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Mainstream media vs social media portrayal of watch lists
The mainstream media when discussing watch lists are likely to portray then as being
covert, and as having dangerous people - such as terrorists and criminals - on them.
A different side of the story is being told by people on social media - where the stalking
and surveilling is not covert but overt, and, where the people being stalked are simply
regular people - clearly not dangerous criminals. A lot of people on these watch lists have
no criminal history whatsoever and are placed on watch lists and stalked for years, even
decades.
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Mainstream media |
Social media |
Visibility |
Covert |
Overt (due to cumulative effect) |
People stalked |
Dangerous people and hardened criminals |
Regular people, no criminal history, not dangerous |
Effect on target |
No effect |
Devastating effect |
Proportionality |
Proportionate |
Severely disproportionate |
The terminology is also different. The government, through the mainstream media, will
refer to things such as surveillance teams, surveillance role players (as advertised in job
listings) people of interest and 'directed' or 'targeted' surveillance. Individuals, through
social media, will refer to the surveillance teams variously as gangstalkers (i.e. the
surveillance team is a 'gang' of 'stalkers'), perpetrators, zombies (referring to the lack of
genuine human emotion and purpose in the people doing surveillance role play which
make them appear abnormal), bots (referring to the fact that the surveillance team
members are being coordinated by a back-end server) and community-based agents.
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Mainstream media |
Social media |
Visibility |
Surveillance team |
Gang stalkers |
People stalked |
Targeted/directed surveillance |
Gang stalking |
Effect on target |
Surveillance role player, mobile surveillance operative |
Gang stalker, perp, zombie, bot, community based agent |
Proportionality |
Person of interest |
Targeted Individual |
Things commonly pointed out by people being stalked on social media
These are the most common things pointed out on social media by people being
gangstalked:
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'Brighting' Everywhere the target goes, they are being 'brighted' ie. illuminated (in
order for the surveillance team to get a good image of them). It's common for a car
idling with usually very bright headlights on facing the target.
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One head lighted vehicles Surveillance vehicles are often equipped with toggle
switches to switch each headlight on and off. The idea is that the car can be made
to look like a different one at night. However, this backfires as the target notices a
much higher frequency of these 'one head lighters' along their journey.
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Color coordination The surveillance teams will sometimes color coordinate, such as for
example, having all red or white cars, or wearing red items of clothing.
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Hand signals Hand signals are used for communication in many industries - from
police and military to sports referees. Surveillance teams will use very sublte hand
signals to communicate with each other - such as to indicate the position of the
target. These hand signals may only be visible when recording the members of the
surveillance team with a camera with optical zoom.
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The same types of vehicles around them e.g. delivery vehicles or taxi's from the
same company, motorbikes with L plates etc.
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Someone always being near them Despite lots of other places an individual could
be in the area
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Synchronization with the target The target can look outside their house and see
no-one about. As soon as they leave their house, 3 or 4 cars will appear (within 30
seconds to a minute) near the target. The target can be in a park and see no traffic
flow around it - as soon as the target ventures onto the road they will experience
numerous cars 'synchronizing' with them - ie. driving at the same time near time.
They will experience cars turning onto the same road the target is on, even when
there may be over a dozen other parallel streets available. This becomes highly
predictable.
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The people around them not being local They will have license plates from
another part of the country and if the target tries to speak to them they will not have
a local accent.
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Trails of vehicles which sprawl off to different exit points to cover potential exits
of the target
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Street theatre Such as people pretending to be fixing a vehicle near them
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Same time entry/exit i.e. members of the surveillance team arriving at a particular
location at the same time as the target, then leaving very shortly after the target
leaves that location
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Subtly taking pictures of the target with their phone
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Continuous traffic around them Even on backstreets
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A lack of purpose in the people around them They only ever have a fake purpose
for being near the target, not a real one.
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