How to create a useful stalker list?
Sometimes the organized stalking activities TIs experience are compared with Stasi tactics. I am wondering that if anyone wants to share one's o/s offender information with others. For the Stasi victims, they have stasi offender list and it is available for downloading.
Since our governments are not willing to admit the existence of "organized stalking," I think we better create the list of stalkers for our case. From my experience, it seems the same perps participate in stalking in the same area, and sometimes travel to few cities. In my case, the perps I met in Aarau were able to come to Lenzburg and Zofingen for their activity. So, if we can find a way to create a list and if other TIs notice the same people stalking in nearby area where the stalkers are listed, we might be able to prove the connection of the stalkers on the list with the organized stalking just like Stasi informants did. For example, if a TI moved to another city and saw a suspicious car (say, this car follow TI's car every day the TI leaves home) parked outside of his home, the TI might find the number on the license plate matched with the number on another TI's offender list. This makes much better proof for bringing the case to the local police. As an example, you can check out stasi offender list publicly shared on the Internet. ma_stasi.zip (about 1.5MB)
Here is the advantages/disadvantages of creating the o/s offender list.Advantages:
- TIs have some proofs of evidences.
- TIs are encouraged to collect information of the o/s offenders and able to fight back.
- The list can become a shared resource for the TI community.
- The TIs are able to know who to be watch out in one's neighborhood.
- The perps cannot act wild and freely stalking and threatening people in the area since they have to be aware of multiple witnesses.
- The perps may have hard time getting participants from the local community. They might have problem asking strange favors such as asking a shop owner to harass a particular customer (TI).
- The list might make the TIs contact each other easily to discuss about the same offenders.
- The TIs have better information about the perps.
- The list can be used for further study of o/s and keep the record of the covert surveillance.
- Using this list to demand investigation to the authorities and governments.
- If something happens to the TI, the list can be used for understanding the circumstance. For example, if a TI disappeared, other TIs might get some clue from the people/organization the TI added on the list.
- The perps may have problem making up fake "investigation files" if they work as police informants.
- Perps might put false people names for misinformation. Here is 2 possibilities I can think of: 1. Perps take some information from a TI's list and change some parts for trying to reduce the credibility of both lists. (i.e. A perp living near El Camino Hospital on the list, but the same perp is listed living near Stanford Hospital for misinformation). 2. Perps create several false lists and claimed the wrong person on the list as the perp. If several perps claimed to increase the credibility of their fake list, it is hard to know whose list is the real one.
- Standalization problem. The clarification of who to be listed is unclear. The TIs with severe hypervigilance might put everyone and organization's names into the list before analyzing the roles of each person he or she lists. A TI might add someone as a o/s participant by just hearing something as "hinting" that can be done by mind control of that person.
- Publicity and criticism from the non-TIs. How do we keep the list available among TIs and how to keep the non-TIs being encouraged by the perps to against list creating activity?
- File format and style of database. Single format is easier to compare, but not all TIs have experience and software to create the list. A TI might have MS Access and others don't.
- Credibility of the list. For the listing, the TIs should add their names (or at least the nicknames they use in the communication with other TIs). This make the TI responsible for the people&organization he or she adds on the list. If a perp tries to add fake names, we can simply figure it out by question his or her part of the list.
- Standardization of incidents/clues behind the data collection. (crucial evidences related with the person to be listed in, or heavily sensitized TIs just add people walking around him.)
- Standardization of data collection (how to separate people names, stores/restaurants/organizations/companies, license plate numbers)
- Standardization of data format. (file format & the way organize data)
- File distribution (security)
1-1. Standardization of incidents/clues wold make easy to read
others' list. For example, a TI wants to record a man wearing a T-shirt
with a specific US city name for NLP anchoring, the TI might want to
write down “Detroit” as the incident information. For other
TIs, they might not understand what means by “Detroit.”
Others might wonder if the man is from Detroit or Detroit was used in
the conversation. To avoid confusion, it is better to keep simple but
helpful information on the list. To record the incident like the
example, “Logo-anchoring, clothes (T-shirt), 'Detroit'”
would be useful clue. The first part identifies the type of
sensitization technique, then the material used (in the example, it was
clothes, and put () for the category, then the actual information.
“Hinting, cellphone, 'I am visiting hospital'” would
explain the incident a TI met someone on the cell phone and talking 'I
am visiting hospital' for hinting. Not all the incidents would be easy
to be written down in this way, but if I think using the same style
will make the list easy to read.
