeedia.

In one exchange with law enforcement, a company representative suggested to San Jose Police that they should use the product to surveil the “Ferguson situation,” even though the city is roughly 2,000 miles from Ferguson, Missouri. San Jose Police did in fact use Geofeedia software to monitor South Asian, Muslim, and Sikh protesters only a few days after acquiring it.

An email to the San Diego Sheriff touts a “collection” of social media content curated by Geofeedia following the non-indictment of Darren Wilson.

And yet another promotional email invites the Los Angeles District Attorney to learn how Baltimore used the software to monitor and “stay one step ahead of the rioters” after the police killing of Freddie Gray.

Law enforcement should not be using tools that treat protesters like enemies.

The racist implications of social media surveillance technology are not surprising. We know that when law enforcement gets to conceal the use of surveillance technology, they also get to conceal its misuse. Discriminatory policing that targets communities of color is unacceptable — and secretive, sophisticated surveillance technologies supersize the impact of racial profiling and abuse.

The good news is that we’ve seen that when surveillance is forced into the light, communities have the power to call out racist policing practices and stop discriminatory surveillance in its tracks.

Remember Fresno? Armed with proof of Fresno’s social media surveillance experiment, a diverse coalition of local activistsknown as Faith in the Valley successfully mobilized and organized to pressure the police to roll back their social media surveillance program. The community is now pushing to pass a surveillance technology ordinance to make sure all surveillance technologies are publicly debated.

In Oakland, community members organized against plans to build an expansive Domain Awareness Center that would have collected and stored hundreds of terabytes of data on Oakland residents. Now Oakland has a Privacy Commission that advises the City Council on surveillance decisions and is currently drafting a surveillance technology ordinance.

And in Santa Clara County, right in the heart of Silicon Valley, a diverse coalition successfully organized against plans to buy a Stingray cell phone tracker and then worked to enact a comprehensive surveillance technology ordinance that requires transparency, accountability, and oversight for all surveillance technologies.

In this spirit, a powerful coalition of national organizations is launching a multi-city legislative initiative, Community Control Over Police Surveillance (CCOPS), to introduce more local laws to bring transparency and community control to the acquisition and use of local police surveillance technologies.

Here in California, community members are working in Palo Alto, Fresno, Oakland, Berkeley, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz to ensure that similar laws are introduced in their cities.

Whether it’s social networking surveillance, stingrays, or something else we haven’t heard of yet — it’s time to push secret surveillance into the light.

We have the power to stop discriminatory surveillance and put control where it belongs — in the hands of the community.

Nicole Ozer is the Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director at the ACLU of California. 

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