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Watching the watchers
There is a lack of proper regulation of watch lists (ie. no-one 'watching the watchers').
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No time limit
The duration of being surveilled is often exceedingly, disproportionately
and unnecessarily long, being years, decades or even, if the parents are
under continuous surveillance, from birth. |
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No Judicial oversight
To prevent corruption. |
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No algorithm accountability
For algorithms and/or predictive policing that result in people being placed
on watch lists |
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No proportionality
Hardened criminal get 18 months surveillance, a terrorist 24 months, yet
someone who has no criminal history whatsoever can get left on the
watch list for years.
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No ability to challenge the reasons
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No diminishing probability
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No formal standards
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No adherence to policing principles
Such as challenging the target / opening up a dialogue.
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No removal mechanism
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No science into the health effects
The physical and mental health effects of being stalked, particularly
emotional wellbeing.
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No science into mass shootings
The link with mass shootings, murders and attempted murders, and the
potential for danger within the society of stalking large amounts of people.
It's quite possible that placing potentially dangerous people on watch lists,
considering this induces intense and chronic stress, could increase the
prevalence of dangerous acts, rather than decrease them.
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No intensity limits
i.e. there could be dozens of people all surrounding and stalking an
individual at any one time
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No human rights adherence
Liberty, freedom from torture, privacy
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Little law adherence
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Part of the problem is that most of the people running the watch lists have never been on a
watch list themselves so have no idea of the devastating effects it has on the targeted
individual's life
The law
Gang stalking constitutes far more than just surveillance and it has devastating effects on
the lives of the people being stalked. Human rights laws are designed to guarantee a basic standard of living in most countries.
Of particular interest are:
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The human right to liberty - Liberty is: 'the state of being free within society from
oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life and behavior'.
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The human right to be free from torture - This includes psychological torture.
Gang stalking is often described as a form of psychological torture.
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The human right to respect one's private and family life
Considering the high degree of people being gangstalked not leaving their own home and/or adapting their life significantly due to the distress caused, and also the fact that gang stalking is universally described as torturous, these human rights are being contravened.
The people doing the surveillance seem to have no regard for these laws.
One of the main challenges is how the individual being stalked proves what is happening
to them in a court of law. They do not have access to number plate databases so they
cannot prove, for example, that the cars following them and surrounding them are not local
and/or that they are owned by people who work for the same company. They are also up
against so many forces in the government - police, military, other big government
departments - global companies, local companies and the mainstream and local media. It
is difficult for someone to put themselves up against such power, and it would deplete the
individual's resources, such as time, money etc.
It's also very hypocritical when the government take stalking so seriously when an
individual does it with potentially up to 10 years in prison, yet when they do it, continuously
for years, it's considered ok.
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