1-2. Using the same style would be hard for the TIs with severe
sensitization problem. In such case, they should record
“what” and “how” in the information.
“when” “who” “where” will be on
other column, so the information should cover “what” and
“how” the incidents taken place. TIs can rewrite this part
to make it easier to read later if they kept enough information when
record it.
2-1. To keep the list useful for searching, I think offenders, organizations, and vehicles should be collected in different lists.
3-1. Not all TIs have access to the same software like MS Access
or Oracle database. The professional database software should be an
excellent tool for storing the people list, but the specific file
format will make others who do not own the software not view the list.
For that reason, I think CSV format will solve the problem. CSV format
is widely used among spreadsheet software like Excel and readable for
database software. To create CSV file, people can use text editors to
spreadsheets like Excel. If you do not have one, you can download free
office suites (OpenOffice, NeoOffice) from their official websites. For
more information about CSV list, please check out this page.
3-2. File format should be in the same style. If the list is
formed in the same way, people can easily understand how to read the
data. For example, if a TI collects a data and put the offenders' names
on the first column and put the incident information at the bottom, he
might get confused to see a list comes with the offenders' names on the
last column. This format issue might be debatable for improvement in
future. I will explain the mondately fields necessary for creating a
list here. The first column is to show who collected the data. I
created the list based on location and perp recognizing. It is hard to
know the perp's name as they are usually strangers in the area. But
people could easily recognized stranger's sex, ethnicity, and age. Such
information can help TIs living in the close location to exchange
information about them. Organizations and vehicles information will be
stored in different list.
CSV format:
O/S List: TI's name, location of sighting, date of sighting(from when to when), sex, ethnicity, body type, facial structure, age, sensitization info (NLP Anchoring with rosary and coke bottle,etc) last name, first name, affiance (religious organization, etc), address, phone number.
Store/Restaurant/Organization List: TI's name, location, organization name, sensitization information (e.g. beggers appeared and asked money or use the form discussed in 1-1), address, (optional: relation with the people in O/S list)
O/S vehicle list: TI's name, license number, location of sighting, date
of sighting, (*optional: relation with the people in O/S list)
4-1. Security issue might be a type of concern. Some TIs might
be falsely accused of distributing files of stranger list. I think we
might need to use password for the distribution if we want to post it
on a public domain. Say, using “fedame” (derived from
fedame.org) or something we share common as the password. That way,
people knowing the password can open the file. When you share your file
with someone else, you might want to write an agreement for
downloading/opening file. Such as “I put this file in the purpose
to exchange the organized stalkers information in the area of XXXXX. If
you are not a TI or against anti-organized stalking/Gegen Stasi 2.0
movement, please do not take the file.” If someone download it
and claimed you about the contents, then the person might broke the
agreement of the usage of the file, you see? Also, sharing information
in public is healthy as we, TIs, are not collecting information for
secret agenda or anything. It is better to keep the file on the
Internet rather than someone try to destroy the information in the hard
drive. We really do not have much privacy these days, we can exercise
this lack of privacy for the public safety sake. We keep the sensitive
file as open source comes with certain copyrights. It is not TIs but
the offenders who will get problem if we act openly.
*TI's name can be used as the ID key. That way, each person on the list
will have a unique ID to be addressed from another lists. For instance,
if I decide to use my real name for TI name, then it would be
“MiyokoGoto” on the first column. Then I decides to add
“P” for “People” list, and “O” for
organization list, and “V” for vehicle list, each data on
the three lists have unique IDs. “MiyokoGotoP000001” would
be used for the first person on my o/s offender list. Just like that,
“MiyokoGotoO000003” shows the third listing on my
organization list, and “MiyokoGotoV000004” is for the forth
listing on my vehicle list. This is easy to figure out any mistake on
the list if a duplication is available. And what if someone found the
same car license number on another TI's list? And how can these TIs
call the perp on the o/s offender lists? If a TI list the driver as
“TIAP000032” on his list, and the car is listed as
“TIAV000008,” there is a way to explain who the driver is.
Otherwise, the TI might have hard time to make a notice of the driver
each time explain about him. For the ID part, I think we do not have to
use real name if it is uncomfortable for you. Instead, using the
nickname like what we use for login here could be enough for
identification. To avoid confusion, use of only one's first name should
be avoided. There are many people with the same first name around the
world. 6 to 10 letter for identification should be enough to say
unique, I guess. And I thought 6 digit would be enough for listing. If
someone can collect that much information, I think that would list
almost entire people living in the area. It's just a common sense, you
know.
updated 01/01/09